Ria,I agree that it is disheartening.
It is also puzzling is that companies reportedly have difficulty finding engineers who really understand something about RF. Maybe the ready availability of “reference designs” from the big IC makers has made it unnecessary for those using them to understand how those designs work. If more of them were hams, I think there would be better designs out there—including better output spectral purity and input immunity from overload and decreased sensitivity to off-channel interference.
The Maker movement seems to have taken up ham radio more readily than degreed engineers. Maybe as hams we’re seen as too empirical and not theoretical enough. Truth is, hands-on work gets things done; the Makers are proof of that, in the same spirit as ham radio.
73,
Greg, K0GW
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019,
rjairam@gmail.com <
rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ve also been talking up ham radio among local IEEE groups. I gave a talk the other day at IEEE-CNNJ and got a lot of interest. One was even a ham who got his tech ticket and had forgotten about it.
I found it somewhat disheartening that today we have to market ham radio to engineers. Years ago it was almost a given that RF and electrical engineers would at least know about ham radio.
73
Ria
N2RJ
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:16 PM Michel, Howard, WB2ITX (CEO) <
wb2itx@arrl.org> wrote:
Dear Officers, Directors and Vice-Directors,
I thought that you might be interested in seeing the latest issue of
IEEE-HKN's The Bridge magazine. Eta Kappa Nu (ΗΚΝ) or IEEE-HKN is the
international honor society of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) with over 200,000 members. This issue is
devoted to amateur radio. Bob NQ1R and I worked with them and ARRL has
good coverage!
http://connect.ieee.org/CPf0040A30RG0Uak3E03H01
73, Howard, WB2ITX
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