[Lowfer] Cornell's Book

[Warren Ziegler]

Hi Peter,

   Have the 9th edition here, fun reading but somewhat dated.
Ken was a tinkerer not an engineer (one example - he didn't believe in
calculating inductance - he believed in making coils by trial and
error).
To me his book is in the same category as 1950s QSTs - good bathroom reading.
I would be willing to contact Ken's heirs regarding reprints if anyone
has any idea who I should talk to.

There  is lots of good stuff on the web today, but for a book I still
recommend "The Low Frequency Experimenter's Handbook" by Peter Dodd
G3LDO - published by the RSGB and available from the ARRL.

-- 
73 Warren K2ORS
                WD2XGJ
                WD2XSH/23
                WE2XEB/2
                WE2XGR/1

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Peter Barick <pbarick at niu.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> We've all heard about the legendary Ken Cornell, "Mr. LowFER" of the 70-80s? Oh well...
>
> Saw advertised on QHT site a copy of his The LF Scrapbook and expect to have it in short time. I'm under no illusions of find the font of all-knowing LF think, ha, they did it w/ tubes and no beaconing back then. Oh well, guess it's the Not knowing yet seeing refs. in LowDown that's compelling.
>
> I understand his heirs do not allow a reprinting of his published. Wonder why, it's not rocket science - er, is it?
>
> --Cheers, Peter
>
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