Roy Lewallen ) writes:
Mike Coslo wrote:

Yoiks, Roy! That was a little caustic wasn't it?

- Mike KB3EIA -

I do tend to be that way. And because of the couple of negative comments
about my posting I've thought it over a fair amount to see if, on
reflection, I think it was out of line.

But I don't think so, unless I mininterpreted what "John Smith" said.
What he seemed to be saying is that he has this great idea, and the only
reason it's not being impelemented is that *the other people* are too
lazy to do it.

As one of the "other people", I find it kind of insulting. Do you really
think his is a valid point of view, that everyone else should jump up
and implement his great idea, while this anonymous person's job is to
tell us what we should do?

I really do think that a caustic comment was appropriate.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

He gave the impression of being someone who'd been here before,
though at least it wasn't cross-posted to the UK newsgroup.

It just struck me as "well what's it doing here?". This newsgroup
isn't about commercial equipment, though we seem to have a slow
slide to where such things do appear here. Yet the poster seemed
to be talking about commercial equipment, and whether or not
that was the point, making your own equipment shouldn't be quite
about building a copy of something someone else built.

Had he posted in rec.radio.amateur.equipment I think perhaps
the tone of the response should be different. But here, at
the very least it should be a discussion of modularization rather
than subject header that is bound to alienate, and an expectation
of how things should be.

The talk of modularization, which seems better fitted to radio
than "plug in boards", has been discussed quite a bit over the years.
But of course, rather than some universal system (which has had
some articles in the ham magazines) the focus has been on breaking
things down to smaller portions so you can experiment, or you
can change things without having to change everything. And yes,
solid state devices, because of their small size, low price and
even function allows a better implementation. When you can
switch with DC it is much easier to do modularization than if
you have to have everything hanging off a bandswitch.

Michael VE2BVW