[ARC5] FW: Way OT -- SX-28 - ARC5 selectivity

[Roy Morgan]

Ken,

Your comment about not knowing any better reminds me of a story heard long ago:

A new worker was hired to solder ceramic windows into waveguide oscillators. Not only did he have zero experience, but he was male - all the others were women. He was shown how to do the tricky work and told you not expect any successful ones for a while. 

The first day he got one that worked. The second day, two, and by the end of the week was getting 4 or 5. The ladies were buzzing about it: how could he do that well?

After a while he was getting double the normal number and the boss called him in. "How do you do that?!"

No one had told him that was not possible. 

(I am reminded of my first lessons learning to hover a helicopter. But that's another story.)

Roy
USN, retired

Roy Morgan
K1LKY Western Mass

> On Aug 8, 2021, at 11:06 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> ...
> MY first "good" receiver was an S-41G ...
> 
> I successfully made many contacts with that piece of junk.
> 
> I have another one now and cannot figure out how I even used it.
> 
> It was probably because I didn't know any better.
> 
> Ken