Hello,

I have owned the book for about 15 years and now I am hearing aout
errors. does anyone have a list of them?

AB

Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.
----
Reg

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Reg Edwards wrote:
Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.
----
Reg
Nobody's books or publications are bibles.\
What are we supposed to believe? It would take many years to verify
all that has been printed over the last 100 years. If I am a ham
and I
wish to put up an antenna, what should I do? Surely not refer to to
the Bibles.
Gary N4AST

==========================================

Nobody understands the bibles without a great deal of study. They are
full of mistakes anyway. Most of them were written just to make a
living. Its easy to understand what THAT leads to.

Just put up some wire and you will learn more in a few hours of
listening and transmitting than a lifetime of reading about it.
----
Reg.

I fully admit my antenna programs are not bibles.

They are merely my idea of how things can be modelled.

In general they are well inside the ball park.

They serve their intended purpose.

What better quality can you ask for?

I am a Fellow of the British Institute of Quality Asurance but I don't
brag about it.
----
Reg.

An interesting point of view. I have been participating in a Bible
Study program for the last three years based on the Old Testament and
the New Testament. One of the more important things I have learned is
that there are many inconsistencies and cases of ambiguity.

We are fortunate in all cases that someone was willing to sit down and
put the documents together so that we could enjoy the benefits of
their studies!

If Terman made an error, I can forgive him. My copy is older than I
am...

Sometimes a published error is what it takes to get the right answer.

BTW, thanks for all the programs Reg. I am learning a lot from them!

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.
----
Reg


John Ferrell W8CCW

Dan Richardson k6mheatadelphia wrote:
Including Reg's factoids.

Hey Danny, I think you need to reset your clock.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.

Indeed, Reg.
It's always struck me as rather annoying that there are more errors in
books on electronics than in any other published subject _bar none_ to
my knowledge. I can think of no text book that is entirely error-free
with the _possible_ exception of Art of Electronics.
Most of the errors in radio & electronics tomes are related to
ambiguous authoring, but there is a regrettably large number of
outright errors (examples calculations or fundamental misunderstanding
on the part of the writer) that are utterly poisonous snake oil to the
unwitting and unguided student. Chris Bowick's 'RF Circuit Design'
springs to mind here!

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.
----
Reg

Including Reg's factoids.

Danny

Out of curiosity, what are some examples of error's in Bowick's book? I've
probably passed right by them. Then again, I miss a lot of obvious things.
I slept till 1pm on Sept 11, 2001 -- I had no idea what was going on that
day.

Robert

"Paul Burridge" k wrote
in message ...
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:59:52 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Nobody's books or publications are bibles.

Not even Terman's or B.L & E's.

Indeed, Reg.
It's always struck me as rather annoying that there are more errors in
books on electronics than in any other published subject _bar none_ to
my knowledge. I can think of no text book that is entirely error-free
with the _possible_ exception of Art of Electronics.
Most of the errors in radio & electronics tomes are related to
ambiguous authoring, but there is a regrettably large number of
outright errors (examples calculations or fundamental misunderstanding
on the part of the writer) that are utterly poisonous snake oil to the
unwitting and unguided student. Chris Bowick's 'RF Circuit Design'
springs to mind here!