[Elecraft] transistors explained

Sat Jan 17 14:58:01 2004

In a message dated 1/17/04 12:53:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> I've had my extra ticket since 1963. When I took the test there
> weren't any transistors on it.

Had mine since 1970. Some solid state theory on it. A few things have changed 

since then.

> 
> So my ticket certainly is no guarantee of current technical knowledge.
> 
> Everything else was learned the old-fashioned way. Try it, blow it up,
> try again, blow it up, go read a book, blow it up again, read it
> again, see something new, try something new, blow it up again, go ask
> some friends, realize you didn't know what a particular word meant, go
> try it again...

"Experience varies directly as equipment ruined"

> 
> I'm all the time running into something new. Been running into
> something new for 40 extra years.

Same here. Would have been quite boring if I'd known it all back then, when I 
was 16...

73 de Jim, N2EY

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