Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Dave Heil confused in the
east...and north...and south writes:
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*!
Who knows what lurks in your four neurons, snarly dave?
[da shadow do?]
N2EY: "Besides, here's a simple, plain fact:
No matter what job, educational level, employer, or
government/military service that a radio amateur has, if said radio
amateur opposes Mr. Anderson's views, he/she will be the target of Mr.
Anderson's insults, ridicule, name-calling, factual errors, ethnic
slurs, excessive emoticons and general infantile behavior."
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?
No, nitrous oxide.
In your case, nitrous obnoxide.
I have to take an anaesthetic when I go in here to read all this "expert
radio nowledge stuf." One needs to dull the senses down to the
extra level...
Just more civil debate on the elimination of morse testing, Leonid?
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?
Why are you asking?
In the expectation of receiving a straight answer. How do you know that
radiosport and public service work in amateur radio are fun? Who told
you?
You are an Extra. You know Everything because you are Qualified
by a federal agency, complete with pretty little certificate (suitable
for framing)!
You're right about one part: I am an Amateur Extra, but I now about what
hams do because I am a part of it, an active participant. I don't get
my knowledge of amateur radio on a second-hand basis.
I know in which part of the spectrum 10 KHz is located.
Did you download that firmware fact from Ten-Tec too?
No, Leonard. Ten-Tec has firmware upgrades available. Would you like
the definition of firmware again?
No radio amateur anywhere has done anything if you haven't known about it.
Awwww...now you are acting all peevish. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Worship? You aren't even baptised as a licensed ham, Leonard.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, pope dave the furst become a religious sellout?
The Church doesn't issue ham licenses, snarly dave.
That's strange. Weren't you the fellow who brought up a particular
church? You seemed to have snipped that portion.
The FDA grades ham.
....leaving you to handle the degrading.
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 :-)
Didn't you forget my claim that I was going to invent anti-gravity?
Haven't heard of that one. Don't worry too much though. It can't make
you look any more foolish than your "Extra right out of the box" claim.
I'm still working on that one, but something's holding me down...
That'd seem to be a necessity. Hot air has a tendency to rise.
Now sit down in front of your orion, snarly dave. Amaze yourself.
I do that quite frequently, Leonid.
Dave K8MN