Marty Watt, KM7W, raised the question of expense, but I'll answer in a more
general way.
The cost of new reference books can be a real bummer. However, there are ways
to get around that.
Buy your handbook at a flea market. A couple of years old won't make that much
difference. I have a fair sampling of Handbooks, maybe 7 years apart average.
Never paid more than $5, sometimes only $1.
Used books are great. When I was getting started in computers, I haunted
several good used book stores and built up a nice reference library for not very
much. I had the additional advantage that in computers a 2-year-old book was
obsolete, therefore cheap.
For radio or test equipment, that's not a problem. We are talking principles,
and how to do things. These don't change much over time. A cheap 5-year-old
book on oscilloscopes will be just as valid today. Besides, at least some of us
buy used equipment, too, so sometimes it's of the same vintage as the book!
Just my humble (or not so humble) opinion.
72, Bob N6WG
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