[Lowfer] QST Article

[Douglas Williams]

So which is better, John, a magnetic loop or an e-probe? ;-)

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:12 AM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> On Mon, November 13, 2017 3:37 pm, John Andrews wrote:
> > ...and these efforts will not be helped by an article in a
> > national publication with misleading information about interference.
>
> Ouch!  Looks to me as if the QST blurb is an edited-down version of the
> earlier ARRL Letter article, in which simply omitting all details of the
> interference complaint (after nonetheless having mentioned it) thereby
> left a totally erroneous impression.
>
> (If I were feeling less charitable, I might make a snide remark about what
> can you expect from a publication that continues to tacitly promote the
> fallacy that loop antennas work by receiving "only" or "primarily" or
> "mainly" the magnetic component of an EM wave...but fortunately I'm above
> that.)
>
> FWIW, in The LOWDOWN for November, we at least got the story right by
> simply not mentioning XSH or the security camera in the first place. Too
> bad there's such a huge difference in the circulation numbers.
>
> JD
>
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