It may not even be in the January issue. Most magazines have to have their copy to the printer at least a couple of months before the publish date. Bottom line: only the web is capable of

If I were in their line of work, I would maintain a continual liaison with major product manufacturers, so I would have a heads up, (with a non disclosure agreement), and be prepared with an

Marj, Any hints on what 4.2 will include? Harold

Joe: the 3600 was kept a secret til the morning of AIC ... let's be reasonable here. If AP wanted to keep it a secret and announce it at AIC, do you think diCicco and Walker should have mounted a

Joseph Zeglinski wrote: Are you kidding ? I want to make certain that I get this right. You are saying that S&T needs to have full time reporters camped out at all manufacturers offices day and night

It may have more to do with who spends the most in advertising, ie $$$$. AP runs a nice small ad compared to the full page color ads of others. But that is ok because AP doesn't need the hipe to

William, My point was, I expect "news people" to be on top of stories in their industry, that is what I PAY them for, or I would just subscribe to the internet. They should have been prep'd,

Joseph Zeglinski wrote: How could S&T make this announcement if they were not aware of it ? Sheesh. There are plenty of things to flame them for so that we need not resort to making things

Hi Larry, We are planning to finish up the 4.2 keypad code soon, then will release it to the beta group. After beta, we will have it available on our website for downloading. Marj

Please respond off list. Thanks Tom Sings with the Stars

Dean, One final S&T criticism before I stop (my off topic rant). I too complained to the editor that it was really dumb on the part of their new owners, to make the magazine changes in mid year.

I e-mail and raised all sorts of fuss when my first issue came with the cheaper binding. Really cheapens the magazine, and like you said, not having the spline means we can't easily reference older

Yeah, I remember in 1979 being outraged that a new Jeep 4x4 cost $10K. Greg

Hi Dean, That is one thing that has always really bugged me about S&T magazine - now, recently another, that they have gone back to stapling, and you can't find an old issue since there is no

Magazine dates make about as much sense as buying 2008 model cars in 2007???

Your December issue is the one that should have just arrived. The November issue has been out for a month. Larry

Gavin -- I have a Losmandy dovetail attached to the top of my Parallax rings holding a Meade 16" LX200GPS OTA. On the rail rides a Tak FC-100. The FC-100 is a doublet, and considerably smaller

Gavin Bray wrote: It is certainly feasible. Many others have done exactly that and it's doubtful that you'd be getting anywhere near the capacity of your AP1200. Just don't be too surprised if you

In a message dated 11/1/2007 11:44:35 AM Central Daylight Time, J.Zeglinski@... writes: Back to topic - I am surprised that S&T didn't scoop the astro publishing world with such a major

The Mach 1 is reviewed in New Products in the Dec. issue, page 37, entitled "Staying on Track" ... A good read .... Dave