[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 83, Issue 9

[DAVID HELLER]

I like what you say.  Some, like you and I, have dealt with electrons at 
work for years, but it's not necessary to be a real ham.  How many little 
boys and girls of all ages start with zero electric training or experience 
and learn to build operative transmitters and troubleshoot them.  No, I 
can't design or build the eqivalent of today's Ten-Tec but anyone can at 
least try to troubleshoot when the guy who built it will walk you through on 
the phone. - = - but look at those who BUY a dipole!  Any excuse?  But 
today's ham seems more interested in making sure his receiver, transmitter, 
speaker and power supply have matching appearance and color.And so it goes. 
K3TX, ex K3HNP and W5NFJ.
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From: <tlp1 at vzavenue.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 83, Issue 9


> Please turn off the stupid...PLEASE!!!!!
>
> A few things....
>
> I'm damned fortunate to have gotten my electronics
> experience, and more, from 30 plus years in aviation
> electronics. Voice and data radio are a very small part of
> aviation electronics in whole. To this day, I've never had
> to depend on forums like this one, and some of the idiot
> parades out there that pass themselves off as some kind of
> half-witted tech forum/think tank. I've always been able to
> set up my own station, and maintain it with zero assistance.
> It's what makes the ham radio hobby fun, is to have the
> technical challenges in front of you, and figure them out
> yourself. Before getting involved in this hobby, I'd always
> believed that design, and self sufficiency was one of the
> cornerstones of ham radio. Who knows, maybe it was at the
> beginning of the 20th century. It sure isn't that way now.
> That is if you pay attention to the whiners here and other
> places on the internet.
>
> I have the Orion II, and I'm very pleased with it. For you
> hams that couldn't build your own gear if you're life
> depended on it (and build something comparable in
> performance and out of pocket expense as the Orion II), much
> less, and I STRONGLY EMPHASIZE MUCH LESS, work on and modify
> your own gear when it breaks, and to enhance its performance
> from the component level, you don't understand how lucky you
> are that commercial ham gear is available from a lot of
> people.
>
> Be happy with what you have. If you don't like it, buy
> something that will do the job for you, OR BUILD YOUR OWN!!
>
> When you can build something that performs like the the
> Orion II, from scratch and talk to us on the air with it,
> let me know, and let me know how much it cost you.
>
> KU5Q
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