Its owners cite health and lack of sleep as the primary reasons for the demise of the publication. The Westlink Report began its publication life as HR Report in January of 1974. It was written by Joe Schroeder, W9JUV and published by Communications Technology Incorporated. This was the same group that put out Ham Radio magazine. Schroeder says that in the 1970's, it was an idea whose time had come.
Lets face it.
As the world progresses, the lead time to get things done gets shorter and shorter. So what we were doing to get the information out so the people could react and start adding their contributions to whatever it was that needed to be done long before it would have been possible under the conditions ten years earlier. 8 years later Poco Press took over HR Report, renamed the newsletter the Westlink Report, moved publication to California and continued bi-weekly for another thirteen years. This makes the Westlink Report the longest running newsletter serving amateur radio as well as the first to be published regularly from west of the continental divide. Schroeder says that the main impact of newsletters and other ham radio news services is to make Amateur Radio operators more aware of what it takes to keep the hobby service alive.