[R-390] Some more Self-inflicted wounds?

Sun Aug 4 19:20:46 EDT 2013

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Bruce

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Subject: Re: [R-390] Some more Self-inflicted wounds?

Fellows,

If had to reply to every critic of my spelling, grammar, miss use of words,

humor that went clean over your heads, humor that feel flat in the mail
before

arrival and just dumb wrong statements I have posted, I would never get to
close a thread.

I will be honest with you all, you are my writing skills feed back team.
Back when Wanda said

to me Roger your writing skills suck you need to practice. Back in 73 an
English teacher in 

Okinawa commented to me that every paper I did in his class was on the R390A
receiver.

And ask was it the only thing I could write about. I said not but it is the
subject I can write

about and get an assignment done on time with only a couple of drafts. I am
still writing

R390 papers as impromptu exercising in writing skills. You Fellows are
reading them and

giving me good feed back. I thank each and every one of you who have sent me
an

e mail that commented on my writing. I do wish some of you would work on
your

critical feed back skills. 

After 20 years at Hughes Aircraft as a systems test engineer I can also now
write a

coherent test procedure test step and do well with boiler plate test
reports.

Not much market for these limited skills.

But people own R390's and have problems with their R390's and did not
receive 18 months

of training on their R390's maintenance. I love these receivers and do not
want to ever

hear that one got junked. Just do not even bother to post the story. I can
live the rest of

my life and never need to know. 

So these people come to the reflector and ask questions. Not knowing R390
jargon, and not knowing

exactly what the problem is they some times offer up some very vague
questions. Mostly you Fellows 

are very knowledgeable  and do a super job of being very helpful to quickly
offer up a diagnostic process 

to isolate the problem for them. Then  you go on to help them fix the
problem and if necessary find parts.

If the solution was to tell them to download a copy of the TM and read the
book, I think we would be not

mentoring well. We have the R390.net page and we have the Pearls of Wisdom
and we have the Y2K

manual and we have the reflector archives. And the solution is still not to
tell your readers with questions

go read the web pages.

We are mentors. We know where this stuff is. Your job is to distil your
readers question so we can 

provide them a correct solution that solves their problem and not our
perceived problem of their problem.

Success is determined by our reader. If we are not solving someone's problem
we are wasting everyone's time.

This brings us back to mentoring. We were asked a question because some one
though we would help them 

with a quick solution. Making a careers of repairing R390's is not out
readers most important objective. As

good mentors I see we need to utilize the resources we have compiled over
the years to assist our readers.

We do this by cutting and pasting the best response back into an e mail and
posting it. So what if we answer

the exact same question 6 time sin six years for 6 readers. These are six
new readers who are just having the

same repeated problem with their receiver and we know its a common problem.
But out new reader does not

know this.

We are Ann and Abby Landers writing advice to our readers. Ann and Abby
write on a different topics 

than we do as we try stay on the topic of R390's and off the topics of Ann,
Abby, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.

We are none the less just column writers. And as we deal with a very
specific technical topic 

(the care and feeding of R390's and R390A's and their near relatives R388's
R389's and a couple more)

[some one will post the exact nomenclature and remind me I missed them] I
think we provide a more

important service and certainly to a much smaller audience. But we should
not underestimate what

we are doing and the value of the service we provide to others who share an
interest we have in

Amateur radio, antique radio and electronics. 

We do not see Ann Landers or Abby writing that gee Dr. Phil, I so disagree
with the last personal view

you posted. 

We have an open reflector here so questions can get in. Any one can also
take a shot at doing

a Ann landers or dear Abby response to any question.  We can all practice
our writing skills

an entertain a group of readers along the way.

As long as I am up on this soap box, I think many of us forget the long
shadow this reflector 

has. Every post I have ever made is still on line. Every post any one makes
to this reflector 

is on line. You can get rude crude and off topic today but it will be on
line forever. In these days

where more than 30 percent of employers do web searches on prospective
employees think

about what you post. You are not anonymous in what goes into the R390
archives. 

You have to ask your self do I want a future employer and co workers,
reading my posts and analyzing

the comments I make about some one, thus getting yourself tagged as mean,
disrespectful,

insensitive, not a team player, a potential source of discontent,
indiscreet, and plain crass.

Or do you understand and see that every post you put on the R390 reflector
is just like

graffiti on the building wall. Its your tag. Its your art. It says a lot
about you, your gang

and your standing in the gang. Your post are a display of your writing
skills. Your subject

matter says a lot about personality. 

A lot of people would like to post a lot of things on this reflector. But I
ask you to

stop and think about what you write. Maybe you should just hit the delete

key instead of the send key, go get another cold brew, and remain employable

by not having an e mail post limit your employment opportunities for the
rest of your life.

I am happy Don does not moderate this list tightly. I get to express my
self.

Just my three cents worth.

Roger Ruszkowski  AI4NI 33C4H  68 - 73  Vietnam, Korea, Okinawa, Ft Devens
Mass. not in exact  order.

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