[Jamie]

It all depends on where you stay. If you stay in downtown Cincinnati, expect to get mugged (maybe literally!), if you stay in the suburbs, a very nice room can be had for $75-100 a night.

[morzh]

By being mugged I meant the literal mugging, this is why I asked.
$75 to a 100 is not bad in fact.

[Eliot Ness]

I like the idea of a Philco Phorum swap meet/ get together. I think Cincinnati would be the perfect location. Plenty of booze, centrally located!

Maybe time it to coincide with a Cincinnati meet, that way more radios will be available.....

I think Northern KY might be better than Cincinnati proper. It's a little less expensive, less crowded, and easier to get around, plus it is just minutes south of Cincinnati.

We used to go to a car show in Burlington, KY and would stay in various motels right off I-75 just south of 275. There were a lot of decent hotels and places to eat and drink.

[Jamie]

John, I like that idea! Lexington would also be a great place to have it. Plenty to do in Lexington - beautful horse farms, Keeneland race course, historic sites, etc... and hotel rooms are cheap!

[TA Forbes]

I'm in

[skyscraper]

Me too, I have family in Cincinnati and Lexington. Free board

[Raleigh]

I'll be in Danville, KY fourth of July weekend. A Phorum swap/meet/drink session would be convenient then.

[W4OED]

I went to Electronics school in Argentina in the '70s. It was a private college (much like the old ITT Institute) with a 4-year degree. Great school and great teachers with a tough program (one out of 20 graduated), designed for working individuals. We had plenty of internship opportunities and great connections to companies in various industries, which welcomed its graduates. We used the Philco-Ford books for basic Electronics as well as the US Navy Electronics Course. In addition, we had other books for more advanced theory such as the Basic Electrical Engineering by A. Kasatkin and M. Perekalin, a Russian (Soviet era) book (the Advanced book was for those following the Electromechanics path). Funny note: resistors were drawn as square waves, not triangular, and everything had been discovered or invented by guys with very Russian sounding names. We also had Calculus books, Solid State Physics, Electronics Design, and Digital and Pulse Signals books. One of the most important things was that the Philco-Ford books provided us with a simpler, yet effective, way to learn and practice electronic circuits (even the lab equipment was from Philco-Ford). Once we understood the basis of each topic, we moved onto the related mathematics, physics, and even chemistry aspects. I could only keep one of those Philco-Ford books, although I still have the complete US Navy course. By the way, I used them to teach Electricity and Electronics to wind turbine technicians. Great walk down the memory lane!

[morzh]

Welcome!

Soviet textbooks were always heavy on math and theory. Soviet education was the same, it overemphasized theory but underemphasized practice: lab works etc, which were very theoretically skewed. And the equipment was outdated by at least 2 decades compared even to the one existing in the USSR, and about 3 decades to the Western one.
However if a Soviet trained specialist ended up here and succeeded in landing a job, after having learnt the modern technology he would have the advantage of better math and theory understanding.
Soviet math school (and at some point also physics) was second to none indeed.
Russian sounding names were normal as many of Russian emigres, especially at the dawn of 20th century, being already accomplished researchers and scie tists ended up working for Anerican corporations.
People like Sikorsky (he was a Russian of Polish descent), Sarnoff (Russian jew), Zvorykin (Russian, ethnic Russian). Also bunch of folks from Slavic part of the world like Pupin or Tesla.
Pyotr Ufimtsev is the father of the Stealth anti-radar technology and is still active as a consultant.

One would question why with talents like these Russia a the country hasn't invented much.
I guess this is where the analogy of seeds and soil fertility comes to play.

And this goes for many other countries too.
People who flourish here include Italians, English, Canadians, Chinese, Indian, French, and many more.

[Paul Philco322]

I need to learn about radios, I am Czech Irish nutcase. Paul.

[mikethedruid]

LOL, Paul, I'm half Slovak, half old South. My mother's family came here from Slovakia before the First World War. My Father's family settled in SC in the early 1700s.

[morzh]

Mike

Let's see....the druid thing comes from Slovaks

[mikethedruid]

No, Mike, the Druid thing comes from an old man from the Midlands of England with whom I studied. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. I left that faith at nine years old when, in confirmation class, I found that Christian dogma asserted that only human beings have souls. I knew in my heart that all living beings have souls. I found Druidism at the age of twelve after meeting the old man who eventually taught me. It is not one of the reconstructionist groups who call themselves Druids, like OBOD, or ADF. It is the ancient school of philosophy which was kept alive among a few families in the Midlands and in Wales despite two millennia of suppression.

[morzh]

Well, I am an ethnic Jew of Soviet upbringing, non-religiuous and believing in God.
So, if the souls do exist (hope they do, though this cannot be a necessary consequence of existence of God), it is a bit haughty of humans to usurp the possession of souls; I think cats, dogs and all sentient beings have souls. Cats and dogs for sure.
When I die, I hope, other, of course, than my grandpa, my dad and whoever has died or will havedied to that moment, I will also meet there the dog of my childhood and my cats.

[PhilcoMike]

Fully agree.  Took the same NRI course my last year in high school and first year working, circa 1977-1979.  Later after finishing about 75% of it I started in the EET program at local community college.  I already knew how to do AC phase calculations and polar vector calculations.

Mike