Research Hint

[Dick Blaney]

Excellent advice, Keith, and I think this goes DITTO when it comes to
equipment manuals.  Many questions are about subjects that are easily found
in the manual that most have, (or should have), for the item in question.
73 de
Dick, WB8MHE
wb8mhe at bright.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Rowland <k4kgw at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 6:43 AM
Subject: Research Hint


>Fellow Hobbyists:
>
>Hardly a day passes that one does not see on the various reflectors
>numerous requests for information on parts sources.  This is fine; it's
>one of the purposes of these reflectors.  It's also been said that
>"..there are no dumb questions," and that's true, for no one can know
>everything.  But many of the questions that come across could easily be
>answered if the questioner would take just a little time to accumulate
>(and read) the massive amount of information available to us from the
>various suppliers of electronic parts and devices.
>
>It is obvious from many of the requests for information on the
>reflectors that many of us either do not have any catalogs or are
>unwilling or unable to read them.
>
>For a starting point in accumulating catalogs, one need only look in any
>ARRL Handbook (what, you don't even have this???), where there is a long
>list of suppliers and their addresses and other information about them.
>If you have a local parts house, you can often get semiconductor
>reference books from them for free, especially if you frequent the place
>a good bit.
>For example, when I started collecting catalogs in earnest, I filled up
>an entire drawer of a full-size file cabinet with catalogs within 6
>months.  As far as technical references are concerned, including files
>of QST back to the mid-50s, I have filled four large bookcases and am
>working on a fifth one.
>
>I know space may preclude some folks from amassing that much reference
>data, but catalogs are cheap (even free in many cases), and include a
>wealth of information about the uses to which the parts listed in them
>can be put, and surely anyone can find a bit of space for a few
>catalogs.
>
>I shall now go and pour my first cup of coffee and improve my mood...!
>:  )
>
>73 and Good Cataloguing,
>
>Keith
>
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