[GreenKeys] Fwd: Kit-Building

[Lee Mushel]

Gosh, Don, right now has got to be a really great time for kit building.   No, I'm being to conservative.   It is absolutely the greatest time for building, EVER !

And the people I talk to who do actually appreciate the pleasure you can have from electronic construction absolutely agree.   I, personally, find myself acquiring kits at a pace of nearly one per week!   And there is some of the "neatest" and most interesting stuff now available in kit form.

And that extends over sixty years.  I think I started with the AT-1 amateur transmitter, went through hi-fi and stereo, test equipment and more than a few terminal units.  But after a couple of TV sets I began to realize that perhaps the Asians could build and sell those cheaper than Heath Co.

Today things are different.  I might know a bit more and I know that a smart tweezers and a bunch of signal generators and a Tektronix scope or two does help a lot.   But in the past two weeks a 600 meter transceiver and a software defined receiver have arrived.  While I do have what some would call a surface mount rework station I have to come to grips with the fact that those eyes of  mine with plastic lenses and the beginning of glaucoma make purchase of kits with SMT already built a lot easier.

But this stuff is as much fun today as it was several decades ago.....

73

Lee   K9WRU 
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