[Lowfer] Lowfer Final Transistors-Switching Time

[Jay Rusgrove]

JD

Instant gratification? Sounds more like sour grapes on your part.

Face it, the printed media is on the way out. I can post items of interest on my website TODAY with 
lengthy descriptions, full color pictures, detailed and readable graphs, spectrum analyzer plots, 
scope displays and include convenient .pdf schematics, fix errors immediately and make updates. A 
significantly wider audience (everyone on the internet) has access to the material through the 
search engines. I can send folks links to these existing pages and they can access them NOW.

Like it or not, this is the way forward. Instant gratification? I'd say more like instant 
communication!

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JD" <listread at oswegoblade.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Lowfer Final Transistors-Switching Time


>>>>
> I remember when Ken Cornell had his Scrapbook and monthly technical stuff in
> the LOWDOWN.  Then there was Vince Pinto with new technical stuff all the
> time until he gave up the hobby and dissapeared.  His stuff was also in the
> LOWDOWN.  What happened?
>>>>
>
> Instant gratification happened, that's what.
>
> The couple dozen or so regulars in this reflector who COULD be writing the
> technical tips and articles that used to make the LOWDOWN a very active
> publication, are instead chatting away in short daily snippets here and on
> similar Internet services, rather than putting words down on paper or into a
> file where they could be shared with hundreds of other subscribers in a
> meatier and more tangible form.
>
> The club sure didn't tell the Ken Cornells and Vince Pintos and Lyle
> Koehlers of the LowFER world that we didn't need them any more!!!
>
> Others who can write are mainly doing it for their personal Web sites now.
> Gratifying for them personally, perhaps; but certainly not as helpful as
> having that content in a location that has always had as its primary purpose
> the promotion and publicizing of the hobby, and attracting newcomers to our
> ranks with solid information.
>
> If people don't write it, we can't print it!  That's "what happened."
>
> But I'll tell you, to say there's _never_ any tech information is not
> accurate.
>
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