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September 18th 04, 10:09 PM

(Steve Robeson K4CAP) wrote in message ...
Subject: Who peed in the pool
From: Dave Heil
Date: 9/17/2004 9:54 AM Central Standard Time
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N2EY wrote:

In article , Dave Heil

writes:

Len Over 21 wrote:

I'm not claiming "hostile action" experience in the military. :-)

"Jeff, you've never been under Incoming, have you? While
trying to get return artillery support on a radio while your
ears, your whole body is numbed by HE infall on your
position? Most folks in that position don't wet their
pants...every sphincter tightens up, ears go deaf, eyes
close tight, and every breath may be the last."

--Len Anderson, 2000

:-)

Oh yes, the classic "sphincter post". You shoulda posted the whole thing,
Dave
- it was classic how Len tore into Jeff/KH6O's recollection of experiences
in
big-time radio. (If running 500 kHz at NPM, handling all sorts of traffic,
weather and SOS operations wasn't big-time radio, nothing was).

Len's view is that no one else has ever handled high volume radio
traffic; no one else has ever used high power equipment. There are some
hams who can come near, some who can equal and some who can exceed his
experience *and* who are radio amateurs as well. Some don't care for
morse code. Some use it at times. Some use it quite often. Some use
it exclusively.

Well, you aren't *exactly* claiming it. You described the terror of
being under incoming artillery without explaining that you'd never
actually been under any. Perhaps you should have ended that now famous
paragraph with "...or so I've been told".

Come to think of it, that spiffy illustration sort of parallels your
amateur radio experience, doesn't it?

How many minutes flying time were you from death by Soviet Bears were
you?

You mean the plane which did not even enter service until Len was long gone
from Japan?

Yep, that one. That was another which should have ended with, "or so
I've been told".

Lennie's whole life is a series of "so I've been tolds"...

And Steve's is a whole series of "this is no ****s"...

Len don't know but he's been told
Ten-Tec gear is made of gold
If he tempts the Russian bear
He'll have to change his underwear

Only 50% witty.

Wonder how Sir Creepieness will try to worm his way out from under yet
more embarrassments uttered from his own keyboard and truned against him...?!?!

Truning something against someone else is a serious matter. You
shouldn't try it from home.

Nice job, guys.

73

Steve, K4YZ

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