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K4YZ babbled his usual libelous filth on Feb 19, 9:10 am, to wit:

You've contributed nothing to the technical development
of Amateur Radio.

I haven't? :-)

What has widdle Stevie "contributed to the technical development
of amateur radio?

Absolutely nothing.

Steven James will deny this through some obscure rationalizations;
the kind of rationalization is not necessarily predictable. A
number
of other PCTA extras will no doubt join in the fray, damning me and
possibly yourself in the spirit they have (ghoulish as that is).
The
PCTA extras love to gang up on dissenters. :-)

Phil Kane may even have sided with the PCTAs although he claims
to be against keeping the morse test. He apparently told you that
"thinking" is "wrong" on your sentence about "...think that there
are
no morse skilled" at the FCC monitoring stations. He told you that
"you are so wrong." One can take that as a sort-of directive that
thinking is wrong. :-)

Philosophically speaking (in the old sense of philosophy), electrons
fields and waves don't recognize any human definitions of service
or kind of application. All of radio, regardless of the "service,"
work
by the same principles of physics. Olde tyme hammes don't (or
can't) think that way. They seem to think that a HAM radio thing
will ONLY work for a licensed radio amateur and that such a thing
is different if used for any other radio service. Now THAT thinking
IS wrong...besides being dumb. :-)


Sitting in ham newsgroups and hurling libelous
filth against all who oppose him? :-)

At every opportunity.

Steven James must be a follower of USMC Lt.Gen. Mattis who
loves to brawl and thinks "it's fun to shoot people!" (according to
a much-publicized news item from a public speech by Mattis
a week or so ago)

Define "technical development" in radio, oh mighty radio guru!

Show us your work, your brilliant developments of buying ready-
built equipment and building "weekender" projects from articles
in ham magazines...no doubt all full of amazing technology
never before seen, ey? :-)

Steve harms amateur radio by his very presence. He's nuts and he's
not
afraid to prove it.

Tsk. He doesn't realize this.

He has much confusion on the word "service" for example: The FCC
uses the word "service" in regards to the type and kind of radio
activity being regulated...such as broadcasting or maritime radio or
citizens band or private land mobile, etc., etc. Steven James'
postings tend towards his imagining the amateur radio "service" as
being a continuation of some "military service" such as the USMC.
That way of thinking allows him to put on his NCO rank and boss
others around as if he had the pursed lips of a Dill instructor
(complete with flat-brimmed campaign hat). Problem is, he doesn't
have such rank, doesn't have such authority, in a civilian hobby
activity (amateur radio). Nonetheless, he attempts to bully others
around "as if" (as the eastern colloquialism has it).

You are not a licensed Amateur. You cannot, therefore, be
any kind of a judge of what Amateurs should do or how they should
do
it.

The two sentences are a typical example of newsgroup bullying.

It is also typical of the fantasy of eliteness wallowed in by so
many olde tyme hammes up to their armpits in self-
righteousness.

Such self-righteousness FAILS in the USA because the federal
agency regulating all civil radio here does NOT require
commissioners or staff to hold amateur radio licenses to fulfill
their lawful duty of regulating all amateur radio. The way some of
them carry on, the FCC must be considered as secondary to the
ARRL as the perceived "regulator of ham radio" in the USA... :-)

Nonetheless, those self-righteous self-appointed-sheriffs of ham
radio want to RESTRICT access to public newsgroups on THEIR
terms. Nobody tells them what to do! They think they rule. :-)
They don't but that doesn't stop those middle-aged "boyz in da
'hood" from spraying their "turf" graffitti where they want.

The PCTA extras go a step further. They also spray some kind
of time stasis on everything in U.S. amateur radio, demanding a
retro condition of timeless holding to old, outdated regulations
that they bought into when young and a newbie to ham radio.
They were brainwashed into a false idealism and have never
cleared themselves of those olde ideals.

In one way, the absolute hold to now-old standards and practices
is a form of personal survival. It gives the impression of them
remaining forever young despite the inescapable fact that all of
us are continuing to grow old. So, they reinforce their personal
fantasies by federal regulations requiring all newcomers to do as
they did in loving, honoring, cherishing morse code through
passing a federal test on that ability. Those "marriage vows" to
the sanctity of morsemanship shine through most of the printed
media of the ARRL, further spreading (and enobling) the sanctity
of morse. It is reinforcement of their early brainwashing.

Those PCTA extras have an absolutist view of morsemanship:
Anyone against morse code testing is "against all amateur
radio (as in hating all hams)!" :-)

Wonder why Steve allows non-amateurs to sit in judgement of amateur
radio?

He has a variable standard. The FCC is "approved" because
they give him a TITLE...it's a "(military) rank substitute." From
that it is an easy route to being "better than others" because
he can reference public information on the fact that he is an
amateur extra class licensee and thus "important, a somebody."

He is much into Titles, Rank, Privilege, plus being able to Show
it through pretty certificates (suitable for framing) and medals.
It's his personal bling-bling. If a federal or state agency can
give
him title, rank, status or privilege, they are favored...as long as
they don't interfere with that title, rank, status or privilege.

If the morse code test is eliminated, that will END one part of
the title-rank-privilege package. Some of that has already
happened with the recent Restructuring putting a cap of 5
WPM on all code testing. Olde-tyme hammes want to
preserve their illusion of being "top gun" through passing
a 20 WPM code test but are forced into attempted degredation
of new extras, as in terms "nickel extra" or "extra lite"
applied to recent amateur extras. Those olde-tymers are
angry that federals no longer recognize their intrinsic
superiority so they go into name-calling.


He fails to substantiate his "seven hostile actions."

Such a big claim, zero evidence. And his credibility is such that we
just can't give him a pass. Nope. No pass.

It's all part of a curious form of gamesmanship in here, all bluff
in Steven James' case. He wants to be a SOMEBODY of
fame, to be "recognized" and respected for his accomplishments.
If that means stepping all over what others have done, calling
all their claims "lies," then he will do that...and has. He does
not need to verify his claims by giving details such as place
and date. We are all expected to "believe" him lest we incur
an avalanche of subsequent insult postings (along with failure
to give details). He will bully all who do not accept that.

All of us are somebody and each of us is unique. We can
grow and learn by sharing experiences, data, results...or we
can engage in countless, mindless flame wars ignited by
those who cannot handle strong opposition to certain
opinions. But, personal insults exist and some must be
dealt with as in the spiteful postings of Steven James.

He wants to ridicule others for having worked for what they have.
As one example, he ridicules my long period of formal college
education as a "night school" (in the manner of remedial
language lessons put on by some local communities). Those
"night school" classes were fully accredited college courses.
Working a full day and then going to class at least three nights
a week is hard work...worse on work overtime or having to
cancel a whole semester due to the company sending me on
field trips. Such is denigrated, made fun of by him...as if one
going to "night school" was "stupid, ignorant, or slothful."

Steven James repeatedly made fun of my Army assignment a
half century ago, saying "I embellished my 'military career' in
exaggerating things and 'dishonoring' my unit members." I'd
mentioned Army station ADA in regards to showing that the
military did not use "CW" for massive long-haul traffic a half
century ago. Steven James insists that I "brag" about that
even though I've not only got written documentation (and
some Signal Corps official photographs of me at the station)
plus have a personal reference (Gene Rosenbaum, N2JTV)
who was assigned there during my time, plus mentions in
the Pacific Stars & Stripes military newspaper. It seems
that operating a large military HF radio station is "less" than
operating a single ham transmitter (by "CW" on HF, of
course) today. Not only that, some PCTA extras claim
that operating a military radio is "not really operating a radio!"
Certainly not a powerful (100 W) complicated (MOPA) ham
transmitter (with many knobs and dials, etc.) using that
"universal language" of morse code (in the best amateur
manner a la 1930s standards and practices).

I won't go into Steven James' vile insults about my wife other
than to say that the University of Illinois (a center for
computer research) at Urbana is NOT a "correspondence
school" taking out ads in newsstand pulp magazines.

Poor Stevie, all confused again as to what is "right or wrong"
and personal fantasy versus reality. Thinks all who oppose
his opinions are "wrong," "liars," "untruthful," etc., etc.

Widdle Stevie is nutso.



Indeed.

It's unfortunate that this newsgroup delves into personality battles
so often...or into petty arguments on definitions which have been
made years ago (such as on-off keyed CW is "not" binary in the
newest argument-for-argument sake). SUBJECTS should be
discussed, not the personalities of correspondents.