[HomeBrew] Any builders?

[DavidE Benedict]

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>Isn't anyone homebrewing anymore? I see no posts here.
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>Loren  WA7SKT                                                            
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I know!

There's not much a person can do any more. At least me. 
#1, It's all been done before, and 
#2, Electronics has gotten complex for the Amateur unless 
a) they have good eyes for working with miniature components, 
b) they have an ability to program computers or PIC chips, or 
c) have $$ to invest in PIC programmers, PC board making, printed circuit
board runs of 100+, and etc., etc., etc.
-- That leaves a lot of us out of our shops except occasionally when
someone with all those assets writes an article in OST or the like, and
provides the programmed PIC and the PC board w/ components in a kit.

Too, there's little available in kits like HeathKit etc. used to sell, but
there's a fair number of kits for ORP-ers from within the Ham community.

At least there's a fair amount of antenna experimenting going on.
Occasionally that's an active reflector.

Our hobby has changed a great deal since radio glowed in the dark. Since I
was winding transformers from scratch and using a Greenlee chassis punch
to mount the tube sockets for 6x4's, 12AU7's, 1625's, and 304TL's.

Let's face it, he says wistfully, "I was born 30 years to soon to be fully
involved in today's technology."
-- For me, 1971 would have been about the latest to be born into this era
of Modern High Tech.

David B.
W7DBH, Oregon