Why is it that these memories start coming back as we age? My two other high school nerd buddies correspond with email and each time they bring back very clear memories of our radio exploits. I just found my QSL card from my teens and also the stamped certificate from my Advanced License test I took in 1983 at Dayton. Too bad we had to send back our original license back then. One friend sent back a photo copy (not cheap back then) of each license when he upgraded and so still has all his original certificates. What treasure.
Dave K8WPE David J. Wilcox’s iPad > On Apr 24, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Dave Sublette <k4to.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My relationship with drafting class goes back to before I was born. My > Dad, born in 1918, took drafting class in 1936. After he died, I found a > pen and ink drawing of his from that class. It was a schematic of two > different crystal sets. As a teen, Dad was the neighborhood radio > technician. He strung wire antennas and repaired headphones for folks. > > I had that schematic framed and built one of the sets. I entered it in the > antiques section of the county fair(with a note that the radio was not the > antique). I won a Blue Ribbon and was considered for the grand champion > ribbon. I have the drawing and the set on my mantle. > > At almost 80 years of age, my memories are increasing in value. > > 73, > > Dave, K4TO > >> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 4:00 AM Joe K2UF <j...@k2uf.com> wrote: >> >> In 1955 we were the cool guys with a slide rule in a leather case hanging >> from your belt and india ink stains on your hands. >> >> 73 Joe K2UF >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net >> [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick >> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 1:09 AM >> To: Elecraft Reflector >> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: High school drafting class, ~1975 >> >> OK, I've really dated myself now. >> >> Anyone remember "drafting"? A favorite class in high school: blueprints, >> mechanical drawings, schematics, straight edges, hand lettering, >> projections >> and elevations. We invented things to draw that weren't real, but looked >> like they should be. Did all the math by hand -- on a slide rule, if >> necessary. Day-dreamed about what we might one day build. >> >> 45 years later, we're using tools we couldn't have imagined. Modeling >> circuits and objects with millions of parameters and vectors, realizing >> them >> in virtual space, manipulating them in real time. Testing finished products >> before they're even assembled. >> >> The transformation is mind boggling. Yet the best part now, as it was then, >> is the occasional burst of creative energy that propels an idea forward. >> The >> feeling of pieces falling into place. Or forcing them into place out of >> sheer necessity. >> >> Most of the time, we think of our new tools and techniques as advances in >> the state of the art. Things we can't live without. But those same defining >> moments happened just as often in simpler times. >> >> Case in point -- my first real project, a rendition of W7ZOI's >> Micro-mountaineer. Carefully documenting it took several sheets of >> 4-squares-per-inch grid paper, which may still be in my cellar, beneath a >> lifetime of such drawings. With the schematic, I took a lot of pride in >> making the circuits look well-organized, as if that would somehow improve >> my >> odds. On the PC board, I drew large traces and pads with the etch-resist >> pen, as if that would somehow appease the electrons. >> >> I etched the PCB, soldered two dozen parts, and connected a 12 V lantern >> battery. Thanks to my paranoia about what would happen if I did it wrong, >> I'd taken my time and done it right. >> >> I was rewarded with a hiss of band noise and a few CW signals on 40 meters. >> >> Here's to those moments, and to that timeless pursuit: turning abstractions >> into reality. >> >> 73, >> Wayne >> N6KR >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message >> delivered to j...@k2uf.com >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to k...@arrl.net >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to djwilco...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
