QST.org Web Address Now in the Hands of the ARRL
Long-time ham and ARRL member David Lien, W6OVP, of Battle Ground, Washington, has transferred the Web address www.QST.org to the ARRL. If you head to that URL, you’ll now find yourself in the QST section of the ARRLWeb.
“I bought the rights to it about nine years ago,” he said. “I was just trolling — I own quite a few [Web addresses]. I came across QST.org and grabbed it. It’s so important to ham radio, and there’s only one use for it.”
An aerospace engineer for many years, Lien is also a prolific author. Of his many books, the majority of which helped computer neophytes learn the ins and outs of the TRS-80 and other early personal computers and systems, his best-known were Learning IBM BASIC and The BASIC Handbook. In fact, Lien was a consultant on the development of the ground-breaking TRS-80, which was among the first mass market personal computers.
“I was pleased I was in the right place at the right time to rescue the name and hold it for the League until they were ready [to request it],” he said.
ARRL Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, who first contacted Lien about the address, commented: “We really appreciate David’s generosity in transferring QST.org back to us. It will make it easier for our members and others interested in Amateur Radio to find information about QST and its content on the Web. We have some other exciting plans in the works for QST.org that we will be implementing in the upcoming months.”
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