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On 02/08/2019 11:00, Roger Hayter wrote:
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
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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. 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. Equally, a lot copied circuits without being much
interested in the theory. 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...farted about with antennas.....did mostly mobile HF operating
as I do to this day..I don't do ham radio to impress anybody but to
please myself...I love all things radio from LW to 2m and know what is
good equipment antennas and test gear and what is not..I never went for
the class B as it was HF I wanted.......what I couldn't stand and what
put me off electronics and computers was the class B guru type who
worked in the industry and tried to lord it over us pure hobbyists
That's because they are that kind of people, not because they are
elecronic professionals. There are a good few people like that who are
not electronics professionals.
yes those are the good guys .....
and I
never let them do it .....I think my problem is I love radio but I
dislike most radio amateurs...also my romanticised vision of being a
radio ham has never materialised.....sad but true ....still looking for
it .....and it ain't to be found in building things in my
case......could be worse I could have ended up like reay or cole.....
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