[GreenKeys] HEATHKIT back in business - QST Dec 2015

[Steve Garrison]

Tony, show them texting using the TTY to both send and receive those text messages and they'll get real excited again.  I can't get them away from the machine!

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Nov 22, 2015, at 13:05, tony.podrasky <tony.podrasky at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> GM OMs;
> 
> I just got the latest issue of QST.
> 
> In the back was a large ad about "Heathkit is back in business"
> (see page 114).
> 
> I FLEW to the URL. I was, to say, GREATLY DISAPPOINTED that
> all there was is a A-M Radio kit, and some parts (probably dug
> out of storage) from 20-30 years ago...
> 
> Maybe things will improve - and I sure hope so - but it seems
> to me that they could have come out with a kit that is a little
> more exciting than an A-M radio.
> 
> My suggestion would be something like a bluetooth device with
> maybe an Audrino driving it - and then modules could be designed
> that either work together or separate to do cool things.
> 
> And now, playing the "angel of death/doom", I think their
> biggest problem is that the kids (that I KNOW) today don't want
> to learn. They want it RIGHT NOW. They don't want to KNOW WHY
> something works - they just want the immediate satisfaction.
> 
> Maybe YOU know kids that want to learn - and that's great - but
> when I show them my shack, and the Teletype machines, they yawn
> and go back to texting...
> 
> UE,
> K2EAA - TONY
> NNNN
> ZCZC
> 
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