Electronics Courses are the same as Steam Loco Driving Courses. - Doomed
Having spent 56 years in Electronics (and Broadcast Engineering) with this dynamic and exciting career (!); it does grieve me when looking at old "Practical Wireless"´s to see that practically 99% of all businesses have folded. Of course the problem that befell Heathkit was the surface mounted components that produced the death knell of projects. Nowadays, with Erie resistors and all the capacitor manufacturers gone from the UK, it is a pain ordering via internet and resistors from Hong Kong, is dreadful. Even Valve circuitry is appealing for its simplicity and reduced component count, but the transformers are extortionate in cost.
Alas I feel like a Railway Steam Loco Driver whose livelyhood has all but disappeared.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
