[Fists] Technical Jargon

[JohnEXI@aol.com]

Well, all I have to say is thank God I had to study all that technical stuff 
to get my license, because of it I was able to get my Second Phone and because 
of that I made a good dollar on a side job, that was able to get me through 
the rough spots.

John, WB2EXI
(same call since 1967)

In a message dated 9/1/03 9:05:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fists-request@mailman.qth.net writes:

> 
>  Chris - and the FISTS reflector.
>  
>  Good Morning!
>  
>  To qualify for 5 wpm morse testing took me about 6 weeks of about 3-4 hours
>  a week practice.
>  That's about 24 hours of work - and some of it fun.
>  
>  To qualify for my written exams - including learning how to draw all the
>  circuits we were tested on, Ohms Law, Kirkoff's Law, Lenz's law, and
>  Murphy's Law, elements of Algebra, Trigometery, conversion from polar to
>  rectangular coordinates, transmission line theory, propagation theory,
>  vacuum tube theory and practice, transistor theory and practice, power
>  supplies, full, half-wave, bridge, rectification, switching power supplies,
>  Crystal (pierce), Colpits, Hartley, and Armstrong oscillators, Phase lock
>  loops, chokes, resistors, transformer theory, capacitance, complex impedanc
>  calculation, power factor, basic techniques of RF amplification,
>  hetrodyning, phasing, lissojous patterns, neutralization, Amplitude
>  modulation, Frequency Modulation, limiter/detectors, diode and product
>  detectors, balanced modulators, plate modulation, grid/screen grid
>  modulation, Basics of radiotelegraphy by baudot printer, television
>  transmission (NTSC standards, chroma, color burst, synch pulse) and
>  reception theory, circuit practices at VHF and UHF, frequency measurement,
>  lecher wires, gunn diodes, microwave theory took me much longer to study
>  for.  And of course, we had to study FCC and ITU radio laws and operating
>  practices (including Q signals).
>  
>  I have NEVER used the majority of the technical material that I studied.  I
>  certainly never had to do anything involving the square root of "negative
>  one", so why was I TORMENTED with this requirement?
>  
>  Why?  Because it set me apart from others - it made me qualified.  I would
>  have some understanding of radio and I would know my surroundings!
>  
>  I don't know what this big deal is about - the code is nothing compared 
with
>  the technical requirements.
>  
>  Or have they changed the technical requirements?
>  
>  Is that what this is all about?  They've watered down the technical
>  requirements so they need no study, so let's eliminate the other parts that
>  need study?
>  
>  73
>  
>  David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA



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