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wrote in message oups.com... I'm 35. Engineer. And you? I'm curious about the demographic that occupies these groups. 76 years old, retired Hewlett-Packard Technical Writer, AA Degree Electronics, Amateur Extra since 1977, US Navy Korean War - Aviation Electronics Tech AT1 SWL frequently The Old Shadow do |
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Soundhaspriority wrote: "Don Pearce" wrote: I'm 35. Engineer. And you? I'm 57, and I'd like to say I'm an engineer, but the word is debased currency these days. People like me, who have done the studying, can design systems and circuits, write international standards, climb a transmitter tower in a gale, get you a telecomms license and shmooze middle eastern potentates etc etc are engineers. Designing circuits and writing standards will get you "engineer." The other things you mention are too nebulous to qualify for a title, but they're good things to be good at. Yes. I believe the word you're looking for is "technician" - somebody who knows how to fix various things and assemble them, but doesn't know how to design, because they typically have only 2 years of college or trade school. He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous detection, which may predate single side band, pre 1952. Is "he" refering to me? Well sorry to disappoint you, but a lot of that stuff is passe', and no longer taught in college. I studied digital circuit design and digital signal processing at Penn State. No analog stuff other than the basics (op-amps). |
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On Sep 30, 3:40 pm, "The Shadow" wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... I'm 35. Engineer. And you? I'm curious about the demographic that occupies these groups. 76 years old, retired Hewlett-Packard Technical Writer, AA Degree Electronics, Amateur Extra since 1977, US Navy Korean War - Aviation Electronics Tech AT1 SWL frequently The Old Shadow do I'm 20. Candidate for a Bachelors degree in Electro-Optics in applied Physics with a minor in Computer Science.. I created most of the infrared focal plane array test program for anti- missile defense and worked on other various electro-optic projects throughout my work experience, and before that I was a physics tutor for numerous college students. I've been playing piano for more than 14 years and still continue to play. I wrote a research paper on LED's in an RC circuit. |
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Michael Black wrote:
snip You might as well have asked "What did you have for breakfast" because it would have been just as off-topic to all four newsgroups, and be just been as nonsensical to the groups as your actual question. Well discussing breakfast would IMHO be far more on-topic than the vast majority of posts to rec.radio.shortwave. I would support a campaign to improve the S/N ratio on r.r.s. Regards, Michael |
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wrote in message oups.com... Soundhaspriority wrote: "Don Pearce" wrote: I'm 35. Engineer. And you? I'm 57, and I'd like to say I'm an engineer, but the word is debased currency these days. People like me, who have done the studying, can design systems and circuits, write international standards, climb a transmitter tower in a gale, get you a telecomms license and shmooze middle eastern potentates etc etc are engineers. Designing circuits and writing standards will get you "engineer." The other things you mention are too nebulous to qualify for a title, but they're good things to be good at. Yes. I believe the word you're looking for is "technician" - somebody who knows how to fix various things and assemble them, but doesn't know how to design, because they typically have only 2 years of college or trade school. He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous detection, which may predate single side band, pre 1952. Is "he" refering to me? Well sorry to disappoint you, but a lot of that stuff is passe', and no longer taught in college. I studied digital circuit design and digital signal processing at Penn State. No analog stuff other than the basics (op-amps). Modulation and information theory are not "passé". |
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Soundhaspriority wrote:
He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous detection, which may predate single side band, pre 1952. Bob Morein (310) 237-6511 I think that you will find that SSB was invented in the early 1920s. Charlie. -- M0WYM www.radiowymsey.org |
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Soundhaspriority wrote: He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous detection, which may predate single side band, pre 1952. Bob Morein (310) 237-6511 I think that you will find that SSB was invented in the early 1920s. Charlie. In fact it was 1915 but the patent was not granted until 1923 "The first U. S. patent for SSB modulation was applied for on 1 December, 1915 by John R. Carson. Patent 1,449,382, titled "Method and Means for Signaling with High Frequency Waves" was awarded to Carson on March 27, 1923 and assigned to AT&T." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation Charlie. M0WYM www.radiowymsey.org |
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On Sep 30, 3:03 pm, "Karl Uppiano" wrote:
wrote in message Soundhaspriority wrote: He can't be a competent engineer if he doesn't understand synchronous detection, which may predate single side band, pre 1952. Is "he" refering to me? Well sorry to disappoint you, but a lot of that stuff is passe', and no longer taught in college. I studied digital circuit design and digital signal processing at Penn State. No analog stuff other than the basics (op-amps). Modulation and information theory are not "passé". I didn't say it was. I said ANALOG theory was. Digital of course still has relevance. |
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wrote in message oups.com... I'm 35. Engineer. And you? I'm curious about the demographic that occupies these groups. Accounting Student/Forklift Driver -Brian |
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