Don't be put off by the need for house styles etc - if you do look at
the articles that have made it in the past, they were all in the
authors own words.  The peer review is more or less a rubber stamp if
the article in straightforward and constructional- if its about zero
loss magnetic loops that would be a different matter)

As for the need for repeatability, say so.  If you've done a one off
with components from the junk box it still be of interest and that
won't stop the editors / TC, but be prepared for a lot of questions
from constructors

I've been following the way this thread has developed with
considerable interest, and am actually rather pleased that the problem
appears to be worldwide.  Now I do know its not a personal radcomic
thing, but is part of a more general malaise.  Can be assume either
that :

1)

They DO WANT TO PUBLISH TECHNICAL ARTICLES (shouting intentionally)
but as there are so few being written the general trend is to

>I've often wondered about writing something for RADCOM but have
>been put off by the need to conform to some house style, to pass
>some form of "peer review", and for constructional articles to be
>provably repeatable (don't want the little dears to go to the trouble
>of buying a soldering iron and some BC109s only to find it doesn't
>work first time.... )
>
>
>What we need is something like SPRAT, but on a bigger scale and
>not just for QRP, where the construction projects are more like
>"here's an idea I've had, I got mine to work using the following
>circuits/components. Use it as a starting point for your own
>experimentation."
>
>The writer can happily assume that the reader has some technical ability
>and can source components themselves and can fault find and fiddle and
>alter things for their own particular needs. Of course if a particular
>component is vital to success then by all means indicate a source for
>it, but assume the reader has a junk-box and knows how to use it!
>
>RADCOM will never allow this kind of article.


On 29/10/2007, Johan H. Bodin <[email protected]> wrote:
> John, LF,
>
> you may wish to have a look at QEX, http://www.arrl.org/qex/
>
> If you accept a paperless forum, there is a Yahoo group called EMRFD at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emrfd/ . It was started by Roger KA7EXM
> (W7ZOI's son). I found the group yesterday (!) so I don't know much
> about it yet, but the authors of the book EMFRD (Experimental Methods in
> RF Design) seem to be active on the mailing list, including the
> legendary Wes Hayward W7ZOI himself. The group has about 500 solder
> melting members, it certainly looks promising :-)
>
> 73
> Johan SM6LKM
>
> John Pumford-Green GM4SLV wrote:
> > BTW does anyone know of something along the lines of a QRO version of
> > SPRAT? A magazine for tinkerers in the RF arts?
>
>
>