Subject: The Game's Afoot!
From: (Len Over 21)
Date: 6/16/2004 2:59 PM Central Standard Time
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With the different personalities involved, the games can get pretty
interesting and funny, or sometimes they can become boring and
repetitive. The MARS is Ham radio stuff is a good example of the latter.
Agreed. But, the "MARS is amateur radio" statement is an
example of not only a Traditionalist-Fundamentalist...(SNIP TO...)
MARS was originally conceived (under the previous AARS) to
get radio amateurs involved with the U.S. Army communications
of 1925....(SNIP TO....)
During the Cold War times, phone patches, whether through
MARS or individual hams...(SNIP TO.....)
But, the Vietnam War ended 29 years ago, almost a generation
and a half in the past. MARS still has the task of involving
civilians with military radio but MARS has, for a long time,
changed its mission to be a true auxilliary radio service in the
military, that of being an affiliate communications service with
other U.S. government radio services. The one-month exercise
two years ago of Grecian Firebolt 2002 showed that MARS
does function quite well on its own without civilian radio amateurs
to fulfill its mission.
In order for PRESENT DAY MARS to continue to fulfil it's federal mission,
it is DEPENDANT upon volunteer civilian licensees of the Amatuer Radio Service.
Otherwise some nicely packaged editorializing by someone who is not active
in the program and has no practical experience on the subject he's
pontificating about.
51 years ago I lucked out in my military service...(SNIP)
Here we go again...."Back at ADA......"
(UNSNIP)...and got stationed at
a major communications facility. That changed my concepts of what
radio communications was about.
No...that CEMENTED what your concepts of what radio communication was
about.
Very little in what you post here deviates from what you say you
experienced in the 50's, yet YOU take every opportunity to denigrate any
Amateur who has the temerity to suggest discussing ANYthing that happened more
than a week ago as "traditionalist-fundamentalist".
The regulars in this venue don't want to hear of that. It wasn't
about "amateur radio" and it hasn't been publicized in QST.
Well golly gee whiz, Your Putziness...Ya think it might be due to the fact
that (a) it happened over FIVE decades ago, and (B) has NOTHING to do with
AMATEUR RADIO...?!?!aphy.
Back to trying to find out what's holding me down in my search for
anti-gravity...
It could be the lead in your....head.
Putz..
Steve, K4YZ