| Dear Friend, We take it for granted how easy it is now to find information with the Internet, almost forgetting that at one time we used libraries, card catalogs, and the Readers Guide to Periodic literature. These were my tools in the 70's and 80's where today's access to information was the stuff of science fiction writers.
As a person who has done electronic design for over 40 years, I used to collect shelves of data books from Texas Instruments, Motorola Semiconductor, and every other just to have data on chips and parts. My 15 years worth of hard cover Hewlett-Packard catalogs is now just a memory, but every bit as exciting as the "Sears Wish Book", their pre-Christmas catalog in the 1960s. Now I have it all, almost instantly, only having to sift through search results for the right information.
So I named this message, "find a ham, any ham", because of the story that my guest this week, Ganesh, VU2TS, tells about the effort that he made just to find another ham radio operator in India in 1959, to satisfy his thirst for ham radio knowledge. With no Internet, library, or government agency with ham radio knowledge, every road was a dead end. This is a story where persistence paid off, and he tells it at the beginning of this QSO Today.
Congratulations to Hans Summers, G0UPL, for winning the ICQ Homebrew Heros award for 2019. Hans has been a sponsor of the QSO Today podcast from almost the very beginning, and continues to innovate and grind out new designs from his attic workshop. Good going, Hans!
Thanks for listening.
73, Eric 4Z1UG |
