"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
You've got to be kidding. I know a lot of hams who don't even own a
soldering iron. They ship their radios off for factory service, unlike
40 years ago.

Totally irrelevant. I know a lot of people who can barely figure out
how to put gasoline in their cars, but that does not mean there are is no one
who knows how they work, and repair and "upgrade" their cars.

It's like this group. You ask a question and you get answers. Most of them
are not worth the paper they were never printed upon.

You go to a web forum, you get the same results. You ask a bunch of hams and
you get an answer. Not from all of them, but from one or two who know
what they are talking about.


Right. Sure. Maybe in your small world. I recently went to the
local ham radio club's hamfest. 99% of the items for sale were cheap
chinese crap that is even cheaer on Ebay. the hams that knew what they
were doing have either quit the hobby, or are now 'Silent Keys'. I saw
more computer related items than radio, and the couple vendors with
components had no one at their tables.


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