[Lowfer] Cornell's Book

[Warren Ziegler]

Peter,

    Thanks for de-bunking the often repeated myth that Ken's family
stood in the way of reprinting the book!
I had heard that story so many times that I came to believe it!

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


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Peter Cranwell <pete at pcranwell.com> wrote:
> Ken was divorced & never remarried.   His former wife has no claim.
>
> I am not aware of who , if any, his kids are.
>
> I helped Ken work on his book back in the late 60s.
>
> Ken followed published coil winding data, as a starting point.  After that
> he did a lot of experimentation with his coil winding machine.
>
> I spent many evenings with him in discussions.
>
> I have a Word version of his 10th workbook  58 Meg.
>
> Pete
>
> WA2EIN former K2RBV
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Warren Ziegler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:21 AM
> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp, UK) and MedFer bands
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Cornell's Book
>
> 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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