Jim et al,
This is a common problem with their publications. Ward Silver, N0AX, is the
editor. Might start with him first. See if he takes credit for the mistakes.
If you want help, let me know. Just give me a chapter to do and I will get
back to you by Sunday or a deadline you specify.
May I suggest you ask for other people to also step in to help to reduce your
work load? I will send you my list of errors found for the chapter you assign.
Of course, this will entail a lot of work on the part of the volunteers and we
will be doing the work that the ARRL should have done correctly the first
time and they get paid for it. I'd ask for help and publish the list of
volunteers here and what else is needed.
They screwed the revised printing of EMRFD with lots of blank spacing for
bold or italic print in one or more of the chapters plus another pile of
errors that Wes and others have noted and the ARRL ignored a lot of
them. IMHO.
I helped rewrite a chapter back in the 1995 HB and got credit for the work and
some funding, but they have since given the credit to others or removed it. Not a way
to win friends.
You could start up a web page and publish the work first and let the ham
population know just what they are getting. Spread the word around.
This is the age of the Internet.
Just a thought from here. If I'm out of line, I apologize.
chuck, k7qo, an unhappy camper :-)
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| 2018-01-16 09:11:31
| lawrence_joy
| Re: 2018 ARRL Handbook
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Hello fellow technical publications readers,
I did a cover to cover edit of EMRFD First Edition that was incorporated into the Revised First Edition. My name and callsign are listed as a proofreader. I have also written edits and made comments about articles in QEX and QST plus the ARRL Antenna Book and the ARRL Handbook. Ward Silver, N0AX; Kai Siwiak, KE4PT; and Steve Ford, WB8IMY know me well.
My expertise is the proper use of SI, schematic reference designations IAW ANSI/ASME Y14.44, and class letter assignment IAW IEEE 315 clause 22.
I would be glad to lend a hand. Send e-mail directly to me at .
73 de 9V1MI/WN8P, Larry
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| 14509
| 2018-01-16 18:30:45
| Jim Strohm
| Re: 2018 ARRL Handbook
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Larry,
You may be too close to the ARRL to be able to do a fair proofread of the 2018 Handbook. But if you think you may be up to the task, please take a good hard look at the prefatory matter and the first two chapters, and share what you've found. Both in my private email and here on EMRFD. In my early read, I specifically omitted verification of the table of contents, because it should have been auto-generated and should match identically with the content it references. YMMV. 73 Jim N6OTQ |