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June 4th 05, 07:04 PM

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From: "bb" on Wed,May 25 2005 3:35 pm
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From: on Mon,May 23 2005 3:57 am

"who can't argue a subject for squat and does the personal insult thing
in order to "win an argument." "

Oh, oh! Reverend Jim issued a Sermon On The Antenna Mount! :-)

Not only that, the poor guy is still furious over NOT "winning"
a newsgroup argument THREE YEARS AGO! :-)

Not only that, the "argument" wasn't even about RADIO!

Hello? This newsgroup is about AMATEUR RADIO POLICY. Military
and international socio-political politics are another group.

"RADIO" includes all of the HF portion of the EM spectrum. That's
where the major international communications networks WERE in
the 1950s. I was part of that - for three years - as a
volunteer in the United States Army...operating HF transmitters
for an Army station.

In Jim's circles, there is no "volunteering." You get bad grades and
your waiver goes away. Then the Draftsman comes knocking.

Tsk, the "knocking" stopped about 32 years ago. Jimmie has NO
worry. He could sit back in comfortable safety in PA and read
all about the military and international realpolitik without
once having participated in anything.

How many Soviet aircraft did you see when you were in Japan in the
1950s, Len?

Only one, but at a distance, couldn't get close enough to
read
any manufacturer's tags on the airframe of the MiG. From a
North Korean defector who flew it to South Korea, was in
display at a USAF base on Honshu.

So in fact W3RV has seen more Soviet military aircraft than
you..and he saw them in flight, crewed by non-defectors.

I've seen Soviet aircraft without being overseas. I've seen
them on RADAR penetrating CONUS airspace.

Aeroflot?

You've never been "IN" amateur radio, yet you want to
tell us How It Should Be.

When you merely want to exclude people??? I've no
problem with him
anything he might say to you with your kind of attitude.

Jimmie needs to be newsgroup CEO.

Not me, Len. I'm not the one telling people to shut up
or go away.

Getting to the heart of the matter, Jimmie feels
TERRIBLY "insulted"
when one doesn't like what Jimmie likes.

Not true. You're the one who calls people names, and
tells them to shut up
if they don't agree with you.

Jim calls them jackasses.

I've never called anyone here a jackass.

What I have done is describe some of their *behavior* as
"jackass behavior".

[he is regularly bringing up old, faded postings
from Google as
if to continue to "do battle" on those topics
forever and ever]

Gee, Len, you bring up even older and more faded stuff about

Highly respected...

defunct
ham radio magazines and your experiences of a half-century
ago.

Every issue of QST has excerpts from half a century ago. I've
never,
ever, ever seen you complain. Ever.

Half a page devoted to past issues of 25, 50, 75 years ago. Out of
a magazine of well over 100 pages.

And each month the information is different. Len tells the same
tired stories over and over again.

Why
is it OK for you to rehash events of 20, 30, 50 years ago,
but not
OK for others to remind you of the events of 2 or 3 years
past?

Because you say it isn't OK for Len to remind you of events
of 50 years
ago, but never comment when the ARRL does it.

Jimmie wants to rehash what I was "supposed to do" in Japan,

Where do you get that. Len? Where did I ever say what you
were supposed to do in Japan?

Jimmie wants Total Agreement with his OPINIONS. If there is
no Total Agreement, then dissention is "wrong," must be
BANNED, shouted down, tarred and feathered, etc., etc.

You just can't take strong opposition to your opinions, Len.

Seems like a double standard on your part.

Double-standard, indeed. That could be your middle name.

I think it should be just "H" (for hypocrite).

Len - *your* middle initial is "H". Mine isn't.

Jimmie wants NUMBERS? He is regularly giving
some sort of
tabulation
on the "valid licenses" of radio amateurs in the USA.

No, I'm not. You're mistaken, Len. Wrong again.

Are you absolutely, positively sure?

On that point, yes.

The numbers I post here twice a month are those of
current, unexpired
FCC amateur licenses held by individuals.
That's stated in each post.
The word valid is not used to describe them.

They are invalid numbers? They are invalid licenses?

They are current licenses - as opposed to expired licenses,
cancelled licenses, revoked licenses.

Jimmie loves wordplay, spending long hours at his old, faded
computer,

Gee, Len, your verbiage output here far exceeds mine. You seem
to be describing yourself!

exercising his imaginary powers of CEO of the
newsgroup. He's wasting lots of folks' time.

Do you want me to shut up, Len?