Oh boy we had a few problems.

Greetings yawl, its KC3CDV hear, the ministry has ben going good, we have managed to help a few people, thats a good thing. Well, the other day, I went to this page I've gone to before and my computer had ben hit with a virus, now I am on a mac. Well, thankfully we found an app called ClamXav.app. If you tell it to scan, you can have it remove your viruses. Thankfully we are clean of viruses now, it had attacked my emails somehow but we are good. A lot has ben going on as well however besides that, we got ourselves a passive bypass pedal in a Pigtronix compressor box and yet, it compresses great, but it feels better just using my active bypass, nothing against the pedal, its just how it feels. Well I thought I would let you guys know what I was up to, and there you are.<
From KC3CDV James Clark,  73 and 88 to all the girls.

ranting on teaching.

Hello all, I've been hard at work. I am now a minister, I've been recording new music, helping with ham radio activities and all sorts of other things.

 Now I've got to rant a bit about some things thats been on my mind as of late.

 Lets say you're teaching a student music, what would be the first thing you would teach him or her.

 Scales? Terms? Notation? Cords?

 Well, if your me, I would teach you nothing. I would guide you, however.

 You don't start a child out with a bike if he or she cant walk so why teach a student cords or scales or concepts or notation. Thats just stupid in my book.

 i think a student should be allowed to make mistakes, you need to sit there and make music with the student, let them start playing, let them lead you. let them feel like they're helping you or like their in charge. you need to be a friend not just a teacher. that way the student won't feel bashful about asking a question down the road, get them interested in cords buy playing cords wen you play with them. that way they can ask wen their ready, "hey what are you doing"

 Then you can tell them "I am playing something known as cords to ad some melody to our piece of music" that way they won't feel pressured you're playing with them. Don't force your student to learn cords or something, let them experiment. Let them ask questions, they may come up with their own style.

 i had someone who was going to try to teach me. alls they did was showed off. thats the wrong way to do, he needed to include me and show me or let me lead, that way as the student I felt like I was contributing to something. instead I ended up teaching myself because he never showed me anything. this is why i say notes and all this stuff is important but you don't need to know it to make music. i am learning, we all are learning. don't try to teach someone music, let them teach you how to teach them.that way you're a guide and also a pier instead of a teacher. it makes both people feel better.

 I've been on both side of the fence, I know what I am talking about. I've worked with people and they love how I work with them because I include them and don't play over their levels if I did that, they would be discouraged and would not want to play.

 If you're a teacher don't you start tapping while your student is having problems even fingering a fret. Thats rude and it kills their ambition. wen a student makes mistakes, don't shut them down for it, don't try to fix it, let them keep doing it because they will figure out on their own that it does not work, then they can ask you what they're doing wrong. remember your a teacher, you're not an in forcer, in my case i don't teach, i am a guide, i guide them to make the correct choices, wen you start learning theory and things of that nature, go to someone other than me, because I hardly know that stuff. but i do know how to guide and make someone feel welcome and help someone to want to keep playing. thats more important than flash and knowing all sorts of names for things you know how to do. i can show how to do  a cord or how to tap but why is the name value important. it's not to me. you can know all the names in the world of different scales and cords and notes but if you know all that stuff and pick up the instrument, thats not making you a better player. i'll out play you every time. you know why? because I play to play, you people play to be flashy. well flashy is not everything people. playing with heart and emotion will always win out over someones flashiness.

 It shows wen someone knows what they're doing or had gotten it from a book.

 Not saying that stuff won't help you, because I've seen fine players come out of that style of playing, but it's not always the best way and it won't make you a better player putting names to your cords and notes.

 

 

 Lets remember to love and help always.

 Everyone take care.

 Minister James Clark. This is KC3CDV saying 73 to all.

why I don't like digital

why I hate digital buy James Clark.

 I hate digital amps and pedals for the following reasons, one they effect your sound in a bad way.

 wen you kick on an amp you don't want a digital hum, you want a real smooth sounding noiseless amp and you don't want delay from kicking on the pedals.

 2 they suck your tone. wen your in bypass on an analog pedal you cant tell theres a pedal hooked up, wen your on a digital pedal however theres still that hum and its vary loud, I can hear it in my ears, and if I hear something I don't like then I won't use it.

  3 they don't emulate as good as analog pedals.

 what I mean is the noise thats already been addressed, but how they sound is another thing as well, they sound forced and really muffled, wen you kick on a distorted amp, the noise mixed with the tone is a wall of static and just don't sound good. wen your using analog however, the only noise thats there is the emulation of the tubes and theres a manufacture that does a great job on that, the only place i'll buy from for my pedals from now on is tech21nyc.

 not only are their pedals american made, but there built like little tanks. the zoom unit I've got is plastic and I am afraid to gig with it, I've already had to replace a nob myself because it snapped off while playing it in studio.

 the last thing I hate about digital is the bypass, tech21 does buffered bypass so that wen your running pedals in a chain it won't suck tone, zoom on the other hand has a digital bypass and its noisy because of it. again you lost tone on the digital bypass and not buffered bypass.

 why did I compose this? well because I wanted to, and also to let people know my thoughts on why I won't use digital gear. people get in my face wen I tell them I hate digital and I felt that I could express myself better in composing this than speaking it.

 peace and love to all, the great maker knows your name.

 stay happy and hopeful. may you find your inner light and gnosis and your pathway in life.

 --- James

the almighty ham saved the day.

as some of you might know, I am invallved with something called skywarn, and we spot weather. anyway, so today there were 2 thunderstorms and I had to report to a group of hams who were relaying information, we were staying safe, and thanks to my brother bringing his ham to church, we managed to stop a woman from heading rite into the storms pathway because she heard my report over timothies radio.

 now aint it a great thing wen we can help someone without even knowing we did it at the time?

 i love that. 

 anyway all is good hear just thought we would update.

 this is KC3CDV until nexttime, 73.

 KC3CDV Clear.

woo its been a while.

so whats been new. lets find out.
 well, i took the skywarn weather spotter test, and now, am a skywarn spotter. just as of now need my ID.
 lets see what is going on besides that. well before composing this blog, i just got done listening to michael manring's Soliloquy. just a fantastic cd.

 i got myself the tech21 red ripper ive been wanting for a while, now my bass will rip your face off with fuz. still need a few pedals for the pedalboard to be the way I want it to be for gigs if i ever get the chance to play out. but we are getting there.
 we got new strings for the bass as well.
 needed those LOL.


 thats about it folks. as you can see, ive been working hard at working hard.
 reading, playing bass, and ham radio, and weather spotting, thats my life. remember folks you can always tweet me twitter.com/jamesclark13
 or facebook.com/jamestheradioguy
 hope to hear from you soon. take care and remember the mother of wisdom and  living father know your name. remember we are children of the living mother and father and can find our own gnosis, the personal pathway to our own gnosis.
 peace to all.

the USS LEXINGTON

hello there, words cant describe what this means to me, know clue why this means so much, but it does. today I was talking on ham radio as I do a lot, and I came across this station, and we chatted for a bit and I asked him, so what is this  USS LEXINGTON? he said it was a ship off the shore of southtexas and he said, james you had better log this in your logbook, I said why man? he goes because you are the first person to contact the USS LEXINGTON. so I loged them down in my logbook. no idea why this means so much to me, but it does. i'll always remember this.
 just had a nice QSO with the USS LEXINGTON, im the first person to connect outside of their normal area, what an honor.


 I cant believe it.


 well thats my day so far, yall should get your ham exams passed, fire up that radio, call for me and i'll come back if I hear you.


 73 from KC3CDV

DX contacting.

hello there, KC3CDV hear, for those of you that don't know what DX is, its a neet way of saying contacting people or as we hams like to say "stations" out of the country.
 so anyway.
 I had a DX station today from Ontario Canada on a handheld ham radio, later today I also had a contact with south wails in the UK.. now I am in the US, and thats incredible, I worked canada and also the UK all in one day, the best part? it was all on 2 meeters now thats a days hard work done.

 so glad I got my ham radio and passed the exam.

 this is KC3CDV saying 73 to everyone, and I am clear.