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favourite technical books
TimFox:
--- Quote from: IdahoMan on February 18, 2023, 07:28:30 am ---My grandfather's old Basic Electricity NAVPERS book.
Ex:
Straight-forward, step-by-step, and NO flip'n SI-units.
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The source of many a novice's complaint about "negative" current flow direction.
Volts and Amperes are SI units--many physics textbooks use "Gaussian" cgs units instead, with "statvolts" and "statamperes".
Otherwise, good practical series of texts.
exe:
--- Quote from: Smokey on February 18, 2023, 08:15:47 pm ---How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
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Not yet, but looking closely. Esp. if there is something cheap, or there is an e-book. Why are you askin'?)
IdahoMan:
--- Quote from: Smokey on February 18, 2023, 08:15:47 pm ---How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
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Close.
I'm thinking of getting an ARRL Handbook of a good year.
Smokey:
--- Quote from: exe on February 18, 2023, 10:08:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Smokey on February 18, 2023, 08:15:47 pm ---How many of you have already bought at least one book after someone mentioned it in this thread?
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Not yet, but looking closely. Esp. if there is something cheap, or there is an e-book. Why are you askin'?)
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There have been a fair number of times I've seen someone here talking about how much they like some piece of test equipment, or how much good information is in some book, and I've gone straight to ebay and seen that thing selling for way less money than the actual value it has to me. I love that we live in a world where that's possible on a normal person's budget. Books are the perfect example of this. Often times so cheap vs their potential value. Just curious who else does that.
exe:
--- Quote from: Smokey on February 19, 2023, 09:00:16 pm ---Just curious who else does that.
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The books I'm looking for are expensive, and usually not on sale in the country I live :(.
Though there is one exception to this: ARRL. There were tons of them on the ham radio flea market. I bought the one from the 1954 (21st edition). I paid 5euros for it, though originally it cost $3 (that's written right on the front cover). So, kinda overaid, but I wasn't in the mood to argue over 5euros). Sadly, I don't read it, it just collects dust on the shelf.
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