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Sweetums, I WAS PART OF IT. :-)
Part. But not all. Your personal experience was just a small part of
the big picture.
Lennie was squat. He was a radio mechanic at a rear-area radio
station. His knowledge of the "big picture" was "tunnel vision", at
best when he was "in", and would be no more today if not for the
research resources of the Internet today.
Army station ADA, as
assigned to Far East Command Headquarters, carried not
only Army traffic, but some USN traffic, some USAF
traffic, some Press Services, even some Red Cross
message traffic. ALL on TTY.
*Some* of that traffic. Not all of it. So you can't really
speak for what was done through other channels other than by
what you've read and been told - same as me.
Not a bit of morse
code. And ADA was just the third largest station in
ACAN (Army Commmand and Administrative Network). That
"little" station (36 transmitters, all over 1 KW and
on 24/7) relayed 220 thousand messages a month (1955).
WAR (Washington Army Radio) handled over a million a
month then.
But you weren't at those places, were you?
Of course not.
But he SERVED! By simple virtue of having gone through boot camp,
he was given all military knowledge of all services in the pre/post
Colonial days and ever since...
Tsk, that's called PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS, sweetums.
When one is IN the Cold War and trying NOT to let it
develop into a nuclear confrontation, one uses absolutely
the BEST stuff to "get the message through."
You didn't have to pay for it yourself, though.
But he SERVED! Again, by simple virtue of having gone to boot
camp, Lennie was given all knowledge of all things "military". He was
also made sole owner, heir and heir apparent to all materiel past,
present and future. Nothing has ever happened in the Armed Forces that
didn't get his explicit consent or approval first.
I'm sure the Canadian military did the same within their
budget constraints.
You want the U.S. military to act like amateurs?
No. But you seem to want amateurs to act like the US military.
But of course! That's the way Lennie learned how to do it, and by
golly, that IS how everyone else is going to do it...
Wait...where have I heard THAT before..?!?!
OH YEAH! Lennie accusing US of making that "demand" of
prospective Amateurs!
Some of us think that POLICY of the U.S. government
is "done by amateurs" but that's a whole other story.
OK, Len. Who did you vote for in the US presidential elections
of 2000 and 2004? You've spoken of President Bush's "coronation
day" - so I think you voted for one of the other guys.
And it was *not* the kind of communications that make up the
vast
majority of amateur radio communications.
Don't misdirect, sweetums.
Not a misdirection, Len. A simple fact.
"Simple facts" are not Lennie's forte.
What the heck, Jimmie Noserve, you weren't IN any
military, not even in Canada. Why are you all upset?
I'm not upset, Len. You're the one shouting and carrying on like a
jack### all over the place, over the mention of the use of Morse
code.
Lennie brags about "serving", which I would assume to mean that he
adamandtly supported and defended the Constitution of the United
States...
....the SAME Constitution that doesn't REQUIRE military service.
Yet he's yelling and hollering about people NOT "serving"...
What's this putz's problem, Jim? Guess he only supports those
parts that suit him...
Secondly, check with a REAL MARS civilian volunteer.
You will find out that the military GIVES them radio
goodies. No need to "buy." Military already bought
the stuff and used it.
So *some* hams get the castoffs from the military. Not *all* hams,
and
not complete stations.
If MARS just "gave" stuff to Hams, then the MARS rolls would be a
lot more robust than they are today, what with folks getting in line
for free radios and all.....
Sweetums, I just don't LIKE the TEST for it.
No, you just don't like the mode. Your behavior proves it.
Actually, it was a diversional lie...to cover up his greater
hatred and disdain for all things "Amateur". Leonard H. Anderson
"likes" nothing but himself.
73
Steve, K4YZ
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