Greetings Telamon..

Regarding:
"It was meant as a divisive description of amateurs. Most
amateurs I have come across are not much more than equipment
operators. Some appear to be good operators but do not seem to
exhibit any depth beyond that."

I believe this may be called appliance operator syndrome. With a
move away from concentrating on understand fundamental
electronics and circuits at the component level and their
operation, and not testing for such on the current amateur exams,
this results in the above syndrome. Result, is it any wonder that
a tsunami of technical design work is now being done overseas, OR
is moving overseas, where the science is considered/taught more
intensely at a younger age and school level.

"If you like to fix your own electronics it makes sense but if
you do not it doesn't make any difference. I would suspect for
most people it makes no difference."

I would like to at least believe that the regular newsgroup crowd
here are of a more technical nature. Perhaps, they are
[primarily] nothing more than appliance operators - but I would
like to believe otherwise. As mentioned in another thread here,
the gentleman in South Africa has recently purchased a IC-7700
that sits along side his IC-756 PRO III. Apparently, he primarily
listens (ONLY) to LF and MW. No transmitting - amazing!

One thing is for certain, there is little doubt, that some of the
folks here have more of a budget than I do with my modest set up.

Cheers,
Mr. Mentor



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| In article ,
| "dBc" wrote:
|
| Greetings Telamon..
|
| Regarding:
| "You are referring to manufactures of HAM equipment not a
| consumer radio. Hammies are supposed to be a technical sort
that
| can fix their equipment and the general public is not
expected to
| do that."
|
| Negative, I'm not referring to amateur transceivers as you
| probably meant. Those manufactures also put out shortwave
| receivers. Consider looking at the lines both in the past and
| current offerings..
|
| Yes, but as you pointed out they do make amateur equipment so
they are
| predisposed to also make their SW radios more serviceable.
|
| I have no idea what you mean as "Hammies." The service is the
| amateur radio service. Once licensed, one becomes a radio
| amateur. "Ham Radio" is a term used to identify the radio
| amateurs operation as 'hamming it up' on the air. Regardless,
you
| won't see it defined as such at the federal level. In fact,
this
| is the first time I've come across the term "Hammies" in over
33
| years of being licensed. I'm laughing at that as I write
this..
|
| It was meant as a divisive description of amateurs. Most
amateurs I have
| come across are not much more than equipment operators. Some
appear to
| be good operators but do not seem to exhibit any depth beyond
that.
|
| The point was to consider a receiver where schematics are
made
| available to the public at large. Instead of potentially, at
a
| later time, having no reference resources to affect repair,
| consider this up front. Would you purchase a new car where
you
| could not buy parts over the counter now or ever in the
future?
| Effectively, your only resource was to take it to the dealer
for
| repair. While some may sure, others would like to know such
| things up front prior to making a decision - simple as that.
|
| If you like to fix your own electronics it makes sense but if
you do not
| it doesn't make any difference. I would suspect for most people
it makes
| no difference.
|
| --
| Telamon
| Ventura, California