ARRL Magazines

ARRL

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About this app

If you're a member of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio, install this app and have QST, the ARRL membership journal, delivered to your Android device every month as well as On The Air, QEX, and NCJ

QST entertains and informs with news, construction projects, tutorials and much more. That's why it is the most widely read Amateur Radio publication in the world. QEX is the forum for communications experimenters, with more in depth technical articles. On The Air magazine is ideal for the beginner-to-intermediate hams to learn new concepts and operating skills. NCJ describes the people and adventures of contesting worldwide.

Not a member? Join now at https://www.arrl.org/join-arrl-renew-membership/.

Ratings and reviews

This new ARRL Magazine has the same problem as the QST app it replaces. That is, it's nothing more than a photographic copy of the paper edition. So, although you can use pinch/squeeze zoom, it's unusable on anything smaller than a 10" tablet, since the text doesn't reflow. This means lots of horizontal scrolling, like reading a book through a telescope.

Updating my review as of 09 JUN 2021. I didn't think it was possible, but the ARRL Magazines app seems to have gotten even worse than it was. The app will no longer automatically download new editions of any magazine, even if manually refreshed. The only solution seems to be to force stop the app, clear the cache, and restart. Every. Single. Month. This "fix" was recommended by the helpful folks at ARRL HQ, and while it's a viable workaround, it's surprising to me that this is the long-term "solution" to the problem. So now, not only is the app one of the worst from a UI/reader perspective, it doesn't even function to keep the downloads current and requires manual intervention just to stay current.

2022.10.23 I keep hoping ARRL will do the one fundamental thing that will make this mobile app edition and the online edition useful: Stop using the printed format for the electronic editions. The printed format simply does not work for online display, especially on small mobile screens. Reading an article requires constant zooming and scanning to read each page. The app itself installs, downloads, navigates, and displays pretty well, but the overall experience is awful and frustrating.

What's new

General Bug Fixes