Give Him a Break!!!/Monthly Reviews to Continue Re: Radio Hobby Magazines Meeting The Reader's/Subscribers Challenge!Re:[MilCom] Pop'Comm & Milcom Dec 2005

[Ken]

Well we are all entitled to OUR opinions...  From my standpoint Steve 
Douglass' does provide some very interesting exploratory concepts (albeit 
unrelated to HF radio monitoring) in his monthly "Popular Communications" 
magazine column 'Utility Communications Digest' -- which up until his name 
appeared on the masthead was strictly FOCUSED on utility High Frequency 
Radio information & monitoring results (which continues with some reader 
input).  Overall there's less than a handful of hobbyists who report HF 
loggings regularly on this list so there still is a need for this type (HF) 
of continuing monthly information in hobby magazines.

I know some hobbyists who know him and hold him in high regard..  Steve has 
a fairly long history of being involved in uncovering & reporting "Black 
Projects".  If you do a search engine internet search "Intercepts 
newsletter" you will get some interesting information (especially the 
"Wired" publication www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.02/stealth.watchers.html 
or http://www.eff.org/Activism/stealthwatchers.article  from the early/mid 
1990's.   As I stated before, I do not have any personal vendetta against 
Steve... I'm offering MY opinion on his monthly column milcom contents.  If 
anyone else was writing that column with milcom content, I'd still be doing 
a review.

The monthly reviews will continue focusing on "Monitoring Times" & "Popular 
Communications" magazines milcom content.  On occassion, I may purchase 
"Scanning USA"...    BTW I'd encourage others that get various hobby 
magazines (including MT & PC)  to please publish your reviews of magazines 
that have "military communications" content, this way hobbyists that are 
only using this mail lists for information will have an idea what is also 
available in printed magazines.

Ken


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Mantick" <wb9omc at nlci.com>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: Radio Hobby Magazines Meeting The Reader's/Subscribers 
Challenge!Re:[MilCom] Pop'Comm & Milcom Dec 2005

snip..snip...

>>>>>>I will suggest that we give the guy just a bit of a break....