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October 30th 03, 11:30 AM

In article ,
(Len Over 21) writes:

In article , JJ

writes:

I have been a ham for over 40 years, so how long have you been one?

I was on HF legally beginning in February 1953, a 1 KW BC-339,
one of 36 total transmitters at Army station ADA...increased to 43
by 1956.

All by yourself - or were there over 700 other personnel at that installation?

I got my first radio operator license from a single test at
an FCC field office in Chicago in March, 1956 (First Class
Radiotelephone).

That's nice, Len. But it has nothing to do with amateur radio. As you say of
others "You live in the past too much"

I've never had, or tried to get, any amateur radio license.

On January 19, 2000, you proclaimed here that you 'were going for Extra right
out of the box'. But you didn't say when, and in the ~46 months since then you
haven't done it.

Mostly because I've been a professional in radio-electronics for a half
century.

Then why are you so interested in amateur radio policy? Everyone is allowed to
be interested, of course, but it seems very odd that someone who has been "a
professional in radio-electronics for a half century" and who makes so many
posts to this amateur radio newsgroup would not have gotten a license and set
up an amateur station in all that time.

You know what? The FCC doesn't require any commissioners or
staff to have amateur radio licenses in order to MAKE regulations
concerning amateur radio. How about that!?

You've never worked for the FCC in any capacity, Len. You've never been a
lawyer or a "regulator".

You want my mailing address? Look in the FCC ECFS for the 14
petitions for and against amateur radio code testing. You will find
my name and address and comments in there, at least two documents
per RM.

And if you try to read all of Len's verbiage, you'll need a bit of time,
because most of his 'documents' are 14 to 20 pages long. Total commentary, most
of it highly repititious, runs to several hundred pages.

Now of course anyone can flood the FCC with comments, but such wordiness is
counterproductive. Some poor soul at FCC has to read all that stuff.

Insufficient courage to reveal your identity "JJ?" Or are you going
to rationalize your gutless fear somehow?

Maybe sufficient sense to avoid being harassed by you, Len. Like the time you
sent me several unsolicited emails with very large attachments. Others received
the same emails. I didn't bother to waste the connection time and disk space to
download them, but others tell me that at least one of them was a picture of a
naked man - fortunately not facing the camera. You thought it was "funny".
Others did not.