[Amps] Entry level license

[n8de at thepoint.net]

Jim,
You forgot to include W8YX and how the club learned from each other.
73
Don
N8DE
W8FNI de W8QHW


Quoting Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>:

> That is often the result of how the class is taught. This winter, I sat
> in as an observer accompanying my wife in a Technician study class. The
> instructor was a degreed EE and retired from work as a design engineer.
> I was quite disappointed to see that he taught only formulas, with no
> explanations of the concepts behind the formulas. My advice to him
> afterwards was to slow down his coverage of these very important
> fundamentals (Ohm's Law, Power, dB, frequency and wavelength, etc.),
> devoting twice as much time to them and "telling the story" of each
> concept.  After class and at home, I attempted to fill in the missing
> stuff, but she was so discouraged by his presentation that she
> abandoned her pursuit of the license.
>
> To put this in perspective, she's a Ph.D in a biological field, and has
> no background in physics of any sort. The concepts were quite alien to
> her. And her only interest in the license was for emergency
> communications in our mountain community that has no cell service, not
> enough motivation to cause her to persevere.  :)
>
> My background is a BSEE, 5 years teaching at DeVry in Chicago, and 40
> years in engineering, mostly as a systems engineer. I learned radio and
> electronics from the ARRL Handbook, .the Novice study guide, and the
> older hams in my hometown radio club.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On Wed,4/26/2017 2:09 PM, Chris Hays wrote:
>> But it shows that people are just memorizing answers and not understanding
>> much if anything.
>
>
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