Re: For Conor: Here Endeth the Last Lesson

Spike wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> In message <6233d5p4c0nfatp8itvaoabci6l7ifociv@4ax.com>, Spike
>> <Aero.Spike@S&T.invalid> writes
>>> Road_Hog wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Well Conor, I told you, that you wouldn't be accepted or welcomed into
>>>> uk.r.a, but you wouldn't listen.
>>> He didn't seem to know, for example, that the Amateur licence allows
>>> for, and encourages, experiment and self-training. He thought you had
>>> to have a fistful of BTECs and a garage full of test equipment, and
>>> hit the ground running. He was shocked to find that this wasn't
>>> necessary.
>>>
>> 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...
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Spike (11.10.2009 16:16)
Chris Street (11.10.2009 16:34)