Yes Brown you are Mr. Wonderful.
You technical writings are interesting and most welcome.
Your contributions to ham radio are so enormous I dare not even start to
list them.
*BUT*...your name calling and condescending CB remarks to other hams
should be left off the group.
KØFL
Jim Brown K9YC wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:05:36 -0500, Tim Randa wrote:
>
>
>> you call us fools if we didn't own a particular book
>>
>
> My first ham radio mentors made sure that I owned and studied that
> book when I was starting out in 1955. Many foolish statements have
> been made on this and other lists because the poster obviously hasn't
> put in that effort. The ARRL Handbook IS the "bible" of ham radio.
>
>
>> Your posts sure don't fit well in this *friendly* and helpful group.
>>
>
> Really? Over the past years, I've made numerous posts that answered
> questions in detail, and with the theory to back up my answer. Over
> the past five years, I've done considerable research and published
> more than a dozen FREE tutorials on my website. All are written so
> that people without a serious technical education can learn from them.
>
> This winter, I spent nearly a week on an Autocad drawing of the Titan
> 425, and posted it on my website. How was that not helpful? This
> winter, I published work on coax chokes (current baluns) that
> represents the first real advance on that topic since W1JR and W2DU
> nearly 30 years ago. And it is FREE on my website. Last I looked,
> there had been nearly a half million downloads of the tutorial on RFI.
> I've made more than a dozen tutorial presentations to local ham clubs,
> and spent my own money to get there. And I've mentored some new hams.
>
> As hams, we have our frequencies ONLY because 1) we contribute to the
> state of the art; and 2) we provide emergency communications. Without
> those contributions, there is nothing to justify our use of the RF
> spectrum. All of us should be asking ourselves what we can contribute.
> One of my contributions is pushing others to learn. Yes, I'm a
> curmudgeon. If that bothers you, I encourage you to use your delete
> key.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim Brown K9YC
>
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