[Amps] Decline of homebrewing?

[Leigh Turner]

Well said Mark; I concur with your pragmatic sentiment here.

One of my favourite television anthology programs is a "Thousand Ways to
Die"...it's pure entertainment all about dumb-ass people's stupidity versus
one taking prudent risk mitigation measures  :-)

Leigh
VK5KLT

-----Original Message-----
From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark Bitterlich
Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2017 11:11 AM
To: Jeff AC0C; amps at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?

I fly airplanes and do aerobatics and fly formation.   I build and drive 
high horsepower cars at the dragstrip.  I shoot high powered rifles at long 
range (some would refer to these as "Sniper Rifles").  I've worked on high 
powered jammers from 50 MHz to 20 GHz, and have built some of my own in the 
process to get a better understanding of how they work.  BWO/TWT/Maggy 
theory anyone?  I have been a member of, and have learned from many groups 
and list servers.  Through all of that I have found that there are always 
several types of people on a list server.

There will ALWAYS be people that tell you: "You should not do that".  "Why 
do you want to do that."   "You can't do that, it is against the rules/law."

"You are not qualified to do that."  If you publically disagree with such 
folks, the next thing that happens is that they start calling you names: 
"You're stupid for doing that".  "You're going to die doing that, don't you 
get it?"   It just goes on and on.

And then there are a few that have been there before, have lots of 
experience and practice at what you are trying to do, and are willing to 
teach and share it all with you.

I try to make friends with the latter and pretty much laugh and ignore the 
former.

Someone writes me an email from this list and asks me to help them build an 
amp?  I am going to help them.  Just like I helped someone learn aerobatics,

or to shoot a gun.

And if anyone on this list doesn't agree with my views .... I really do not 
care.  I will listen to your advice, and will heed what is logical and makes

sense.  But I am an adult and I make my own decisions, whether anyone else 
likes it or not.  What more really needs to be said?

That's why I voted for Trump.  :-)

Mark Bitterlich
wa3jpy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff AC0C" <keepwalking188 at ac0c.com>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?


>I don't understand this concern over self-termination.  There are a 
>thousand ways to kill yourself out in every day life.  Driving is something

>dangerous and people do it every day.  Before it was the teens and the 
>drunks you have to watch for - now it's the idiots texting and driving at 
>the same time. There is a reasonable argument that driving is far more 
>hazardous because there are so many chances of death even if you do it all 
>right.  Makes me wonder what the per capita death rate from electrocution 
>is compared to the per capita death rate from auto accidents?
>
> 73/jeff/ac0c
> www.ac0c.com
> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Steve Wright
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 2:49 PM
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Decline of homebrewing?
>
>
> On 10/01/17 03:15,  Jim Garland <4cx250b at miamioh.edu> wrote:
>> My point is that one shouldn't take for granted, as I did, the
>> importance of experience and practice in developing homebrewing skills,
>> even for very simple projects. And just as important as skills is
>> judgement and maturity. If you're going to be good at almost any craft,
>> you can't be impulsive, or overconfident, or unaware of your
>> surroundings, or easily distracted, or in a hurry, or unwilling to
>> accept advice.
>
> Bloody hell, here we go again.  People AREN'T INTERESTED in you speaking
> to them like you're their caring daddy, and that you know best, and all
> your methods are best etc, and if you're filtering for these people then
> you're being creepy.
>
> S