Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:
I'm not into any "whizzing contest" with the gunnery nurse. :-)
Hnarf!
Anyone can see you are.
Tsk, tsk. The "whizzing" is almost entirely one way, nursie
"whizzing" on anyone who disagrees (in the slightest) with
him. [that's all archived in Google, go live in the past and see
it...:-) ]
I'd think you'd be wary of Google biting you again. Don't forget that
all of your words are there too--the insults, the name calling--all of
it.
The way the league wrote themselves up, they began as a local
club using their ham sets to what was essentially hacking on the
services of commercial telegraph providers. [see the details on the
league's web site and in other published works by them]
Incorrect.
ARRL did not spring into national prominence until AFTER World
War 1, at least 8 years AFTER the Titanic sinking.
Incorrect. The League came into being in 1914 with U.S. entry into WWI
in 1917. QST resumed publication in mid-1919. The League was a
national organization before the United States entered the war.
Even so, the
league was very busy with competition from OTHER wannabe
national amateur organizations.
"Wannabe" is right. None of the other amateur radio organizations were
ever serious competitors of the ARRL.
Note: The Radio Club of America
began 5 years before the creation of the little New England club,
and "RCA" (as they call themselves) is still in existance.
Right. Five years before as "The Junior Wireless Club". The little New
England club grew and grew. The Radio Club of America was never very big
though it broadened its scope. Did you have a point?
Besides, on January 19, 2000, you told us you were going for Extra "right out
of the box".
Did I do that in church? Laying down in the nave, forming a code key
with my body and taking absolute Vows? :-)
Is that the only way we could have taken you at your word?
Tsk. I've seen what Being An Extra makes of some amateurs and
such is not for me.
I believe you meant that you've seen what it takes to become an Extra
and such is not for you.
I'm of the opinion that radio and electronics is terribly fascinating,
interesting, and makes an enjoyable field of both avocation and
occupation. To me. So much so that I made a major shift in my
formal education long ago, changing from illustration art to
electronics engineering. That despite a natural talent in
illustration and some prior work experience as an illustrator.
That was personally successful, not the "lackluster career" you
stated.
Shall we go over some of the things which you've written about the
careers of others, you poor old fellow?
I do electronics hobby work in my home workshop to please me,
not some raddio kopps demanding a certain formal Way To Do
Things, nor worshipping the old traditional ways as they were
done long ago, trying to re-enact a past that was before I was
born.
Great! It sounds as if you can go right along doing those things.
As usual, you've wasted my time. But...I was sitting around waiting
for the big brown truck to show up as promised on the tracking info.
:-)
Is that some sort of regularity euphemism, Len?
Dave K8MN