Re: For Conor: Here Endeth the Last Lesson

Spike wrote:
> Chris Street wrote:
>
>> Spike wrote:
>>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message <6233d5p4c0nfatp8itvaoabci6l7ifociv@4ax.com>, Spike
>>>> <Aero.Spike@S&T.invalid> writes
>
>>>> Indeed. I told him that, in 1962, I built an SSB phasing transmitter
>>>> using no test equipment other than my R107 receiver and a crude
>>>> second-hand, home-made multimeter. At the time, I thought it worked
>>>> quite well
>>> It probably did, and building, aligning, and testing it was in the
>>> finest spirit of Amateur Radio. I'll guess you got more fun out of
>>> that, than a commercially-made one.
>>>
>>>> but Conor didn't think much of my efforts.
>>> Well, it would appear that there is only Conor's way of doing things,
>>> and a hundred years of Amateur Radio aren't worth very much at all.
>> Exactly. I guess he still thinks that a FL cannot even work a soldering
>> iron and shouldnt even contemplate building anything. I suppose he
>> hasn't figured out this is something that you learn about by doing, and
>> watching and working with others...
>
> Quite.
>
> I see he is still having a go at Ian Jackson's 1962 SSB phasing
> transmitter, banging on about something totally irrelevant - "...you
> couldn't guarantee the performance at a level required today in
> respect of spurious transmission on other bands..." - when a guarantee
> isn't required and the performance levels aren't written in stone as
> for PMR gear. Deliberately so, of course, in order to encourage
> experimentation. It's amazing he's come to Amateur Radio without that
> perception, which if the above is anything to go by, he *still* hasn't
> grasped.
>
>

It's almost that he doesnt understand why the HF bands are mostly
harmonically related - guess where the harmonics of TX will end up if it
isn't perfect...

I'm not sure that he understands the idea as you say. I should consider
myself lucky in that both my father and gfather are radio amateurs and
hence I do "get" it merely from watching them. He seems to be of the
assumption that everyone operating and constructing couldnt possibly
have the ability or experience to make judgement calls on how kit works,
because he assumes that most people cannot. In short I think he doesnt
understand the nature of research which after all is what a deal of self
construction and experimentation is about.
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