"Michael Black" wrote in message
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1512051037460.16706@darkstar. example.org...
Most threads he starts can be interpreted as on topic, and an excuse to
post something on topic.

Indeed they are just that, and also a defence by a decent right-thinking
individual
against the infantile and anti-social effluent that comes from so many
others.

I've been a subscriber to uk.radio.amateur for 21 years and am increasingly
concerned
that a cornerstone of amateur radio in Brit is being driven down from its
position as an exemplar of gentlemanly and technical discussion, and so I
try to
fly the flag for those traditions.

As I said elsewhere, 43 years ago I completed an electronics degree,
specialising
in computers and communications, and am now in a position as a retired
engineer
to discuss those things that puzzled me and which were never explained at
the time in the rush to
be able to regurgitate facts in order to pass exams. I have assumed,
possibly wrongly,
that the spirit of enquiry and technical curiosity was what motivated all
radio amateurs.

I'm a great believer that education should deliver understanding as opposed
to training that
only delivers knowledge.

If you had a teenage daughter, which would you prefer her to receive, sex
education or sex training?