[Elecraft] My "Attitude"

[JIM DAVIS]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:23:40 -0700
  "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> Crew,
> 
> Some feel that my posts are sometimes harshly worded. Perhaps they 
> are. But it seems to me that someone with a General Class ham 
> license, and especilly someone with an Extra Class ticket, ought to 
> have spent some time studying something more than the Study Guide to 
> pass the exam. This is ham radio, not CB radio. A ham license is not 
> a boxtop license. As hams, we are granted rather extensive operating 
> privileges on the basis of our technical knowledge, our advancement 
> of the state of the art, and our preparedness for emergencies. As 
> hams, it is our responsibility to STUDY this stuff.  
> 
> The ARRL Handbook is very well written, and includes chapters that 
> cover all of this material in a manner that is quite readable. You 
> don't have to have a lot of math or physics or engineering background 
> to understand it. All you have to do is make a serious effort. 
> 
> I admit to being a grandfatherly curmudgeon. And I'm probably going 
> to stay that way until they throw dirt on me. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim Brown K9YC 
> 
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Jim,

There's nothing wrong with your "attitude" !  In fact I agree with it completely, as it seems
that the people that are getting into the hobby recently really don't know how to fully utilize
their equipment nor their antenna arrays. One buddy of mine who recently got his "EXTRA" (no-code) 
and he had even suggested that guys who wanted to get the "Extra" should spend at least (2)yrs 
operating as a (General) before being allowed to get the TOP license!
  If you've ever heard alot of the newer guys on the air their electrical knowledge and operating 
practices are rather lacking (even lacking the knowledge
of something as BASIC as "Ohm's Laws"), now that's BAD!!!
  At least the vast majority of guys who were licensed before the 1980s really did have to 
understand
the electrical theory to pass the exams.  Memorization just would not work then as it seems to 
now!


Jim/nn6ee
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