25-11-2015, 05:18 PM
Mark, I do sympathise with your predicament. Unfortunately I have to admit that, for right or wrong, I seem to be the trigger for a degree of negativity on the website and perhaps it's a good thing that not a great deal will be happening now I'll be doing a bit of circuit tracing and so on. I did say say, "trigger" because I'm confident virtually all of my posts so far avoided any emotional content. Yes, I did finally start to get irritated by terms such as "novice" which I suspect weren't delivered in a clinical sense but with a patronising tone? For example, earlier in the thread you also see:
"I doubt NM has a signal generator, so alignment will be an interesting chapter when we get that far! "
Now, it isn't really a misguided observation to wonder what the "when we get that far!", plus exclamation mark means. True, I suppose I could be being a wee bit paranoid but I think the exclamation mark adds a bit of insight.
Given I'm not likely to be starting any further radio projects for a while (I figured I'd like to really specialise a bit in the HMV till it's close to the way I want it, I can maybe make a few suggestions:
(1) Why aren't a few more people posting active projects? I know some people here are actually quite active (Nick and Boater Sam often share material) but it would be good to see more of it. By the way, the best stuff I've seen to date was Miguel's stuff on another site and the Youtube channels are also good (i.e.Rick Mcwhorter).
(2) It would be nice I think for someone to post troubleshooting articles for the new members.
As I said before I'm really a bit of a lone wolf in most things including music but feel I work at my best when under pressure to improve.
P.S. I'm now working on one or two changes to my soldering as I wasn't happy with the size of some of the caps I used (a bit too bulky). Now the radio at least works, I guess I can slowly start to improve on some areas where I figure I need to.
"I doubt NM has a signal generator, so alignment will be an interesting chapter when we get that far! "
Now, it isn't really a misguided observation to wonder what the "when we get that far!", plus exclamation mark means. True, I suppose I could be being a wee bit paranoid but I think the exclamation mark adds a bit of insight.
Given I'm not likely to be starting any further radio projects for a while (I figured I'd like to really specialise a bit in the HMV till it's close to the way I want it, I can maybe make a few suggestions:
(1) Why aren't a few more people posting active projects? I know some people here are actually quite active (Nick and Boater Sam often share material) but it would be good to see more of it. By the way, the best stuff I've seen to date was Miguel's stuff on another site and the Youtube channels are also good (i.e.Rick Mcwhorter).
(2) It would be nice I think for someone to post troubleshooting articles for the new members.
As I said before I'm really a bit of a lone wolf in most things including music but feel I work at my best when under pressure to improve.
P.S. I'm now working on one or two changes to my soldering as I wasn't happy with the size of some of the caps I used (a bit too bulky). Now the radio at least works, I guess I can slowly start to improve on some areas where I figure I need to.
