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Old 02-11-2012, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
Yes...
Looooong time ago I was interested in radio-amateurism..
The biggest fun of all was to design and build own radio-transciever.
But the fun was spoilt and actually destroyed (for me) by availability of commercial radios - they were good, (relatively) cheap, and they worked out of the box, so everyone just bought equipment, and after a bit of fiddling with antennas, you were on air, talking with almost anyone across Atlantic (money always wins) .
This is why I never became ham-radio enthusiast.
Bojan, you just reminded me, when I was young I used to get hold of 'Radio, Television and Hobbies" magazine-later to be called "Electronics Australia" and build some of their circuit designs. Mostly I built stereo amps, and they came up with some very good designs, too.
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