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I am becoming more and more disgusted with the lack of technical
knowledge QST authors.
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Dear Bill, (et al),
QST authors are politically correct. They do not insult or cause
consternation
for any member or advertiser.
The articles need to be "sugar and spice."
We don't want anybody becoming frustrated trying to find obscure parts.
We would prefer the readers to deal with 9-volt battery projects and
not get involved with HV, because that could be a lawsuit if somebody
gets injured or killed from their project.
We want the articles to be like television dramas, where everything
gets a fifty-eight minute solution for the weekend warrior.
The editors are where the technical rubber meets the road. Do you
think it would be necessary for QST to submit technical articles to
people who are well-versed enough to guage the correctness of an
article?
Years ago, when QST was in the small format and mostly B&W,
technical articles had authors who spoke of the fine points of getting
things to work, especially the WWII mil-surplus gear, and the
Hints and Kinks department was often the best reading.
Bill, people like you and me are just not welcome to submit stuff
to QST. It's like someone with a good idea for a book spending months
putting it together and then finding out that they need an agent to get
published, and agents only deal with published authors.
In college, a decent technical article could find a home. The IEEE
would publish well-written stuff from unknown authors, simply on its
technical merit.
CQ, 73, JRSGB were some places for people to submit real meat, but I
guess they've gone away, too.
Bill, it's like television. We can turn the channel (remember when channels
WERE turned?), or we can simply switch the set off if we don't like the
programming.
That's why the reflector nets "serve the public interest."
Respectfully,
Hal Mandel
W4HBM
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I am becoming more and more disgusted with the lack of technical
knowledge QST authors.
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