QST

Since 2024, Mosterson has been working mostly behind the scenes on several ARRL publications, including the ARRL Letter, National Contest Journal, and On the Air.

He has also contributed articles to QST.

Moseson has been an amateur since 1970 and holds an amateur extra class license.

He is an ARRL life member and a former section manager and affiliated club coordinator, and he served on the ARRL Public Relations Committee for more than 20 years.

It constitutes a very signal recognition of the importance of the amateur, noted Warner, with apparently no pun intended.

Army Chief Signal Officer Major General Charles McKinley Saltzman officially appointed the ARRL as the representative of the transmitting amateurs of the country in their affiliation with the Signal Corps of the Army.

The following spring, QST published A Vacation Possibility, referring to a newly established Army training camp to be conducted that summer at Fort Monmouth for young men ages 17 to 24.

In particular, the type of young man who is wanted at Fort Monmouth this summer is the one who will be interested in living in a tent under military discipline, drilling, learning to handle a pistol, seeing how the Army radio sets are constructed, set up, and operated, how military traffic is handled after communication has been established, how 2CXL, the central station of the Army amateur radio net, is built and operated, and how he may prepare himself for an important part in the nation's defense system while at the same time pursuing his beloved specialty, radio.

Since 2024, Mosterson has been working mostly behind the scenes on several ARRL publications, including the ARRL Letter, National Contest Journal, and On the Air.

He has also contributed articles to QST.

Moseson has been an amateur since 1970 and holds an amateur extra class license.

He is an ARRL life member and a former section manager and affiliated club coordinator, and he served on the ARRL Public Relations Committee for more than 20 years.

It constitutes a very signal recognition of the importance of the amateur, noted Warner, with apparently no pun intended.

Army Chief Signal Officer Major General Charles McKinley Saltzman officially appointed the ARRL as the representative of the transmitting amateurs of the country in their affiliation with the Signal Corps of the Army.

The following spring, QST published A Vacation Possibility, referring to a newly established Army training camp to be conducted that summer at Fort Monmouth for young men ages 17 to 24.

In particular, the type of young man who is wanted at Fort Monmouth this summer is the one who will be interested in living in a tent under military discipline, drilling, learning to handle a pistol, seeing how the Army radio sets are constructed, set up, and operated, how military traffic is handled after communication has been established, how 2CXL, the central station of the Army amateur radio net, is built and operated, and how he may prepare himself for an important part in the nation's defense system while at the same time pursuing his beloved specialty, radio.

We kinda, I kinda over-packed, but I'd be more than willing to do a POTA rating with my normal day-to-day POTA bag.

Th- th- this photo was more like kinda staged in my mind because I looked at it and I'm like, that's probably gonna go in the article that he's gonna post to QST because, you know, he wouldn't want any of his, you know, uh, you know, band pass filters to look, uh, cockeyed or, you know, any of the cables to look, you know, out of place or anything.

So you wanna, you know, make it look professional.

I get that.

Um, huge, huge shout-out, though.

Like, there were a bunch of people that are like...

Let me pull up my ar- uh, article real quick, 'cause I'm, like I said, the, the interview, you're getting a preview of what the QST article's gonna look like, um, just in text form.

Uh, where did I put that at?

And I think one of the advantages that you have with your channel is that you're able to kind of get all the specialists together in one place to be able to either coordinate communications or just give these specialists a chance to have a chance to air.

I know pre-internet, if you were a specialist, you knew about the other guys from the VHF and above column in QST, right? You know, because they were you were working them in contests or something like that.

But, you know, there was really no I guess there were there.

There are national VHF and VHF clubs where these guys hung out.

I think that's where ham radio went in order to have a lot of functionality in a smaller box that you could fit in your car.

Do you see, as I'm thinking of you, you know, Eric, as we're talking, that you're an influencer to new hams, to maybe people getting back in the hobby who have been out for a long time but need some guidance.

Do you see that the institutions like the ARRL with their QST magazine and things like this, do you think they're still relevant to this group of hams? Do you get the magazine yourself, and do you think that it has enough stuff in it to interest a person who's getting into ham radio right at first?

Okay, so I look at this a different way.

Welcome to the September 2026 episode.

The September-October 2026 issue of On the Air included an article about ARL's new lab measurement comparison tool and how it helps make sense of QST product review data.

For those of you who aren't familiar with QST product review, It's a 12-page feature in every issue of QST in which hams write extensive, unbiased reviews of ham radio equipment like amplifiers, antennas, receivers, transceivers, CW keys, other station accessories.

And some of these products, including transceivers, receivers, and amplifiers, are tested in the ARL lab to see how they stack up against their manufacturer's claims and specs.

And those test results are included in the published review to help you make more informed choices about what equipment to buy.

To make lab test results even more accessible and useful, ARRL has launched an online QST product review database that is an interactive comparison tool for ARRL lab tested devices.

And this tool is available online at compare.arrl.org. Our guests today, ARRL digital RF engineer, John Jobin-McAuliffe, W1DRF is here to tell us more about what the tool does and how you can use it to better inform your equipment purchases.

Welcome, John.

Kramer, who had an impressive collection of antique telegraph keys, was 78.

He served as COO and publisher of QST Magazine from 2005 to 2016. a period former ARRL CEO Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, described as one sunspot cycle on the staff.

Harold was an ARRL life member and donor, supporting the Diamond Club, the Second Century Campaign, and the ARRL Lab, for which he volunteered following his retirement.

He was also a member of the ARRL Historical Committee and a contributing author to ARRL's The Parks on the Air book.

He is better known to the amateur radio community as the editor of CQ Amateur Radio Magazine from 1999 until the magazine ceased publication in 2023.

Since 2024, Moseson has been working, mostly behind the scenes, on several ARRL publications, including the ARRL Letter, National Contest Journal, and On the Air.

He has also contributed articles to QST.

Moseson has been an amateur since 1970 and holds an extra class license.