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November 24th 04, 03:31 AM
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: (N2EY) wrote in message ... In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: There isn't much real "engineering" in the hard numeric design sense attached to doing what KB3EIA proposes. It's like adding a room onto a house - you wouldn't do a complete stress analysis of every stud and joist, nor a fluid dynamic analysis of the plumbing just so you could have a half-bath on the ground floor. Bingo! A lot of the job of getting that half-bath is permits, inspections, estimates, coordinations, etc., too. The topic is how various folk who come from different educational, training and employment backgrounds approach the technical aspects of pulling off non-commercial stunts like sending homebrewed electronics packages to 100,000 feet with a balloon. OK. Seasoned technical types degreed and otherwise learn out in the college of hard knocks how to plan and execute projects in highly systematic manners because when money is involved the project better be pulled off properly or yer outta work. Which is not the same factor here. In business if ya signed the contract to deliver X on date Y, you better do it or bad things will happen. In this balloon thing, a delay of weeks or months is no big deal if the result is success rather than failure. That's the incentive. Beyond that we is what we is and we don't change our stripes when we get involved in the planning of off-hours volunteer efforts or our hobbies. Maybe *you* don't. People need to differentiate between work and play. Those who can't get grumpy! ;^) Yup. Particularly with volunteer labor: they can just tell you where to shove the helium hose, and then they walk away. Few of us can do that in our work life. Wherein come the clashes with the non-technical types we get involved with on joint efforts. Pick any mid-to-large scale Field Day planning session around here for a perfect example. You might wanna look up how the CP folks did... Send the non-technical types to me. I don't differentiate between them and what is apparently the first class Hams. Perhaps they will learn, and eventually become technical types. The "CP folks" referred to were a classic case of nonplanners. There's a casual approach and then there's carelessness. A few good folks did 90+% of the work and the rest watched. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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