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

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.

Update: This app is much better than before, but I still can't use it on an airplane because it demands I be online to verify my ARRL membership! Bookmarks have been added and the interface has been updated to allow scrolling between multiple pages. Panning around the page when zoomed in is also improved. But the app sometimes crashes. Now, after working for weeks, it would not show and pages or download editions. After reinstall, it worked. I still think a Kindle version would be far better.

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.

What’s new

General Bug Fixes