
Great point Bud! I enjoy diversity in QST Editorials.Lynn Nelson - W0NDARRL Dakota Division Vice DirectorSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: W2RU - ARRL <W2RU@arrl.org> Date: 2/11/20 8:38 AM (GMT-07:00) To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Cc: N1VXY <N1VXY@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:29668] Fwd: [ODjr] QST editorials Here’s a little survey of my QST collection that I did not quite a year ago, when I was conversing with some others about “It Seems to Us”:Begin forwarded message:From: W2RUSubject: Re: QST editorialsDate: April 30, 2019 at 8:15:16 PM EDTMy QSTs are still pretty much unsequenced in my bookshelves because most of them came down here to VA from dry storage just a few months ago. That’s not so bad for this exercise, since it facilitates random sampling. Examples (in the order I pulled them off the shelves):1975 December (W4KFC, 1st VP)1975 November (Don Waters — who I believe was the League’s PR guy at the time)1969 April (Unsigned — perhaps Huntoon?)1954 January (Unsigned)2003 January (Ward Silver, N0AX, guest editorial)1990 September (K1ZZ, EVP)1936 April (K. B. Warner, Secretary, chronicling the deaths of Charles Stewart and Hiram Percy Maxim)1926 January (K. B. Warner, Secretary)1988 March (K1ZZ, EVP)1948 August (split between “B.G” — probably Byron Goodman, Ass’t. Technical Editor — and initials I believe are Warner’s, as Secretary)2006 October (K1ZZ, CEO)1956 June (Unsigned, during a period when A. L. Budlong, W1BUD, was Secretary & General Manager, and Goodwin L. Dosland, W0TSN, was President)So you can prove just about anybody wrote the QST editorials over the years. Perhaps more importantly, you could make the point that the CEO/EVP/GM has not historically had a monopoly on the editorial page, and that "really good” editorials can and should come from multiple writers.Bud, W2RU