Re: [Amps] ARRL Amplifier book

[R.Measures <r@somis.org>]

On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Will Matney wrote:

> Vic, Richard, and others,
> You don't reckon it could be that publishing such info anymore would 
> be cutting the throats of the manufacturers who advertises with QST, 
> etc? Hmmmmmmm, just a thought. I once heard a story about QST and ARRL 
> refusing to publish good technical info from fear of the amp 
> manufacturers not wanting it published.

-  Will --- which was probably after the article "The Nearly Perfect 
Amplifier" (by yours truly) was published in the January, 1994 issue of 
QST.  Up until the publication of that article, I had heard rumors that 
the League was probably somewhat in the water bed with QST advertisers, 
but I did not realize to what extent.  A couple of months after the 
article came out, the contract that I had signed with the League to 
write the amplifier chapter for the new Handbook had been quietly 
tossed in the roundfile by the League, and the amplifier chapter was 
being written and copy-edited by two Hams who work in amplifier 
manufacturing businesses, both of which advertise in QST.   The good 
news out of all of this is that the manuscript I wrote for the Handbook 
is now available free on the Internet.  And why not if Amateur Radio is 
really amateur?
-  Epilogue -- The only magazine I subscribe to is "Consumer Reports" 
-- which has no commercial advertising, thank you.
cheerz

> I shouldn't of said that, nope. If that's all they have in the book, I 
> don't want it.
>
> Will Matney
>
>
> RICHARD GEORGE wrote:
>
>
> > > ARRL AMPLIFIER BOOK: Just received mine. A little disappointed, but
> > > should have known. It of course is all reprints of articles from QST
> > > and QEX. The thing that surprised me is that most of it (or a good
> > > part of it) is low power SS stuff. It has only one QRO HF amp in the
> > > whole book. About 240 pages, very little tech stuff.
>
> I suspect that they are afraid of litigation...if they publish a 
> design for a QRO amplifier that uses more than 12 volts and someone 
> builds it and gets killed, they could be a target for a dumba** 
> lawsuit.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
>
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