From: John Smith on Aug 21, 2:17 pm

... what is amazing is anyone even trying to build a bridge between a
gov't security clearance and a hobby, or imposing yourself on people
with inane chatter about such... well, unless your favorite hobby is
dreaming you are a secret agent with a CW key, and annoying others...

...or a heroic cold warrior keeping the commies contained in
the Fulda Gap! :-)

John, you should have been here around 1997 or so and the
(unidentified) "reserve colonel" telling us all about how
"his son was 'behind the lines' in Iraq" during the First
Gulf War, "sending intelligence reports by morse code!"

In 1990-1991. NO military occupation specialties called for
radio ops with morsemanship skill training then. Besides,
the U.S. Army had the AN/PSC-3 that handled TEXT at 1200
BPS on the military aviation band of 225 to 400 MHz...with
capability to bounce off relay sats or to orbiting Joint
Stars aircraft for relay. Three antennas with that set, two
of them directional to avoid unfriendly DF on the position.
PSC-3 went obsolete soon after and the current model is PSC-7.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:54:00 +0000, Dan/W4NTI wrote:

I was a COMMO NCOIC. Does he think I didn't get a Security Clearance?

Irrelevant. Thirty-one Charlies probably get the lowest level
now as they did for us back a half century ago...CONFIDENTIAL.

BFD. It's all paperwork, name and Confidential form goes
through a few agencies, is checked against computer listings
and that's that. Fail the Confidential check and it's OUT
of that MOS school into something else. The Uniform Code of
Military Justice rules all military.

Standard three levels, least sensitive to most sensitive, is:
Confidential, Secret, Top Secret. [the forms get longer, the
more sensitive the clearance...the FBI gets the fun task of
having to interview friends and family and neighbors for a
"Top"...which they grudgingly do] I've had them all. shrug
No big deal.

The FCC specifically FORBIDS ANY communication "intended to
obscure he meaning" in Part 97, Title 47 C.F.R.

Dannie has now become fascinated with my "Putz." We'll have
to wait and see what he do about dat. [strange stuff!]

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