From: "an old friend" on Mon, Nov 21 2005 3:21 pm


wrote:
From: on Nov 18, 2:08 am


"Wait?" That EDITORIAL piece was in the 13 October 2005 issue,
Jimmie. Today is 18 November. Why are you so LATE?

My paper copy of Electronic Design has been sitting
around for a month. It's a no-charge subscription to those
IN the electronics industry; aren't you one of those? The
cover feature is "Weapons of Mass Protection." Feature
article is (on page 27) subtitled "Where the Homeland
Security Dollars Are."

Oh, I understand, you are against making a profit. An
unusual attitude for someone who claims professional (for
money) employment. Tsk, tsk...no wonder you won't reveal
your employer's name!

in all fairness that refusual is one of the reasonsi try to cut jim
some slack. it is the senible thing

I disagree. I am not Miccolis' tailor. If he needs slacks,
he can go to the nearest Salvation Army thrift shop and get
some at low cost.

Stevie wants us to know he is an ER LPN which means given his address
(qrz of course) and check of the phone book (online of course) one
could work out where he works and deliver to him the trouble he tries
to deal out to others

Jim and dave for that matter have enough sense not to reveal there
employment info online, Steve OTOH doesn't have that much sense hemakes
easy and tempting to look it up and try to raise havoc with it, and
flames the restof usfor not puting ourselves out there where we can be
hit

I don't really care what those others do. I'm of the opinion
that they are either: 1. Lying; 2. Haven't got the courage
to say outright; 3. Haven't got the courage to reveal what
they do at their work.

Dave Heil is supposed to be retired on his State Department
pension, therefore he doesn't work. We don't know for sure
exactly what Miccolis does at work or on what; all we get are
vague inferences and one of his Comments stated he "works on
vehicular systems." That could be anything from choo-choos
to little warehouse loaders or even electric bicycles. :-)

Once someone gets an amateur license, their address becomes
public knowledge. The only "hiding" they can do then is to
use a Post Office box or equivalent, but must furnish the
city, state, and Zip code where that box is located. The
most notorious in here was KH6HZ using a fake Hawaii
address along with several "club" calls where he was
"trustee"! The FCC closed down those "clubs" and he had
to amend his personal license to a Rhode Island address.

I've had my exact mailing address published in Ham Radio
magazine for over two decades in my bylines. I don't have
any qualms about revealing my surface mail address. I still
live at that address. My only surface mail "spam" is local.
A few people took the trouble to write me some good words
about the help they got from my articles. Those were
answered promptly and with thanks. The only brickbat
received was from a southeastern state amateur who had some
faulty basic theory; a check-in with the HR staff proved he
was a source of irritation (and faulty theory) to several
other authors.

As to that month-old issue of Electronic Design, I've already
put it in the recycling can. [new issues received today,
including Electronic Products and EDN double-issue...even a
new Mouser catalog] I'm sure that some radio amateurs have
saved that editorial as some kind of "proof" of the
something in amateur radio and will use it as a "reference"
for many years. :-)


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