[AMRadio] Last comment on the can of worms.

[Tom Chesek]

I think that there is too much of "what I like is better than what you 
like".  Why can't people talk about and enjoy their interests without others 
telling them why they are wrong for not being interested in "what I like"?





-----Original Message----- 
From: CL in NC
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:12 PM
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [AMRadio] Last comment on the can of worms.

"If your hobby goal in life is to hold a soldering iron in
your hand for hours every day, more power to you, but I prefer the ease
of getting on the air quickly and making contacts when ever I want
without the constant diddling with knobs and meters and smoke."

I don't prefer that at all.  I love to make contacts, just using a different 
form of signal generation and conversion, that I don't have to send to a 
repair center to get fixed..  I was fortunate enough in my career to go from 
the height of tube technology, through transistor to LSI and on to 
microprocessor based comm gear.  The last TX/RX gear I worked on had an 
on/off switch, and LED indicator lamp and a DB9 connector on an 'A' size 
rack panel.  They were guaranteed for 10 (ten) years, if it broke, put in 
the spare and send it back.  Not a lot of skill needed there, just the 
ability to reprogram the spare.  Does a man who restores a '58 Vette and 
drive it live in the past?  How about the guy who restored and flies a P51? 
What about the guy that builds a 1 1/2" scale EM-1, 2-8-8-4 live steam 
locomotive taking  12 years to do it, is he living in the past?  I surely 
don't live to fill  logbooks with maximum contacts before I die, and like 
the
other fellow said, there is plenty of room in this hobby for all 
disciplines.  For some reason, the folks that like to restore, maintain, and 
operate old gear catch a lot of  flack for there little corner of the ham 
room.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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