I see lots of conjecture about how much it will cost, but nobody has said "I visited the ARRL website and this is how much it costs". Well, I just did, and it's $975.00. That's 25 years worth of dues, not 20, as someone else said. At current savings account interest rates (if you plopped $975.00 in a savings account and waited 25 years at 1.5% interest), you'd have about $1425.00. If interest rates were 5%, you'd have about $3400.00. This as compared with inflation and how much the price of QST is probably going to increase, if you expect to live 20 more years, it's "probably" not such a bad deal. I don't see interest rates rising as long as the Obamacrats are in office, but if We the People take power away from the Obamacrats as expected in November, I'm hopeful we'll see interest rates begin to rise based on consumer confidence. In the meantime, I'll consider it.
-WY3X