From: "bb" on Mon,May 23 2005 4:31 pm
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From: "bb" on Sat,May 21 2005 5:04 pm
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Their very, very last effort at leadership. Fifty two years ago.
HALF A FRIGGIN LIFETIME AGO FOR RADIO EXPERIMENTORS!!! Idiot!
Jimmie was THERE...in his heart. :-)
He may have lusted in his heart, but he is no peanut farmer.
"Our" Jimmie is NO "president." :-)
Gosh and gee-whilikers...in 1953 I was doing HF communications
while in the U.S. Army and didn't have to know a thing about
morse code. Reason is probably that NONE of the three dozen
high power transmitters at one station (only the 3rd largest in
the Army network) used any morse code. NONE of the personnel
at that station were required to know morse code to operate
all those transmitters (minimum 1 KW RF out, maximum 15 KW
but later increased to 40 KW). HF bands, 24/7 operations,
nearly a quarter million messages handled each month.
Hey, you went through the IGY57/58. Did you notice anything unusual
about the propagation?
I returned to the States in early 1956.
The only thing I recall was a TOTAL ionospheric blackout
(on local midnight shift) in the Fall of 1955. Lasted about
three hours, give or take. Back-logged about 100 messages or
so which impacted the flow a bit. Before IGY, of course.
Only the long-distance circuits (nearly all) over 300 miles
were affected. VHF and above LOS was not affected.
Brian, you have to understand that Jimmie is the Compleat
(amateur) Manchurian Candidate. Fully brainwashed into thinking
that the ARRL is the holy grail of "truth" and all good works.
These clowns have no problem denying amateur privs to people who
cannot
attain 5, 13, or 20wpm rates. I wish to set the bar higher than they
can attain and deny privs to them. That is all.
Didn't and doesn't bother me either way, but remember that
those clowns "pioneered the airwaves"...speaking of course of
N2EY, K4YZ, W3RV, K8MN. They are "more deserving" because
they exist. :-)
In 1990, ARRL supported the creation of a nocodetest amateur
radio
license.
Why not 1987??? Idiot!
Where was the ARRL's leadership when the FCC made the "Novice
Enhancement?" Why did the FCC have to go it alone without the
ARRL's
"""Leadership???""" Extra-wipe! Idiot!
I guess "Extra-wipe" was a bit strong. So sorry.
Don't be. I used an extra tissue wiping my eyes due to
laughing at them... :-)
Jimmie is WRONG BY OMISSION. According to all the documents
PRIOR to the final decision on FCC 90-53, the ARRL was
AGAINST that. The ARRL only supported the final R&O on the
creation of the no-code-test Technician class AFTER THE FACT.
History Prof Jim is a revisionist.
Well, he doesn't exactly "lie," but neither is he telling
ALL the truth. He follows the ARRL Party Line exactly.
Jimmie just can't bring himself to admit that many OTHER
parties were trying to cancel the code test PRIOR to 1990.
Some time spent in the FCC Reading Room of the correspondence
PRIOR to 1990 will show enough support for No-Code-Test that
the FCC was lobbied into the 90-53 issuance.
Oh, please. You know how these guys are about documentation. Long on
demands, short on product.
Yes, I do...but remember that "these guys" are all PCTA Extras
and have their Double Standard to rationalize their actions.
However, Jimmie is still upset about OLD postings in here and
demands some kind of "recount" and weird "admission of guilt"
over some imaginary "wrongdoing." Jimmie's MISDIRECTION into
old, old posting arguments is one form of his rationalizations.
Once the NO-CODE-TEST Technician class was established, the
ARRL had no other choice to "support" it...it would have been
politically destructive to the League to oppose it AFTER THE
FACT.
The train was leaving the station. Toot-toot. They had to jump
aboard
or get left behind.
Jimmie wants to "forget" about the ARRL statements made prior
to and during 90-53.
Jimmie wants to OMIT certain details to show that the ARRL is
in the "leadership." It isn't. The ARRL still hasn't gotten
a membership larger than a quarter of all licensed U.S.
radio amateurs.
Not only that, but the FCC doesn't appear to be looking at the ARRL in
any leadership capacity.
That seems evident now that the Internet allows DIRECT
communications with the FCC. Opinions of individual hams are
no longer "screened" by the ARRL for ARRL lobbying.
The FASTEST GROWING CLASS in U.S. amateur radio - since 1991 -
is that very same NO-CODE-TEST Technician class. NO OTHER
class has grown so large, so quickly, in the history of
amateur radio as regulated by the FCC since 1934.
Don't confuse them with the facts
I can't confuse them when they don't recognize those facts.
Jimmie is going to trot out his outworn cliches' and other
statements (nearly all sinning by omission of details) and
state "that is simply wrong." :-) He can't think for
himself anymore in amateur radio matters, apparently. He
is one of the number-one bunting putter-upper and flag
waver for the League. The ARRL can do NO wrong in his eyes.
Ask him how far it is to the moon. Hi!
? Is he pretending to be Ralph Kramden? :-)
In my view, Jimmie is so brainwashed that he can't help himself.
He, like Stebie da Avenging Angle of Dearth, is into such a
fantasy that Jimmie really thinks what he writes is "truth"
and anything contrary is "untrue." Jimmie just can't conceive
of his words being in error, therefore he speaks "truth."
Ever since I pointed out that his comment "A morse code exam would be
a
barrier to morse code use" was exactly our point, he's gotten Extra
defensive and ultra-sensitive.
Jimmie won't admit to making errors. It's as simple as that.
As to the "off-color callsign" (Kim's vanity call), that's just
his personal morality thing. It's almost like he took Vows and
was ordained a Priest in the Holy Orders of the Church of
St. Hiram...of the Latter-Day Radio Saints? Or was it
Former-Day Radio Saints? Must be that for his wanting to
cite all those "leadership" actions happening during and
before he was born. Another amateur "role-model" to emulate
on seeking the "highest goals" in amateur radio...complete
Nirvana in morsemanship. Ho hum.
I especially like his vision of an active amateur radio service during
WWII. Hi! What a vision! What a revision!!!
Super vision! [either he IS that or NEEDS that... :-) ]
Jimmie "lived" IN WW2...in his heart and fantasy...just never
was IN the military or faced the prospect of harm to his body
then or later...when he was alive and could have, but didn't,
serve in the military. "He served in other ways..."
I just can't picture Jimmie using an M-209 Code Converter and
tapping on an AN/GRC-9 to "send intel back from the front lines"
to his unit (which wasn't done much in actual fact). Since the
tanks and trucks depended on VOICE comms over VHF sets in Yurp
then, he can't be pictured using a knee key in a bouncing
Sherman tank facing the Panzers along the Rhine. Neither can
he be thought of as "working" the ARC-5 sets in B-17s and B-24s
over Germany (the two pilots used the Command set, the radio-
op-gunner was only connected to the low-HF Liason set). He
certainly wouldn't use VOICE on the first "handie-talkie" (on
HF, operational in 1940) since he thinks HF is only for morse.
Neither would he be pictured using a BC-1000 "walkie-talkie"
(VHF voice only and Heavy backpack) even though that was
widely used - and praised - by the "grunts" of that time,
both in Italy and in Yurp. Jimmie is a MORSEMAN and that is
that... :-)