[Lowfer] Lowfer Final Transistors-Switching Time

[Zack Widup]

I agree. I recall when we used to have to request data sheet catalogs from
manufacturers for their components and wait several weeks to several months
to get the catalogs in the mail. Now all you have to do is enter the part
number on Google and it will likely come up with the data sheet.

Also, a lot of people have put up things on websites that possibly would not
have made it into LOWDOWN. You can always print them out and organize them
into folders (which is what I've done).

I do wonder what happened to people like Lyle Kohler. Did they just get
burned out and give up?

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Jay Rusgrove <jrusgrove at advancedreceiver.com
> wrote:

> 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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