Personally, I don't look for the positive reviews on eham, I look for the 
percentages and some times what people like about things, but I like to see 
the bad ones first to see what the common problems are. I've posted a few 
bad ones over the years. Yaesu and alinco getting the majority of them, but 
icom tech support got a bad review from me as well. I don't look at 
advertisements though. I go to people who have what I'm interested in first, 
then look at a few other things and decide from that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: staying current


> Hi;
> There a number of possibilities which may or may not be worth anything. 
> For
> reasons unknown handihams has an audio version of qst and radio world
> available for download.  Qst is also available in the U S from the 
> national
> library for the blind on cassette.  The thing that would be interesting
> would be to ask some nondisabled folks what they read first in qst?  Many
> have said they look primarily at the advertising to see what's new on sale
> etc.  In both versions the advertising is deleted.
> As an arrl member with or without qst you can download product reviews 
> which
> are often interesting.  My only concern as to the product reviews is that
> generally speaking most things reviewed are considered to be fairly good.
> In reality there is some real junk out there.
> The same thing is sometimes true of eham.  I guess if you really like
> something you are particularly motivated to submit a review.
> 73
> Richard