Just read some of the comments on qrp-l, and good grief,
are people going crazy and misinterpreting and reading in
things that are not there and going bonkers! No one ever
said anything about killing off qrp-l! The whole idea is
to split it into two different forms and get the technical
and nontechnical threads separated. This is a thread of
discussion that was extremely controversial when it came up
a few years back, and nothing ever came of it then. Might
turn out the same way this time, but at least the attempt
is being made, instead of just talking about it and
wondering what might happen.

But anyone who's been around for quite a while will know
that a **LOT** of people subscribe to qrp-l and then depart
because they want technical info and find that it's buried
in a lot of (what they consider) nontechnical fluff. If
we have a separate forum for that, it might draw back a lot
of technical folks.

BTW, remember that qrp@qth.net or whatever it is? I've been
subscribed for quite a long time, and the idea was to start
up a technically oriented QRP forum. Guys, it did **NOT**
happen!!! Anyone else who is subscribed to that knows what
I'm talking about! It's virtually DEAD, and has not lived up
to it's promise and hype. It's a miserable failure, from
where I sit. QRP-L is by FAR where all the action is! That
other reflector might see 5 posts a week, if that.

BTW, this new forum format is interesting. It is very, very
similar to reading the html archives of qrp-l! Extremely
similar. I used to get the daily digest, but found that
rather cumbersome since you had to wait a full day to see
the last 24 hours of traffic, AND you had to scan down the
table of contents at the top, write down the numbers of the
messages that looked interesting, jump down to read them
manually. Tedious at best. But the html archives are almost
exactly like the qrp-f; you just scan down a list of subject
lines and click on those that look interesting, and it
hyperlinks you directly there. Hit "back" to return to the
list, and continue scanning and hyperlinking. Really great!

And best of all, it does not take up disk space on your
hard drive like the daily digest, and it's updated several
times a day--you don't have to wait 24 hours until the next
batch of messages appear. Important note: the html archives
can be viewed with different types of sorting. I always
view it sorted by thread, rather than by author or date.

To give the html archives a try, which does require a
browser, go to

http://listserv.Lehigh.EDU/lists/Archives/qrp-l/

I've found it to be an extremely valuable addition to my
qrp-l bag of tricks. I still get the daily digests and
save them to disk for future reference, and use the html
archives for actually reading things daily, and it works
out quite well indeed.

73 and queue our pea DE WA8MCQ