Time to make lemonade

The suspense is over!

After waiting four weeks for some word from ARRL Headquarters about the suspension of my weekly online column, Surfin’, I wrote to Headquarters this morning to find out what is going on.

Here is the response I received.

We have decided to discontinue the web columns 
("Surfin'", Gary Hoffman's "Amateur Amateur" column, 
and Sterling Coffey's youth column) at this time, 
and to renew the website's focus on news. Tad Cook's 
solar report will remain, as it is akin to a weather 
report.

Our reader studies have shown that news attracts 
and maintains a very high readership, whereas 
readership of the web columns is low. In our effort 
to give members what they want, we are increasing 
our efforts to publish ham radio news. You may 
have noticed that the web news crawl has been 
particularly active in recent weeks -- a result 
of our new initiative. 

Thank you for your service to the League.

That’s all she wrote.

Savin' Surfin'

I don't know if you read my weekly online column, Surfin' on the ARRL website. If you do read it, then you may have noticed that it has been missing for the last two weeks.

As I wrote here in my previous post, that's because as of June 4, Surfin' has been suspended until further notice as "the focus of the League’s web offerings is being reevaluated."

I have received no "further notice" and I fear the worst.

If you enjoyed reading Surfin' and would like to see its return, please tell ARRL Headquarters (e-mail hq@arrl.org) and more importantly, tell your ARRL Division Director (his/her e-mail address is listed here: http://www.arrl.org/divisions). Thank you!

Surfin': In Suspension

I was informed today that Surfin' has been suspended until further notice as "the focus of the League’s web offerings is being reevaluated."

And so it goes.