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years out of date and seems to owe more to self-congratulation than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feeling that high-ranked persons or duke and knights with outdated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....

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