that is a perfect attitude.
It's like getting a puppy.  The puppy is cute and cuddly and all that stuff, 
and then it grows into a dog.  A good dog person keeps loving that dog and 
spending time with it and giving it attension just like it was still a 
puppy.
Being a ham is the same.  You can enjoy the novelty and the enjoyment of 
operating and learning new things when you first get your license. but after 
a while, that can ware off and you can easily become complaicent.  The trick 
is to keep the spark alive and keep learning and developing and growing into 
the hobby as well as the responsibility.
The tech stuff can be overwhelming no doubt, but if you read it all, 
eventually things will begin to make sence, and you can build your general 
knowledge.
You don't have to necessarily understand something at first to be able to 
remember and utilize it.  Sometimes true understanding comes later on once 
you've filled out your knowledge base.
Keep doing what your doing and you'll be a very good asset to the ham 
community and the non-ham community too.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aimee Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Perversity of Life; was Moderating you off the list!


> Well, I echo what Kathleen Turner said in "Peggy Sue Got Married," "I 
> happen
> to know for a fact that in the future I'll have absolutely no use for
> Algebra."  No, seriously, I do realize the importance of the mathematics
> that goes in to being a truly good ham operator.  I just got my tech, and
> believe me I'm still learning.  I read all the e-mails on the list, and 
> some
> times the technical stuff does get a little overwhelming for me.  I'm
> thinking about going through the tech question pool again, and going back
> and listening to some of the lectures that I never got around to listening
> to.  Anyway, hope all is well with everyone.  Take care.
>
> 73 de KK4JHF
> "Be well, do good work and keep in touch." (Garrison Keillor)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 11:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Perversity of Life; was Moderating you off the list!
>
> nice post martin.
> I always shake my head a little when those who obtain an amateur radio
> license exclaim in high dudgon that they didn't get into this hobby to be 
> a
> technician or an electronics wizard.
> I guess the fact that one of the license classes in the US is called a
> technicians class license doesn't equate to 1 plus 1 equals 2 for some
> people.
> It's fair that not everyone is going to be right into all the electronics
> and theory and math and everything else, but you do need some basic
> knowledge of radio systems, including antennas and all the different 
> fascits
>
> of how to get on the air in order to call yourself a ham operator.
> If you just hit the PTT and talk, and could care less about the rest of 
> it,
> your simply an appliance operator and not a ham.
> There is a certain amount of responsibility to being a licensed amateur
> radio operator, and I see far far too many people shirking that
> responsibility.  Part of that responsibility is to gain at least a basic
> understanding of how stuff works as it relates to radio and
> sending/receiving radio signals.  I say gain that knowledge...your not 
> going
>
> to get it over night, but you have to pursue it.
> There is something to be said about the original, or at least, older
> licensing scheme...where you absolutely had to learn the technical side of
> it to even get beyond your novice license.
> Now it's almost as if you can memorize a bunch of answers that mean 
> nothing
> to you, write the test, and if you happen to pass, you can grab an HT and 
> be
>
> a ham operator.
> We've got a responsibility to our communities and neighbors and fellow 
> human
>
> beings to know what we're doing if we get that license.  If you can't be
> bothered to know what you are doing and how to do it, then you shouldn't
> have a license.  harsh perhaps, but that's my opinion.
> Part of that is learning from other hams.  We go easy on new hams because
> obviously they don't know as much.  But I have far less patients for those
> who obtain their license and  do nothing to try to expand their knowledge
> base
> You don't have to be a certified electronics technician to learn about
> radios and tuners, and antennas, and modes and how propigation works, and
> antenna theory, and ohms law, and a little bit of algebra to figure out LC
> circuits and how caps and coils and resisters all work together.
> Learn about an osciloscope and how it works...even if you never use that
> knowledge, at least you've tried to expand your knowledge base a little 
> bit
> to deserve to have that license.
> Whatever it is, one must keep learning, or one might as well throw your
> license and callsign away and go golfing, or sit in front of the computer
> playing cards all day...whatever lol.
>
> just my quarters worth hi.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Perversity of Life; was Moderating you off the list!
>
>
>>I was terrible in algebra, geometry Etc.  I understood it a little better
>> when someone took me aside and explained what was on the blackboard to 
>> me,
>> but I hated that kind of math, and I am sure I am not the only one.  99
>> percent of the people who take it never use it.  73.
>> Harvey
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