[Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:26:26AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Julius Fazekas n2wn, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Part of the fun of radio is tuning across the band and finding
> something on your own, before it's spotted...

These sort of statements always make me twitch.  All of (not just part
of) the fun of radio (like of anything) is what YOU enjoy about it.
You (generic you, not necessarily Julius in particular) may get a lot
of joy out of finding a signal, while for other people finding the
signal is a miserable ritual that they just have to put up with to get
to the FUN part, which is talking to the person.

It's no different than some people LOVING building a radio / antenna /
whatever, just for its own sake (and may not even like actually _being
on the air_ much at all, comparatively), whereas for others it's slow
torture, and waste of time that could be spent buying one already
built and getting on the air with it.

    (And don't try to read that as a direct analogy either, because
    it's perfectly possible to enjoy the "lower-level" of building
    while hating the "lower-level" of searching for a signal)


It can be a fine line between communicating "I enjoy X" and "X is the
enjoyable part".  The former can lead to interesting discussions and
comparisons, but the latter pretty much always comes across
argumentative and just tends toward building up steam.  The
complication is that people often mean the former, and phrase it as
the latter.  Lose-lose  :(


-- 
Matthew Fuller, N3TZJ
<n3tzj at n3tzj.org>