[Boatanchors] We do live in a solid state world

[Rob Atkinson]

About 2 years ago I was working some guy and we were discussing some
problem he was having and I gave advice that involved "transmitting a
carrier."  His response was, "What's a carrier?"  I was nonplussed.
I checked later and the guy had an Extra class license.

Pete, I had it drummed into me from day one to get and use a dummy
load.  Nothing has changed with that (or should change).   My
electronics knowledge is very much lacking.  ARRL does people like me
a disservice when they hide technical material away in their other
rag, QEX.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM,  <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> Steve Ford is the Editor of QST.

So what.


> Actually, if you read on from the line you quoted, in the next paragraph
> is says, "Modern transceivers don't require manual tuning but dummy loads
> are still valuable tools for testing and adjustment...."
> And, since QST is the official journal (not some technical magazine) for
> all ARRL members, it has to provide information for all grades of
> technical expertise, i.e. from the beginner to the hard-core electron
> massager.
>
> Pete, wa2cwa

73

Rob
K5UJ