I wonder if all these employers realize how much money they could save by
firing all those EE's and staffing with Amateur Radio Experimenter's.
We don't need no stinking "Smith Charts"!
Mike, NY9Y
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:47:03 -0500
> From: qrv@kd4e.com
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] The genius of ham radio
>
> 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
>
>
>
> --
>
> *David*
> ~KD4E~
> Nevils, Georgia USA
>
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