August 1st 05, 05:23 PM
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Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
From: an old friend on Jul 29, 10:07 am
K4YZ wrote:
b.b. wrote:
K4YZ wrote:
Snarly Stebie doesn't do much else in this newsgroup but
boast generalities of a non-specific nature while generally
insulting everyone who doesn't agree with him.
Snarly Stebie's version of "truth" is whatever he wants to
claim on any particular day. He has NO references on any of
it. Some examples:
Do you mean something like your own claims that you've had a several
decades interest in amateur radio and the one about getting the "Extra
right out of the box" and your subsequent statements about having no
interest in obtaining an amateur radio license?
True! Google archives have the proof in them, in thousands of
personal-insult messages generated by Stebie...with only a few
(perhaps a dozen at most) which are actual discussions devoid
of personal attacks at somebody.
Watch it, Leonard. That sword cuts two ways!
That would disturb Stebie's fantasy. He wants the nicely-ordered
military-style discipline he is no longer a part of...one where
everything is explained and laid-out, no room for deviation from
the precise order of things. He can fit into that. However, if
the environment changes, he gets very upset and angry. He can't
handle disagreements with his opinions, tries to defend himself
(no need in normal discussion not about a person) by issuing a
series of personal insults directed at his perceived "accuser."
Wow! That must seem like something straight from your past, Len. You
don't handle disagreements with your positions and you defend yourself
in a series of personal insults, directed at your perceived "accuser".
In fact, a fitting profile of your likely actions was put together by N2EY.
break
There is, nor has there ever been, a SINGLE "correct" way of
doing things in amateur radio. Amateur radio is NOT a military
branch and the ARRL is NOT a directive-issuing "headquarters" (no
matter what some like to believe).
Congrats. That's a familiar and masterful statement of the obvious.
realy you find it obvous and yet stevie doesn't
Any "need" to hold tradition
tight and fast, to "work" stations in a particular mode (such as
radiotelegraphy) is purely personal perception.
I don't know how you operate your amateur radio station, Len, but I
don't use tradition in working other stations. If a station I want to
work is using CW, I use the same mode to QSO him. If he's using SSB, I
use that mode. If he is using FM, I use that mode. Your own personal
perception seems skewed by your lack of amateur radio experience.
Hewing to one
particular way of doing things is NOT indicative of some kind of
expertise in anything.
Interesting, Leonard. So, just because others use CW to call a station
CQing in that mode, is no reason that you'd have to do so. You could,
for example, use FM. That would certainly show us your level of expertise.
But, the old rank-status-privilege class consciousness of the
old six-class license system suits the ordered, disciplined
military psyche. One "works up through the ranks" (in some
folks' perception) even though the hobby is just a hobby, not a
job, not a branch of the military, not part of a union or craft
or guild.
Nope. There's no union, craft or guild. Then again, nobody has claimed
anything like that. You might see similarities between the six class
licensing system and the new three-tiered system. You'd still have to
work your way through the ranks and you'd still receive additional
operating privileges as you went through those ranks.
It CAN be a fun hobby, an interesting personal
recreation,
...or so you've been told.
break
... but having to march in ranks to some saber-rattling
control freak's idea of what constitutes "real" ham radio is
NOT a recreation. Such is more like a variant of sado-
masochism.
Maybe amateur radio just isn't for you.
but S&M has little to do real ham radio except in the twisted visions
of many hams
Radio is radio.
Masterful.
Dave K8MN
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