Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 02/08/2019 09:14, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 02/08/2019 09:01, Roger Hayter wrote:
Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer
wrote:

On 01/08/2019 15:32, Roger Hayter wrote:
...But equally you could pass the RAE and become an excellent and
popullar radio amateur fifty years ago while not knowing a great about
technical matters.

Untrue, dangerously so.

Amateur radio has always been a technical pursuit; the operator's hobby
is CB Radio, and on the amateur bands are a large number of
CBers masquerading as radio amateurs.

That is no doubt what you would like to be true, and I have a lot of
sympathy with that aspiration.Â*Â*Â* But it is not in fact true, and there
were always, at least since the 1960s which is what I know about, a
large number of amateurs interested in operating (and often highly
skilled and knowledgable about it) and not particularly interested in
anything technical.Â*Â* Equally, a lot copied circuits without being much
interested in the theory.Â*Â* So I simply do not agree with you about the
facts, as opposed to preferences.

I do very little selective operating and I am not interested in
electronics or computing so where does that leave me ? ....

I will answer that,,,in the 80's I converted a DNT cb to 10m with new
xtals and a re-tune then I converted a cybernet 3000 with a spectrum
board and opening up the cans and removing the caps and a re-tune ....in
the 70's and 80's I built various heathkits.......in 1975 I fitted a
triple LLL clipper to the board of my ft101mk1 not just to the octal
socket in the back panel like the mk2 and B models....quite a
risk...built a europa 2m transverter into an ft101 speaker
cabinet...


You expect use to believe that when you couldn’t see that trailer cable
wasn’t suitable for connecting to a DIN plug?