It is interesting that the sales of the ARRL Handbook are as good as they are.
It is referred to as an engineering reference. However, I have never purchased
a new edition of
an engineering reference book each year. In fact new editions are usually
published every 5 or even
more years. At some point the hams are going to catch on that 99% of the book
is identical to the last
edition.
I appreciate the ARRL and I use their License Manuals in my classes but they
just have gone the
wrong direction.
One way to change things is to get involved. However, the editors do not
accept criticism very well.
When their first edition of Understanding Radio came out I thought it may be a
good text for a class I
was teaching. However, I found a number of errors and managed to contact the
author. I emailed
the errors to him and in some cases he had to try the circuits out to confirm
that there were problems
which he admitted were issues. At the next Hamvention, I noticed that they had
some loose pages that
came with the book that had the corrections. Oddly enough, the next printing,
which was corrected was not
a second edition but was called the first edition.
I told him that I would be happy to review his material next time. He seemed
very offended and that
was that.
73
Bill wa4lav
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From: Amps [amps-bounces@contesting.com] on behalf of Mike via Amps
[amps@contesting.com]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 7:13 PM
To: qrv@kd4e.com; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] The genius of ham radio
You probably couldn't get enough Hams to agree on any one thing to make
the effort worth it.
Maybe a alternative Handbook of Hams opinions? That oughta fill volumns!
Mike W2GR
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In a message dated 1/12/2015 6:17:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
qrv@kd4e.com writes:
How hard would it be for a group of Hams to create an alternative
"Handbook"?
In a message dated 1/12/2015 6:17:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
qrv@kd4e.com writes:
How hard would it be for a group of Hams to create an alternative
"Handbook"?
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