Eddy I agree with you 100%. There will always be a debate between theory
and experience. For me experience comes before theory every time. I am
just not one who is engrossed in the theory. The experience sticks in my
mind. Does it work for me? yes ... top of the DXCC honor roll, 9BDXCC, etc.
Doug
I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
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Hi Jim,
If I was the Personnel Director at some highfaluting industrial complex,
looking to hire-on engineers, I would make special note of the applicants'
hands when shaking them...
Any absence of calluses, cuts, bruises, scabs, scars, blisters, etc. etc.
etc. would immediately tell me that THIS particular wannabe engineer is
strictly a BOOK-learned specimen, and NOT a "tinkerer, experimenter" that
maybe works on his / her car in their spare time, etc.
Call it the School of Hard Knocks---whatever. Practical experience goes
hand-in-hand with theory, & too much of one, without the other, is NFG,
IMHO...
Eddy
The best hams, the most brilliant hams among us, are not ignorant appliance
operators but instead those that know the theory behind How Stuff Works well
enough to make the stuff they have do the job..
Kim N5OP
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