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keep arti cles on rf mixers, rf converters,
AM modulators and demod ulat ors, and
other relat ed devices. Af mixers are filed in
my "hi-fi stereo" folder, and ot her systems
of mod ulation are also file d separately .
Those articles whic h are redundant or not
worth keeping are discard ed with the
advertising, but make sure to keep every ­
thing you could ever poss ibly want. The
volume of the information will be reduced
at least by half, and probably more.
Occasionally an article is important in
more than one area, so a no te must be
placed in one file that the article exists in
another file, or (wonder of wo nders) a
duplica te made. Often, articles destined for
different files conta in a com mon page .
These cou ld be handled in several ways,
but I hate to separate the pages of any
article, so I bind these articles together,
marking the topics of in te rior ar ticle(s) on
the first page. Then the whole thing is filed
under the subjec t of the most important
article, using no tes again whe re necessary.
It is important that the system b e kept
manageable; when a folder fills up , it is
time to discard so me useless articles in the
folder, or start a new sub division of information
.
This system pays for itself in the b linding
speed with which one can find the
de tai ls of a particular idea or design (eve n
if you have forgotten where and whe n yo u
read it ), but there is more. All articles in
similar fields are filed together, which is a
trem en dou s advantage; if you want to
build a converter, all important ar ticles on
converters are in one place. In one folde r
might be schematics of the most recent
UHF converters, old VLF converte rs, as
well as articles on conversion theory and
design .
The disadvantage of the system lies in
not being able to identify a specific magazine
per se. This would be a major disadvantage
to a library with many publishe d
indexes at their disposal, but for the
individ ual who wants to use the information
, the disadvantage is mostly imaginary.
If the article is impor tant, it will be in the
proper file .
.,. WA3 BKC·
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