It's been the case in Britland for many years now, that if you
want info to build modern gear, then buy the ARRL handbooks.
OTOH, if you want a mediocre book that is many
years out of date and seems to owe more to self-congratulation than
it does to technical excellence, then go for the RSCB offering. Odd, really,
when you consider that the RSCB is a publishing corporation.

"J M Noeding" wrote in message
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In 1970 I bought the latest issue RSGB Handbook, obviously a decade
before the transistors were being discovered in England, and several
decades before the spectrum analyser were applied over there. So after
a week I managed to find another person to keep the book, not sure if
he paid for the rubbish