On 8/3/2011 4:48 PM, Irv Finkleman wrote:
Hear! Hear!

I would have been off the air forever if this newsgroup had been
my only source of knowledge. I would have been afraid!
What I didn't know about Jx and SWR didn't make any difference -- I was on
the air and really enjoying the hobby! I didn't even know how to solder
then!

Right.

But I would like to say that it isn't at all that the information is
wrong. In fact, the experts are generally 100 percent right. And that is
where some of the problems are.

A noob comes in, and gets 3 different answers, and becomes hopelessly
confused because they would seem to contradict each other. They don't
really know how to figure it out.

It isn't confined to this group. Another group I'm in where I am a bit
of an expert, Amateur telescope making, some times suffers from the same
thing.

My point is that I'm not trying to chide the experts. After all, it's
not very graceful to bust peoples chops when they take the time to
answer a question. I's more begging them to realize that I'm a bit of an
idiot, and easily confused!

- 73 de Mike N3LI -