RadioBanter - View Single Post - If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?

[email protected] · September 21st 06, 11:47 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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From: on Mon, Sep 18 2006 4:31 pm
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From: on Sun, Sep 17 2006 6:18 am
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You are ashamed to state what you work on except for the
most vague way...such as being in the "transport industry."

Bus drivers are in the "transport industry." Larry
Roll, the soma-cum-loud "graduate" in "Human
Resources" (personnel department work) was a bus
driver!

Are you a bus driver, Jimmy?

Is there something wrong with being a bus driver, Len? Is it something
to be ashamed of?

btw, you sure seem to have gone through a lot of employers.

You betcha. Lots and lots of employers were here in
southern California aerospace, Jimmy.

Couldn't stay with any of them for too long, huh?

I've seen how you have criticized the work of health care
professionals, professional radio and communications people (including
both military and government-service radio operators), mechanical
engineers, electrical engineers, etc. - if they dare to disagree with
you about the Morse Code test for an amateur radio license.

Interestingly, all those you mention were PRO-code-test
advocates!

That's the point - if someone is a procodetest person, anything they do
is insulted by you.

Did their work MANDATE keeping the code test
in US amateur radio? I don't think so.

Then why did you criticize their work? Why is it even an issue?

Oh, and that "health care professional" you mentioned has
yet to identify his place of work, has yet to provide any
sort of identification of his "military career," nor the
true circumstances why he left (suddenly) the Tennessee
State Guard.

So what?

Yet that individual have written obscene
personal insults to just about everyone in this newsgroup
(all remain in Google archives). He doesn't seem to know
what a "Sharps" is, doesn't understand what 'helicobacter
pylori' is, doesn't seem to know **** from shinola.

There's a lot of things you don't know eithr, Len.

Besides, what does his behavior have to do with yours?

You seem to be saying that since one person allegedly did what you
describe, it somehow justifies *your* behavior. That's faulty logic on
your part.

Try for a better 'hero' to worship, Jimmy.

I will, have, and expect to continue criticizing ANYONE for
their self-righteous stance on keeping the morse code test.

IOW, rather than discuss the issue itself in a civil manner, you'll
attack their work, gender, ethnicity, education, and anything else you
can find out about them. Even if they don't do the same to you.

What about your self-righteous stance on eliminating the Morse Code
test?

It is a political issue. Criticism of opponents on political
matters is very much the American Way.

Yet you go all Godwin when someone criticizes you, Len.

But, we have to wonder if you are really an American, Jimmy.
You want YOUR way all the time (very imperial, royal,
dictatorial). You've never served your country in the
military or in the government and seem to think having the
personal HOBBY of amateur radio is a "service to the nation."

I see. Having a different opinion is un-American...to you.

He has presented some black-and-white digitized
photographs of his 1974 ham radio project

You mean the receiver? That was just one of my 1974 projects. It was a
really good receiver, built for almost no money. I've built a lot more
since then.

According to a note on Kees Talen's (K5BCQ?) HBR page, you
"lent it to your brother" then disassembled it in 1976.

Nope.

Read the "note" again. It was not disassembled in 1976.

Yes, compared to all the other examples there, your
"really good receiver" (built over three decades ago)
certainly looked cheap. Not "inexpensive," cheap.

In what way, Len? Are you more concerned with looks than performance?
Seems that way.

by the way, the main tuning capacitor in that receiver came from an
ARC-5 transmitter. I machined the tuning knob adapter and the dial drum
extension.

and implied it was used today,

Where? You have made another mistake, Len.

No mistake. You implied that in here, about the time you
gave a URL link to those photos. Ho hum.

I did not imply it. You mistakenly inferred it.

ignoring his earlier messaging about
assembling an Elecraft KIT...

Len, you're really on a roll with the mistakes this time....

You've NEVER assembled an Elecraft? You buy it ready-
made? Have another ham assemble it for you?

I assembled my K2 in 2001. Still have it, still works.

Try reading what I actually wrote, Len.

Can't you 'take the heat' of newsgroup give-and-take, Len? It seems you
want to give but never take - criticize but never be criticized -
behave one way but demand that others behave differently.

Tsk, tsk, Jimmy. I am "criticized" (call it others trying
to burn me at the stake and worse) all the time.

Perhaps you have earned the criticism. Burning at the stake is a gross
exaggeration.

Well, that leaves me out. I'm not angry or frustrated about not being
able to advance my own work, Len.

You do nothing.

That's simply not the case. I just won't tell you about my work.

That really seems to infuriate you.

There's no such thing as "more of nothing."
Ergo, "advancement" into doing more nothing is still nothing.

I'm not even angry at you.

HHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I almost
feel sorry for you, sometimes, because you waste so much energy on
spouting your anger here.

Awwww... Hey, if you really have such sympathy, feel free
to send me a monetary grant! I've never gotten one. Free
money would be nice!

Don't you collect Social Security, Len?

If someone lives long enough and collects Social Security long enough,
their Social Security benefits will exceed the money they contributed
in Social Security taxes - including interest. Isn't that "free money"?

And your postings speak for themselves.

They don't "speak," Jimmy. No audio connected with them.

Do you need an Audiobook to help you? Get that grant money
together, those Audiobooks aren't free.

What they say isn't very nice.

Ain't that somethin' though! I don't follow the Church of
St. Hiram's teachings (read brainwashing) and I am against
the code test for an amateur radio license. Neither do I
accept the smug, arrogant, illogical, invalid, dictatorial
denigrations of others which the amateur extra morsemen
babble in here. Now what you do, Jimmy?

I don't submit to your "brainwashing" and I don't accept your smug,
arrogant, illogical, invalid, dictatorial denigrations. Nor do I reply
in kind to you.

I also don't use the actions of others as an excuse for my own towards
a third party. I don't assign "group guilt" to all nocodetest
advocates.

Nope. I'm not afraid at all. The ROI of telling you personal
information is all negative. Why should anyone do that?

If they have the courage, they can. You don't.

It's not about "courage".

You get really mad when someone brings up things you wrote in the past,
and then verifies them with links and actual quotes.

I get "mad?" Hell, no.

Yes, you do. Mad, angry, ticked off.

I get IRRITATED is all.

Same thing.

Len, be a good sport about these posts. You usually lose the arguments
because your logic and facts are faulty. Be gracious and accept your
losses. Try not to rationalize that you won them.

...and go get laid.

Boy, you sure do get off-topic, Len.

I don't care if its with a boyfriend
of girlfriend...I'm not homophobic.

The word should be "it's", Len.

"Its" is the possessive form of "it",

"It's" is the contraction of "it is".

That's basic English. Grade schoolers know that one. A self-proclaimed
professional writer should know it, too.