Hello to all:
I have already posted on another forum the difficulties that the authors are having as far as compensation goes. Many of us still submit articles even though we know that we will not get paid. I want to point out one point that was brought up. In order to write a technical article such as a homebrew project, there is significant investment involved in buying parts, working out the design and then troubleshooting. There is also a degree of accurary and fact checking involved when committing an article like this into print. It is truly a time consuming process. Who has the spare time these days to do things like this? In previous decades, it was possible to recoup some of the expenses when the author receives payment. This is not the case any more and authors will write up articles that have some technical effort but not on the order that was seen in the past. Unfortunately, the model is broken and the past is not coming back......