TT:
The comment about work being done today by machines that used to be
done (mostly) by men reminds me of my trips to Haiti when we were building
its first wireless network in 1999-2000. I saw several two- and three-story
buildings being built with poured concrete floors. The concrete was being
carried up homemade ladders by a fire brigade of men, a bucket at a time,
one man to the next. I asked my Haitian host why they didn't use machinery
as we did in the US. My host visited the US often and was familiar with the
concrete pumps we would use for the purpose. He said if they used the
machines, thirty families would have no income. To me the better good won
out in that case.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
P.S. BTW - When the concrete work was done, the carpenters on the site took
apart the ladders and straightened out the nails by hammering them against a
straight piece of wood. Recycling to the nth degree.
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Thomson
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 6:12 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] AES SK
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 17:35:15 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] AES SK
A huge part of the problem of unemployment in the developed world is the
automation of work that used to be done by well-paid human labor.
Hundreds of employees replaced by a few robots, machines that do the work
tens of times faster than a human.
Many (most?) of the people who did those jobs for the first 20-40 years of
their working lifetime have little if any education for today's jobs
operating, building, and maintaining that equipment. At 74, I've been
retired for about 7 years. My wife, 72, retired three years ago, primarily
because of hand surgery. We've talked about working today, and agree that we
would have a hard time getting hired at any decent job in today's world, not
because the jobs aren't there, but because our fields have moved on, and we
haven't. I have a BSEE, she's a PhD.
73, Jim K9YC
## Well you could work for Fair rite as a type 31 sales manager. Or
better yet, visit their new plant in China, where they make all these
products, and figure out why they have such extremes and variations in their
type 31 cores since the chinese
plant opened. N3RR bought over 700 of em, 2.4 inch od cores, and found
they
are all over the map, and even sent samples to Fair rite. Bill ended up
devising a
simple 1 turn test, then graded all 700 of em into various sub groups. No
wonder the
initial CMC results were not repeatable.
Jim VE7RF
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