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January 13th 05, 05:48 PM

Len Over 21 wrote:
In article . com,

(James Psychochief Miccolis, Kommandant uf
das Neugruppen Waffe)

Paging Mr. Godwin....

writes:

Or perhaps it's an attempt to bring others down to his level, get
them
fighting with each other, etc.

Tsk, tsk, I'm not needed for such infighting. You lads do right
fine all by yourselves. :-)

The bull elephant shows the herd his t[u]sks as a display of
dominance...;-)

Consider that Len is not a ham, has never been one, and probably
never will be one. He isn't even very knowledgeable about Part 97,
as illustrated by his ignorance of 97.21(b).

Do you still think that *all* hams with licenses that are expired but
in the grace period can legally operate their amateur radio stations,
Len?

So why is he preaching to the FCC and the online world about
how ham radio should be? He won't tell us his motivation.

Well, Herr Gruppekommandant, it's time to "show you my papers"
and confess all -

Paging Mr. Godwin....

Way back in prehistory of 1952 (der kommandant didn't exist
then),

Mr. Godwin

I had these terrible thoughts of Patriotism and stuff,
hadn't been to the sacred halls of ivy yet, and thought to
volunteer
my body for Army service.

That's laudable, Len.

Ya see, as a poor ignorant soul, nobody had told me my body is
SO precious that I shouldn't put it in harm's way like
volunteering
for the military when there was an actual War (shudders) On.

Body but not mind?

We
had several hams in my home town but nobody thought to Elmer
me on being "able to serve in 'other' ways." That was the first
mistake.

Tell us, Len: Is joining the uniformed military the one and only way a
citizen can serve our country? Or are there other ways?

The second mistake was the Army assigning me to Signal School
for a rarely-heard-of MOS called Microwave Radio Relay. (remember
that 1952 was, after all, "prehistory")

Not at all.

So you learned radio on the taxpayer's dime.

Hams all knew that there was
only black magic above 30 MHz and that no REAL hams found it
useful.

Where do you get that? It's pure nonsense. Real hams were exploring
frequencies above 30 Mc. before even *you* were born...

The rest of the radio world didn't matter...only REAL hams
knew what was good in radio and what was not.

The Army did a third mistake! They assigned me to an Army radio
station in Tokyo. One of those "small" places with only about 36
HF transmitters that was in operation 24/7 and serving the Far
East Command Headquarters. Microwave radio relay equipment
installation had been delayed by a year or so so I had to learn
all
about high-power HF transmitters, how to operate them, how to do
maintenance on them, how to fix them when they went bad. Plus
the essentials of HF networking, TTY-RTTY, the original SSB, along
with VHF and UHF radio relay operation and maintenance that the
Army eventually replaced with microwaves.

All by yourself?

Or were there a couple of hundred other Army personnel there, some with
a lot more experience, to teach you and guide the way?

Did you have to buy books and materials, etc.?

In the midst of all that, I compounded the mistake by trying to
LEARN
and do better at what I did. Shame on me. I should have read the
ARRL publications a lot more than I had. The Army wasn't using
any morse code whatsoever in carrying massive message traffic
across the Pacific! Maybe the ARRL was already falling down on
the Lobbying job because they had NO effect on the Signal Office,
USA! Lots of very olde-tyme hammes were sitting around shaking
their heads at the stupidity of the U.S. military for not using
more
morse code mode in the 1950s! [it's a wonder hams didn't march
on the Pentagon to demand More CW!]

How does that relate to your not being a ham but wanting to tell us How
Ham Radio Should Be?

Tsk. The Mistakes didn't stop. I got a commercial radio
operator's
license so that I could make some money in broadcasting before
moving to the sunbelt (I choice of Florida or California depending
on
the art school).

Commercial radioTELEPHONE license. I got one too - at age 18.

I've been told that I NEED TO GET A HAM LICENSE
FIRST in order to SHOW INTEREST IN RADIO!

Who said that? Not me.

Except I remained
ignorant since nobody TOLD ME that back then.

You do seem proud of your ignorance.

So, getting accepted at Art Center School of Design (to be an
industrial illustrator), I'm also working at Hughes Aircraft
Company
doing environmental testing.

Now? I thought you were retired.

(you did use the present tense)

More new techniques to learn and be
good at, but, unfortunately, ARRL didn't have any useful
literature
to Elmer me in that. Morsemanship wasn't needed in environmental
testing, or in radar sets (HAC El Segundo made military airborne
radars then). It might shock some to know that 20 WPM morse skill
isn't needed for 10g vibration testing and the temperature
extremes
aren't found in ham shacks, except maybe Antarctica where hams
were supposedly the only link to the outside world (according to
the League).

Where do you get all this misinformation?

Had I become a ham and advanced to Extra, I no
doubt would have KNOWN all those things just by the license
grant (an epiphany) but I had to listen to other, non-hams, some
with degrees, some without, all working IN the aerospace industry.

Is all this blather leading somewhere?

Well, since HAC wasn't pioneering any morsemanship on HF
methods, the usual aerospace halts and groans caused a halt in
some salaries. I moved over to Ramo-Wooldridge and work in
Electronic Warfare systems (such as on the Quail decoy missle,
a weird little MacDonnell airbreather that could electronically
imitate one or more B-52s). No morsemanship needed there at
all, not even anything on HF! [must have been an oversight of
both Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge when they got Thompson
Products backing to start what would eventually grow into TRW]
I'm sure that Simon, Dean, and the USAF wasn't listening to
ARRL advice on radio as to what was the "best" for all. More
mistakes and more prominent ones too!

It seems you are going to impose your resume on us yet again.

In late 1958 several more mistakes happened. I changed major
to electrical engineering from illustration.

Why? Weren't you any good at illustration?

I was way to confused to
continue on an absolute straight-and-narrow immaculate path of
life and decided to be an engineer instead of illustrator (an
artist
who depicts things as they really are). The FCC created the Class
C and D Citizens Band Service, a TOTALLY HORRIBLE MISTAKE
by them that shall be cursed to the end of time by all REAL hams,
the morsemen of the apocaleptic. Imagine! NO morse code skill
needed for ordinary citizens to get ON HF radio, not even any TEST
at all! Even worse was an individual changing their career goals
before their education is completed! HORRORS.

Do you *really* think 27 MHz cb was a good idea?

Oh, the mistakes get worse. I bought a Johnson Viking CB
transceiver and got a CB license

Bought? With all that radio knowledge, and your commercial license,
you settled for an appliance rather than building a radio?

...and could do only about 8 WPM
morse, if that.

You seem to have skipped over when you tried to learn Morse Code.
Funny,
in the deluge of details, that little tidbit gets lost.

btw, way back in 1951 the FCC created two classes of amateur license
that
required only 5 wpm Morse code. Yet you never got either a Technician
or
a Novice license, even though the Technician was specifically meant for

those interested in the "world above 30 Mhz".

Several tried to verbally horse-whip me on that but
I got away.

Several of what?

Worked great in the all-aluminum body '53 Austin-
Healey sports car, tooled around southern Cal talking to other
mistake-prone evil grownups who used HF without a valid morse
test! American-made CB radios! Talk about prehistoric times!
Law-breakers all, no shame, sort of like the Old West.

So you admit to violating FCC regulations for the Citizens Radio
Service?

I know its hard to believe but USA university curricula do NOT
require any morsemanship or being-licensed-in-amateur-radio-to
show-interest-in-radio!!! Lots of college students in both day
and
night classes were interested but, sadly, without that REQUISITE
ham license FIRST in order to show their interest. BIG mistake.
Done by all the little colleges out here...UCLA, USC, Berkeley,
you know, tha small ones without the ivy all over.

Did you graduate from any of those, Len?

Tsk. More mistakes beginning early, like high-fidelity music
interest since high school. Instead of wanting to listen to good
sound, I should have worked very hard at perceiving the "music
of morse" (monotonal, aperiodic). My contemporaries liked to
hear the false music of symphonies and jazz bands. Shame on
us. We knew no better than to trust our own senses.

What does this have to do with amateur radio policy?

Then personal computing! Absolutely NO relationship to morse
or pioneering HF radio by working DX with morsemanship.

So why do you mention it? Doesn't even involve radio.

We
hedonistic number-loving infidels went beyond the limited ranges
of
"73" and "599" to enable the PC boom to explode in the late 1970s.

How did *you* do that?

Did you work for Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? IBM?

We should have spent our time in monastaries of morse copying
the treasures of Hiram's writings and REAL morse code, not the
graven images of source or assembler code of the false gods such
as the ACM or the IBM of Armonk. We sinned mightily and forsake
the divine ordained religious leaders at the holy city of
Newington.

Well, Len, my computer experience goes back to 1972, writing software
that had to be punched on cards for use in mainframes. I went to school
in the very building where the first high-speed general-purpose
electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was designed and built. For the US
Army, btw. I actually got to see, pick up and examine pieces of ENIAC
when they showed up back at the U in 1976.

Yes, we infidels denigrating the True Calling should have worked
our
morsemanship and pioneered the airwaves for Telstar, microwaves
across the continents, the communications satellites giving us
near-instant communications across the globe, the Deep Space
Network, Men ON the Moon televised live, the Internet, the
cellular
telephone...all of which use absolutely NO morsemanship to devise
or build or perfect. We all had FALSE MOTIVATION.

"We"? Did you build all those things?

Yes, it's a mighty CONSPIRACY against the amateur morsemen,
begun before most of them existed, deliberately kept up to
humiliate
them and keep them from perfecting the Antique Radiotelegraphic
Society (ARS) of the United States. We are all WORKING AGAINST
YOU MORSEMEN in a titanic struggle for power (but only in news-
groups) and THREATENING YOUR MIGHTY EGOS!

I think the only one here with such a mighty ego is yourself, Len. Or
should I say nocwtest/averyfine/averyfineman/lenof21/lenover21? (And
those are just the AOL screen names you admit to using).

It was all a mistake. An evil, antichrist-sort of mistake,
compounded
many times, deliberately aimed at all those mighty macho morse-
men in this newsgroup. We have defiled your divine wishes, holy
fathers. We ask no penance, no absolution for our sins (or
sines).

We answer to a Higher Order, not to your demands.

All that verbiage, and yet you avoid the question completely.

So I was 100% correct: Len is not a ham, has never been one, and
probably
never will be one. He isn't even very knowledgeable about Part 97, as
illustrated by his ignorance of 97.21(b).

But he continually preaches to the FCC and the online world about
how ham radio should be.

He won't tell us his motivation.

Go thee and perform auto-intercourse.

Gee, Len, that's really "professional". Really makes people
see the logic of your arguments. Perhaps you should put that
into your next comments to the FCC.