[TowerTalk] QST Cover

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,2/27/2017 10:03 AM, Wilson Lamb wrote:
> I have ZERO patience for League bashing.  What have YOU done for the League?
> I appreciate that they have saved our spectrum space and maintain a presence in Washington.
> The dues are laughably low...less than a week’s wine, beer and peanut budget for me.
> I am astounded that Steve, Ward, and the tech staff keep managing to crank out great (mostly) pubs in the face of the monumental indifference of 95% of the members.

I mostly agree, Wilson. But -- when we were young, QST was edited by 
active hams who were technically competent, and hams actually built 
stuff from the articles and it worked. Today QST is edited by magazine 
people, and the guiding principle seems to be increasing the number of 
licensed hams, thus increasing the clout of their lobbying efforts to 
"save the hobby."  In most issues, the only material that one can pretty 
much take to the bank is written by Ward Silver, N0AX, a smart engineer 
and great operator who also edits the Handbook and the Antenna Book. I 
regularly cringe at the technical errors in nearly every issue by other 
authors.

On Mon,2/27/2017 8:31 AM, W4AAW at aol.com via TowerTalk wrote:
> Criticism is not always "bashing."

RIGHT!  Neither is disagreement. And thinking people consider the 
content of criticism and disagreement, and often learn from it. I've 
learned a lot when someone points out that something I've said is wrong, 
or that there's more to the story than I know. N7WS, N2IC, and W8JI have 
done that for me on occasion, and I've tried to return the favor.

73, Jim K9YC