That explains the criticism. It sounds more like sour apples to me.
73 Bob W7KD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: "darrel" <darrel@vanbuer.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?
> To answer your question, Darrel, I write a column for the National Contest
> Journal, and have published 5-6 articles in NCJ over the last year. I
> have attempted to test QST's interest in articles I want to write from
> time to time over the last dozen years, and have either been discouraged
> or not answered at all.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
> PS - a lot of us contesters remember, a very few years ago, when QST
> management explained their intention to slash contest coverage by moaning
> about how tight space was and how much each additional page cost.
>
> At 01:23 PM 9/23/2005, darrel wrote:
>>--- Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote:
>>> As the author of that "harsh" criticism, I stand by it. If the guy
>>> wants
>>> to implement a "universal" automatic antenna switch as a learning
>>> exercise,
>>> that's fine, but should QST really spend 8 pages on a design that is ...
>>>
>>
>>Given that QST, like most hobby magazines has no significant paid writing
>>staff, most technical articles are contributed by people who who have
>>decided
>>to write about something they've done. QST will pay a few dollars, but
>>nobody could make a living writing articles for QST etc. Even the paid
>>staff
>>doesn't earn what engineers make.
>>
>>Have you contributed something better for them to publish? I doubt they
>>pushed aside a whole stack of much more interesting, well written and
>>germane
>>articles to print that one.
>>However you value this antenna switch article, it would have to rank above
>>8
>>pages saying:
>>
>> This page left blank because Pete said what we had wasn't worth the ink.
>>
>>
>> Darrel AK6I
>>
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