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New Sabin (W0IYH) Book
One other thing. The reason for my post here about my new book, and also the
review on page 70 of the May 2008 QST, is to convey information that might be interesting and valuable to some of the members of this group and to QST readers. It is not motivated by a search for financial profit, even though the publisher does pay a small royalty to the author. That total amount is insignifiant compared to the author's substantial personal investment in time (time is not free) and materials over a three year interval. Bill W0IYH |
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Hello K,
The Mathcad program itself sells for several hundred dollars. The PTC Company publishes this program, and it alone is quite expensive. The disk in my book is part of a promotional plan by PTC to encourage the sales and use of the Mathcad program. Even if the book itself is of no value, which I do not believe, the Mathcad is of considerable value. Go to www.PTC.com if you want to learn more about Mathcad. Bill W0IYH "K" wrote in message ... Yea, its proably a great book, but at $125 bucks a copy, it outa be!! K "William E. Sabin" wrote in message news:Y0JOj.128637$yE1.84159@attbi_s21... One other thing. The reason for my post here about my new book, and also the review on page 70 of the May 2008 QST, is to convey information that might be interesting and valuable to some of the members of this group and to QST readers. It is not motivated by a search for financial profit, even though the publisher does pay a small royalty to the author. That total amount is insignifiant compared to the author's substantial personal investment in time (time is not free) and materials over a three year interval. Bill W0IYH |
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William E. Sabin wrote:
Hello K, The Mathcad program itself sells for several hundred dollars. The PTC Company publishes this program, and it alone is quite expensive. The disk in my book is part of a promotional plan by PTC to encourage the sales and use of the Mathcad program. Even if the book itself is of no value, which I do not believe, the Mathcad is of considerable value. Go to www.PTC.com if you want to learn more about Mathcad. snip I have Mathcad 4.0; would it be sufficient? If so, is the book available separately? Michael |
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Hello Michael,
Mathcad 4.0 was sold in 1993. I had it at that time (15 years ago) but it is very ancient these days. If your computer is fairly modern and has a CD drive, I suggest "bite the bullet" and get the book with the almost freebie version 14.0 program attached. If you are using a very early computer that has no CD drive and if your version 4.0 works OK, you could try it. I believe it is possible to get the book alone. I personally would not want to waste my valuable time with that approach. Also, the CD has the Mathcad User Guide, which is very useful. I can't emphasize too much the excellence of the new 14.0 version. Bill W0IYH "msg" wrote in message ernet... William E. Sabin wrote: Hello K, The Mathcad program itself sells for several hundred dollars. The PTC Company publishes this program, and it alone is quite expensive. The disk in my book is part of a promotional plan by PTC to encourage the sales and use of the Mathcad program. Even if the book itself is of no value, which I do not believe, the Mathcad is of considerable value. Go to www.PTC.com if you want to learn more about Mathcad. snip I have Mathcad 4.0; would it be sufficient? If so, is the book available separately? Michael |
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Yea, its proably a great book, but at $125 bucks a copy, it outa be!! K "William E. Sabin" wrote in message news:Y0JOj.128637$yE1.84159@attbi_s21... One other thing. The reason for my post here about my new book, and also the review on page 70 of the May 2008 QST, is to convey information that might be interesting and valuable to some of the members of this group and to QST readers. It is not motivated by a search for financial profit, even though the publisher does pay a small royalty to the author. That total amount is insignifiant compared to the author's substantial personal investment in time (time is not free) and materials over a three year interval. Bill W0IYH Sad part is that courtesy of the IRS rules, it is a gamble to publish a small run, specialty book like this at that price. Used to be different, but that's the reality now. In any event writing one is more a labor of love than anything else unless you need the publication to get tenure. I haven't seen the book and wouldn't buy it because I've been doing this stuff for 25+ years and already have dozens of books on signal processing. But if you don't have that sort of background and are interested in software radio, you really need this or something like it. There is no substitute for doing the math yourself. Table of contents looks good though I wonder if it's not a proposal outline that Wiley has failed to update rather than the actual table of contents. "Discuss the MathCAD program" doesn't seem like a good section title. Have Fun! Reg |
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It's the actual Table of Contents.
Bill W0IYH Table of contents looks good though I wonder if it's not a proposal outline that Wiley has failed to update rather than the actual table of contents. "Discuss the MathCAD program" doesn't seem like a good section title. Have Fun! Reg |
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William,
Given that Mathcad is included, I don't think the price is unreasonable. However, perhaps you'd consider using one of the free math manipulation programs such as Octave in the future? It really would make it more accessible to amateurs. Nevertheless, thank you for writing the book and getting it published -- it definitely will help some people and is a good addition to amateur radio literature. At least Mathcad is much cheaper than Matlab. The MathWorks (publishers of Matlab) has pretty much completely left out the hobbyist community... the full version of the software is quite expensive (thousands of dollars), whereas the "student" version (at a pretty reasonable $99, although each and every "toolbox" is then an additional $59) require formal proof of student status, which of course hobbyists generally don't have. :-( ---Joel |
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New Sabin (W0IYH) Book
And if you look at the larger booksellers online you can buy the book
for a significantly lower price....at Barnes & Noble for instance if you're a member (and if you buy a lot of books/DVDs I don't know how you can afford not to be) the volume runs around $90 with free shipping. Looks like it's $90 on Amazon.com as well. Haven't had a chance to take a look yet but from the TOC looks like a good read....have added to my "gonna buy' list. Congrats Bill.... 73 -- Dino KL0S/4 |
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Wherever you buy it and whatever you pay for it, be SURE ahead of time that
it INCLUDES the Mathcad disk. That disk is very excellent and valuable, very far beyond the price that is being charged. Bill W0IYH "Dino Papas" wrote in message ... And if you look at the larger booksellers online you can buy the book for a significantly lower price....at Barnes & Noble for instance if you're a member (and if you buy a lot of books/DVDs I don't know how you can afford not to be) the volume runs around $90 with free shipping. Looks like it's $90 on Amazon.com as well. Haven't had a chance to take a look yet but from the TOC looks like a good read....have added to my "gonna buy' list. Congrats Bill.... 73 -- Dino KL0S/4 |
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