As a number of people have pointed out here, the skill sets required for an Amateur Radio license have changed over the years. This has been brought about by changes in manufacturing of the very radi
This sounds like the attitude of a 4 year old-"I won't do something if you make me, but the minute you stop making me, I will do it." Exactly who I want on the ham bands. 73s John NE0P ______________
All one needs to do is to tune across the HF Bands and listen to the bickering going on, or listen to your local repeaters, or the whining that hams do on email reflectors. Doing so you will soon rea
"Examining the myths of CW we find at the top of the list "CW kept the CBers out." Anyone who does understand this is clearly out of touch with reality. "Surface mount technology has made it very dif
A friend from work brough in an old QST one day (I think it was from the 1930's). There was an article in that QST discussing an earthquake in Southern California and how there were some jerks jammin
SNIP SNIP And that is really too bad because equipment that uses Surface Mount Devices are really east to circuit trace as each device has at least 2 accessible test points And the components themsel
S N I P Many of the well qualified have sent stuff in, Some of it winds up in QEX , but much of it is rejected as being "of limited interest" or !! "too complex". To be in QST, an article has to be
Hello All, Every OLD TIMER is aware, or at least should be, he must burn today what he loved yesterday........, exept basics and CW ...... But what's in a name " HAM " .........today? In the mean tim
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:15:03 -0400
<snip> This is a bit OT but as long as we've gone this far<:-)) You will discover a lot of those "rable rousers" are sporting Extra calls too. <:-)) I'm not Grumpy DAMIT! I flew over 20 the first yea