From: John Smith on Sun 7 Aug 2005 23:42

Dave:

I don't agree with bush on a lot, but don't want to focus on running for
president either. Wasn't really happy with some teachers my son had, but
didn't want to go full-time academic either. I really don't like the way
the garbage men handle the trash, but refrain from that line of work also...

Really, make sense, drop the BS and out-right crap...

John

Another small history lesson on the newsgroup for you, John:

About 7 or 8 years ago, Obersturmbandsfuhrer Heil stormed in
here making like the Authoritative Elmer of all Elmers,
spouting off about "CW" is way so much better than RTTY and
illustrating that with his saving-the-day actions from
Guinea-Bisseau in Africa for the Department of State, his
employer at the time (in the "foreign service"). That was in
the 1980s. He was then, as he is now, an Ultimate Authority
on HF from his many many years as a ham (probably working a
minimum of 8 hours a day on his ham job) and waded into the
morse code testing arguments as Mister Morseman (a "foreign
service" counterpart to "Captain Code").

Unfamiliar with this country of Guinea-Bisseau, I had to look
it up. Found out it was NOT a prosperous country and that its
chief export was cashew nuts. I stated that and Heil got very
angry. [he was a "key employee" or something at State as a
"communications officer"...blah blah blah] How dare *I*
question ANY statements of Heil's! :-)

Heil got ****ed and a half when I recounted the HF comms done
by the U.S. Army of the 1950s...using mainly RTTY and TTY over
(commercial format) SSB...NOT encountering these "bad
conditions" where "only 'CW' would get through" (and saving-
the-day). Heil tried to make the argument that "CW" was
"necessary" and all that old snit. Heil stated that "my
station" (taxpayer owned, actually) "NEVER WORKED 24/7!" Tsk,
four operating teams very certainly worked the 3rd largest
Army station in ACAN-STARCOM then, using about 40 transmitters
shooting across the Pacific south-east-west from Tokyo, all
around the clock. NO "CW" (manual morse code) used by my
battalion that served the Headquarters for the Far East Command
then...none later...all on HF.

Heil committed some small gaffes in his rationalizations on
what he wrote...specifically that the "CW" was needed to
"synchronize" the RTTY schedules. Any TTY is automatically
self-synchronizeable, has been since before WW2 times. Heil
then "explained" that "synchronizing" meant schedule times
and so forth. Odd that such wouldn't have been worked out
beforehand in operating orders, common to everyone else.

Heil got most disturbed on my descriptions of the Army net
being BIGGER than what State had (it was) and said "I didn't
know anything about what State's radio had/did." Tsk, I
did and already possessed a great deal of documentation
obtained from Army sources and a few items of contractors
supplying the U.S. government (the RCA "RACES" mass
memory on mag cards, two of which were installed in DC at
State's headquarters). Heil did not realize that some of
the Department of State messages were actually carried on
Army and Air Force communications circuits...more in
Europe than in Asia. [I can identify the stations, the
TTY ID, paths, and controlling hubs on all of ACAN-STARCOM
from publicly-released information available before 1980,
stuff that I have, obtained from a civilian engineer
acquaintence who worked at "my" Army station]

Heil engages in a lot of Gamesmanship in here, frequently
citing his many State assignments (Finland, several
countries in Africa). He WAS DX to a lot of other hams,
courtesy of the U.S. government and complementary callsigns
given to "diplomatic" personnel of the USA. Problem is,
Department of State radio is rather smaller than the U.S.
military networks and the retirees from State's radio are
a tiny percentage of "radio operators." Now the military
networks' former members are also a small percentage...but
they are larger than civil government "radio operators."
The more vocal hams with previous military radio
experience seem to come from the USN and those mostly from
ship "radio room" assignments. Heil seems to be banking
on his Department of State experience being rare, thus he
can bull**** his way into posing as a Great Authority on
What The Government Does In Radio among amateur radio
hobbyists. Heil shows no sign of having worked IN the
larger military radio communications networks during his
military service...yet he implies knowing all about them.
He knows little and all he can do is the BS implication
that he does.

A shock to Heil must have been my appearance in here, an
unlicensed-in-amateur-radio person who is no shrinking
violet on opinions! Even worse, one who HAS documentary
proof to counter most of the total bull**** spouted by
this great "radio expert." [three such documents posted
on http://kauko.hallikainen.org/history/equipment] Perhaps
he was disturbed that I didn't polish the boots of his
surplus Wehrmacht costume from Western Casting? Could be.

Heil, like Robeson, vents a lot of anger in here, always
trying to verbally thrash his "opponents" on a personal
basis. SUBJECT be damned, he wants to "fight" on a one-
to-one basis anyone who speaks against his opinions.

In the last half year Heil has whittled a schtick about
my "not being a participant in ham radio" etc. and thinks
that is some kind of psywar "weapon." It isn't. Contrary
to Fearless Leader's instruction-commands, I didn't get a
ham license FIRST "to show an interest in radio." The
Army provided the opportunity to INCREASE my interest in
radio (since 1947 along with lots of other interests) and
I "disobeyed orders" by getting a Commercial First Phone
in 1956 and then became an electronics design engineer.
No, no, no, that was NOT the Order Of The Day...I should
have dutifully learned morsemanship to become an amateur
first according to Fearless Leader Heil. Screum.

USA 1st