snip:
Jerry Sevick is another great thinker/writer that the league seems to have
turned their back on.
"Aint that the truth!!!"
Mike(y)
W3SLK
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil (VA3UX) <phil@vaxxine.com>
To: Jim Reid <kh7m@hsa-kauai.net>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] Blown TL922A... What to do?
>
> I conversed with Walt several months ago. His book came up near the end of
> the conversation and it appears that a new edition is in the works, to be
> published by a different organization. This was all tentative at the time
> but he was working on it.
>
> Jerry Sevick is another great thinker/writer that the league seems to have
> turned their back on.
>
> Phil
>
> At 09:26 AM 9/13/2000 -1000, you wrote:
> >
> >Paul wrote, in part:
> >
> >> Notwithstanding the ARRL's procedure for accepting an
> >> article for publication in the first place, a professional journal
> >> would have dealt with this issue in a true professional
> >> manner...
> >
> >(and would have)
> >>
> >> The League's review board, functioning as an unbiased
> >> mediator would, much like a court trial, review all evidence
> >> presented by both parties and decide what, if any action
> >> should be taken to correct any technical inaccuracies or
> >> deficiencies based on prima-facia evidence.
> >>
> >> Instead, the League decided to form an ad-hoc review board (the
> >> "contributors") without disclosing their rationale for selecting these
> >> individuals. Several contributors were far from being financially
> >> disinterested.
> >
> >This sort of action smacks of what happened to Walt Maxwell's
> >material and his reputation as a result of an approach to the
> >ARRL by a famous former Collins Radio amplifier engineer.
> >This person asserted that Maxwell's material was all wrong.
> >That actual SSB power amplifiers wanted to see high output
> >SWR to be most efficient, and that Walt's claims that a
> >conjugate match, applying the Conjugate Matching Theorem
> >was all wrong!
> >
> >I, of course, thought it was the job of the typical Pi-L
> >matching network to "match" the high Z from the
> >amp to the low Z of the feedline coax; and from that
> >terminal on, the Conjugate Match theory would be
> >applicable....as I presume does Maxwell, but this
> >belief is not shared by Maxwell's detractors. This
> >former sentence is my thought, not anothers!
> >
> >The result was the removal of Maxwell's material from ARRL
> >publications, and semmingly without printed comment about
> >the removal in QST or any other publication, so far as I know.
> >Evidently, in Maxwell's case, not even an "ad hoc" review
> >board was consulted before just dropping Maxwell. Only the
> >single complainer, with reputation, seemed needed.
> >
> >Also, the League did not reprint Walt's book, "Reflections".
> >There has remained quite a market demand for the book.
> >It is now about to be republished, as a new edition, by a
> >different organization.
> >
> >Further, Maxwell has prepared material in support of his
> >positions and has submitted same to the "new" QEX
> >publication/editors. It would seem that, so far, he is
> >still being "overlooked" by the ARRL!
> >
> >It really is too bad that Maxwell's material was not also
> >peer reviewed in a professional manner rather than just
> >evidently dropped and judged henceforth to be worth only
> >ignoring.
> >
> >73, Jim, KH7M
> >
> >
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