In article .com, "bb"
writes:
Lenof21 wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:
Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:
So...now you've got this "instant gratification" thing going
again?
Yes sir! Just like you have your thing going again.
My "thing" has been "going" all the while...no problems. :-)
Okay, good enough.
"Good enough?" :-)
Good enough, indeed!
I wonder what Mikes "war" contributions were?
A few cents pocket change into a Salvation ARMY bucket? :-)
There were no "streets" on Tsukishima Island in Tokyo in the 1950s.
Those were eventually put in when both the USA and USAF vacated
the island by the 1960s.
Damned USAF. Always trying to find a civilized way to do sumptin.
Well, the 16th Communications Squadron on the other half of
Tsukishima Island lived there full time. Eventually even those hardy
souls went looking for better places to exist.
We didn't "walk in" either since the billet was a half hour shuttle bus
trip from the transmitter station prior to assignment.
Shush! We'll have none of this no point A, point B nonsense.
Sorry. Scotty hadn't installed the Transporter yet. :-)
Transmitting sites are always wherever you happen to be.
Heh. When tossing out about 450 KW of assorted HF RF, ain't too
many others wanting to live in that vicinity.
Len, dammit, none of this pulse crappola. It was either CW or it was
RTTY. Doan confuse us widda facts.
Well, that's how it goes. Radar be a pulse thingy. [somehow I'm sure
that Jeffie from the Islands will try to claim that Hawaii pioneered radar
to spot invading Japanese aircraft...and that every fire and police station
has a radar set just for that... :-) ]
Police departments in the USA helped pioneer mobile VHF FM prior to
WW2, enough so that land armor forces had "channelized" push-button
select VHF FM radios in Yurp and foot soldiers had the old walkie-
talkie backpack VHF transceiver. FM. Voice. Like 1943 and out of
the Chicago Motorola works. SSB, the commercial variety of 12 KHz
BW carrying 4 voice-grade channels, was already linking WW2 troops
via HF to the mainland...the old clankety 60 WPM Teletypes riding about
8 at a time on 6 KHz worth of that SSB. Kind of "double frequency
multiplexing" which had been going on since the beginning of the 1930s.
[hams pioneered all that by writing it up in QST, didn't they?]
Wouldn't have missed it for the world, even with the threat of WW3
hanging around for everyone to get nervous about.
Stoppit, dammit, stoppit!!!
I'm just sick and tired of you tellin' it like it was. The truth doan
count for sh*t aroun here anyways!
Seems to be the truth, doesn't it? :-)
Now if you have a magazine like QST to relate real radio stories, well
then there might be sum dat lissen.
Well, we can always vacation in Hawaii and drop in any police and
fire station...they all have ham stations according to Jeffie and MUST
have old copies of QST lying around.
Guys like Jimmy Who dat doan know sh*t about real commitment, real
sacrifice. Only know about ENG101 and if the government loans are
going through. Forget about Fuchu and DaNang. They gots more
important tings to do so dey can tell us about how it really was.
They are Very Important People. They say so themselves, are
without error. They know "Real truth."
But, in 2004, U.S. radio amateurs MUST still pass a morse test
to "qualify" for operating an amateur radio transmitter on HF.
Sadly true. Gotta makesure you not Taliban.
Screening. Profiling. Those who no code test have "no interest" in
radio according to one such "profiler." :-)
Taliban welcome to FAA license.
Who else but FAA approved, certified, qualified, sanctified USA
flight schools taught the 9-11 hijackers how to fly?
Hey, Mister!!! If the Taliban can master the Morris Code, so can you.
I suppose so. But, not wanting to bother shows that I am "un-interested"
in radio (one profiler) or am "too dumb" to pass one (many others), and
generally morally incompetent to exist in the shining presence of mighty
macho morsemen.
Wonder if our Twin-Trade Tower Terrs were accomplished codesters?
Doubt it. Several U.S. government agencies allowed them in and to
attend flight schools here. Didn't hear about any secret terrorist plans
to wipe out any CW radio museums.
If that morse test is so absolutely "needed," then the definition of
the
ARS should be changed in Part 97 to "Archaic Radiotelegraphy
Service" for the USA.
Thot it was the Ars?
Ars longa.
On this last day of the 4th year of the new millenium, I can only add,
"didit!"
All of the rest of amateur radio should be embarassed.