[Amps] W8YX at Univ of Cincy

[Jim Brown]

Hi Don,

When I was at UC, there was virtually no club that I remember. I also 
remember the EE dept being VERY unfriendly to hams -- they resented our 
questions based on practical knowledge. I'm going from distant memory, 
but I think it was in the last year or so of my tenure that I got W8YX 
re-licensed and back on the air. 50+ years later, I don't recall details 
of that process. I do remember that our assigned faculty advisor, one of 
the younger guys, was quite unfriendly and mostly uncooperative. His 
last name began with R.

Another ham and myself were co-op students at R L Drake, and got Bob 
Drake (a UC alum) to donate a TR3 that we built from reject parts. That 
would have been late '63 - early '64, my senior year). It added to the 
75A-1 (I think that version of the RX) and KW1. Last I heard (within the 
last decade), the Collins gear was still there.

73, Jim K9YC

On Thu,4/27/2017 12:49 PM, n8de at thepoint.net wrote:
> 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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