QST

The magazine's name is the radio "Q signal" for "calling all stations" or "the following message is to be forwarded to all amateur stations".

QST includes projects for the amateur radio enthusiast, and pictures, articles, columns, and reports on ARRL affairs. Particular interest is given to amateur radio's role in emergency communications such as in the hours after the September 11 attacks{{r|September11th|pages=[https://www.arrl.org/files/file/WTC.pdf 28–34, 59]}} and in Hurricane Katrina.{{cite news |title=Hurricane Katrina relief |magazine=QST |date=November 2005 |page=12}}

Supplemental content to the magazine is available on the ARRL website, including an abridged archive in PDF format, available to ARRL members, that spans all content dated 1915–2011.{{r|annual_2021}}

As part of its centennial celebration in 2014, ARRL published two volumes of QST reprints from 1915 to 2013: One on Amateur Radio technology and the other on advertising.

Notable content includes a circuit in the April 1968 issue from Ronald Stordahl, the founder and current CEO of Digi-Key (as of 2023).{{Cite web | title=Updating the Original Digi-Keyer {{!}} DigiKey | url=https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/updating-the-original-digi-keyer | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405013047/https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/updating-the-original-digi-keyer | access-date=2025-02-15 | archive-date=2023-04-05}}

The first issue of the magazine was published in December 1915, with its first three issues financed by American Radio Relay League founder Hiram Percy Maxim and secretary Clarence D. Tuska, with an expectation that increased membership would finance its continued existence.{{r|1915_Announcement|page=[https://archive.org/details/sim_qst_1915-12_1_1/page/2/ 2]}}{{r|deSoto_1936|page=[https://archive.org/details/twohundredmeters0000deso/page/43/ 43]|quote=The answer, seemingly obvious but surveyed with some reluctance by Maxim and Tuska, was a self-supporting magazine. In December, 1915, each member of the League received in his mail a sixteen-page magazine called QST —the "December Radio Relay Bulletin". This, it was announced, was being published privately at the expense of Maxim and Tuska. It was to be sold independently of the League, on a subscription basis. The subscription fee was to be $1.00 per year. The stated object of the magazine was "to maintain the organization of the American Radio Relay League and to keep the amateur wireless operators of the country in constant touch with each other".}} In October 1916, the editors announced the formation of The QST Publishing Company, mostly to insulate Maxim and Tuska from possible litigation risks.{{r|QST_191610|page=[https://archive.org/details/sim_qst_1916-10_1_11/page/302/ 302]}}

File:December 1915 QST.djvu

Publication of QST was temporarily suspended after the September 1917 issue. In April 1917, the United States government, following its entrance into World War I, banned all amateur radio activities, and a large percentage of the magazine's subscribers had entered military service. The ban on amateur radio was lifted after the conclusion of the war. QST returned in May 1919 with no cover – billed as “ARRL special bulletin” – and only 8 pages long. At a meeting in New York on March 29, a group that included Maxim, Tuska, and nine others decided to finance its return in this form and make a plea for membership and subscription renewals.{{cite magazine |title=Special bulletin |magazine=QST |date=May 1919 |page=1}}

File:QST Announcement - QST magazine, December 1915, page 2.jpg

The June 1919 issue, still without a cover, announced that the wartime ban on receiving had been lifted. Finally, in July 1919, QST resumed its previous format, although amateurs were not permitted back on the air until that fall,{{efn|The amateur radio's return to air was delayed by U.S. military's attempt to make permanent its wartime control of radio communication.}} when a supplement to the October 1919 issue proclaimed “BAN OFF”. By September 1920, QST was back up to 100 pages, a size not seen since April 1917.

Publication continued throughout World War II, despite amateur radio's repeated wartime hiatus by order of the U.S. government. During both wars, amateurs were in high demand as military radio operators, and QST's staff pitched in for the war effort.

The current managing editor is Becky Schoenfeld (W1BXY).

Steve Ford (WB8IMY) retired as managing editor in September 2020.

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{{cite book | date = 2021 | title = 2021 Annual Report | url = https://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Annual%20Reports/2021%20ARRL%20new%20AR2021%20071822.pdf | url-status = live | type = Report | language = en-US | location = Newington, Connecticut | publisher = American Radio Relay League | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221204175021/https://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Annual%20Reports/2021%20ARRL%20new%20AR2021%20071822.pdf | archive-date = 2022-12-04 | access-date = 2022-12-12 | df = dmy-all }}

{{cite web | url = https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Advertising/QST%20Advertising.pdf | title = Why Advertise in QST? | date = n.d. | department = Advertising | website = American Radio Relay League | language = en-us | access-date = 2022-12-12 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220808133615/https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Advertising/QST%20Advertising.pdf | archive-date = 2022-08-08 | quote = QST enjoys a much higher circulation than any other US Amateur Radio magazine. We don't believe that would surprise many people—we're the largest Amateur Radio organization in the US. It's a fact that individuals who join organizations are typically more active and involved | df = dmy-all }}

{{cite magazine | author1 = Rick Lindquist, N1RL | author2 = Diane Ortiz, K2DO | date = November 2001 | title = 9/11/01: "This is Not a Test." | url = https://www.arrl.org/files/file/WTC.pdf | url-status = live | magazine = QST | publisher = American Radio Relay League | language = en | volume = | issue = | pages = 28–34, 59 | issn = 0033-4812 | lccn = 21009421 | oclc = 1623841 | ol = OL25485210M | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220815102947/https://www.arrl.org/files/file/WTC.pdf | archive-date = 2022-08-15 | access-date = 2022-12-12 | quote = | df = dmy-all }}

{{cite magazine | last1 = Maxim | first1 = Hiram Percy | author-link1 = Hiram Percy Maxim | last2 = Tuska | first2 = Clarence D. | author-link2 = Clarence D. Tuska | date = December 1915 | title = Announcement | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_qst_1915-12_1_1/page/2/ | magazine = QST | publisher = American Radio Relay League | language = en | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 2 | issn = 0033-4812 | lccn = 21009421 | oclc = 1623841 | ol = OL25485210M | access-date = 2022-12-12 | quote = | via = Internet Archive | df = dmy-all }}

{{cite magazine | author = | date = October 1916 | title = The Publishers | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_qst_1916-10_1_11/page/302/ | magazine = QST | publisher = American Radio Relay League | language = en | volume = I | issue = IX | pages = 302 | issn = 0033-4812 | lccn = 21009421 | oclc = 1623841 | ol = OL25485210M | access-date = 2022-12-12 | quote = | via = Internet Archive | df = dmy-all }}

{{cite book | last1 = de Soto | first1 = Clinton B. | date = 1936 | chapter = Six... The American Radio Relay League | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/twohundredmeters0000deso/page/38/ | title = 200 Meters & Down: The Story of Amateur Radio | url = https://archive.org/details/twohundredmeters0000deso | language = en-us | publisher = American Radio Relay League | isbn = 9780872590014 | lccn = 37000376 | oclc = 47890119 | ol = OL9708354M | access-date = 2022-12-12 | via = Internet Archive | df = dmy-all}}

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