as mentioned by others, i'm basically a member for the magazine. use of the magazine archives on their website has been useful more then a few times. i suppose they provide some benefit, and won't really know what benefit that is unless i ever need them to help me
the same as the nra, a longtime member-should've paid for the lifetime membership 35 years ago
-i don't agree with 100% that they do, but i certainly agree & feel they are somewhat more in tune then the arrl. i enjoy reading american rifleman, but i get more out of qst.
speaking of magazines....regarding to ANY subscription....i understand print media may be slowly dying, but i just cannot read a magazine or newspaper online. i may quickly check an article, but find it more relaxing to sit at the kitchen table or on the couch and flip pages at my leisure without having to move the page around on an ipad or laptop screen. i subscribe to a lot of magazines, and even qst at $39 a year is a bargain because if it was available on newstands, it would probably be $6 an issue or $72 a year. many of the magazines i subscribe to are $5 or $6 an issue, yet many have a yearly subscription rate of between $8-20 per year if you buy 2 or 3 years. my hobbies besides radio include hunting, guns, archery, four wheeling, cars, drag racing, boating...plenty of magazines, if i was to buy 3 issues of several a year, i'd spend more then the subscriptions of 25 that i get....
...runna pile-up on 6m SSB