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October 24th 03, 12:02 AM

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And its not all NOAA. Air Force Weather runs a number of
solar
observatories around the globe, polarimeter stations, and
rocketsondes.

A bit of news passed to you via back-channel from Lennie,
or
were
you reading some 1950's era "This Is The Air Force" books,
Brain?
They've only been doing this since the inception of the Air
Force.

Steve, K4YZ

Stebe, I was AF Weather. You washed out and became a cook.

If you say so...

Or some other untrained, direct-duty assignment. Doesn't matter.

Sorry. Advanced Avionics. Lotsa neat radio stuff. Lennie
doesn't believe it, but it's in my SRB.

That makes two.

"Advanced Avionics" to Ace Airman Stebe: Switch-over from tube
aircraft intercom sets to transistorized aircraft intercom sets.

Brian, give him a common AN/ARC-201 and he doesn't know what
in hell it is. He MIGHT know about an AN/ARC-27 but that's only
because it has been in USN inventory since before 1970.

If I were his USMC supervisor, I wouldn't let him near any of it.
This would be another case of "close supervision," followed by "wall
to wall" counseling.

Bounce him from one wall to the next? :-)

Pity about not knowing those communications radios.

The ARC-27 was, and still is, a good unit for 225-400 MHz military
comm band. It was born in Iowa at the Collins works. Tube type,
been around for a very long time.

The ARC-201 is much newer, an airborne version of the SINCGARS
family for ground support missions, fixed-wing and helos.

I shouldn't put down on-board intercom systems...those are needed.
Anyone working around a Neptune on the flight line with the APU
running knows it makes more noise than any Dill Instructor in the
United States Morse Codists. :-)

The only time I "cooked" in the line of duty in
the USMC was heating C-Rats while in boot and on the trail.

You are even more talented than anyone could guess.

And your having been a weather guesser in the USAF in no way
changes the facts vis-a-vis your earlier comments...

You comments were a lie. I have read no 1950's era "This is the Air
Force" book, Stebe, nor have I received via Len and back channel news.

Brain, Brain, Brain...The suggestion vis-a-vis a book or
back-channel input from Lennie was a question. Please re-read the
above.

A comment meant to do what?

Your innocent little smear campaign is just what to expect from the
Avenging Angel.

Stebe never "lies." He tells untruths, he makes mistakes by the
ton, but he is a loyal USMC (United States Morse Codist) and
follows orders posted at Hq bulletin board in Newington.

The medical folks at Glendale Memorial thought Efren Saldivar was
a good respiratory thereapist nurse...until too many patients
assumed room temperature while under his care. Fully certified,
lots of pretty paper attesting to his expertise. The "angel of death"
is now in lockup. [Glendale, CA, old established and modernized
hospital in the Glendale hills]

Fantastic similarity.

Hopefully not.

Saldivar offed something like three dozen before everyone caught on.

Lots more code-tested, licensed, pretty-certificated many times
amateurs have "offed" many more from their owned-and-operated
frequencies on HF bands long before Saldivar got his first job.

A question cannot be a lie...It can only be a question.

OK. Have you stopped beating your wife?

Which one?

He stayed away from this one in his reply.

Isn't it amazing that a simple question can be both a lie and a
smear-tactic?

Maybe Stebe is "lying in wait?" :-)

Whatever anyone says against him is labeled a "lie." Ho hum.

He says otherwise, so we're waiting on his answer.

Ah, but there's never any proof. His standard answer is "it's in my
record" but nobody in here has seen that famous "record."
Somewhere at NARA there's a true record of his military service
and exactly what and where those famous "hostile actions" were
that he was supposedly in. Not really worth the trouble to access
the National Archives and Records Administration.

The guy who labels others a "liar" claims to have worked on lots of
military communications equipment but never mentions a single
detail about it, rationalizing his reasons as "it's all classified..."
Good grief, the only "classified" stuff is the CIA, NSA, and DISA
gadgetry. U.S. military communications equipment names,
nomenclatures, and general specifications are public information
that has been printed with real ink on real paper in lots of industry
documents anyone can read...and now on websites maintained by
the government for everything from RFQs (Requests For Quotes)
to contract awards notifications.

The "facts" you
cited were all things being done in the Armed Forces for decades
before your signed on the line.

Big deal.

I merely learned them first hand.

No doubt. I rather imagine that you stopped opening books after
the "Dick and Jane" series.

For a Morseodist you have a very limited imagination. Most imagine
preposterous events befalling humankind, and CW is able to save the
day.

I'll argue the imagination part, Brian. Remeber Stebe's "hostile
actions?" :-)

The famous Seven instances of self-abuse?

Mental masturbation? :-)

So how does a USMC nurse know about solar observatories in the USAF?

I wouldn't know, Brain. There are no nurses (by MOS) in the
USMC. Anyone who may be in the USMC now who holds licensure as a
Nurse does so as a personal achievement. I knew of a couple, but none
who were assigned to billets as nurses. One was a pilot, the other in
admin.

Nursing personnel assigned TO the Marines. (They are usually
Navy) If you read a book once in a
while, you might know this....But then again I doubt that too...

I was not a Nurse while in the Marine Corps.

Right. Advanced Avionics.

Yeah, he changed tubes in old aircraft intercom sets...

As for knowing about solar observatories in the USAF, I hate to
burst your bubble, but there's very little that's actually
"classified" about aerography, in the USAF or otherwise, Brain.

So you read and reread the 1950's era "This Is The Air Force," books
and then attributed your actions to me?

Careful, Brian, those are His study books for the Civil Air Patrol.

I forgot about his CAP tie-in. Must be where he's finding those
1950's era "This Is The Air Force" books.

...that's about on par with the same era in U. S. amateur radio and
the state-of-the-art of amateur technology then.

He is still working on the meaning of "PIREPS" and has just started
to memorize "isobars," discovering that they aren't for a lockup for
that most heinous of all "service" crimes: Lying.

Wouldn't it be fun if he found out what "adiabatic lapse rate" was?
:-)

Wet or dry? Doesn't matter. He couldn't work the hypsometric
equation if his life depended on it, but like the CAP groupie that he
is, probably hangs out at the local AF weather station, wishing he had
made better choices in life.

Sort of brings a mental picture of Stebe in flight suit grubbies posing
by an old 1.6 GHz radiosonde tracking antenna. :-)

Never mind...too many in here don't have any knowledge of "other"
radio or meteorology...meteorology other than "putting up a front,"
that is...

LHA