Nic. Santean schrieb:

Oh, one should 'vote'..... just another troll......
You should do some newsgroup search.
This question is asked every once in a while.



I suppose this is one of the "every once in a while times".

I am not a troll. What are you talking about, you'nuts ?! I am a hobbist,
pretty good in RF electronics and quite fond of my hobby. I built my first
AM radio (7 transistors) when I was 7, for Pete's sake! When did you build
your first? A piece of advice: think before trying to offend somebody.



I suppose you just put some parts of a kit together and surprisingly
enough got it working?
I can't go with this. It took me 16 before I designed(!) and built my
first (and sad enough the only one) SSB-capable radio with single parts
on my own designed and self made PCB. Before that I was into repairing
tube-radios and usualy made one working by plundering another one for
parts. It was not that easy to get enough old tube radios in that
hillbilly area where I lived when I was a kid. This was starting in the
late sixties at the age of 9 or 10 and transistors were quite rare and
expensive. Soldering prepared kits was much too easy so I can't remember
much of them. Although I put some of those kits of different kind
together in that time before I started my own projekt. "No money for
that playing and time waisting stuff" (as I'm the eldest of 7 children)
was a big handicap for me back then. So what's your point?
I started my education and profession as a plumber and heating installer
then and electronics is still *one* of my hobbies more or less since
then wich comes in right handy in certain situations when repairing
failing electronics on heating systems instead of just ordering a new
"module" or at least to get a system to run temporary until the new
module arrives some days later and preventing people sitting in a cold
house.
At least be aware that english is a foreign language to me and I'm out
of school for 29 years right now..... I'm living in Germany, so you may
answer in german? :-)