John W. Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Nov 24 21:02:57 CST 2003
Believe it or not, the morse code stopped my. I just spent so much time on the electronics (which I loved) and never got my morse above 10 words a minute. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Kathryn Bassett Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:28 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Question about Radio technology 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 -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" kathryn at bassett.net http://bassett.net _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com