[Amps] The genius of ham radio

[Alek Petkovic]

If I'm not mistaken, Charly's initial point was that everybody is in the 
hobby for different reasons. Some are just appliance operators, with 
little knowledge on how things work and they are happy with that. They 
often resort to doing things that physics and electronic theory say 
won't work. They sometimes get results from their misadventures, that 
are good enough to get them on the air and talk to their friends. That's 
all they want out of the hobby.

73, Alek
VK6APK

On 12/01/2015 3:35 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> 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
>
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