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May 13th 06, 07:41 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
Hmmm...not sure I agree that the folks at ARRL are deliberately being
dumb (or maybe I just misunderstood you).

Let me just relate my personal experience. I submitted an article
to QEX which mentioned light wave theory as explained in "Optics",
by Hecht. An (un-named) QEX employee, with whom I was dealing, had
"Optics" as a college textbook and was very interested in the subject.
He suggested that I expand the light wave theory section of my article,
which I did. After about four revisions, he suddenly stopped responding
to my emails. A couple of months later, I received a rejection letter.
That was well over a year ago.

Two QEX articles have recently appeared covering exactly the same
material as my article but with different slants. QEX still will
not answer my emails and will not publish my letters to the editor.
My treatment by QEX is more akin to religious shunning than
anything else.

I am convinced that the QEX employee that I was dealing with is
deliberately publishing dumbed-down material because he previously
indicated that he knows different from his college optics course.
He is most probably being directed to do so by his superiors because
he was, at first, enthusiastic about publishing my article which
is available from my web page below.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp/energy.htm