I could take offense at that statement. We each speak from our level of education and information available.
I thought we had a technical forum here - there are some asides (that many - hopefully most - enjoy) which interject some light-hearted comments, but (IMHO) the technical issues should be kept crisp and restricted to technical arguments in an effort to advance the state of the art and provide understanding for those hams who do not have the advantages of that obtained from an education in EE. We can help each other to learn a bit more from whatever level of understanding of Electrical Laws and Circuits we may each be at. Taking snipes at each other because some lack the background to understand the technical language is offensive to me. Helping another ham to understand what is going on, is exciting to me. If I may, I want to inject some of my background. I knew nothing of radio stuff, but I was interested, and that was when I was a teen (15 years old). The Boy Scout troop I was involved with announced that the East Palestine Radio Club was offering lessons in learning the Morse Code and other radio endeavors, I was interested. and went to those classes. That club got me started in ham radio. This was a small town in Ohio where "everyone knew everyone else". Be that good or bad (and it had points in both directions), the East Palestine Radio Club had many "elmers" for me. They first provided the means where I could have my novice license, and then when I was constructing my homebrew novice transmitter (I could not afford to buy a kit), they provided support and assistance. The folks in that club helped me in making my first contacts, and helped me gently along the way. The encouragement I got from the members of that club as I contemplated college and a career were well received. I ended up with a BSEE degree because of their encouragement. It is enlightening that none of them were BSEE graduates although a couple of them were BSME graduates. They were not necessarily experts in what I was trying to accomplish, but they were experts in communicating that I was on the right track and I should continue/ I am thankful to that collection of radio amateurs from a small town in Ohio for my direction and my career whichever way that has evolved - no regrets. The point I am offering is that there is no need to provide assertions in CAPS. You will be "right" and recognized as such by intelligent statements using good English words (some folks get careless here and make themselves look uneducated in the use of words that sound the same but are spelled differently. - "there" is different from "their" is only one example). The use of proper English language will elevate your comments in my mind, and the incorrect use of similar sounding words - hear vs. here, - there vs. their, - eye vs. I , - hare vs. hair, - bare vs. bear, and numerous others tell me that the education level in this country is diminishing rapidly. When I see written communication from school teachers that contain similar errors of syntax and grammar, I wonder where we are all headed - do the dictionaries of this world have to bow to those distortions of normal writing? I hope not. OK, Off topic RANT aside, I do feel that there should be many technical points offered in CAPS just because they are electronics principles that should withstand syntax and positive, and other simialar sounding but different meaning and spelling That is a way to make statements stand out from the crowd, but I do agree that excessive use of CAPS is counterproductive. In internet etiquette, caps are equal to YELLING, and should be avoided because most list members will "put beans in their ears" when they see all caps. 73, Don On 3/28/2012 7:54 PM, Tony Estep wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:31 PM,<[email protected]> wrote: >> ...fact as opposed to categorical unbased statement from somebody... > ============ > Ah but Igor, you are trying to argue from evidence. That's a no-no. > The way to prove your point is to assert it in CAPS. Then and only > then will you be right. > > Tony KT0NY > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
