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Rothammels Antenna Book ...
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. 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. As you so rightly say, the CBer-masquerading-as-a-radio-amateur is not a new phenomenon. Operating is not a skill nor something to be knowledgeable about, else 5-year-old kiddies would be unable to use their mobile phones. |
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