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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 01:56 PM 5/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>So, how many "points" do you think you got from that
>one,....... now that you look back from your present
>perspective?
>
>Joe
>

I don't know. What do you mean by points? Learning? If so I learned a few 
things in the 2 high school classes & a lot for my college electronics courses.



>--- "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@pdq.net> wrote:
> > 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...
> >