[AMRadio] Comment to a comment

Wed Nov 2 10:06:04 EDT 2011

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73
Jack
KA3ZLR

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From: Robert A. Poff <wb3awj at comcast.net>
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Comment to a comment

I should qualify what I mean by technical competence.
Or rather what it's not.

It's not sending a two meter CB set to the factory because you can't repair a bad mid cord.

It's not buying a pre-made dipole because you openly admit that you have no idea how to make one.

It's not declaring a "tube type antique outdated radio" junk because it won't tune into a four foot long antenna mounted on a window sill with no ground on 40 meters.
And as if it mattered, no transmatch.

It's not having a heated discussion about a button on your new Kenmore that is labeled preamp while the one on the other guys same Kenmore is labeled attenuator. And using only sales literature as your only reference.

It's not buying something like a KWM-2 and being completely lost and afraid about tuning the final.

It's not posting a message to an email list saying "My radio stopped working. What do I do? I don't know anything about this technical stuff."

All true incidents that I've either heard or became involved with.

Just a few that stick out in my memory from the general background of "I don't know anything. But I have a license" noise.

And yes, it's not just ham radio. A friend who is the Director of Engineering for a broadcast group told me once that he has Chief Engineers that "If they can't buy it from Broadcast Tools, they're in trouble."

Robert Poff
Loganville, Pa

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