[R-390] Fair Radio R-390A Question?

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:16 PM 5/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I wish they would have had vacuum-tube theory in my high school.  I would 
>have paid attention in class a LOT more...
>
>Barry(III) - N4BUQ

There was a radio course in my sophomore year of high school (around 1975) 
that I took that had both vacuum tube & transistor theory. Part of the 
course included building a 5 tube all american 5.  I had been fooling 
around with vacuum tubes (my radio hobby) for about 4 years (started in jr 
high) before that & never had to study for the course! Same thing with the 
TV repair course the next year. I learned a few things but the rest was 
easy. They were still fun though...

Took electronics in college (no vacuum tubes) & I'll never forget this old 
60's age professor (in one of the electronic courses) telling me to "get 
with the times" just because I was reading a 1940's Radio Craft magazine 
several minutes before class started. He walked up & glanced at what I was 
reading. I told him later (after class) that old tube stuff was my hobby. 
He seemed to understand...