Memorial Day Observance today. Local time 7 AM and I just hoisted my flag and unlike one Supreme Court Justice, it is flying in the proper direction. A solemn time to remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.
One Memorial Day I will never forget and that was in 1965 at Chu Lai in South Vietnam. I had a concern that I would ever celebrate another Memorial Day. Here we are some 60 years later, and I consider myself indeed fortunate.
Has my famous saying been hijacked? This captioned photo would lead you to believe that.
The crass suggestion here is that it does involve something more than homebrewing Ham Radio projects. I guess someone is claiming Freedom of Speech.
[As of Sunday (5/26), Logbook Of The World has been down for 12 days. That can't be good for the ARRL. Wonder when it will once again be the resource for documenting QSO's. Maybe it is connected to some sort of ransomware. ]
I was presented with an observation regarding my published works and what I build, and it has to do with WYKSYCDS, the Homebrew Ham Radio version.
Basically, that statement is mathematical expression defining an equality but also like My Dear Aunt Sally (MDAS) which lists the priority of operations. MDAS is Multiply Divide Add Subtract in that order. There are two parts to my axiom like statement: Knowing and Doing and the order starts with Knowing is first.
The observation presented me was that many notable hams with large followings and many you tube videos (I only have 319) spend a good deal of time in sharing the Knowing part. Whereas my stuff is more focused on the Doing part. Likely many who are new to homebrewing want me to spend more time sharing the Knowing part so that the Doing part has a clear technical basis and removes the "well everyone knows E=IR" from our math process.
Thus, with a reflection on another truism ~ all information is good information, I will endeavor to include more of the Knowing part in any future presentations on this Blog.
Funny, I thought I was doing that but a hard look in the mirror causes me to have a greater appreciation of the audience and why they read the blog. Hopefully I am presenting opportunities for a learning experience and to the fullest should include the detail, rationale and basis for what I do. Simply saying you can build it will fall short of the mark.
73's
Pete N6QW