[R-390] Now *this* is a really nifty idea...

[Al Parker]

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Tisha said:
I have a funny short tale to relate to the group about a new, Pimply Faced
Youth, electrical engineer;
I found my PFY-EE standing on the edge of the roof, admiring the view,
directly in front of the microwave antenna.
I have no idea if he noticed any effects from essentially sticking his head
in a microwave oven. It just reminded me how clueless and dangerous a newly
minted engineer is.

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Kim said:
     I've noticed this for years and it's not isolated to EE's.  It's
everywhere and I'm not sure why.  It's a basic loss of common sense.  We
shouldn't have to remind/educate about such things, but you can't take
anything for granted anymore.  The word 'ASSUME' has taken on even more
meaning than ever

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    It's not necessarily a sign of the times.  I started out as an ME in 
1964.  Hired in at a large aluminum co., in the design dept, along with a 
cupla other brand new ME's & EE's.  At least one of the EE's said he 
couldn't solder.  I didn't offer to teach him.  Might have been the same 
PFY-EE that said, "you ME's don't design anything, you just pick out steel 
beams & such from a steel manual and bolt them together with bolts you pick 
out of a list."  I suppose he was figuring out how to make resistors & 
capacitors, or wire, and guessed at what size to make them.
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
www.boatanchors.org
www.hammarlund.info

"there is nothing -absolutely nothing- half as much worth doing as simply 
messing about in boats."
   Ratty, to Mole





Kim Herron W8ZV
www.goldenradioservice.com
kim.herron at sbcglobal.net
1-616-677-3706






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