[Waverley ARS] WARS Meeting 20 9 06

[Simon Buxton]

Hi Colin

I wonder how useful publications are to members? We have had plenty of 
magazines and books for many years but there has been no interest in any 
of them. The magazines have now all been disposed of. Those published 
since the 1960s elicit little interest by anyone and have to be given or 
thrown away. We have quite a good reference library of books, but again 
there is little interest.

I believe the reasons for lack of interest have been that people only 
want details relating to a particular topic or reference books (eg on 
antenna building) and do not know what the club has. To remedy this, 
over the past year I have compiled a list of our books and posted it on 
our web site, but it has never been practical for us to list magazine 
contents. Despite this web site listing as far as I know, no-one has 
asked for anything.

As a collector of old radios, I have built up quite a library of 
reference books and also some early magazines, however indexing the 
latter is a real problem. I have created an index for the HRSA journals 
since it is hard searching paper copies. This is freely available of the 
net and many find it useful.

73 Simon

Colin Marks wrote:
> Dear Jim
> Please tender my apology for absence from this meeting.
> My lack of attendance lately is in no way due to lack of interest - 
> due more to lack of domestic liaison here re competing events....
> BTW - I have been a member of ARRL now for a few months and I have 
> accumulated a few monthly issues of QST which I find all quite 
> interesting. I will bring some along to the next meeting.
> I am sending you and members by separate email copy of catalogue of 
> publications available from ARRL which you will see is very extensive. 
> Some of the publications are quite new and aimed at newcomers.
> It seems to me that the Club could well use some of its surplus funds 
> to buy a few of these items. However I think it would first be 
> _essential_ to have in place a system for _securing_ them and for 
> keeping strict track of them if borrowed for home use.
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> 73         Colin         VK2LV
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