Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Dave Heil
trying to go for the jugular but getting only a juggler writes:
Len Over 21 wrote:
In article ,
(N2EY)
writes:
The hundreds of thousands of amateur radio ops work DX, engage in
radiosport, check into nets or engage in public service communications
without touching a PLMRS transceiver.
Wow! Really?!?
No hams work in a business that has a Public Land Mobile Radio
Services radio? No hams work on railroads or in heavy trucking or
vehicle road service trucks? No hams in construction of large
buildings or engaged in HVAC or plumbing maintenance of same?
No hams are policemen or firemen or paramedics? No hams are in
the broadcast industry using remote links controlled through PLMRS
comms?
Oh, I see your confusion. You thought I meant *other than on the ham
bands*!
They are all on HF engaging in "radiosport" and net checking to
advance the state of the art of radio and morsemanship?
Did I write "all" or did you just gather it from the ether?
Now all that "radiosport" and "net checking" is fun and recreational
and enjoyed by many but it is hardly any sort of technical
advancement or honing skills useful in case of national need.
How do you know much about it--by having someone you know tell you of
it? By reading about it on the web? By browsing through the pages of
QST at your local library? Were you under the impression that hams are
mandated to participate in technical advancement? Are there no
operational skills needed by the nation?
Your mileage on the newsgroup rageometer will, of course, vary.
Foaming at the mouth is normal, sarly dave, but don't forget to
brush after every meal.
I see. "Broadband" means "broad bandwidth". You could have knocked me
over with a feather when I read your words. So to your way of thinking
on "broadness", a morse communication at 5 wpm on 10 KHz could be
considered "broadband"?
No. I'd say that 5 words per minute on 10 KHz could possibly be
interfering with USN submarine alert frequencies. Those are on VLF.
It's not nice to interfere with boomers or sharks, big daddy dave.
Such wouldn't mean a "Riley" knocking on your door, but some very
serious "attitude" folks carrying heavy artillery.
I know in which part of the spectrum 10 KHz is located. That you didn't
care to answer the question is noted. We'll just accept your definition
of "broadband" as, well....broadband.
Now show us some REAL innovations and inventions done by hams
over the last 50 years or so concerning RADIO. Other than Dan
Tayloe that I've already mentioned several times.
No radio amateur anywhere has done anything if you haven't known about
it.
It can't have happened. Nothing you have no knowledge of can possibly
have happened. You are the ONLY PROFESSIONAL in radio. *snicker*
Or just continue to make nasty in here on the UnBelievers who
don't worship at the shrine of St. Hiram.
Worship? You aren't even baptised as a licensed ham, Leonard. You have
naught to do with amateur radio. You're among the unwashed.
Several decades of declared interest in amateur radio + over seven years
of windy, condescending posts here + four years of inaction on your
"Extra right out of the box" = Leonard H. Anderson, potential radio
amateur :-)
Dave K8MN