[Elecraft] Elecraft K3 Build Continuing ­ Reflection Point (Page 6)

[Brian Alsop]

Nick,

This reflects the sad state of the US psyche.

To generations past "buy" or "buy assembled" would not even be considered.

Their first reaction to a need was to make something from what materials 
they had on hand.  Clearly this is anti-consumerism and not politically 
correct these days.

Today the answer to everything is to buy.  Making anything has become 
lost.  Too bad, there is a lot of knowledge and satisfaction to be 
gained by making stuff.

Also the present generation blogs everything.  I have mixed feelings on 
this.  It depends upon the quality of the blog and whether or not it has 
been done 100's of times before.  My general impression of blogs is that 
they are Internet Pollution.  Same for 95% of Youtube.

Like all generalizations this one is false sometimes.

I do know almost all advertising $$ is spent targeting 15-40 year olds.
This is because those outside this range don't buy much.  Perhaps it is 
the 40+ category that "wear it out, use it up, do without or make it"

73 de Brian/K3KO



On 3/13/2013 14:02, Nick Palomba wrote:
> Elecraft K3 Build Continuing ­ Reflection Point
>
> Ironically ­ Building the Elecraft K3 has let me to reflect. This K3 project
> is special to me and has drawn some interesting questions. I have been asked
> by several people including friends and coworkers and some outside my family
> what I did on my vacation days and when I tried to explain that I was
> working on building a Ham Radio ­ Elecraft K3 which I knew they would have
> no idea about the brand but I always take shot at it.
>
> The reaction has been staggering ­ so you are building something that is
>
> taking days if not weeks to do that you could have purchased all put
> together and ready to use by someone else. On top of that you are setting up
> camera and blogging about it. What a waste of time seems to be the
> consensus.
>
> http://nicktoday.com/elecraft-k3-build-continuing-reflection-point-page-6/
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