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Date Posted: 08:56:56 01/31/12 Tue
Author: Andrew-1
Subject: Re: A Devestating Horse Story*
In reply to: Andrew-1 's message, "Re: A Devestating Horse Story*" on 08:51:27 01/29/12 Sun

A group of millionaires in Sweden or Finland put together a enormous ham tower, well I think several towers in order to get young people interested in Ham Radio. There is a website for it with lots of photos of the towers but I can't find the link right now. Anyway I believe they set it up so young people could use the setup from the towers over the Internet. It seems weird because really using the Internet totally negates the whole Ham experience in a way, but I guess it's was meant as a sort of replica to learn from, although as I said computers have been intergrated into Ham technology so just about anything can be done nowadays which means it's no longer a pure Ham Radio experience unless you are still using the old transmitters and tube technology which my Dad was. There was solid state transisters intergrated into Ham Radio many years ago, but not computer technology which are just circuit boards. The idea was back then you could build your own stuff from the ground up with transisters, resisters, capacitors, modulators, etc, etc. However, it's impossible for Hams to build anything anymore in line with computer motherboards because most of that is robot micro technology. Even if you knew and understood the circuits, you couldn't do it with the old soldering irons and solder, which my Dad was so proud of using from scratch.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- adamseve, 06:56:30 02/01/12 Wed [1]

Your Dad had a great

















Your Dad had a great "hobby" where he used his own mind and talents. I don't think very many young people can say that now. They are on tchno overload. Just observe people at an airport or a movie they are constantly texting. Where is the time for anything else? How did we elders ever survive without it? adamseve

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: A Devestating Horse Story* -- Andrew-1, 08:36:15 02/01/12 Wed [1]

Times have changed for sure. Today there is a disdain for learning math the old way when a calculator can do it for you. So kids take whatever shortcuts they can to get the job done. The end goal is a to get a good paying job, not to be well versed in understanding what they learned, redundency built into the learning process. Pretty much we let the computers do all the thinking and robots do all the hard work, so what is left?

My Dad retired from a solid career job with good benifits and pension so he could spend the rest of his life tinkering with his hobbies. Yes, it takes time to tinker but his mind was clear as a bell when he died. People are often on overload today, partly the blame both of rat race and people who decide to complicate their lives much more then what's needed to live. I prefer simplicity, nature and solitude. That works well for me.

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