QST, the Ham Radio magazine from the A.R.R.L.

QST was and is the foremost magazine for the ham radio fans of the US. First published in 1915 by the American Radio Relay League (A.R.R.L.); nearly a hundred years later, it's still being published today. Imagine the transitions from spark gap to glowing tubes to transistors to computerized communications shacks: It's all here. All the issues of QST from the first to 2004 are available on CD-ROM from the ARRL (though a few are sold out). The CD-ROM images are black and white, so we're presenting the early covers in color to show you how they actually looked when the came in the mail in, say, 1922. ObNote: Michael Ward W6INA, originator of this website, is a life member of the A.R.R.L., and proud to be one.

If you like old radio, you will like the e-book reprint of the 1922 Sears, Roebuck Electrical Goods and Radio Apparatus Catalog. Here's a writeup about it, with pictures. It's $2.99, free of DRM, and with all the pages rendered as images you can enlarge to see detail, and even print out. It's $2.99! Follow the link.