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years out of date and seems to owe more to self-congratulation than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
...
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

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:00:49 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:

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years out of date and seems to owe more to self-congratulation than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.

I do not agree, and soon the RSGB is the only IARU organization I
support, have been a member from january 74. They now contribute with
a lot of useful material, but it was different earlier, as one had the
feeling that high-ranked persons or duke and knights with outdated
experience was telling you what to do.

But for Radcom, I must admit that I mainly read G3VA's "Technical
topics"

My radio club was Worcester &DARC, suppose it is not so much activity
there now....

---
J. M. Noeding, LA8AK, N-4623 Kristiansand
http://home.online.no/~la8ak/c.htm

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:52:38 +0200, J M Noeding
wrote:

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:00:49 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:

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years out of date and seems to owe more to self-congratulation than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.

I do not agree, and soon the RSGB is the only IARU organization I
support, have been a member from january 74. They now contribute with
a lot of useful material, but it was different earlier, as one had the
feeling that high-ranked persons or duke and knights with outdated
experience was telling you what to do.

But for Radcom, I must admit that I mainly read G3VA's "Technical
topics"

My radio club was Worcester &DARC, suppose it is not so much activity
there now...

In my limited experience over the lats 22 months Iv'e read both (well
looked through both!) and they aer both highly infromative books. Id
just give the edge to the ARRL version, it's more readable and has
more coentent, but hte RAdcom version is still well worlth having on
the shelf. I do'nt see any problem with the Brits anachronistic
attachment to valve gear.
--

Fat, sugar, salt, beer: the four essentials for a healthy diet.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:07:14 GMT, Steve Evans
wrote:



In my limited experience over the lats 22 months Iv'e read both (well
looked through both!) and they aer both highly infromative books. Id
just give the edge to the ARRL version, it's more readable and has
more coentent, but hte RAdcom version is still well worlth having on
the shelf. I do'nt see any problem with the Brits anachronistic
attachment to valve gear.

I is really a myth, TV sets were fully transistorized in Europe
compared to USA by several years


---
J. M. Noeding, LA8AK, N-4623 Kristiansand
http://home.online.no/~la8ak/c.htm

"J M Noeding" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:00:49 +0100, "Airy R. Bean"
wrote:
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But for Radcom, I must admit that I mainly read G3VA's "Technical
topics"

My radio club was Worcester &DARC, suppose it is not so much activity
there now....

---
J. M. Noeding, LA8AK, N-4623 Kristiansand
http://home.online.no/~la8ak/c.htm


To me, Pat Hawker is the defining spirit of UK amateur radio.
I've also picked up much fascinating stuff from his technical-topics and the
mentions of his SOE work in WW2.
regards
john