[Elecraft] My "Attitude"

[David Pratt]

In a recent message, JIM DAVIS <nn6ee at astound.net> wrote ...
>  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!

That is very true for newer radio amateurs in the UK also. One only has 
to look at some of the old exam papers.  UK Radio Amateurs' Examination 
Papers back to 1946 can be seen at http://www.g4dmp.co.uk/rae

73
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David G4DMP
Leeds, England, UK
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