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 I can look back and find articles that I remember reading. I plan to slowly look through them, from time to time and remember both my own nascent period in Amateur Radio, but also a time, earlier than that, which taught me so much about what I hold to be the central core of the Radio Hobby - tinkering with the innards of radios. Modern Black Boxes are not a new thing. There are comments in the old SWMs about how the hobby is changing, from one centered around building & technical matters to one based on appliance operation. I can look back and find articles that I remember reading. I plan to slowly look through them, from time to time and remember both my own nascent period in Amateur Radio, but also a time, earlier than that, which taught me so much about what I hold to be the central core of the Radio Hobby - tinkering with the innards of radios. Modern Black Boxes are not a new thing. There are comments in the old SWMs about how the hobby is changing, from one centered around building & technical matters to one based on appliance operation.
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 +While on the subject of articles, we would like to see more projects 
 +on complete transmitters or receivers, aerials and so on. It is our 
 +view that, despite a wide-spread belief to the contrary, anyone with 
 +an R.A.E. pass should be able to build and get working an SSB transmitter, 
 +given that the construction methods and testing are set out in clear
 +detail so that the beginner-constructor can fault-find and test out 
 +each part as he completes it, thus making the final setting-up something 
 +other than "getting the brute to play."
 +<cite>Editorial Comment, Short Wave Magazine, January 1979</cite>
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 Modern Black Boxes are miracles of design and construction. But poking around inside them with a soldering iron isn't an option for most of us. Modern Black Boxes are miracles of design and construction. But poking around inside them with a soldering iron isn't an option for most of us.
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 The key is not to dismiss everything new, but also not to dismiss the huge back-history of designs and techniques.  The key is not to dismiss everything new, but also not to dismiss the huge back-history of designs and techniques. 
  
-And for me it's now to migrate myself **BACK** to __where I first wanted to be in the hobby__. What I first thought the hobby was about. Based on my early brainwashing from those SWMs.+And for me it's now to migrate myself back to where I first wanted to be in the hobby. What I first thought the hobby was about. Based on my early brainwashing from those SWMs.
  
 The more I re-read them and the more I ponder what I want to get from my time in the shack, the more I want to melt solder, build little circuits and play radio. With the emphasis on PLAY.... The more I re-read them and the more I ponder what I want to get from my time in the shack, the more I want to melt solder, build little circuits and play radio. With the emphasis on PLAY....