[ARC5] Zero Beat Question

[Richard Knoppow]

     I am very much in agreement.  Another possibility is making short 
tutorials for You Tube. There are some there but I think a series might 
be of interest to a lot of people.  No single person would have to do 
them all. The sorts of subjects to cover could be found from 
solicitations on various mailing lists.  I think the web is a very 
powerful teaching method which is not being exploited as fully as it 
should be.

On 7/7/2016 1:56 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> The fundamentals haven't changed even if the methods and materials have
> (ICs, Microporcessors, DSP, etc). I am now wondering if adding a
> videoconferencing studio in the shop/shack could be helpful sometimes.
> The questions are valid but can be really difficult in email. Seeing the
> questions in email suggest the askers have access to the internet and
> maybe some sort of computer.
>
> I think it would be helpful when I have questions. I have not learned it
> all in spite of starting in the 1950s with my father's college textbooks.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
> On 07/07/2016 04:26 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>      I am always glad to see questions that are relatively elementary
>> of the sort that one thinks "why, everybody knows that", but when I
>> try to explain it decide that perhaps its not obvious at all. In fact,
>> sometimes I discover _I_ don't really understand something I thought I
>> did.  I think sometimes older books had better explanations than newer
>> ones, perhaps because there was less to cover.  A good source is Pete
>> Millet's site
>> http://tubebooks.org  this has all sorts of stuff on it including
>> several ARRL handbooks and some good fairly elementary electronic
>> theory books. Do not sell the old ARRL handbooks short; their
>> introductory theory chapters are usually well written and are aimed at
>> those who want and need practical information.  The "Radio Handbook"
>> edited by William I. Orr is also excellent. Modern radios with all
>> their digital functions have become rather un-intuitive so it is
>> sometimes enlightening to go back and see how all this was done with
>> analog.  Never ignore the fundamentals.
>>
>> On 7/7/2016 12:41 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>
>>> Richard nailed it down but your question suggests there may be enough
>>> holes in your experience to not fully grasp what he has said. I sure
>>> wish I could get some of the people who are asking the questions like
>>> this in my shop/shack for even just a few minutes. We could make it
>>> crystal clear in just a few minutes in front of radio on the air and
>>> especially with some computer software available to give us a panadapter
>>> display - aka waterfall. I'm sure Richard would like to do that too.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile we can try to answer any questions that remain from Richard's
>>> explanation.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Bill  KU8H
>>>
>>
>

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