Heathkit cult

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Jack -

You wrote: "Suppose a kid today takes apart his mother's clock. What's he
going to see?  A chip, a display, and a battery.  What's the good of that?"

If I could find a kid who took apart his mother's clock to see what "made it
tick", so to speak, and he saw an electronic chip, then asked what that was
and how it was made, I would want that kid to discover ham radio and
electronics and lead him into an engineering career. That inquisitiveness
must still be there somewhere or the U.S. is doomed. I think it is there but
perhaps dormant and no longer nurtured when it pops up. Remember too, the
number of kids who discovered electronics in our younger years was still a
very small percentage of the population.

I am STILL, after almost 40 years as a ham, turned on by electronics. I am
designing with SMT now, and I think the stuff is just so cool. Smaller?
Much! Harder to work with. Yup!  But I'm sorry, I just love electronics.
There have to still be kids like me somewhere. In fact, I know there are. My
son went into Mechanical Engineering because turbines turned him on, just
like his grandfather. And I know a couple other kids in town who are natural
EEs.

Brian

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