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October 20th 05, 07:48 PM

From: on Thurs 20 Oct 2005 02:29

wrote:
From: Michael Coslo on Oct 19, 6:31 am
wrote:
John Kasupski wrote:

Technically-inclined young people have *always* had lots of
alternatives. Look up "Williamson amplifier" and see how
many "hi-fi"
folks were building their own audio systems in the 1940s and later.
Lots of other examples.

Change "1940s" for 'late 1950s' for that "Williamson." :-)

You are mistaken, Len.

The original articles by DTN Williamson appeared in the spring of 1947.
They outlined both the theory of an improved design and a practical
design that could be (and was) built by many audiofiles.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Jimmie, NOT "was built by many 'audiofiles." :-)

They hardly touched them, unlike myself who built one, then
two of the "ultra-linear" variety (for stereo). How many
did YOU build? [in 1947?]

You can read the original 1947 articles online at:

Jimmie, Jimmie, Jimmie, I read the ORIGINAL article on Comm Sats
in Wireless World (by Arthur C. Clarke) in a 40s issue in the
RCA Technical Library. It took a LONNNNNG time to get the FIRST
geo-synchronous comm sat into orbit. :-)

Ever have your hands ON and even IN any bit of space flight
equipment, Jimmie? I have. From MARS Mariner '67 to the
Apollo Program Solar Wind Spectrometer (part of ALSEP) to name
just two. Ever watch any rocket engine being tested, Jimmie?
I have, from the Rocketdyne Santa Susannah Field Test Area
(Coca site). The Space Shuttle Main Engine combustion
chamber is only the size of a small beach ball yet it generates
350,000 pounds of thrust at full throttle-up.

Have you been to JPL, Jimmie? I have. JPL began in rocketry
during WW2. Took them a LONNNNNGGG time to go from JATO bottles
to the little "balloon-bounce" Mars rovers. They didn't get
there reading old magazines.

Radio control of models was being done by UHF cb as long ago as 1948.

Jimmie, Jimmie, Jimmie...you are OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE entirely.
In 1948 I had my AMA 19700 and was competition flying and
deep into the model hobby activity. Not as you speak but you
are going to spend weeks on this subject in an effort to pull
your own MISTAKES out of the fire. In 1948 there were only
the Raytheon RK61 superregens IN model aircraft for R/C back
then. Built one of those, too, including making the rotary
"escapement" solenoid stepper from plans in Model Aviation
News (MAN is still published, by the way). Had to have one
of the local model club members run the transmitter (Joe, who
worked for the FAA at the Machesney Airport weather station).

Jimmie, try talking of an area you were IN. You didn't even
exist in 1948. :-)

"SWLing" was one reason so many general-coverage receivers were built.

You build one in 1948? :-)

Electronic music (as opposed to music reproduction) was on the scene
with theremins, electronic organs and electric guitars - which led to
synthesizers in the 1960s.

I built a Theremin in 1954 for a buddy in my Signal Battalion.
All vacuum tube. He was a musician in civilian life. It worked
but wasn't "comfortable" to listen to.

But, nowhere in heck did those weird Theremins "lead to music
synthesizers" LATER pioneered by Moog. Get your act together.

The electronic hobby magazines like Popular Electronics and Electronics
Illustrated in that era had no shortage of projects that were neither
amateur radio nor "hi-fi".

INCORRECT, Jimmie. The two major newsstand magazines for
general electronics hobbyists in 1948 were RADIO CRAFT and
RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS. Radio Craft later changed its name
to Popular Electronics. So did RTN.

Tsk, in 1948 to 1955, YOU were NOT doing much of anything as
far as "electronics hobby projects." Could you hold a soldering
iron when you were first born? :-)

You are behaving like some 4-F civilian trying to tell a
military veteran "all about militry life and culture." :-)

"Recent" drop-off? :-) The number of U.S. licensed amateurs has
been steadily shrinking for two years.

That's recent, compared to the long period of growth that preceded it.

"Recent?" :-) Oh, yes, I forget that you are oriented
back to the "beginnings" of radio. There were NO "radio
amateurs" licensed in 1895...anywhere in the world. The
last 110 years has seen an INFINITELY LARGE growth of
amateur radio to 2005, hasn't it? From ZERO to millions!
:-)

So, how was Reggie Fessenden's lab when you worked there as
lab assistant in 1900? :-)

Despite the snarling denial of amateur morsemen,

"snarling denial"? You're the chief snarler hear, Len ;-)

Sweetums, I BEGAN in HF communications in 1953, wasn't no
morse code used in the ACAN 52 years ago, wasn't added
later. Wasn't a single morseman working at ADA back then,
still isn't out of Fort Shafter, Hawaii, for USARPAC using
the Army callsign ADA. :-)

Without them
there would have been NO peak of numbers in July, 2003, and the
total numbers would have SHRUNK before the new millennium was
entered.

You seem to be saying that if it weren't for that license class, none
of those people would have become hams. Yet in the 1980s the number of
US hams increased by about 200,000 even though all US amateur radio
license classes required a code test.

Snarl, snarl, Jimmie Morseman, we "here" you. :-)

Quit trying to deny that no-code-test Technicians made a
sizeable difference in the total U.S. amateur radio license
numbers. They did. It is history. DENIAL gets you exactly
nowhere except all wet downriver in Egypt.

They're all counted in my twice-a-month postings of the number of
current unexpired individual licenses.

WHO CHECKS YOUR WORK ON THAT, Jimmie? :-)

Do you have your OWN FCC database download and sorting program
to derive those "statistics" or do you CRIB from other sources?

And note that by your own unchecked-for-accuracy comment count, the
comments are almost evenly balanced between retention of at least some
code testing and total elimination.

Jimmie, you poor thing, still in denial.

You want to "check my work?" Go ahead. As of 19 October 2005
(1 PM EDT) there were only 2,612 filings on WT Docket 05-235.
30.18% were against the NPRM, 54.50% were FOR the NPRM. A 3:5
ratio is hardly "almost evenly balanced" on anything. :-)

All you have to do is connect to the FCC website, go to the ECFS,
start reading EVERY FILING on WT Docket 05-235 from 15 July 2005
until whatever date you wish to stop. Save ALL of those filings,
Jimmie, because I'm just so sure that you will want to ARGUE the
judgement on opinions in each and every one of them from now to
the end of time. :-) [it would make a whole new newsgroup
career for you!]

Meanwhile, you can continue to TELL US ALL about the electronics
hobby area, model aircraft flying, and all of that which
happened before you ever existed on this Earth. yawn

ex AMA 19700