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I once spent 15+ years racing bicycles, officiating and promoting races.
During the same period lots of bikers tried their hand at building bike
frames. This required design, fabricating brazing jigs, and the actual
torch work. A few became known builders while most just gave it up as
too complex and demanding. All, I assume, continued to ride and race.
Moral of this story is that one doesn't need to know how to build a bike
frame from scratch in order to enjoy biking. Most racers [the 40+ wpm
contest folks...?] then and now couldn't tell you very much about bike
frames other than "fit, doesn't fit." Same with cars. My father used to
say that "back in the old days" you worked on your car all day Saturday
in order to take the family on a Sunday ride. Try that with today's
cars. So, perhaps the same goes with radio electronics and ham radio
builders and circuit designers. Once, you had to build your own to get
on the air. However, other than fun, does anyone here want to do a
contest on a crystal set? Probably not. The trade off seems to be
between simple and limited versus complex and limitless. The info is
there for those who have and/or develop a keen interest in electronics.
The rest can appreciate the wonder of it all while enjoying the "front
panel" of their radios in their daily QSO's. ...IMHO
...robert
On 5/1/2020 03:42 AM, Josh Fiden wrote:
> The barrier to entry certainly isn’t what it used to be, but that’s probably a good thing. If someone gets on the air and has fun (even FT8 hihi), I really don’t care if they can recite Ohm’s law or not. When they are interested, it’s as easy as picking up a copy of the ARRL Handbook. Doesn’t have to be an oral tradition. As long as I can call CQ and get an answer, things aren’t too bad!
>
> 73
> Josh W6XU
> (WN6VUD 1972, WA6VUD 1973)
>
> Sent from my mobile device
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>> On Apr 30, 2020, at 8:30 PM, Dean L <
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>>
>> We all have similar stories, sad part is, there are extra class licensees
>> that dont know any more about oscillators than ohms law or caculating the
>> length of a half wave dipole.
>>
>> The ones to "tell the tell" ain't gonna be around forever, few of us left,
>> ain't no more coming over.
>> 73
>> Dean K2WW
>>
>
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