Don,
Yep. You do understand what I was trying to say. What a lot of folks
don't understand is that the compromises I make may or may not be those
that you would make, and if there were more engineers involved, there
could be that many reflections of what needs to be done. All I can say
is life sometimes was challenging.
Ham radio reflects a lot of the things you and I faced. For
instance, what antenna should be used. All the answers may be
technically correct, but try and fit a 80 meter antenna into a 20 meter
antenna. I know there will be a host of ideas on what should go in. Each
will be a compromise. Look to this reflector to see what I mean. Each
ham has his own idea of what needs to be done; it gets down to how you
interpret the requirement set.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
------ Original Message ------
From: "Don Wilhelm" <donw...@embarqmail.com>
To: "Barry" <k3...@comcast.net>; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: 6/10/2020 9:46:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 on motorboat.
Barry,
Sometimes we have to put on the Scientists hat, but when the rubber meets the
road and we have to come up with a product, we have to put on the design
engineers hat and say that how much compromise is required to meet 1) customer
demands, 2) budget constraints, 3) speed to first customer shipment, 4)
adherence to the initial specifications that have been published.
If you can meet 2 of the 4 above, you have done OK, 3 is better, but takes more
effort.
I worked both as a design engineer and as a Product Assurance Test Team Leader
whose efforts were to test the product to conform to the specifications or fix
it - an alternative was to change the specifications, which usually did not sit
well with me, but was reality.
73,
W3FPR
On 6/10/2020 7:55 PM, Barry wrote:
Don,
I worked as a design engineer and then transitioned to system
engineering/project management. In those latter days, I would receive a
requirement set from which I needed to make sense. I also had budgetary issues
that were built in, more requirements than money. And, there might have been
other conflicts. So, I know what e had to do, maximize the number of
requirements satisfied with in the set.
Yes. We engineers were pretty well trained, but when making decisions on
what had to go or be included it wasn't always a 2+2 = 4 which is precise.
Mathematicians are precise and there may be only answer to the equation, but
that wasn't the world I was living in; I could have many different solutions
based on the requirements. This is the point I was trying to make.
--
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
