From: "K4YZ" on Sun 24 Jul 2005 05:53

wrote:
From: Leo on Jul 23, 11:23 am

While the ubiquitous ball-point pen is used for making notes
in ham "logs," the precise frequencies noted down are kept
accurate by the PLL or DDS in modern amateur transceivers.

Nope.

What do you mean "nope," opie?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

What you use then, big PCTA extra of the Double Standard, a
couple crates of crystals?!?!?

The precise frequencies are "kept" by the station licensee who
ensures that his or her station is kept in good operating order.

Yeah, riiiight...the extra can do "laying on of hands" and
instantly tell (by magic of some kind of telepathy) what
frequency he is tuned to....

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

It is additionally noted that Leonard H Anderson had nothing to do
with the creation for the aforementioned PLL or DDS that he's
attempting to brag on.

Tsk, tsk. The fire in your hate-filled eyes is robbing you
of any comprehension of what was written.

NOBODY was "bragging" about PLLs or DDSs...just pointing out
that they exist. The PLL was first innovated in France in
1932. The ball-point pen was innovated in Hungary in the
1930s. You don't see any connection chronologically?
No, you can't...you are WAY too busy trying trying to trash
those who won't agree with you.

NASA has a rather large PR department, adjacent to a large
"technology licensing" department, all of which is intended
to help support NASA operations' budgets. Their PR is on a
higher level than the ARRL's PR, but both tend to generate
a considerable number of MYTHS in their respective areas.

NASA pays people to write "MYTHS"...???

Again, you FAIL in reading comprehension...but, what the hell,
you've probably never read "NASA Technology Review" issues,
either. :-)

NASA Public Relations TAILORS and CRAFTS their words very
carefully...as ALL good marketing types do. They can CREATE
the IMPRESSION of things in their favor...as what ALL good
marketting types do. All they have to do is some word
re-arranging and some convenient OMISSION of certain things
and those who read/listen/view what they are talking about
will do the "myth creation" for them. Examples:

"Ball point pen invented by NASA." Not so...it was invented
before NASA existed.

"TANG" (the breakfast drink) came out of NASA as a drink for
astronauts. Not so...it was invented for consumer use and to
make money.

"Velcro was invented by NASA" to hold things in place in
zero gravity. Not so. It's obvious that it does so but the
invention was for the clothing industry.

"Teflon was invented by NASA" to withstand the rigors of
spaceflight, etc. Not so. Fluoroethylene chemistry came
out of needs of the Manhattan Project to use in extracting
uranium and plutonium...which was later commercialized by
DuPont as a polymer.

ALL of those common myths are further reinforced by the
everyday journalists and news editors who simply take news
copy and "run with it" in their media. Everyone sees it in
print (real ink on real paper) or sees it on TV (TV never
lies in its news)...and they accept it as "fact."

For an example of cross-pollination of myths, the "space
amateur radio" carried on by space station and (previous)
shuttle astronauts is done almost entirely by no-code-test
Technician class licensed astronauts. It is part of their
overall task assignment (every astronaut must adhere to
NASA PR rules) and relatively minor in relation to all that
they must do. Contrary to the fantasy of some, astronauts
did not become hams first, THEN astronauts.

Some of them certainly do. Witness Owen Garriot, W5LFL. The
FIRST Amateur-Astronaut to operate from the Space Shuttle.

Believe at least one thing: There's NO such thing as an
AMATEUR astronaut. Each and every one of them is a
professional in what they do. If anyone wants to read DOCTOR
Garriott's bio, just go to:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/garriott-ok.html

This 74-year-old FORMER astronaut has got a resume there that
makes ordinary terrestrial mortals look puny. Doctor Garriott
has been a PROFESSIONAL in aeronautics, as both astronaut and
academic, all his life. It should be obvious to anyone
reading that bio. To you, all you can read is a tiny paragraph
about Skylab 3 (first flight of only two) and using an amateur
callsign.

About the only space flyers who come even close to the "amateur"
description are the two with money who rode on Russian rockets
and they had to go through a rigorous half-year training
program to be allowed to do so. The two pilots of private-
venture Space Ship One were long-time professionals prior to
being hired by Scaled Composites, Inc.

I know that facts aren't your forte, Lennie...Sorry to bust your
rant.

The ONLY thing YOU "busted" was - once again - that you don't
know dink of what you talk about. You are a poseur, a fraud,
trying to make yourself look like somebody "important" when
you don't know dink, haven't done dink in space OR aeronautics.

Quit trying to read the ARRL "news" bulletins as if they are
the primo word on "radio." That will help you overcome your
quite-obvious IGNORANCE. Maybe. I don't have optimism that
you can...



[Life Member of IEEE, as is Dr. Garriott]