[CQ-Contest] Book Realities

[TOMK5RC at aol.com]

The group has really stirred up quite a lather over writing a contesting 
cookbook. I hate to be a wet blanket, but there are some realities you need 
to consider before turning wild enthusiasm into written word.

I have published seven books and been the Editor of the NCJ twice. Publishing 
any "authoritative" document is no trivial undertaking, whether it be web 
based or in hard copy. 

Mechanics of publishing a book aside, content accuracy is critical. How will 
you determine which tips and techniques are accurate and which are 
speculation, regional truisms or folk lore? An editorial review board might 
help, but, in this litigious society, anything you print can open the authors 
to challenge by a reader who took your advice and then failed to achieve 
their desired results.

If anyone is seriously considering taking this project on, I suggest you talk 
with former contester K1TN. For about a year now, he has been researching a 
book on Yasme and the lives of W6KG and W6QL. Another resource is K5MA, who 
is in charge of book publication for ARRL.

Tom Taormina, K5RC
www.consultpr.com


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