[NJARC] Looking for mentor/tutor

[David Sica]

Walt.,

You will find that you can pick up a fair amount of knowledge surprisingly
quickly by coming to the meetings, by talking to members, by watching the
recordings of past meeting presentations, by reading the newsletter and old
newsletter articles, not to mention an amazing amount of useful YouTube
videos that weren't around when I started muddling my way through this
stuff.  Perhaps the best opportunity to learn by doing is by attending the
club's Repair Clinics, where you get to work shoulder-to-shoulder with an
experienced mentor on a project of your choosing.  That's a great way to
get immediate feedback on basic skills like which end of the soldering iron
to hold, which end of the filter capacitor should be connected to positive,
how not to pull a hot rectifier tube with your fingers and all the other
things I hope I will never do incorrectly a second time!  And asking
specific questions on the the reflector will usually get you an answer from
our aggregate knowledge base, which is a pretty impressive one.

Finally, I would not want to divert your attention from the Jersey club
which is near and dear to my heart and (is in my humble opinion the best
radio club in the world!) but realize that like me you're actually closer
to the Hudson Valley club and you might want to consider dropping by to the
meetings there too.

-- Dave

Dave Sica
New Jersey Antique Radio Club

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:00 PM, walter jackson <riven67 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sorry I guess I should have mentioned I am in the Secaucus area of NJ, but
> would be willing to travel a bit to learn. Thanks for taking the time to
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