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Mike Dennison wrote:

> It has been pointed out, quite correctly, that the ARRL story about
> LF operating has errors in it.
>
> In defense of my fellow journalists, I will say that given limited
> resources

What limit resources????????


> it is inevitable that some errors will creep into any article.
> I wrote a similar story for this week's GB2RS News Bulletin (see
> http://www.rsgb.org/news from about 1600UTC Friday) and it took
> me an hour to research and collate information from 20 e-mails, and
> cut 1000 words of source material into 150 words aimed at the non-
> LF radio amateur. Even though I know the subject well,

Not so sure, you were telling us all recently about the AR88 receivers
and
got it all wrong.


> I bet there
> will be some errors where I have misunderstood something (for
> instance, dates are a nightmare when the dateline crosses the
> transmission path).
>
> What I have learnt from seeing some really awful amateur radio
> stories in national and local newspapers is that, so long as there is
> nothing damaging in the story the saying "all publicity is good
> publicity" is true.

There is no excuse for getting it wrong. Research you source of
information
for the facts.


>
>
> The article is certain to get several more US amateurs interested in
> receiving on LF, so from our point of view it will have done its job
> successfully.

Wrong information is totally misleading and confuses and cannot be
tolerated
for you to suggest otherwise is rediculous.


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