Nuts & Volts - January 2006

READER FEEDBACK

EVERYTHING FOR ELECTRONICS

OUT WITH TRENCHES

I just wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed your magazine. In fact, I am building the Ultimate Utility Meter now.

One thing that I am a little disappointed in is, that I look at you being my hobby magazine. The section “In The Trenches” is out of place. I have enough trade magazines with that information. I would like to see you stay away from that aspect and be there for the hobbyist and the professional that needs to get away from work and learn new skills. Thank you and keep up the good articles.

Jack Boswell

method of demonstrating wave phenomena, and I'm sorry that your reader did not understand the concepts, but it is correct. Also, cost is always a primary driver for products, and a simple cone loudspeaker is the least expensive audio transducer and is acceptable to most people, so dominates the market, even though the Heil Air Motion Transformer provides superior performance.

It's great that Nuts & Volts has such passionate readers, and I'm glad that my article received so much attention!

Dennis Eichenberg

WRITER WRITES BACK

I authored the article "I Love my Heils!" published in the October issue of Nuts & Volts and would like to respond to your reader feedback on my article. The information in the article stating that Dr. Oskar Heil is the inventor of the field effect transistor and that he patented it in 1934 is correct. Please see http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor. The paper demonstration is a typical

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I'm a mail subscriber and I've just got my November N&V issue. I think it's amazing how much you have improved the whole magazine design. Congratulations to all that people over there. My favorite magazine is now even much better.

J.M. Gomez

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In reference to the Reader Feedback "Format Folly" in the Dec. issue, I fully agree with Len Taddei. The new format is a mess!!! I don't like it!!!

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