Reg Edwards wrote:
Cec and others, what's the point in dragging in opinions of people
nobody has ever head of and whose publications are highly unlikely ever
to become available before all interest in the subject has faded from
everybody's imagination.

If anything needs to be said, would it not be better to say it just on
one's own authority and be done with it.

We already noticed. But if anyone else tried that, guess who'd call it
"plagiarism"?

Otherwise it falls into the category of
"name dropping".

Cecil has it right: it's called "a reference".


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73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek