[600MRG] ARRL books

Charlie , W5COV cvest at cox.net
Sun Feb 2 14:51:53 CST 2014


John , your sentiments on the book reflect mine very well.
Definitely a dated book .
I bought mine through the ARRL and was extremely disappointed in it. Yes 
I had to bite the price bullet too and thought if was rather expensive 
for the quality of information that it contained.

Charlie, W5COV


On 2/2/2014 2:28 PM, John Molnar wrote:
> I have the LF TODAY book...very oriented to LF (as the title implies!),
> some MF material and interesting circuits guys developed.  HOWEVER, suggest
> ordering directly from RSGB - their price SHIPPED was about $10 less than
> ARRL and only took nine days from England.  When I questioned ARRL book
> policy, in essence I was told by a young lady to suck it up (paraphrase)
> and that they are entitled to a profit.
>
> Much of the book is somewhat dated now and my feeling is that most of the
> active ops here probably won't get much new out of it.
>
> My take on the book.
>
> John XKA
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Frederick Raab <fhraab at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> February 2, 2014
>>
>> Gentlemen:
>>
>>       ARRL has two books that might be useful:
>>
>> "LF Today"
>> "Short Antennas for 160 Meters"
>>
>> Has anyone bought a copy and if so do you have an
>> opinion?
>>
>>       Thanks.
>>
>> 73, Fritz, W1FR,
>> Coordinator, ARRL 500-kHz Experiment
>>
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