[TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?

[Pete Smith]

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 at 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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