On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:58:17 +1000, "Peter Parker"
wrote:

This is a pointless question.

In that case, please accept my humble apologies for having the
audacity to ask it.

Any hobby can be made as technical or non-technical as its adherant wants.
None is necessarily superior to any other if that's what you were getting
at.

Thanks. My views on flower-arranging have gone up stratospherically.

And what is your definition of 'succeeding at'?

To be able to design and build a receiver, transmitter, amp; whatever
and get it working to expectations.
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.