On 9/17/2023 6:16 AM, Larry (K8UT) wrote:
One of my favorite Dilbert videos - when mom discovers her son has "the
knack"."
I love that clip! It makes me laugh every time. (Yes, I am an engineer...)
-=d
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David Thompson, AG7TX
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On 9/17/23 23:05, John Gay wrote:
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Not much later I’d taught myself to solder and built a Knightkit Star Roamer.
Ah yes, the Star Roamer, my first "real" receiver. (The actual first
was a homebrew 1-tube regen.)
I feel like one of the Old Timers when I was young talking about their
I owe my interest to an unknown person, likely a ham. When I was around 11 I
found an Allied Radio and a Lafayette Radio catalog in an abandoned
homesteaders cabin on the family ranch that some hunters had left behind after
using it for shelter during the Montana deer hunting season. Old
One of my favorite Dilbert videos - when mom discovers her son has "the
knack"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zee9HV7c11E
-larry (K8UT)
-- Original Message --
From "Nate Bargmann"
To elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date 9/16/2023 22:09:44
Subject Re: [Elecraft] OT: The day I found out
Jerry,
One way to interest a son in radio and electronics expose him to others of his
age that are interested and playing with it. Possibly a call to a local scout
master to see if he has any charges that have a similar interest.
Sometimes it takes a few years. I exposed my secretary’s sons
On 9/16/2023 7:09 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Don't push too hard. Even though dad fixed some TVs up until I was six
or seven, I didn't gain an interest in electronics until after high
school at age 17. As a youth I had Lego, Tinker Toys, and Erector Sets.
All were educational in various ways.
* On 2023 16 Sep 13:24 -0500, jerry wrote:
> On 2023-09-15 17:31, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> > I was 8 years old.
>
> *** I've been trying to interest my 9 year old in electronics & radio. Am
> leveraging his love for making things. Which
> mostly is alas focused on Legos.
Don't push too hard.
On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 08:35:40 PM EDT, Wayne Burdick
wrote:
> I was 8 years old. My dad had bought me a Radio Shack Science Fair 8-Note
> Electronic Organ kit for Christmas, along with a soldering iron.
Sounds like one of their P-Box kits. When I was around the same age, my Father
Oops. I have been licensed 46 years, not 56. Not that I'm showing my age.
On 9/16/2023 2:02 PM, Dave Kelley wrote:
Very similar story to mine. When I was 8 years old, my parents gave me a
crystal radio kit for Christmas 1972. I built it, ran the antenna wire
to a tree outside, and could hear
Oh those days. I got my first crystal radio with the co, stylus, and crystal
back in 1966 but could only get one of the super giant AM radio stations, WKBW,
out of Buffalo NY spewing 50,000 watts on 1520 from the towers about 5 miles
away.
Having a problem with my KX3 in that with my KPA100
On 2023-09-15 17:31, Wayne Burdick wrote:
I was 8 years old.
*** I've been trying to interest my 9 year old in electronics & radio.
Am leveraging his love for making things. Which
mostly is alas focused on Legos.
When the COVID hit, I immediately got on Amazon and ordered the
biggest,
Very similar story to mine. When I was 8 years old, my parents gave me a
crystal radio kit for Christmas 1972. I built it, ran the antenna wire
to a tree outside, and could hear only Top-40 radio from the AM station
that was about half a mile away. It was magical. I fell in love with
radio to
Disregard, sent to wrong addres
-Original Message-
From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On
Behalf Of George Thornton
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2023 10:02 AM
To: Rick Bates, NK7I ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: The day I found out I was going to be an
The other thing about this video is that he did not test the 180-600 at
different apertures. Reports from earlier videos say it does better at f8
instead of wide open.
-Original Message-
From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On
Behalf Of Rick Bates, NK7I
Sent: Saturday, September
Satin, crinkle black... Or flat two tone green a la Heathkit.
Rick nk7i
On 9/16/2023 8:00 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
How long before you painted it flat black? :-)
Mike / KK5F
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Burdick
Sent: Sep 15, 2023 7:33 PM
I was 8 years old. My dad had bought me a
How long before you painted it flat black? :-)
Mike / KK5F
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Burdick
Sent: Sep 15, 2023 7:33 PM
I was 8 years old. My dad had bought me a Radio Shack Science Fair 8-Note
Electronic Organ kit for Christmas, along with a soldering iron.
That night I built
I was 8 years old. My dad had bought me a Radio Shack Science Fair 8-Note
Electronic Organ kit for Christmas, along with a soldering iron.
That night I built the kit, finishing at something like 11 PM, which was
unheard of. I remember Dad looming over me in his green bathrobe, smiling,
saying
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