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December 3rd 05, 04:28 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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From: on Dec 2, 5:33 pm
wrote:
From: on Tues, Nov 29 2005 3:38 am
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From: on Nov 27, 3:55 pm

Tsk, you aren't old enough to have been licensed under any
other federal radio agency besides the FCC. :-)

Neither are you, Len ;-) ;-)

Sure there is - it's called wigwag.

No, those are called SEMAPHORE FLAGS.

No, they're not. Semaphore and wigwag are two different things.
Look it up.

Except for a few floating museum pieces, the US Navy stopped using
sail power about 100 years ago.

Go to the docking area at the U.S. Naval Academy or the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy. Are those "tall ships" illusions? No, they are
real.

Nobody said they aren't real. They're floating museum pieces.

Funny! I suppose lots of USN and USCG academy midshipmen
"train to be museum curators?" :-)

In a way, yes. They're keeping a tradition alive. Those sailing vessels
aren't used for actual Navy or Coast Guard operations other than
training and display.

No morse code skill is needed to pilot a sail or power boat.

There are almost no commercial uses
for sailboats in the USA - powerboats dominate all but "hobby" boating,
and power boats probably dominate hobby boating as well.

That is an absolute?

Yes - is it not true?

Yes, it is not true. :-)

Why isn't it true, Len?

Very well, we will put you down as a claimed "Master of Marine Craft."

Why? I don't claim to be an expert. I just stated a few plain, simple facts.
Are those facts not true? Do not powerboats dominate all but "hobby"
boating?

I think your terms are a bit wrong. It is PLEASURE boating, not
"hobby" boating. :-)

It's amateur radio, not "hobby" radio...

- Drawing and painting instead of photography

No problem to me...I did all three as a kid, still do.

Still have your crayons, huh?

Ha. Ha. You would be a hit at the Art Center School of Design
in the Pasadena area of Greater Los Angeles.

Do you teach there, Len? Do you have a degree from there?

I went to Art Center for a year at their old campus on
3rd Street in Los Angeles. :-)

Did you flunk out? Or perhaps you just GAVE UP?

Pasadena forensics
could practice on what was left of you after saying that.

Why? Are you threatening violence against me for asking a
simple question? Sure looks like it.

BWWAAAAAAHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!

Poor lad, you are WORRIED? :-)

Not me. I'm just curious why you would mention

"Pasadena forensics could practice on what was left of you after saying
that."

What did you mean by that sentence?

Do you still have your crayons, Len?

A couple of "Conte crayons." Stubs, left-overs. Few use Conte
crayons now. As far as I know, those weren't made by Crayola.

Do you need lessons in art, illustration, or photography?

No.

You might find references to Conte crayons in an old art text.

Texts and old books seems to be where you get your "experience."

Well, you're wrong about that.

I can
give you them and show how it is done by actual examples. My
photographs and illustrations have been published in national
magazines. I can work with nearly all media in art and
illustration: pencil, pen, (yes) crayon (but of a type that
isn't sold to children), chalk, ink on scratchboard, Ben Day
screen illustration board, oils, watercolors, caesin paints,
brush or air-brush (my Paasche air-brush compressor still
works although I preferred the CO2 bottle pressure system
common in commercial practice). I've given up "canvas" for
painting in preference for the finer linen media.

That's nice, Len. But the fact is that all those are old technologies.
Many would say they are "dying" or "dead" compared to computer
graphics.

Oh, my, you'll have to tell all the illustrators everywhere that
their techniques are "dying!"

It's what you've told us about Morse Code, even though you're not
involved.

All the lithography producers
will have to shut down! All the Art Schools have to shut down!
Oh, my, all that commotion! :-)

Why do you live in the past?

I live in the past?!?

Yes.

- Homemade food instead of packaged

How do you categorize campfire cooking? :-)

Is that where your cooking winds up, Len?

Only when camping, Jimmy, and then into the interior of fellow
campers.

I meant it winds up *in* the campfire....;-)

How do you KNOW?

It's clear from your gassiness here....;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Are you so INTENSE and SERIOUS that you must threaten
others?

I "threatened" you? How so?

"Pasadena forensics could practice on what was left of you after saying
that."

What did you mean by that?

... I studied lots of Physics in both highschool and college.
None of the physics courses covered Electronics. Electrical
engineering covered electronics.

Tsk. "As you studied it" so goes the world? :-)

Can you show any physics textbooks or courses that include
electronic design or analysis?

Benjamin Franklin was both a scientist and the first true
electrical engineer. His elegant (and very dangerous)
kite/key/Leyden jar experiment proved that lightning was
simply an electrical discharge, and not the wrath of God,
celestial fire, or some other force as was commonly
thought at the time.

Tsk, tsk. I read Ben's biography entitled "Benjamin
Franklin - An American Life," by Walter Isaacson.

So?

Franklin the scientist determined the nature of
lightning.

Franklin was hardly schooled. He had only HONORARY
degrees.

So he founded a great University that thrives today.

But ol' Ben (who also founded the University where
I earned my first Electrical Engineering degree)

Yes, yes, on and on with the Philly stuff. :-)

It's good stuff. Our country was born right here in
Philadelphia.

Franklin died in 1790. The first morse code wasn't
used until 1844. "Radio" was still very unknown as
to what it was in 1844.

You mean UNIFORM Code of Military Justice? :-)

Yep - not "universal" as you mistakenly wrote.

I knew full well what it "stood for."

No you didn't. You messed up.

If you actually read all of the comments, you'd know that.

Each and every filing from 15 July 2005 to 23 November 2005.
3,795 of them. :-)

So you claim, but the evidence says otherwise.

The evidence is the filings on WT Docket 05-235. All 3,796 of
them from 15 July 2005 to 25 November 2005. Note that one
more has been added in the ECFS.

You didn't know where to find the other analysis of the filings, Len,
even though the url was given in the filed comments.

I don't really care one lil bitty rat snit about those
"other analyses." :-)

You sure made a lot of noise about them, though. Yet
you couldn't find them even though they were right in
the comments you claim to have read and understood.

I think you didn't really read and understand all the comments.

I did mine. The Commission knows it. That's enough for me.

Yes, Len, we know you can't deal with facts and opinions different
from your own.

I think you're jealous that someone else made the comments
so accessible.

"Jealous" of Joe Speroni?

Yes. You're obviously very jealous. Green with envy. Your
behavior shows it.

The Hawaiian Morseman?

There you go, acting all jealous and envious because someone
did a better analysis than you did.

Hardly. All his Petitions before the Commission have been DENIED.

You don't have any Petitions before the Commission, Len. You're
too afraid to write one and have it DENIED.

And your request (not even a petition, really) to create an age
requirement for an amateur radio license was DENIED.

Tsk, my SUGGESTION to the Commission (filed on 13 January
1999) on page 14 of my 14-page Reply to Comments wasn't
even mentioned in FCC 99-412, the R&O for Restructuring. :-)

Yep - it wasn't worth the Commission's time or effort.

More important, you didn't follow the rules on Reply Comments
back in 1999. Reply Comments are only supposed to be a
reply to comments made by others - they are not supposed to
bring up new suggestions. If you wanted to suggest an age
requirement, the time to do that was during the Comment
period, not the Reply Comment period. You're just as guilty
of procedural mistakes as the folks who send in comments
long after the deadline.

You see facts and truth as hostile, Len. Your problem, not mine.

Nope, NOT "my problem."

Yes, your problem.

You are simply hostile to anyone
who won't accept morse code wholeheartedly.

Wrong!

Am I "hostile" to K2UNK? WK3C? K2ASP?

You insist on
keeping the code test

Yes, I do. Is that not allowed?

and don't have any valid reasons
for doing so except for canned phrases that were conditioned
into your mind by the league.

That's simply not the case, Len. You're completely wrong on that.
Grow up and accept that yours is not the only way of looking at
things.

Why ARE you so obsessed with putting down all who want the
code test eliminated?

Where have I done that?

I won't matter to you, personally.

You don't matter to me at all, Len.

You will retain your full amateur rank-status-privileges
regardless of whether the code test goes away or stays.

It's not about those things at all, Len. It's about what's good and
bad for the Amateur Radio Service. I see the code test as being
a good thing for the Amateur Radio service.

Not to worry. There will always be some morseperson around
to play with you in your morse playground.

Can you be sure?

If I had evidence that you operated an amateur radio station
illegally, I would report it to FCC. Enforcement is their job,
not mine.

Oh, my...do you carry a "shield" that states you are an
"official" radio person "authorized by the federal
government" or something like that?

Don't need any such thing.

You do not understand the difference between "qualified" and
AUTHORIZED.

Yes, I do. You are neither qualified nor authorized to operate an
amateur radio station.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...you have no "boundary conditions" there, senior.

[ chuckle, chuckle ]

You are neither qualified nor authorized to operate an amateur radio
station,
Len.

All persons who have not demonstrated qualification to FCC are
considered unqualified. You, Leonard H. Anderson, are neither
qualified nor authorized.

[ remember the "boundary conditions!" :-) ]

FCC says you're not qualified to operate an amateur radio station.

The FCC has "said" no such thing to me.

Yes, they have.

In a real document addressed to ME? :-)

Maybe in a telephone call? :-)

In the regulations.

They've never once
written to me that I am "unqualified" in anything...

They don't have to, Len.

Please make up your mind. :-)

First you said the FCC "said something to me," now you say
"they don't have to."

You contradict yourself.

Do you think you are qualified and/or authorized to operate an
amateur radio station, Len?

Do you think you are qualified and/or authorized to operate *my*
amateur radio station, Len?

By definition, you are not authorized, qualified, permitted or licensed
to operate an amateur radio station.

Wow! Several months ago I was looking at the Burbank HRO store
station, even tweaked a transceiver dial to tune in a SSB signal
clearer! Hey, get the surveilance camera tapes! You might find
me on them doing that! Wowee! You can make an ARREST!

That's not "operating".

Do you think you are qualified to operate *my* amateur radio
station, Len?

Tsk, why SHOULD I do such a thing? :-)

I'll take that as a "no".

You might ARREST me or something!

For answering a question?

Your implication of "cowardice" is misplaced.

Really? ;-)

I have served in the military of the United States. Volunteering
during a war time. Taking an oath to defend the United States
and its Constitution with my life if needs be.

That's a brave act, Len. But it was more than a half-century ago.

You've NEVER done that, haven't served, don't know dink about
real military life...yet you imply "cowardice" on the part of
others and try to tell them what real military life is like.

Not me, Len. I said you were afraid - and you are. People are
afraid of all sorts of things. You were afraid to let your neighbors
build two-story houses....

Yes, really, no-guts.

I didn't say you had no guts, Len.

But you sure don't display any courage
or bravery here....