"Airy R. Bean" wrote in message
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We have to spend so much time during our own time
in education learning the achievements of past heroes, that
perhaps when our own time comes, we are intellectually
exhausted?

Nah, we're all just becoming specialists. Colleges today have their various
'electrical engineering tracks' where you choose between, e.g., power,
communications, digital logic, etc. -- I think that change come about some
20? years ago now.

We can do our bit in the world of Ham Radio by encouraging
our fellows to dabble in the innards of radios (rather than
by visiting the local emporium in order to buy a rice box
and then returning to the emporium when the "snap crackle
and pop" has gone out of it)

Unfortuately it can be difficult to motivate people to study the innards of
radio when you have to explain to them that a modern cell phone has perhaps
some 100 man years of engineering work in it -- and that any attempt to
apply some of this same technology to amateur radio is going to be met by
protest as well!

---Joel Kolstad