Hi Don,
When I was at UC, there was virtually no club that I remember. I also
remember the EE dept being VERY unfriendly to hams -- they resented our
questions based on practical knowledge. I'm going from distant memory,
but I think it was in the last year or so of my tenure that I got W8YX
re-licensed and back on the air. 50+ years later, I don't recall details
of that process. I do remember that our assigned faculty advisor, one of
the younger guys, was quite unfriendly and mostly uncooperative. His
last name began with R.
Another ham and myself were co-op students at R L Drake, and got Bob
Drake (a UC alum) to donate a TR3 that we built from reject parts. That
would have been late '63 - early '64, my senior year). It added to the
75A-1 (I think that version of the RX) and KW1. Last I heard (within the
last decade), the Collins gear was still there.
73, Jim K9YC
On Thu,4/27/2017 12:49 PM, n8de@thepoint.net wrote:
Jim,
You forgot to include W8YX and how the club learned from each other.
73
Don
N8DE
W8FNI de W8QHW
Quoting Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>:
That is often the result of how the class is taught. This winter, I sat
in as an observer accompanying my wife in a Technician study class. The
instructor was a degreed EE and retired from work as a design engineer.
I was quite disappointed to see that he taught only formulas, with no
explanations of the concepts behind the formulas. My advice to him
afterwards was to slow down his coverage of these very important
fundamentals (Ohm's Law, Power, dB, frequency and wavelength, etc.),
devoting twice as much time to them and "telling the story" of each
concept. After class and at home, I attempted to fill in the missing
stuff, but she was so discouraged by his presentation that she
abandoned her pursuit of the license.
To put this in perspective, she's a Ph.D in a biological field, and has
no background in physics of any sort. The concepts were quite alien to
her. And her only interest in the license was for emergency
communications in our mountain community that has no cell service, not
enough motivation to cause her to persevere. :)
My background is a BSEE, 5 years teaching at DeVry in Chicago, and 40
years in engineering, mostly as a systems engineer. I learned radio and
electronics from the ARRL Handbook, .the Novice study guide, and the
older hams in my hometown radio club.
73, Jim K9YC
On Wed,4/26/2017 2:09 PM, Chris Hays wrote:
But it shows that people are just memorizing answers and not
understanding
much if anything.
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