[TenTec] Pop Comm slant and position

[Steve Muldoon]

Hello all,
	I generally do not find occasion to post or reply to the reflector, but I 
am compelled to share a few thoughts and observations regarding "Pop Comm". 
	As a former military signals intelligence analyst (put out of work by the 
end of the Cold-War), I had  intimate knowledge of some of the topics and 
information being tossed out on the news stand by that publication. (A 
mixture of fact and fiction at best)
	I wrote to the editor of the magazine on a few different occasions over a 
period of 10 years to take issue with the validity of some of the 
information published.  Errors of FACT including things like identifying a 
Russian made "Spoon-Rest" radar (on the cover of the magazine, no less) as 
an Iraqi communications van.  When I politely wrote the editor to point out 
that not only was the equipment mis-identified, but that an entire article 
was written about this mis-identified equipment, his reply was that I had 
no credentials and that he trusted the author of the article.  Anyone could 
have cracked open a "Jane's" military equipment guide and easily identified 
the mistake.  I could go on and on.........
	My comments to hams or radio enthusiasts would be to stay away from a 
publication that is not only clearly political, but mis-leading, and does 
not care that it is mis-leading readers.
							Steve N8KOM
							s.muldoon@linkeng.com
Feel free to reply direct regarding my comments, as I know I am on the 
fringe of the reflector topic.
	


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