As seen in academia, business, and politics an absence of
challenging alternatives/competition can lead to arrogance
and/or an absence of accountability.
I'd like to see an effort to assemble a peer-reviewed
alternative to the Handbook that includes, where appropriate,
alternative methods and philosophies - let the reader decide.
In an electronic format it would be easy to update and cheap
to maintain and distribute.
> 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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