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November 2nd 05, 04:38 AM

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From: on Oct 31, 4:52 pm

Dave Heil wrote:

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Dave Heil wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:

Now, lay YOURS out on the table and see who takes a knife to it.

That slipped my mind. Len has taken numerous shots at my Air Force
service in Vietnam, though he doesn't seem to know what it is that I did
there.

It's not what you did there. What you didn't do in Vietnam appears to
have defined your time there. You were a frustrated amateur in Vietnam
which caused you to under go a career change.

What DID Heil DO in Vietnam? He's never been anymore specific
than Dudly the Imposter (of the "seven hostile actions").

I see the sentence with my name in it. I see the sentence which follows
it. That is typical of your behavior. It is precisely the kind of
thing I wrote about above. There is a very accurate profile of your
likely actions toward those who disagree with you. Would you like to
see it?

He keeps alluding to MARS duty and I did spend time operating a
MARS circuit from Tan Son Nhut, but only in an off duty capacity.

That must be the MARS duty that he refers to. Or maybe not.

Damifino. Heil just hasn't been specifc about it. Can't
"take shots" at something invisible. :-)

Then again, you have already done so on a number of occasions. :-) :-)

Poor Davie has forgotten my quoting from the Army Center for
Military History which mentions the good morale service that
Army MARS did in Vietnam.

I've forgotten, have I? What're you, Madame Cleo?
I was never assigned to a MARS unit anywhere, anytime in the military.

I think Len's a little too hard on you guys. I'm sure that your cuts
and jabs are given with the best of intentions.

I'm sure Jack the Ripper thought the same... :-)

I'm also sure Ted Bundy thought all his female victims "were
asking for it."

I'm pretty certain that Len Anderson thinks he's somehow involved in
amateur radio too.

Len's description of what it was like to be under artillery fire--even
though he was never actually under artillery fire.

I was once but it was from U.S. Army artillery. :-)

Perhaps they'd heard of you. :-)

Just the same, the 8235th Army Unit (that I was in) never
allowed any Tokyo territory to fall into communist hands! :-)

At the same time, that same battalion of signalmen were
moving message "traffic" at the rate of 220 thousand a month
over the Army Command and Administrative Network (later
integrated into the DCS or Defense Communications System),
a worldwide network. All with TTY. Not a single morse code
link in that system since 1948.

It took an entire battalion of signalmen to do that, Len? All this
time, I was under the impression that you did it all by yourself.

I thought that he was quoting W0EX or GrayJL or Xray or all three when
he said that.

Irrelevant. If Davie says I did bad, then I did bad. He is
da Judge! "Heah come da judge...heah come da judge!"

That brings us back to RST Jim. It is apparent that he's done a number
of things in amateur radio. Perhaps he hasn't been around long enough
to see who and what Len Anderson is. Maybe his agenda in defending Len
is something entirely different. Perhaps he'll explain. I'll be around
after the CQ WW SSB DX 'test.

James Weir runs RST Engineering. It is located in Grass Valley,
CA, in Nevada County (California's "gold country").

Fine. I don't want to deflate his ego but when I saw a post from "RST
Engineering" signed "Jim", it meant nothing to me. I never heard of it
or him.

He ran for
Governor of California, had his picture in the L.A. Times as one
of many candidates. [a former Austrian citizen won the election]

No doubt Jim's charm, as evidence here, was a factor.

I sent Jim Weir one of my computer programs (LCie4, synthesis and
analysis of passive-component inductor-capacitor filters) and he
stated that this (freeware) program has been used by his students
(successfully) in Grass Valley. We had some brief e-mail exchages
that resulted in my modifying the older LCie program to fit the
DOS 7 in newer Windows. LCie was written in MS FORTRAN 5.1 but on
an earlier operating system and that (now unsupported by MS)
FORTRAN did not have the compiler links to fit DOS 7. LCie4 runs
only under DOS, doesn't have the flash, dash, or pizazz of color
Windows but is nonetheless accurate and proven. It is freeware
to anyone requesting it...something I mentioned in rec.radio.
amateur.homebrew some time ago.

That's nice.

RST Engineering makes some neat electronics for general aviation
aircraft. RST has a nice website if anyone cares to look.

I looked at the web site. It isn't particularly nice. If one orders
online, the payment information isn't even sent securely.

One
of the neat things they do is what I would term "SURFACE MOUNT
VHF antennas" for aircraft fabric surfaces. :-) Neat! They
don't stick out in the airstream and thus have minimal drag.
[international civil aviation band is 108 to 137 MHz]

I've not noted many fabric surfaces on the aircraft I've seen in recent
decades. Thanks for providing the information on the aircraft band.
Perhaps nobody here knew where the band could be found. :-)

Dave K8MN