[Elecraft] Art of Electronics

[David Olean]

Hey, Ed,

Piece of cake! (10 Ghz) But I worked up to it slowly. Building gear  for 
the lower microwave bands sure helped with wrapping my head around the 
problems encountered there.  I loved pipe cap filters!! Now I am having 
a real hard time getting my 160 meter receive antennas to work!! I went 
from snow flaking to  tightening large nuts and bolts!

Dave K1WHS


On 4/8/2018 10:45 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> hmmm, well I'm hearing a lot of opinion expressed.
>
> First off, how many of you have acctually built ckts for10-GHz+? (show 
> of hands)  And of you who did, how many worked the first time as 
> designed without "tinkering"?  Snow-flaking is a well known method of 
> "tweaking" the circuit to get it to work optimally.  Snow-flaking is 
> an art!
>
> If you can make one that works, probably involves a little magic; if 
> you can manufacture hundreds that work reliably, that is a master at 
> science.  Of course you might argue the latter is "true magic".
>
> Cave man would say all this is magic.  If you are an alien who can 
> travel between stars, our stuff is archaic.  Probably hams span that 
> range?  Got my hard hat and PPE on, fire away!
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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