[Elecraft] Art of Electronics

[Josh Fiden]

You mean Bob Shrader W6BNB? 

73
Josh W6XU

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> On May 26, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Schraeder was the text for my Communications class in tech school in the
> early 80s.
> One requirement to pass the course was to earn the FCC General Class
> Radiotelephone license. I believe nearly everyone in the class did. It also
> made it pretty easy to upgrade my ham ticket from Novice to Advanced during
> that time.
> I still have my copy and still refer to it from time to time. The
> fundamentals never change.
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 9:16 AM K8TE <billamader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Phil,
>> 
>> Yes, I'm catching up on e-mail.
>> 
>> Your description of physics cirriculum brought me back to my high school
>> physics which was called "PSSC" based on the work done at MIT and described
>> in:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Science_Study_Committee.  I
>> had
>> been licensed a couple of years by then (1962) and found PSSC physics fit
>> me
>> to a tee!
>> 
>> My bachelor studies in vocational education decades later showed how the
>> approached used by the PSSC was smart and useful, something being
>> "re-discovered" today by educators who often are behind their peers.  The
>> Wikipedia article above includes a mention of Heathkit's products that were
>> modified to fit the PSSC model.
>> 
>> In between high school and my vocational education experience I taught
>> electronics for Eastern New Mexico University while stationed at Canon
>> AFB.
>> I used the text by Robert Schraeder "Electronic Communication" which one
>> can
>> find used today.  I lent mine to my Air Force boss and bought another
>> recently.  Schraeder, like so few, has the ability to write clearly about
>> difficult concepts that makes them seem simple.  That text made my teaching
>> much easier!  "The Art of Electronics" will certainly fit into my reading
>> schedule, in which I am also way behind.
>> 
>> 73, Bill, K8TE
>> 
>> "My undergraduate degree is Physics and back in the 1960s, my physics
>> curriculum included a similar course study.  This was all about using lab
>> equipment but also making the necessary little electronic gadgets that were
>> important to work in a physics research laboratory.  When I took my course,
>> the book "The Art of Electronics" did not exist and we never had a text
>> book
>> in our course."
>> 
>> 
>> 
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