I can tell you you that a balloon is what the air force shoots down over Canada, just ask Walter.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 9:31 AM M Reiter via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > thank you all for your replies, this was humor, and nothing more. I can > not believe that calculating the reactance or inductance of RLC T or Pi > circuits will ever be needed if I never build my own radio. I have spent > many hours learning about antennas, and am happy to let the Japanese learn > RLC and build me a radio. maybe there could be an option on the extra exam > to just send some money to a Japanese engineering student to learn it for > me, and skip all the questions dealing with electronics engineering. for > those literal folks, I have taken 22 practice exams and read through all > the pool questions once. I am learning to pass the test, not how to > operate a radio. I will learn that in time once I get my practical antenna > knowledge down. I am fully aware I do not need to pass the test to talk to > Ausies in Australia, the desire to do so was created as a 9yr old in a ham > shack at camp in upstate NY, (long lake camp). > and I know yall had to walk to school in the snow bare footed up hill both > ways, thank you for doing so, us whimps still have to learn engineering we > will never use, thank god I learned Trigonometry in high school to answer > some of these questions and to calculate the angles on my antenna designs. > and will someone please explain the difference between a current balun, > voltage balun inductive balun an inductor a capacitive inductor and a > balloon?. > 73, Marc. > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:20 PM M Reiter <beachcat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 >> tries to pass the Extra Exam, I passed the tech on my first try and maybe >> third for general. >> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA >> I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk >> with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there. >> for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of >> electronic circuit theory. I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes >> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle >> them" and not considering what questions might actually represent what is >> needed to operate a radio. seriously many operators do not know the >> phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it. why do I need to >> know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the >> surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot >> holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles >> moving underneath and I am left handed. >> >> Marc KI5ZHO >> >> >> ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ >
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