I’m confused. “Misguided” means that someone is headed in a wrong direction. Sharing expertise to help someone out shouldn’t require an apology. Should I apologize for being an Elmer? Should I let people use poor engineering practices to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings?
We want people to have more successful projects, avoiding well-known dead ends. wunder K6WRU CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ On Jan 24, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary on Behalf of the Board I will extend an apology to you, some here take > the Hobby far to serious. > > I personally enjoy it when someone tries something and shares it and we all > learn from it. > I've been a Ham for a lot of years and I've seen a lot of things tried that > you would think would never work but did.Though my favorite was when I flew > RC aircraft and we had a Guy who against all convention used One Bladed Props. > > From: Gary - NC3Z <[email protected]> > To: Harry Yingst <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My KX3 desk microphone project > > Nice post Harry. And did you notice still no technical backup? > > Gary Mitchelson > NC3Z Davidsonville, MD FM18 > NC3Z/4 Pamlico County, NC FM15 > www.mitchelson.org > > > > On 1/24/2015 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote: >> I want to point out one thing about all of this "It's AMATEUR Radio". >> Last week another list member was hammered on for finding a Bug that even I >> could replicate here. >> (Strangely I do not recall anyone making a public apology to that man). >> >> So the guy here made a mic and it worked for him and he wanted to share his >> PROJECT.(Yea I made that same mistake when I found better quality and >> quieter fans for my K3). >> Maybe someone could have say Hey that's cool but in my Professional >> experience we found that X. >> >> >> PS: I work on stuff that is Real Life and Death when it goes down and >> AMATEUR radio is far from that. >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
