[Elecraft] little OT: sweating the details

[Jan Erik Holm]

Charles,

I couldn´t agree with you more. This is why I sometimes think
about giving up ham radio. It is becoming more and more silly
for every day that goes by.

73 Jim SM2EKM
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Charles Harpole wrote:
> Every now and then, I read every message placed
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> on several ham radio reflectors.  I am astonished at
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> 1. the high level of detail that some hams worry about and
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> 2.  the low level of basic knowledge that the ham test should
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> have caught and finally
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> 3. the seeming unwillingness to just go ahead and try something
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> instead of asking "permission" from "those who know more" (see
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> the quote marks?).
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> HAM radio: in the golden days of the 1956 sunspot peak, hams threw
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> wires in trees, loaded up metal drain downspouts, ran something until
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> it smoked and then wired in something of higher capacity and ran it 
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> again.  In those days, I never hrd anyone asking if something will
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> work perfectly (after extensive computer modeling, etc.-- yes, I know there
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> were no home computers then) or if some hot shot op already had the 
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> thing under discussion.
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> Then, hams just did it.  I long for those days, so lacking a time machine,
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> I will just again use the delete function more often.  73
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> 
> Charles Harpole
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> k4vud at hotmail.com
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