From: on Mon, Nov 7 2005 5:59 pm


wrote:


Considering how long you've held onto your Johnson, I'd
try not to imagine the state of yours...

My E. F. Johnson Viking Messenger still meets manufacturer's
specifications. My johnson still works fine.

Next question...


No wonder you aren't attached...

"Attached"? In what way?

I don't have a conjoined twin, if that's what you mean.

You are NOT married? Are NOT a parent?

Considering all the talk about your "classic johnson" that's
surprising!



All existing amateurs could be affected.

By your "classic johnson?" Tsk, tsk!



What's "not nice" about stating the facts, Len? Your
disdain of the ARS is not a secret.

I'm not in favor of the Amateur Radiotelegraphy Society.

I'm not in favor of CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS in the amateur
radio service.

To NOT love an amateur morseman is to "hate ALL amateur
radio licensees?" I think not.




NPRM 05-143 is solely about the MORSE CODE TEST, Jimmie.

Actually not. It's also an R&O, and has lots of policy statements from
FCC.

BAD MISTAKE, Jimmie. Go stand in the corner.

"NPRM" is an acronym for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. It is
just a notice.

"R&O" is a familiar term for Report and Order. A Report and
Order MAKES a regulation.

An NPRM and R&O are NOT the "same."



So you had a shorty connected to your compact Johnson. Quite
appropriate....

Tsk. You are overly concerned with "johnsons," Jimmie.

Is your middle name in "James P. Miccolis" standing for PETER?



What *is* your problem, Len?

Maybe because I don't have a "classic johnson?"



You're misdirecting away from the point about cb.

This thread was originally about WT Docket 05-235. That Docket
has NO relation to Citizens Band Radio Service.



You don't affect me much at all, Len.

...and you don't post a lot in this newsgroup...




I appreciate all sorts of classics.

Tsk, you and Davie "appreciate" those "classic johnsons" too much...




You can keep whatever you want, Len. But I find it odd that you
would hold onto your tube-filled Johnson for so long. After all,
you're always lecturing us about "change" and "new technology"
and all that sort of rot.

"Rot?"

How is your 1990s "original design" "tube-filled" "state of the
art" ham rig doing? Any more "neighbors" come over to gush over
your expertise in making it?

Did they ever gush over your classic johnson?




Many items are routinely referred to by the manufacturer's name.
Hams do it all the time when describing their rigs. For example,
just considering radio sets, I've owned seven Heathkits, two RMEs,
three Nationals, two Hallicrafters, one Gonset, seven Southgates
and yes, at least four different Johnsons.

Could you ever get any of them to work?



Why? You've obviously got the most experience dealing with
one of the smallest Johnsons ever produced.

Dave and I are more interested in the bigger Johnsons, such as
the Valiant (I had one) and the Viking 2 (I had two of those, plus
the 122 VFO).

Is it hard to beat a classic johnson?


Jimmie, go to your remaining classic johnson and turn it on.

See if it turns you on.