On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 23:12:38 -0000 (UTC), Brian Reay
wrote:

gareth wrote:
... For those of us who became interested at the time of the
transition from thermionic devices to semiconductors, that
in 1965 a household might have less than 35 active devices
in total (25 in the colour TV, 7 in the transistor radio) and now we
have countless millions mostly in computerisation of one sort
or another.

Is it, I wonder the degree of integration in off-the-shelf
electronics that is the prime cause of the lack of technical
acumen and interest in home construction to be found
these days, especially in the under-educated NuHams
who cannot even tell one end of a resistor from the other?




Coming from someone who was afraid to attempt to use a basic amateur
transceiver due to a few missing pages, your comment is the height of
hypocrisy.


After all, many of your vapourware projects tend to be rather biased
towards older, simplistic, equipment- including things which are not even
active and were more typically perhaps 'novelties' over a century ago. The
type of thing many of us experimented with as youngsters but have since
progressed beyond. What was that analogy about amateur radio being a vast
pool to explore- not much point if you keep sitting on the side with your
toes in the shallow end talking about getting in- especially if you've been
doing that for 45+ years.


Nowt wrong with vintage radio Brian.

Why do you belittle those with an interest in it? I note that you
don't abuse your chum for his interest in vintage computing.