[Lowfer] Lowfer Final Transistors-Switching Time

[Bill Ashlock]

JD, (Gee, this thread is becoming the new record-holder for length).

I'm not sure how the Lowdown subscription numbers have been running over the last 5 years or so but I certainly hope you continue to stick with it for many years to come. In spite of the dwindling number of technical articles there is still 'something' about that publication that holds something near and dear to most of us. Maybe it's the close relationship to the 1W license-free LowFer band that for many of us is still the LF band of choice in spite of the new higher-power options. It may even be the physical size and feel of that little publication. Perhaps others can better put in words what I am trying to say.

At any rate I hope I can find the time in the future to again contribute more articles to the LowDown - and I encourage others to do the same. 

Thank you for all your efforts, John.

Bill A  (Remember the time when there were contributing Bills' with last names beginning in A, B ,C, and D?)

> From: listread at oswegoblade.com
> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:54:03 -0500
> 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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