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September 30th 04, 10:57 PM

In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:

Who are "Jimmie and Davie"?

Perhaps Len meant "Jim, N2EY" and "Dave, K8MN". If so, then his use of
feminized diminutives for our names proves (paraphrasing Brian, N0IMD): "he
doesn't have the guts to spell our names right".

Tsk. I'm only copying the style of some PCTA extras in here.

Notably your mutual buddy, gunnery nurse yell-yell.

Isn't it time you slapped his wrist with wet noodles again?

I have designed, built, and operated at three amateur radio HF transceivers.
First one was about 25 years ago. Before that, I was doing the same with
separate receivers and transmitters.

Right. JAMES was the designer of the mighty K2. Hi hi.

Len wrote here in January 2000 that he was going for Extra right out of the
box. He wasn't a ham then. Nor now.

Tsk. I didn't lie down on the floor of the Church of St. Hiram and
Take Vows For Life while forming a code key with my body. :-)

If you want to take me to task, ask about my anti-gravity invention.
It's not done yet! Something is still holding me down...

Living in the past....

Tsk. Jimmie used the mantra "the past is prologue" often before...

Did Len have a nice office at the magazine? Did he like living in New
Hampshire? Whatever became of that magazine? - I can't find it on the
newsstands...

Like most of the "staff" of HR, we worked wherever we lived.

New Hampshire is lovely in the fall. In the winter it can be muy cold
as Alf Wilson, W6NIF, complained to me on the phone several
times. Alf took over on the sudden death of Jim Fisk, ex-W1HR,
founding partner and chief editor of HR. He and his wife moved
back to southern California after the second cold winter there.

Ham Radio magazine and Ham Radio Horizons, as well as the
Ham Radio Bookstore, were all part of Communications Technology
Incorporated. It was sold to CQ Communications in 1990 after HR
had a 22-year publishing history as an independent amteur radio
technical periodical.

A three-CD electronic reprint of all 22 years' contents are available
mail-order from CQ or ARRL and across the counter at HRO outlets
for US$150.

I do have quite a few old copies of it, but Len's name isn;t in any of them.

Tsk. Jimmie doesn't have enough copies. :-)

Recycle some dollars and get your own copies right on the computer
screen. [you DO have a CD-compatible drive in that computer, don't
you, master of high-tech?]

But as you say, Dave, an author is someone who writes. I am the author of
this post; therefore, I am an author. So are you.

Tsk. You post. Posts hold fences. You make fences to keep out
independent thought, limit those within to YOUR type of thinking.

The point is the same: Numerous authors here have proved Len's assertions
about subbands and synthesizers to be completely without basis in fact.

Tsk. That's not a post. Your judgement is a post hole.

The plain simple fact remains that Len has not had to deal with
subbands-by-license-class in amateur radio. Or any other amateur-radio
issues. His observations are those of a spectator only, not a participant.

Tsk. Jimmie want to dismiss the FCC because the FCC does not
require any commissioner or staff to hold amateur radio licenses?

I have several non-work activities and responsibilites and I get out quite a
bit.

Good for you. Whatever they are, I'm sure they are superior to
anything any NCTA does, did, or is considering. :-)

Actually, I don't think Len invented *any* of the circuits or systems now used
in "modern ready-built radios". Not any radios I know of, anyway.

Tsk. Recycling old parts circa-1990 and using vacuum tubes is
hardly "invention." :-)

But, Jimmies qualification is the phrase "Not any radios I know of,
anyway." That imperious declaration infers he is judge, jury, and
supreme court of all "radio" that is meaningful anywhere, anytime.
:-)

"Not that there's anything wrong with that"

Tsk. That's the ONLY way in this newsgroup where attempted
domination in all things amateur is done by PCTA extras.

Pass the A-1 sauce and the sherpa...