[Elecraft] K3 Filter questions

[Don Wilhelm]

I could take offense at that statement.  We each speak from our level of 
education and information available.

I thought we had a technical forum here - there are some asides (that 
many - hopefully most - enjoy) which interject some light-hearted 
comments, but (IMHO) the technical issues should be kept crisp and 
restricted to technical arguments in an effort to advance the state of 
the art and provide understanding for those hams who do not have the 
advantages of that obtained from an education in EE.  We can help each 
other to learn a bit more from whatever level of understanding of 
Electrical Laws and Circuits we may each be at.

Taking snipes at each other because some lack the background to 
understand the technical language is offensive to me.  Helping another 
ham to understand what is going on, is exciting to me.

If I may, I want to inject some of my background.  I knew nothing of 
radio stuff, but I was interested, and that was when I was a teen (15 
years old).
The Boy Scout troop I was involved with announced that the East 
Palestine Radio Club was offering lessons in learning the Morse Code and 
other radio endeavors, I was interested. and went to those classes.

That club got me started in ham radio.  This was a small town in Ohio 
where "everyone knew everyone else".  Be that good or bad (and it had 
points in both directions), the East Palestine Radio Club had many 
"elmers" for me.  They first provided the means where I could have my 
novice license, and then when I was constructing my homebrew novice 
transmitter (I could not afford to buy a kit), they provided support and 
assistance.

The folks in that club helped me in making my first contacts, and helped 
me gently along the way.  The encouragement I got from the members of 
that club as I contemplated college and a career were well received.  I 
ended up with a BSEE degree because of their encouragement. It is 
enlightening that none of them were BSEE graduates although a couple of 
them were BSME graduates.
They were not necessarily experts in what I was trying to accomplish, 
but they were experts in communicating that I was on the right track and 
I should continue/

I am thankful to that collection of radio amateurs from a small town in 
Ohio for my direction and my career whichever way that has evolved - no 
regrets.

The point I am offering is that there is no need to provide assertions 
in CAPS.  You will be "right" and recognized as such by intelligent 
statements using good English words  (some folks get careless here and 
make themselves look uneducated in the use of words that sound the same 
but are spelled differently.  - "there" is different from "their" is 
only one example).

The use of proper English language will elevate your comments in my 
mind, and the incorrect use of similar sounding words  - hear vs. here, 
- there vs. their, - eye vs. I , - hare vs. hair, - bare vs. bear, and 
numerous others tell me that the education level in this country is 
diminishing rapidly.  When I see written communication from school 
teachers that contain similar errors of syntax and grammar, I wonder 
where we are all headed - do the dictionaries of this world have to bow 
to those distortions of normal writing?  I hope not.

OK, Off topic RANT aside, I do feel that  there should be many technical 
points offered in CAPS just because they are electronics principles that 
should withstand syntax and positive, and other simialar sounding but 
different meaning and spelling  That is a way to make statements stand 
out from the crowd, but I do agree that excessive use of CAPS is 
counterproductive.  In internet etiquette,  caps are equal to YELLING, 
and should be avoided because most list members will "put beans in their 
ears" when they see all caps.

73,
Don

On 3/28/2012 7:54 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:31 PM,<k.igor at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> ...fact as opposed to categorical unbased statement from somebody...
> ============
> Ah but Igor, you are trying to argue from evidence. That's a no-no.
> The way to prove your point is to assert it in CAPS. Then and only
> then will you be right.
>
> Tony KT0NY
>
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