[ARC5] Buying the book Reflections by Walter Maxwell

[Tom Lee]

I am a big fan of Reflections, but it's also important to point out that 
Maxwell makes some fundamental errors (at least in the original; I don't 
have II or III; maybe he fixed these errors in those later editions). 
His statement of the maximum power transfer theorem is rather muddled, 
and that leads to numerous degrees of wrong in a lot of what he derives. 
Most of his wrong statements are right only in the case of the 
ever-elusive ideal, lossless line, but the lossier the line, the more 
wrong the statements become.

--Tom

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On 10/28/2016 11:43 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
> I downloaded the PDF but also bought the print version from CQ.
>
>
> Peter
>
> On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:59 AM, Jim Hill <hro5-2 at cox.net 
> <mailto:hro5-2 at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>> After reading the thread "Antennas for a Small Yard", I started 
>> looking for the book.  It's been out of print for years. Searching 
>> for Reflections in eBay and Amazon or is pretty much a lost cause, as 
>> there are literally hundreds of books with the word Reflections in 
>> the title, and they could not resist listing them, no matter how I 
>> searched.  The CQ bookstore indicated the latest edition was 
>> Reflections III, a much better search topic.  I found some in Amazon 
>> and/or eBay, priced between a hundred (+) and a thousand dollars. 
>> I'll let those speculators keep their books.
>>
>> To make a long story short, I found two good sources
>> A PDF of seven of the original magazine articles (I'm guessing that 
>> is all of them).  Unfortunately, I didn't keep the web site, but can 
>> send the file to anyone interested. Contact me directly, as I don't 
>> download the ARC5 reflector every day.
>>
>> It is currently available in book form from Universal Radio, see 
>> http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/2438.html 
>> <http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/2438.html> for $34.95 
>> plus shipping.
>>
>> eHam and others have mostly good reviews.  I thought I knew all about 
>> reflections, but after a quick read of some of the articles, I 
>> discovered I was wrong.
>> Thanks to Jim Wiley for the tip.
>> Jim
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