The technical level of QST increases
 

In article , Nomen Nescio
writes:

September 2003, page 38 : how to replace
a pilot lamp by a LED and a resistor.
The high technical level of this article
is for CW coders only.

Page 31 is not bad too, the figure 4-A
shows a very sophisticated interface
including 2 resistors, 2 banana plug
sockets and 2 BNC plugs. This article
is reserved for EXTRA operators only.

I am relieved and enlightened that QST is showing such a leap of
technical understanding of the state of the art of electronics!

LHA

Probably so as far as the CW community goes; as I understand it, the
electronic parts boxes of the no code community only contain

Darkness
Emitting
Arsenide
Diode
Semiconductors

(please forgive the vertical arrangement of the above words rather than the
normal horizontal arrangement; I wanted to make sure you understood it :)

73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA
(sorry gang, no real malicious intent here - I just *couldn't* resist that)
evil grin



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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net...
"Len Over 21" wrote in message
...
In article , Nomen Nescio
writes:

September 2003, page 38 : how to replace
a pilot lamp by a LED and a resistor.
The high technical level of this article
is for CW coders only.

Page 31 is not bad too, the figure 4-A
shows a very sophisticated interface
including 2 resistors, 2 banana plug
sockets and 2 BNC plugs. This article
is reserved for EXTRA operators only.

I am relieved and enlightened that QST is showing such a leap of
technical understanding of the state of the art of electronics!

LHA



I have to agree with you on that one Len over 21. QST and technology parted
company years ago. Heck, a new magazine started up because of it, called
Ham Radio. Unfortunatly they also folded.

You do of course know that the ARRL also publishes what they call a
technical magazine, don't ya? I don't even bother looking at it.

I sure have. Sometime take a peek at QEX and count up the number of
articles written by these "technical genius" nocodes vs. the number of
articles written by coded Extras.

I think
they should have left technical articles in QST as before.

Has pros 'n cons. Over the course of a year there's a lot more total
technical meat in the combination of QST and QEX than there ever was
in QST alone.

But then the league has done a lot of things that I don't like.

Dan/W4NTI (life member ARRL)

W3(c)RV Member ARRL