[ARC5] F Recent auction -- off topic

[k2cby at optonline.net]

For most of my 63 years as a ham, I've been a builder-restorer-experimenter.
When I was a kid Novice - back in the late '50s - I subscribed to both
Popular Electronics and QST. As I began to learn a little about electronics
I found the technical articles in "PopTronics" too simple-minded to be
interesting and QST too complicated to understand. Now that I've grown old
in the hobby I find QST too dumbed-down and QEX too esoteric. Same problem,
different periodicals - go figure. The last several years, technical
articles in QST have gotten fewer and fewer as well as less and less
challenging, but things have reached a new low when they are so starved for
material that they have to reprint technical stuff from decades ago and
descriptions of old rigs just to fill pages - been there, read that, used to
own one.

I still support the League, but I wish they would put better material in the
magazine rather than reserving it for the Handbook and the specialist books
they advertise for sale.

Speaking of which - or, rather, changing the topic - I recently got an email
from the League with the 3rd issue (I never saw the first 2) of something
called "ARRL Current" that actually did contain some worthwhile material.
One thing that interested me was their description of a half-wave, end-fed,
horizontal antenna fed with coax through a 49:1 balun coil. But instead of
giving the specs for the balun core so you could build it yourself, there
was a "commercial" and a set of building instructions for a kit that that
ARRL was flogging through it's on-line store. 

Miles, K2CBY

 

Miles B. Anderson, K2CBY
16 Round Pond Lane
Sag Harbor, New York 11963-3821
Phone: (631) 725-4400
FAX: (631) 725-2223

e-mail: k2cby at optimum.net <mailto:k2cby at optimum.net> 

 

 

 

Miles B. Anderson, K2CBY
16 Round Pond Lane
Sag Harbor, New York 11963-3821
Phone: (631) 725-4400
FAX: (631) 725-2223

e-mail: k2cby at optimum.net

 

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