RadioBanter - View Single Post - Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?

Dave Heil · October 10th 06, 04:33 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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N2EFrom: on Sun, Oct 8 2006 5:29 am

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From: on Sat, Oct 7 2006 6:39 am
Dave Heil wrote:
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Dave Heil wrote:
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From: on Tues, Oct 3 2006 3:25 pm
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From: Nada Tapu on Sat, Sep 30 2006 2:23 pm
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:56:08 -0400, wrote:

yet you've never served in the military or in
the US government.
How do you know for sure who served and who didn't?

YOU did NOT serve in ANY military. Period. You don't
have the attitude for anything but being elitist, you-
are-better-superiority.

You have a problem with anyone who knows more than you about anything,
Leonard.

If I had a dollar for every time you've mentioned your Army experience
on rrap, I'd probably have enough for a brand new Orion II with all the
filters.

NOT enough. Not enough to cover the costs of your HBR
clone pictured on Kees Talen's website.

HBR?

Don't sell yourself short, old timer. You've gotten a great deal of
mileage out of your ADA tales, none of which have anything to do with
amateur radio.

Twenty pages with many photo illustrations.
High-power HF transmitters. 1953 to 1956.
How does anyone know for sure that it's all accurate, Len? You didn't
even get the distance from the USSR to Tokyo correct - maybe you made
other mistakes?

It was already reviewed by three who were THERE, plus
a civilian engineer who worked there for both the USA
and USAF. Several others who were THERE, including a
USAF MSgt who worked at Kashiwa after the USAF took it
over have looked at the final copy FIRST. A draft
copy went with the CD containing photos about Hardy
Barracks to a Pacific Stars and Stripes journalist in
Tokyo. That journalist supplied some extra data which
was incorporated into the final version.

I was in the Army at the time, NOT the USAF. Didn't
need to compute any air distances of possible enemy
aircraft directions.

Then why did you find it necessary to go blabbering on about air
distances for the Bears that didn't exist during your time in the military.

Are you going to say there was
"no danger" from the USSR in the early 1950s?!? Go
tell that to the Far East Command folks...now the
USARPAC based at Fort Shafter, HI.

I don't recall anyone stating that there was no danger from the Soviet
Union during that time frame. There was no danger from Bear bombers.

The Army accepted ENIAC, moved it to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and
used it until 1955.
If it were not a 'practical' device, they would have simply abandoned
it or scrapped it.

Tsk, you are an amateur extra pro-coder and KNOW what
the US Army thinks-knows-does!

It is apparent that he knows more about ENIAC, how it was used, how long
it was used and where it was used than you. That seems to be sufficient.

Marvelous! All from NEVER serving in any military!

Yawn.

You feign boredom only because someone knew more about a topic than you.

It's clear you're very jealous, Len.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yawn.

Yeah, yawn, Leonard. You've been bested again.

Right you are, Mr. Computer Guru. Nothing about "Harvard"
architecture, "pipelining", bilateral digital switching,
standardized logic levels, RAM, ROM, EPROM, or BINARY
registers instead of the BCD variant ENIAC used. Modern
computers "trace their design right back to ENIAC?"
Nooooooo.

I think you've stepped in the bucket again, Len.

ENIAC is defunct. Liberty is NOT.
"Liberty is not a bell".

Whatever you say, Mr. Patriot.

I think of LIBERTY and FREEDOM in the larger sense, but
if all you can think of is some 'bell' go for it.

Ring your own chimes, Mr. Never Served.

Heck, Len, you were the fellow bringing up the Liberty Bell.

How do you know if someone is a "USMC Imposter", Len?

Real veterans KNOW this, Jimmie.

I'm a real veteran, Len. I believe Steve Robeson is a USMC veteran.

The question is what will you do without that obsession to fill your
time?

What "obsession?" :-)

You know, Len. Your obsession with amateur radio.

You have advocated far more than simple elimination of the Morse Code
test.

How about that? :-)

Elimination of the morse code test was NEVER "simple." :-)

To do so would mean the End of the World As Morsemen
Knew It!

Morse code testing is practically a Religious Rite to all
morsemen, ending it is like defaming God, a Heresy with
a capital H. :-)

Now you're going all flaky on us.

But, as always to you, ByteBrothers famous phrase invoked.

I'm not familiar with it, Len. What is it?

Dave K8MN