[Elecraft] My KX3 desk microphone project

[Walter Underwood]

I’m confused. “Misguided” means that someone is headed in a wrong direction. Sharing expertise to help someone out shouldn’t require an apology. Should I apologize for being an Elmer? Should I let people use poor engineering practices to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings?

We want people to have more successful projects, avoiding well-known dead ends.

wunder
K6WRU
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/

On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Gary on Behalf of the Board I will extend an apology to you, some here take the Hobby far to serious.
> 
> I personally enjoy it when someone tries something and shares it and we all learn from it.
> I've been a Ham for a lot of years and I've seen a lot of things tried that you would think would never work but did.Though my favorite was when I flew RC aircraft and we had a Guy who against all convention used One Bladed Props.
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>     From: Gary - NC3Z <nc3z.gary at gmail.com>
> To: Harry Yingst <hlyingst at yahoo.com> 
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My KX3 desk microphone project
> 
> Nice post Harry. And did you notice still no technical backup?
> 
> Gary Mitchelson
> NC3Z Davidsonville, MD FM18
> NC3Z/4 Pamlico County, NC FM15
> www.mitchelson.org
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> On 1/24/2015 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>> I want to point out one thing about all of this "It's AMATEUR Radio".
>> Last week another list member was hammered on for finding a Bug that even I could replicate here.
>> (Strangely I do not recall anyone making a public apology to that man).
>> 
>> So the guy here made a mic and it worked for him and he wanted to share his PROJECT.(Yea I made that same mistake when I found better quality and quieter fans for my K3).
>> Maybe someone could have say Hey that's cool but in my Professional experience we found that X.
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>> PS: I work on stuff that is Real Life and Death when it goes down and AMATEUR radio is far from that.
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