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starting Ihal monlh, and tour more in me work s, I had more to do lhan get back 10 " How are you?" BBS mes ".... How am I? Don'I ask. I already covered lhat a few months back in detail. I'm fine , thank you . Having been diel Ing lately, I'm even less tolerant ol lools and lhetr blalher aboul no-code than usual . Not one single new argument pro orcon, has surfaced in the 32 years I've been championing a no-code h cense. Phooey. Gelling back to BBSs, I prefer to spend my time reading (for my education), writing (10 educate others) and gelling things done toward my goals in the music, educational. publishing and ham fields. All work? Nah. I do gel oul skiing. diving, watch some TV, catch a lew movies, see some plays, and go 10 some concerts. Not bad for living in lhe mounlains at New Hampshire, eh? Old-timers have lollowed me from me 73 start in October 1960 in a lillie two-room oHice over a Brooklyn grocery store Even older-timers rem ind me of my firsl ham magazine back in 1951 , which I started from Cleveland, ooe. while working as a TV director. I've been giving adVice for most 01 tbese 40 years . A few people have taken II and done well . ..gening into tne hundreds 01 mIllions. Some hava ignored it and Iosl ... some have even lost bllll()flS ignOflng my advice. I don't think anyone has ever Iosl. by paying anentlOl'lto my predic1ions. Neg'live VIMI Does your lalth In amateur radio have the vitalily to face unpleasant Iruths about your hobby? Or do you prefar the usual Whitewash, every Ihing-is·actually·peachy approach in your reading? I get a few letters grumbling about my gloom and doom observations. It seems 10 escape these oeqeuve-cnenled folk (of which we have a seem Ingly endless supply in amateur radiO) thaI my glooms are always accompanied by creat ,ve, constructive soIulions to our problems. I believe in facing our problems and solving mem. That's the only way lhey're goi ng 10 go away. I'm soIuI~len tad , How aboul you? On a recenl skiing trip 10 northern Vermont I fmally had enough time to myself to get some work done. First , I pla nned a complete reorganizatl()fl of the report mg sys tem lor the many projects I' ve gol going Then I caught up with a cubit SlaCk 01 magaz'nes I'd brought along. I I,ke to k&&P up w,lh technology. I never know whe n I'll run across something which I can use. So I read sceoutc American , Omm, DIscover , Fortune, Success , Technology Review, Kappan , Inc" etc.. marking ideas of value as I go . The magazines read, I turned to a staCk of bookS. I always take along more than I can possibly read. The last lime I went on a reading binge like Ihis wa s a year ago when I was on a SCuba diving cruise wilh ChUCk KOll We dove all day and I read the resl of Ihe t,me. ThiS time I skied mosl 01lhe day and read the rest 01the time. Now there you go, being negative again, grousing aboul old Wayne wandering oH abou1 this and that. Yes , I do, it's one of my few charms. But wait'll you lind out what 1lucked Into, bookwise! One 01 'em explained a 101 to me . . . and you should find itlnt9festing, lOO. The boolo; was " How 10 Work the CompetiliOn into the Ground and Have Fun DoIng It," by John Molloy, the chap who wrote " Dress lor Success" and " Live for Success," both of which I enjoyed. This lillie old $10 paperbaCk was great! Full 01 ideas. But the part that was of the moSl inlerest to me had 10 do with creativity. I'm always inlerested in Ihis subject and how it can be taughl. Well,John does a tot of consulting and one of his projecls was to try and lind out how creative people diller from others. And why, Being an almost pathologically creative person .. .n's more of a curse than a gift . .. 1wanted to hnd out how Ihis happened to me. John interviewed a bunch of oulstandingly creative people , Irying to lind out what they had in common. His find ings were surpns 109 ., and dISCOUraging. I found them d;SQJUraging because I was hoping creativity mighl be more teachable Entrepreneurs need creativity in heaps 10 surmount the coostant tIow 01 serious problems lhey face. America needs creatIVity if it's going to regain its Iosl. high teen industnes. We're lamous for invent,ng new technologies and then watching the Japanese deVelop the orectcer applic atio ns , running creative circ les around us . We invented tape recording, and they smothered us in innovative tape recorders. We invented digital wetcnee, and Ihey buried us in innovative watchss. We're desoeretew hurting for creativity in our industrial research labs. Look at how we're hurting in amateur radio for the lack 01 creativity. We shou ld be years ahead ctwnere we are in spread spectrum development, in h igh speed d igilal communlca II()IlS. . . including nol only words, but graphics and music. We 've deplorably leI ou r hobby and our country down. We're far busier lighting over Ihal antoq ue communicalions curiOs.ty, the Morse code, than in trying to move ahead. Morse Is fun, but it's aboul as relevanl to communications today as lhe eat's whisker and a chunk of galena. II' s for people who are holdlOg desperalely onto me past because Ihey have no Vision of the future. I couldn't help but lake another Swipe at the old-timers who have dedi· caled their lives to trying to bury ama, tour radio . .. along with lhemselves. Now, baCk 10 what John found oul about creativily. We're talking creativi· ty in business and engineering, not artists and poets. Firsl, he lound thaI creative people tended to be highly In· telligent. Second, Ihey were hard and elleclive workers. John says, " In lad many work all thE>lime. They never lurn 011. They take their work with Ihem wherever they go. " Hmmm, thet sounds familiar! Hey, that's me, with my laplop computer in lIle baCk seat 01 my van. " They create by bringing order to seemi ng disorder. They're always thinking , relhinking, reviewing , and reordering. " II's the ok! 5~ inspiraliOn and 95~ perspiration lormula aspoused by Edison. The lhird characteristic 01 crealive people is a positive armuoe. on, they are as aware of lhe problems as anyone, butlhey're optimislic aboul them. When I get a setter from a reader saying he cceen't always a9r&& w,Ih my ecrtcrials, l know he's not a creew e person. A creative person reads my editorials and comes up with even better scmlions to problems. He jusl doesn'llhink in necauve terms. When I gel a really negative letter I leel sorry for the writer. I know he's that way about everything and with everyone. He isn't selecting me to dump on, I'm just one more What a horrible person to have tOWOrk or live with! MOllOy found thaI creative people were loners as ch ildren, They tend 10 march to their own drum and 10 heel< with conformity . " Pragmatic l'lOf'ICOOo formists," Molloy calls 'em . Mosl stiH dress the way they want and don'l care what OIhers lhink. As kicls they dietn'l have many friends ...dldn't need 'em. I tned smok ing and dldn'l llke it, so I never smoked. I tned drinkIng while I was in the Navy. When I noticed that alcohol made me stupid, I stopped. I Iried pot and LSD a couple times. Nope, not for me. 1tested lhose drugs and decided conformity wasn 't wor1h it tome. Creative peop-le Jove solving problems, Maybe mat's why I can't pass up a crossword puzzle or a cryptogram. And I truly enjoy helping people solve problems. That's why I read over a hundred magazines a month and books by lhe dozen . , .1gel ideas from them which eventually cliCk into p-Iace to help sotve a problem.lenjoymentoring college students, Well, hooray for me, Yeah, I $UPpose. But understanding that negativeness prevents people from betng creative is worlh understanding ... parlicularty if you are an employer _.. or if you 're looking tor breakthroughs in amateur radio. Employers need creative problem solvers, not negatIve thinkers. And they get nard workers as a bonus. Wilh the future obviOusly going electron ic, we need all 01 the creative peeple we can find. And we need 10 anraet 'em 10 amateur radio, where they'll be able to help both us and our country. If we let the Morse coders keep us in the 193Os, we're signing a dealh warrant for the hobby . .. and we could be helping to consign our counlry 10 second place , ..or even thi rd, behind Europe. Yes, 1 know all about the new nocode Tech thing. I also hear Ihe oldtimers' necks creaking as they warn Of dire consequences. Meanwhile, the ham induslry-in a burst 01 euphoriais again expecting the money tree to start growing. Like when we got Novice Enhancement Remember that beaut? Being pragmalic, I wamed that all we'd done is remove a small roadblock. We still hadn'l put up any road signs. The no--code deal is enomer block gone. We Slill have 10 go out and eovertlse or the kids aren 'l going 10 even know our road ex ists. Has the industry learned yel? Are you kidding? I'll be reading every ham club newslener t can get 10 see if one ham dUbanywhere hascome up with a p0sitive program 10 plomole lhe hobby 10 kids and get the parade started. II 1A sked You ... Suppose we 're having a contad and I asked you to tell me about a lime when you really had a lot of fun with amateur radio. What would you tell me? A question uke that could keep me go ing for days. How about you? I don't suppose there's any chance you'd lake a few minutes and write , since I haven't run into you on Ihe air recently? Ham radiO has provided me with a couple lifetimes of lun. ThaI's one of the main reasons I got Sf1CIoto;ered inlo publishing 73. It's got something to do with wanting 10 share the things I've enjoyed with as many people as posst. bIe. In my CD Review magazine I'm having lun inlrooUCing the readers to music they mighl oth erwise have missed. When I got OUI Of the Navy after World Misunderstanding II, It didn't lake me lon g to build an all-band (8 13 s) kilowall rig. Then I tucked Inl0 a beaut of a 75m kllowall rig (203Zs1. I had two complete kW sretcoe. one with an SX·26 Haflicrafters receiver, the other with a NatiOnaI100A. I had my ham shaCk set up in the basement 01my Iralernity house at college, with antennas all over the place. The lun was 10 get into a round lable on 75m and lhen go down to 20m and make a OX contact and rebroadcast hiS signal on 75m to the round table. In this way we were able to work African, European and Asian OX slations into our round table. The net could hear the OX chap through my 75m rig and he could hear the netthrougtl my 20m rig. That was a ball! Yes, 01 course I got a pin k licket from an FCC monitoring staliOn. I just sen1 'em a copy 01 the letter I'd gotten from the FCC in Washington saying this kind of operation waslegal. Didn't hear anymore. So teu meabout some of the exciting things you 've done. II you get meescnad too, I might share your story wilh the 73 readers .. . or in a publication to help gat NOViCes more involved with the hobby, Remember, when you're a silent key, about alilhat will live on aher you is what you get published. And it's really fun when your friends read your slories and feel they know someone famous. Or when someone you contact on the air has read your Slories and recognizes your call. 1 can handle anything I can read , !rom old nolebook paper 10 a computer printout, bul 01 course it's easiesl tor me if you Include a floppy disk, III 62 73 Amateur RadiO Today • March, 1991
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