If you can't build one from a few parts and get it on the air, you don't
deserve to be called a ham.

Any CBer or welfare ham can turn on the latest, greatest, Kenwood.

If you have even the most rudimentary understanding of electronics, you
should be able to build a transmitter.

How about something as simple as a crystal, a digital hex inverter and some
wire and a couple of capacitors?

Whoops! that requires knowledge not gained from memorizing a set of
questions.

Mores the pity! There have been no real hams since the FCC stopped giving
the exams. If that ****es people off, please take note of the mistletoe
pinned to my coat tail....


"geocal" wrote in message
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I suspect that Bob McConnell is being facetious with his suggestion about
building a QRP rig as part of a ham examination.