Obviously their web page is now out of print then :)
Paul
In message <pIsIOoAyghV6Ews7@ifwtech.plus.net>, Ian White, G3SEK
<G3SEK@ifwtech.com> writes
>
>paul wrote:
>>
>>Why buy it?
>>
>>It's gradually appearing on their web site
>>
>
>Oh no it isn't. That page has been there since 1996.
>
>The idea was that the world should volunteer to update C&F at no expense
>to Eimac. Mistake #1 was to keep the existing chapter structure - but
>times have changed since the 1960s, and the structure of the whole book
>needs to change as well. Mistake #2 was to believe that volunteer
>authors would hand over all rights to Eimac for no compensation
>whatever.
>
>As a professional technical writer, I see it as a total misconception of
>what needed to be done, and how to do it. Apparently others feel the
>same... the web page just sits there, unchanged.
>
>I'd buy the old print edition. AFAIK, any age is about the same.
>
>73 from Ian G3SEK Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
> 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
> http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek
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