From: Dave Heil on Nov 1, 8:38 pm

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From: on Oct 31, 4:52 pm
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
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.

Heil did NOT answer the question. Heil did NOT supply any
details of what he did with a MARS thing in Tan Son Nhut.

Tsk, that too is "typical" of Heil's remarks in here. :-(


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. :-) :-)

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Heil have a guilty conscience?


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.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Maybe Bob Hope never did a USO show at Tan
Son Nhut? :-)


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

Pity the FCC then...they regulate and enforce ALL civil radio
in the United States, including amateur radio. Absolutely
none of the staff nor commissioners are required to be granted
any amateur radio license in order to regulate and enforce.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...I'm just trying to eliminate the morse code test
from United States amateur radio regulations. According to the
United States Constitution (First Amendment), all citizens have
the RIGHT to free speech in the USA.


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.

Tsk, tsk. Davie can't "impress" people as he wishes.

I've never said what you think I did. I explained it several
times...but your mind can't grasp that, can it?

I explained that station ADA was operating "24/7" meaning (in
colloquial use) around-the-clock, every day of the week. You
said that "was never done." It was. It was done on a FAR
LARGER scale than any MARS facility anywhere. ADA did carry
MARS TTY traffic on a second-priority basis when the primary
circuit wasn't busy.

I explained the RESPONSIBILITY of team leaders in keeping the
transmitters up and operating, one part of the entire operation,
but you insist on word-twisting to suit your savage beast
within that wants to fight. All you wish to do is denigrate
anyone who did MORE in REAL HF radio than you did. Tsk, tsk.


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.

Tsk, tsk. Jim Weir has posted in here for several years.

That YOU didn't notice that is not my concern.

YOU seem to "notice" only those posts where you can engage
in word fights with your "opponents." Down, big warrior.


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.

Davie said, sarcasm dripping down his chin like alien slime...


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.

Damn straight. LCie4 IS a very nice program for quickly and
accurately synthesizing (designing) and analyzing a passive L-C
filter of lowpass, highpass, bandpass, or bandstop configuration.
The user can optionally change component values, modify Q of
inductors or capacitors, do printouts of schematics or analysis
results (or store them in a file), analyze input and output
impedances in lieu of normal decibel insertion loss, phase change,
or group delay. It's been proven in real hardware results that
came out exactly as predicted.


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.

You aren't involved in general aviation. You have NO business
with general aviation let alone private flying. Why are YOU
being critical of something you aren't even close to being
involved in?

Why are YOU being critical of someone else's website to ME?

You don't even live in California. You have NO business with
any California elections of any kind. Why do you give a ****
of any elections of governors in California or state politics?

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.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. There are tens of thousands of general aviation
aircraft having "fabric" covering in United States registry
alone. That YOU "haven't seen them" doesn't mean they exist.
In a half hour's drive from my residence, I can go to two major
airports and one air park that have well over a thousand such
"fabric" covered aircraft.

You said nothing about "surface mounting," indicating you are
unable to perceive any humor (as in "SMD" now the common method
of electronics hardware construction) or the fact that MOST of
a general aviation aircraft structure UNDER the skin is largely
empty. Any antenna can thus be mounted on the surface of a
non-conductive skin and be largely unaffected on characteristics
in that position. Rather basic EM theory involved there, but
meaningless to those who will not bother to think about basic
radio theory.

Thanks for providing the information on the aircraft band.
Perhaps nobody here knew where the band could be found.

YOU have NO BUSINESS with general aviation concerns, are NOT
INVOLVED. It is no surprise that those who are NOT INVOLVED
would be ignorant of technical details. Amateur radio is NOT
INVOLVED with the international civil aviation band in VHF or
the specific frequencies for that in the HF spectrum.

If you have any more questions, don't be afraid to show your
ignorance. You haven't yet.

With warmest, best regards,