“Hi, Chase,
Thank you for your Microwave Update (MUD) paper submission.
The following paper has been selected to appear in the MUD 2012 proceedings book (published by the ARRL) and on our conference CD-ROM:
Building Notes: The W1GHZ 902 Transverter
It is our understanding that you are not available to present at the conference.
Thanks again for your contributions and for helping us to assemble another great Microwave Update program.
73,
Mike Lavelle, K6ML
for MUD 2012 Technical Program Committee”
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I consider myself very lucky to have two different papers published in the same year in two different prestigious technical conference proceedings. I hope they are as enjoyable to read as they were to write. I think some people get a little lazy and shop the same paper around different places- not me!
The 902 W1GHZ project has come to a close. I’ve got the notes and pictures waiting for a final writeup and will get to it soon- maybe it will be your Christmas present? The next project to document is the 902 driver amplifier- and what I wonder is, whether I should wait on the chance to have it published in next years conference proceedings or should I get it out to the internet as soon as possible? The reason I ask is because it seems to me that with the nearly instantaneous medium of the internet, it is becoming more difficult to secure papers which have previously been unpublished for inclusion into conference proceedings. So, do we support the conference or our own egos via our websites?
One thing is for sure- we won’t have published proceedings much longer that don’t already include published papers from other conferences or from internet postings. Maybe that’s a shame and maybe it isn’t. In any case, the new normal is going to be less and less paper copies and more digital ones.