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A newcomer facing the base of a steep hill probably doesn't know what words to use when asking a question. First would be "how do I turn this thing on?" They probably can look that up for themselves but other questions may not be so easy. I am new to the nanoVNA but came to it with some foggy ideas about what it does and even how. But as with other new ventures, I read the wiki and the how-to and find new words or even old words in a new context. With Google and other search engines we can then look up those new words. that constitutes 'climbing the hill'. I am a radio amateur. I had to learn CW. No..it's not weeping about dropping that requirement. I helped some others working for their license. The ones who actually took the time to learn the Morse code succeeded. I could not *learn* it for them. All we can really do is point to the start of the trail that leads up the hill and the newbie is then welcome to climb as far as they want to go. There may come a fork in the trail and a new pointer can be offered. The people who *know* cannot know for you (newbie). There is a reference to "hands-on" in the thread. I have found that a balanced mix of 'book learning" and hands-on is needed. Newbies should not feel 'dissed' by 'rtfm' if given the page and paragraph number to read. 73, Bill KU8H bark less - wag more On 6/6/20 7:07 AM, gary.sewell@... wrote:
First I want to thank all that responded to to my question. I remember back in my college days in the late 60¡¯s, we used very large Tektronix scopes, and on the top of the scope was a small pop-up compartment that held a small manual. On that manual it stated ¡°RTFM¡±. For those that don¡¯t know what this acronym means, it is ¡°Read The Fu#king Manual¡±. I remember how thick that actual manual was, and it may take hours of searching the manual to find out how to use a function on that scope. So instead we would ask the instructor and they would give you the answer. |
