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@birdulon @Humpleupagus @WashedOutGundamPilot I saw this myself when I told a boomer about my experience with an antenna analyzer kit I bought from an amateur radio club. The guy who developed it used to be an engineer working for siemens. After building the kit I ran into a few issues getting it to work right. The first was an issue with the final amplifier transistor that was having parasitic oscillations due to being a shitty chinese clone of the original product. I tried a few fixes until finally trying his suggestion of making a “gimick” capacitor with a 10 meg resistor, which worked perfectly. The second problem was a firmware issue with the microcontroller that required me to cut a trace and reroute a circuit, as well as load new software to compensate. After that it worked perfectly and I’ve built several homemade antennas with it. But the boomer told me I should ask for a refund.

I mean, it’s a hobbyist kit that allowed me to make a working antenna analyzer at a fraction of the cost of buying something manufactured, I learned a lot and the guy who developed it helped me without giving me trouble, and the boomer told me I should ask for a refund???