Hello.
After a bit of discussion it was decided that I should explain my position as I see it in life.
I understand electronics to the point to where if I am handed a service manual I can repair a whatever and will experiment to some limited degree with SPICE.
I do not design circuits from scratch but rely on circuit source book material.
I can repair a computer with ease, how hard is it to swap boards?
The closest thing to something I have built myself is the stun spurs, nothing but an inverter.
The Tesla coil in a briefcase is just that, just a repackaged proven design.
Wing pack is a design that was produced by Southwest Research Institute for the US army as project pegasus and is an attempt to update the Otto Lilienthal work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal
I just so happen to have big enough balls and enough common sense to fly the thing.
There are times when I refuse to fly, weather is everything.
I started flying with a Benson gyrocopter, still fly it.
The guy who decided to build his own wing pack, based on the same material I have to work with, is dead, crashed at Horizon airpark in San Antonio.
I climb and erect towers as part of my hobby, and look at the unsafe acts with amazement.
But I do this with my peers, friends.
The entire goal of all of this is to have fun, this is after all a hobby.
With that said, Amateur Radio is but one means of communications, like CB or GMRS.
In fact, as of late the push has been for encrypted communications, something outside of the scope of this hobby.
But bottom line is that I am one of the grunts on the team, I make it work.
And, that is the point, teamwork makes it happen.
Most of the team do not like hams, and for good reason, look around you, a bunch of people who do what?
I am the type of person who likes to meet other people, that means the whacker personna is not for me.
That is where I am coming from.
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Originally Posted by KA5PIU
