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From: "MAL HAMILTON" <MAL@g3kev.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: LF: Re: the old LF source book
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:25:12 -0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Cleall <peter.cleall@virgin.net>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Date: 15 December 2000 11:36
Subject: LF: the old LF source book


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>
>>Sounds like the LF source book of a couple of years ago. Most of the
>>information was obsolete and bore no resemblence to the achievements
taking
>>place when it was published. I think 23 km was the record when in fact I
>had
>>worked OH1TN and got 579 on normal morse when it went to print.
>>G3KEV
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>
>I do not understand why you have to be so rude about the source book. When
>it was published  I believe it was a genuine attempt to get the best
>information that was available, and easily reproducible, quickly  out to
the
>interested beginners. I for one have constantly referred to various
sections
>of it, often going back and picking up a few more nuggets by re reading.


Keep reading your comic and enjoy the Noddy BK cartoons. Can't say I have
heard your signal on 136 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
G3KEV

>Surely that is the purpose of a source book.
>
>Records by their very nature are transient things which most of us
>appreciate, will, at some stage, be overtaken. The technical content
however
>can be reused. As shown by our use of of documentation of LF work done in
>the 1920's to 1950's.
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>
>peter G8AFN
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