Interlude I

I'll have these interludes occasionally here on the blog where I attend to matters that aren't about amateur radio directly.  Basically, meta posts.

I'll "try" to keep the posts to around 500 words.  I hate blogs whose entries are too short (less than 200-250 words), you just get into the mindset for the blog and it's over.  I tend to read those guys once a week (if they posts semi-daily).  But I sometimes get wordy and I think that long chunks of prose will scare away the casual reader.  So that's my target.

Also, I will give the call sign of folks (if they have one) to get you into the radio milieu.  For most people the call sign becomes a part of their identity.  I could do a whole post just on the interesting psychological implications there, maybe someother time... Anyway, in a real sense their call sign is a part of their identity and I will quote it when it's known to me.

Likewise you'll get tidbits of electronics and radio terminology thrown at you.  I'll endeavour to define it the first time, after that, you're on your own.  Amateur radio has a larger than usual Thieve's Cant or Inside Baseball terminology.  No doubt this is from its intersection of technical material and radio history.  This can be intimidating to the neophyte but, unfailingly (so far), every ham I have met will fail to comment if you missed a term or misused one.  Everyone is very easy going.