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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  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  on complete transmitters or receivers, aerials and so on. It is our 
-view that, despitea wide-spread belief to the contrary, anyone with +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,  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 given that the construction methods and testing are set out in clear
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 each part as he completes it, thus making the final setting-up something  each part as he completes it, thus making the final setting-up something 
 other than "getting the brute to play." other than "getting the brute to play."
-</quote>+<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....