About the May 2008 QST text . . .
If things keep going the way they are, the ARRL Handbook
and its accompanying CD might very well degenerate into a
catalog.
Go to a given chapter and instead of finding text and explanatory
material you will instead find a listing of manufacturers, telephone
numbers, addresses and the like.
This would save an enormous amount of paper. The treehuggers
would be happy.
But I have a hunch that is not the way it will go. I would instead
hope that we merely have an opinion by a few (misguided and
perhaps incompetent) souls who are out of step with the "real"
ham radio fellows. I put in a lot of work on Chapter 12 of the
2008 ARRL HB and I doubt it would have been accepted if the
real long-term goal of the ARRL was to get folks to switch to
store-bought stuff.
I think we have a hobby with an extremely broad spectrum of
members,. from plug-n-play up to designers of state-of-the-art
stuff. But as Paul / VJB nicely stated, it is wrong to encourage
buying when so much more fun can be had by building.
- Jim WB6BLD
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