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Re: [Amps] The genius of ham radio

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Subject: Re: [Amps] The genius of ham radio
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:06:00 -0800
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On Sun,1/11/2015 7:38 PM, Charles Henry wrote:
The genius of ham radio is that hams are brave and practical enough to look 
THEORY in the face and then go on with WHAT WORKS.   Also, to listen to Mr. 
Smith, nod politely, and go on with WHAT WORKS.
As a lofty appliance operator, I live ham radio by WHAT WORKS, not Mr. Smith or 
others.
That is my fun, and thank goodness for the great numbers of inventive, 
theory-testing/discarding real hams who MAKE IT WORK.

I'm sure we're all glad that you are happy with ham radio as you play with it. But those who think there is a difference between theory and practice don't know enough about one or the other (or both). Tom Schiller, N6BT, famously published his "light bulb" experiment, working all continents in a short time using a light bulb as his antenna. His point was that "everything 'works,' but some things work a lot better than others, and the results ARE predicted by fundamental scientific principles -- what you dismiss as "only theory."

Those who pooh-pooh those fundamental principles which they don't bother to learn become easy suckers for every circus-barker's dumb idea that comes down the pike to suck money out of their credit cards. And pursue equally dumb solutions to whatever problems they encounter along the way, like hum, buzz, and RFI.

73, Jim K9YC


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