[Amps] Fleamarkets

[david sutton]

I have to agree Scott.
Seem's that if you are a ham of X ammount of years you built on what you had, looked at a color code on a resistor or cap and new right off the value.
Took the family radio apart and tried to put it back together, (sorry for that mum and dad) Elmering is the secret, i too was a member of the high school lunch break electronics group, our mentore back then was the metal work teacher, 
my first Elmer was the TV service guy that came to repair our TV, With modern day progress we don't or i should say budding Ham's/technictions dont have the same oppertunities as we had back then. 
To day if the phone or cable goes out, you maybe lucky to see some guy on a ladder up the pole or on his knees at the green box sorting the problem, if it's the TV take it to the dump and go buy a new one. I will try and fix that TV.
There are to types of Ham radio opp's Book smart and Hands on smart, Me i'm hands on.
Dave KG4UXR

 
Brits with a southern call? how strange, only when you hear the accent.
see kg4uxr on :-
www.qrz.com/callsign/kg4uxr




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From: Scott McGrath <mcgrath at fas.harvard.edu>
To: david sutton <sootydave at yahoo.com>
Cc: amps contesting <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 11:14:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Fleamarkets

But the larger problem is where are new hams and budding engineers going to SEE those components and learn to recognize them,  My dad (chemical engineer) helped me build radio receivers and other electronic stuff
on pieces of plywood etc,  You can't blame new hams for only recognizing parts on a schematic where are they going to SEE THE PHYSICAL COMPONENTS!!.

When I was a senior in High School I helped commission a new FM Radio station (WEVO) 50KW etc where are the opportunities for kids these days to do stuff like that.  I'm a technical mentor for the FIRST robotics program and yes one of the kids on the team is a ham at 14 so there is some dim ray of hope for the future.

I'm a lot less worried about 'no-code' than I am about 'no electronic abilities' these days

73 - Scott N1JIN

david sutton wrote:
> All very true statments.
> You see it on the amateur radio groups all the time. most on this group will agree i'm sure,  Just reading posts from some ham's makes my skine cringe. The comment Dave G0OIL made about Dayton and the vacume capacitors he was carying. unfortunatley nowa days you don't need to know what a risistor or Cap looks like you just got to be able to remember what the right answer is to the question.
> I to remember the time back in england, when you walked down the High street Tandy and Richards electric, all sold electronic part's, my local Richard electric's was owned by a Radio Ham G3VZR. he sold washing machine part's and Heathkit, kits and a ham's tresure trove of parts. The manger in Tandy was a ex-royal signles sg maj, Now today if you go into Radio shack, you will find youngsters capable of telling you how to send text on your cell phone, but not an idea as to what those things are in the grey draw racks at the back of the store are for or do.
> my 2 cent's
> Dave
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> Brits with a southern call? how strange, only when you hear the accent.
> see kg4uxr on :-
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> From: Scott McGrath mcgrath at fas.harvard.edu
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> Unfortunately due to the loss of electronic manufacturing in the US,  The majority of the technical population in the US has NEVER constructed an electronic device and parts sources are few and far between,  I'm in my early forties and I can remember  Radio Shack, Lafayette Radio and my town had Evans Radio and Stark Brothers electronics so you had parts and books by people like Forest Mims on building electronic gadgets.
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> Popular Electroncs had articles on building a "TV Typewriter" now we have "How to hook up your Home Theater".  Ah just another step towards a third world economy i.e. Import manufactured goods and Export raw materials and agricultural products.
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