TT:
I meant to comment earlier. I purchased the two antenna books Steve and
Ward wrote as well as "Up The Tower" by Steve. I recommend them all as good
investments for all of us interested in towerdom.
I also have the League's tower book and was happy to add that to my
collection.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of jimlux
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 5:36 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk is old enough to drink!
On 6/27/19 9:49 AM, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>> It's an enormous amount of work to write and edit a book, and
>> short of
> doing it as a labor of love, one would need to be paid. How much would the
> average TTer be willing to fork out for a book like that, and how many TTers
> would actually sign up to buy it?
>> That makes a 100 page book about 6 month's full time work - if you
>> wanted to be paid $50/hr (which is at the low end for a technical
>> professional, esp without benefits), that's $50k - you'd have to sell
>> thousands of copies to make it "worthwhile" in a financial sense (if
>> you self publish, you might get $5 or $10/copy)
> Hiya, Jim --
> Whew. Good thing I didn't know that when I started it - hi!
No kidding...
It took me NINE YEARS to write UP THE TOWER. Of course there was a divorce in
there and some other speed bumps along the way to slow things down but it did
get done. Tnx to everyone who has bought a copy!
> For those of you looking at the ARRL/K4ZA tower book, two things. While
> Don is a journeyman tower installer and the book does cover the right
> subjects, some topics in his book that he devotes 2 paragraphs to, I have
> whole chapters. And the most criminal thing is that his book has NO INDEX.
> How are you supposed to find anything with no index? My criticism isn't aimed
> at Don but the editors at the League. Ok, I'm done.
>
> Cheers,Steve K7LXC
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