On 18 Jul 2006 15:04:01 -0700, "an old freind"
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
On 17 Jul 2006 20:12:08 -0700, "an old feind"
wrote:

Just show most hams licensed in the past 10 years a
schematic and ask them to find a component by function.

I can even my wife who frankly does not the why ofof it can tel the
component

I said "by function". Not "locate the resistor", but "locate the
balanced modulator circuitry".

you were vague

I said, "ask them to find a component by function". That's only vague
to those who don't understand simple English.

not my fault you can't express yourself

Not in what you use for language but, then, I speak English.

nor is a EE needed to be ham and contrube to advancing the state of the
radio art

No one said otherwise - but refusing to learn anything shouldn't be a
criterion, and it certainly doesn't contribute to anything but sloth.

the tests needed to cover those things THEN

THEN they more os less needed to inculde Morse code (lathough it could
have been avoided but for the treaty)

times change

adapt or die

Oh, I could pass a test on the technical aspects of communications as
it's practiced today. Could you? (Rhetorical question - I know you
couldn't.) And I don't mean could you memorize enough answers to
pass.