[dba-Tech] Question about Radio technology

Kathryn Bassett kathryn at bassett.net
Mon Nov 24 20:28:10 CST 2003


JC said:
> http://www.arrl.org/ is the home page of the Amateur Radio Relay League, the
> organization that radio operators rely on for their interests.
> I got my start in Electronics because a friend of my grandmother gave me a
> bunch of old WWII radio equipment - ARC5 tube radios that went in airplanes.
> This was 1969, I was a freshman in high school, and I thought these things
> were worth thousands of dollars.  They weren't, in fact they were already
> pretty much valueless, but it inspired me to study the ARRL manual and learn
> Electronic Theory (such as it was in the books from the late 50s that I also
> received).  By the time I left High School, I was able to teach the HS
> electronics course when the teacher was out sick and they called in a sub
> (who knew nothing of course).

You did all that studying and didn't finish up enough to get your Ham license?

KD6KFA
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