My life is not in the best shape at this time. Due to my wretched health, I am confined to bed nearly every hour of the day. There are many days that I feel as if someone in prison has more freedom than me. Prisoners get to go to the yard every now and then. I don't want this to be my life. I won't let it be. Yeah, I am in really bad shape. My back surgeon doesn't want me to get out of bed even to go to the bathroom. Someday I hope that will change.
My body may have failed me but my brain works nearly as well as a well-oiled engine that's out of gas. I have officially been an amateur radio operator for a decade. It was April 2013 when I got my ticket. It was May 2013 when I got my first QSL card. Yeah sure it was from a FCC Listening Post but I'm still counting it.
I would really love to expand my horizons into homebrewing my own gear. Yeah I have a homebrew project started with the sBITX. that is because I REALLY want that radio and I can't afford it, so homebrewing it is the only chance that I will ever have at getting one os to brew my own. So in order to do that, I must learn electronics. I was not born with a golden transistor in my fist. I have absolutely zero experience in electronics. I'm learning on the go. However I have a plan......
I think...
There are two books that have become homebrew Bibles. Those are Sold State Design for the Radio Amateur and Experimental Methods in RF Design. I decided to use that later since I have a paperback copy of it.
- Learn enough about electronics that I can possibly help someone in the future.
- Share my builds here on my blog to encourage others to comment and advise me on improving my skill.
- Pay forward all of the help that so many others have given me over the years.
- Get a follower to my blog lol
Hi Aaran,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your story.
Truly inspirational message, my interesting last 7 weeks seem tame.
I particularly liked your honest post on Bitx20 good on you. Your family issues etc are not a lot different to mine re Autism (2) and it's many different levels. Re electronics and age and the ... latest and greatest similar too. I enjoy learning, my Ubitx v6 is finally putting out the correct RF eg power levels on morse code hopefully my pre amp will fix my low output on Voice. Time will tell. But I bought it to force me to learn and it certainly is doing that.
Yes I want an Sbitx too but who knows.
All the best
Never give up
Owen Vk5kov
Thank you for the kind reply.
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