wrote:
From: "Michael A. Terrell" on Mon,Apr 18 2005 6:00 am

cl wrote:
The local ham club is looking for people to take classes with
"Now
Your Talking" rather than try to find people with any electronics
background.

"Now You're Talking" is for folks with no prior background. The
idea being to introduce those who DON'T have that prior background.

I offered to help maintain their club equipment but they
brushed me off because I don't have a ham ticket. I still have a
half
way decent RF bench, but nothing compared to the $1,000,000 plus
benches
of test equipment I had at Microdyne.

I am sure the offer was appreicated, Mike, it it IS an "Amateur
Radio" club. Do you have an aversion to getting licensed?

I never had any formal electronics training, yet I ws a broadcast
engineer, and a engineering tech for some products at Microdyne. I
learned it because I wanted to. I went to work part time in a TV
shop
at
13 after school and on Saturdays. When I was drafted I was tested
to
prove I didn't know electronics but it backfired. I not only passed
the
MOS test for Broadcast Engineer at Ft Knox, I was told I had
received
the highest score on record for the test. These are some of the
reasons
for my sig file. :-)

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Michael, be warned that you can now expect all sorts of
"hate mail" in public in response to what you've written.

Actually, not really Mike.

Welcome to RRAP, wherein our resident
"used-to-be-an-engineer-and-know-everything-better-than-you"
representitive, Len "Lennie" Anderson endears himself and makes friends
by calling them Nazis, thugs, elitists, etc, then crying foul when
"called" on it.

Trust me on that if you haven't seen others' received
flak.

Trusting Lennie Anderson on ANYthing is like letting Jack
Kevorkian make your health care decisions for you.

Do a Google on ", ",
(before winter 2001, I believe...)

Lennie's "reputation" for honesty, trustworthiness and
dependability are less than adequate.

Still a professional electron pusher (and long-time
electronics hobbyist) but one doesn't do it during
regular office hours.

You don't do it during OFF hours either, judging by your complete
lack of evidence on ANY "hobbyist" project other than listening to the
ATIS at LAX on your scanner.

Hope you'll get a ticket at one level or another, Mike...there's
a lot of fun to be had...If some club was rude to you, don't think it's
the whole tamale.

73

Steve, K4YZ