>Well, In contrast with Mr. FuQua, I am quite young... Only 24, you see ...
>However I had been able to acumulate 2 MS (Physics and EE) from MIT and one
>PhD (BioMaterials) from Pasteur France
It might be interesting to check these claims out with said institutions.
>
>... Acording to Mr FuQua, because I did not ask the HAM comunity to teach me
>the priciple of a capacitor I am a stupid CBer :)... what can I say ... Bad
>apples have many ways to show them selves :)
>
>Keep it up Bill... one of these days you WILL grow up :)
>Mark
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <TimNebo@aol.com>
>To: <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
>Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [Amps] CBer??
>
>
>> In a message dated 12/4/02 9:57:23 AM Central Standard Time,
>wlfuqu00@uky.edu
>> writes:
>>
>> > I was raised to obey laws. So when after listing to shortwave
>for
>> > a few years I became interested in becoming a radio operator.
>> > Those days you had to have a CB license to operate and to
>obtain
>> > one you had to be at least 18 years old. With the
>> > limitations of range and power it was obvious that I should get a ham
>> > license. I first got my novice and then
>> > general about 8 months later. I built my first transmitter (200 watt
>CW)
>> > while I was in the 8th grade. I designed it
>> > myself using information from the Radio Amateurs Handbook. I don't
>think
>> I
>> > would have been motivated to do so
>> > as a CB operator because of the lack of knowledge of the people that I
>> > would have been working with as compared to
>> > the ham radio community. By being in the ham community I had access to
>> lots
>> > of experienced people when I needed
>> > help.
>> >
>> > CB would been quite a distraction and would delayed my
>electronics
>> > education considerably. I may not have become
>> > an engineer if I had not become a ham. It was my eagerness to
>understand
>> > electronics as a ham that improved my math
>> > skills to the point where I could pursue a carrier in electronics. I
>was
>> > on of those that needed apply math to
>> > understand it well.
>> > Today, such things as internet and CB are just distractions
>for
>> > young people. On CB they learn right away to
>> > get amplifiers and make mods to operate illegally and no motivation to
>> > really learn anything except vulgar vocabulary.
>> >
>> > I am now am involved in teaching young people radio theory and
>> > construction techniques to advance them beyond
>> > just having a license. And in doing so they are also introduced to RF
>> > applications in science and medicine.
>> > RF technology is not just used communication.
>> >
>> > 73
>> > Bill wa4lav
>>
>>
>> interesting response bill. thank you very much. but i must say i've taken
>> quite the different path as you and i'm still on my long journey to reach
>a
>> place where most of the men on this list have gone or will go with there
>> knowledge and its a terrible thing to hear you belittle me or anybody else
>> who seeks knowledge, learning, and understanding just because of the
>> background we come from. what if your elmers had taken this approach to
>you
>> all those many years ago just because you were too young? or because you
>were
>> too short? or too tall? or for any of these silly reasons? i understand
>how
>> ham radio used to be and it sounds like a lovely and fond old memory that
>i
>> wish i could share with you but unfortunately i can't as i'm much too
>young.
>> my radio beginnings were in 1988 when i was 8 years old. i bought a little
>> receiver from a garage sale that was able to cover the 49 meter sw band as
>> well as some vhf utilities and such that got me curious on the goings on
>of
>> radio and it never ended from there. at the age of 12 i saved enough to
>buy
>> my first cb rig which was very simple and i made my first antenna which
>was a
>> sad looking 1/4 wave groundplane for which i found a schematic in an old
>book
>> at my local library. i promise you the satisfaction felt by me as a still
>12
>> year old kid who just made his very first working antenna was not
>diminished
>> at all due to the fact that it was trimmed for 27 megs instead of 28 megs.
>> the satisfaction was the same and it felt good to talk with something i've
>> made. it wasn't long before i found out all about skip as the cycle was
>still
>> hot back then and it begin to interest me. i did all of the reading i
>could,
>> listened to the ten meter repeaters on the police scanner, practiced my
>code
>> with a home built oscillator, and even contacted a local ham radio group
>that
>> i seen something about in the news paper. it was with this group that i
>found
>> out the attitude towards me was very negative because of the fact i had
>> stumbled upon cb radio first instead of ham radio. these guys basically
>made
>> a young man who was soaking up knowledge at a fast rate feel like a little
>> boy with a walkie talkie who knew nothing. now at the time i thought these
>> guys were real super duper first class operators with all of there fancy
>rigs
>> and big antennas but after a lot of thinking and realizing it seemed to me
>> that they were nothing more than a bunch of unfriendly A--holes with a
>> superiority complex because they were "licensed operators" and i was not.
>> until then i was really ready to join the ranks of ham radio but decided
>i'd
>> rather not have anything to do with a bunch of men who consider me less
>than
>> themselves simply because i came from a cb background and they did not
>(i'm
>> real sure some did but wont admit it). now i assure you i did not let them
>> stop me from anything other than getting a piece of paper as i still did
>all
>> of the learning, experimenting, and fun things that any kid in ham radio
>> growing up at the time did except i did them on the illegal 27 megahertz
>> freqs and a lot of times with higher than legal limit power. i'm not here
>to
>> debate the merits of law with anybody. what i do and have done is illegal
>> pirate radio no doubt about it but IT IS RADIO and the theories,
>principals,
>> and drive that motivates us all to do it is the same regardless of
>> legalities. bill i wish i grew up in the era of homebrewing and point to
>> point wiring like most of you did so i could have the fond memories like
>you
>> do but most of the advances these days are with software instead of
>hardware
>> and you have to have a wide range of both to be able to do anything good
>for
>> the radio hobby in general and that key mostly lies with the young people.
>> its my advice you guys start accpeting and elmering anybody who is
>interested
>> in radio these days regardless of background or you may one day find
>yourself
>> without a hobby radio service at all.
>>
>> 73 de Tim Kp82
>> www.KpDxGroup.net
>>
>> "The ability to make (and keep) many friends on the band, is the most
>> powerful capability of your radio. This can only be achieved through QSO,
>not
>> QSL"
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