[Amps] The genius of ham radio

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,1/11/2015 10:51 PM, Charles Henry wrote:
> My point is that the genius of ham radio, not highly financed esoteric research,

Most of the hams of my generation hit the books to learn how stuff 
works. This was not highly funded esoteric research.

> is making things work, being the only way of getting a message passed, inventing cell phone systems, heck... inventing radio itself.

BS. How much study have you done of the guys who invented radio? Damn 
little, I'd bet.

The vast majority of those who have  "made shit happen" are thoroughly 
schooled guys, whether they learned it in the university or by self 
study "back of the woodshed." One of the sharpest guys I know working in 
pro audio and acoustics learned electronics in the military, but did 
EXTENSIVE self study that resulting in him making MAJOR advances in the 
state of the art. He did that NOT as a "no nothing" staggering around in 
the dark, but as a guy who learned the physics and by innovative 
thought, found new solutions to old problems.

Where we are today is NOT the result of an infinite number of monkeys 
and typewriters producing Shakespeare.

73, Jim k9YC