On Mar 31, 4:30�am, wrote:
On Mar 30, 2:47 am, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 29, 5:52?pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 10:19 pm, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 29, 3:08?am, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:18 am, Dave Heil wrote:
AF6AY wrote:
On Mar 27, 5:19?pm, wrote:
You didn't serve in Korea.

? ?As far as I'm concerned, Heil hasn't shown us ANY proof
? ?that He was in southeast Asia during his military service.

I believe him. ?Then there was the American Embassy in Tanzania. ?I've
wondered about his proximity during the bombing.

* *Well, let's just say that Heil's PROOF of service is a tad
* *scant. *:-)

I saw his web page. *He's not one of the nuts that claims to have been
in Vietnam and at Woodstock simultaneously.

Heil has a web page all his own? Interesting...

You made up your classic tale of
what it is like to undergo an artillery barrage. ?

Did Len get it wrong? ?Tell us what it's like.

? ?I'd like to know what David "knows." ?I've been roughly
? ?200 yards from an artillery fall...which was 300 yards
? ?too close to the training group I was in.

Yeh, there's usuall one KIA on every FTX, but usually from a vehicle
accident or pushing a mast ito power lines or something usually
preventable. ?We had a round impact next to dmain - I think it was
moonsan during Winter Haze. ?They really shouldn't let those guys play
with those things. ?They could hurt someone.

* *Right! *The cadre we had were mostly career officers of
* *the red (artillery) and were NOT happy about THEM being
* *so close to the fall zone.

Many officers lacked a sense of humor.

Ahem...the bunch of us doing PIP training were in FULL
AGREEMENT with those two first johns! :-)

Your smugness is legendary.

? ?It must be his training at the Fruenze Military Academy. ?:-)

Did they win the war?

* *Yes, they did! * [see private e-mail]

Not in my long-time account, and I just checked my hotmail account -
it was inactive and I had to start it up again. *No messages.

Roger that. Please let me know in private e-mail what
the correct account is...

? ?Well, we've had Major Dud in here expostulating up a storm
? ?about his "USMC career." ?

Curtailed career with no explanation whatsoever... ?VA hospital,
rehabilitation, and disability pension, but was never injured, save
for some grit that got in his eye once. ?Hmmmm?

* *Heh...but he finally got some RANK. *I looked in on his
* *home page. *A much newer flight suit, but less hair and
* *more pudgyness. *Still the familiar scowl. *He must think
* *that makes him look like a "tough guy." *:-)

When you're that short, you've got to use every angle to get a little
respect. *Have you visited any of his "other" web pages?

No. I don't expect anything different than his AOL home
page. :-)

? ?We've had Heil telling all sorts of
? ?things about "being in a country AT war." ?Those all blend
? ?together, don't they?

So who hasn't? ?Most of the people I actually know have been
deployed. ?I don't actually know Jim, but I'm told he has served in
other ways.

* *Serving is serving. *Who knows, he could have been a bus
* *boy at an O Club somewhere in PA when going to collitch.
* *Bus boys sometimes do serving.

For all we know Jim is blind or in a wheelchair and had a perfectly
legitimate reason for not serving. *Is Jim blind or in a wheelchair?

I have NO idea. I've only seen his brother's picture that
came up in a Search for other information of different
topics.

? ?Did David actually OPERATE any radios (other than a BC
? ?receiver) in Vietnam? ?I must have missed one of his brags
? ?about that because I don't recall him giving any information
? ?on that. ?I really can't believe half of what he says in here.

All I can recall about his retelling of his Vietnam period was being
PO'd at not being permitted to be a ham over there.

* *Really? *I thought he ran the Vietnam MARS stations all
* *by himself! * I was mistaken. * :-)

That was Robesin - eavesdropping on phone patches with the wives...

From Oki. :-)

Back in '55 there was a regular "soap opera" on the Okinawa
SSB radio circuit over the second voice channel. Between
1 AM and 2 PM local (Japan and Oki) time, a Major in Tokyo
would call up his Captain nurse girlfriend in Okinawa and
generally babble all about how she ought to marry him when
he got rid of his current wife. Not bad technique he had but
I have no idea what happened afterwards. That lasted for about
a month and I doubt the Major (who must have had some
comms authority) was aware that 20 to 30 guys were listening
in at various places on the circuit. Made the midnight shift a
bit entertaining, dull as it normally was locally. :-)


* *Hilversum's PCJ is world famous and Eddie Starz was still
* *alive in 1965. *Terrific linguist, could handle most of the
* *languages himself! *"Peace, Cheer, Joy" is what he called
* *PCJ. *Difficult for me to get Holland directly so I tune for
* *their Netherlands Antilles repeater station.

I imagine that's where my interest in radio came from. *Hey, that old
radio had tubes!

Sunnuvagun! :-)

? ?But, David is passing a brick about my being a "newcomer
? ?to radio" (after 54 years of that) and I guess we are supposed
? ?to let him do that. ?[the pain must be excrutiating for him]

Yikes! ?That's one rough gall stone!

* *He's a big guy, ruff and tuff...he can take it.

He should seek medical help.

I nominate "doctor robeson" since he is up on all that medical
stuff and has all those certificates and training, etc. :-)

Anyway, I've passed the 20 year mark in amateur radio, and in ham
years I'm still wet behind the ears... ?according to the coded
elitists.

* *Nobody "better" than the coded elitists. *Ask any one of them.

* *Sigh...there'l be no peace for them until the last coder's key
* *is pried from their cold, dead fingers. *I'll be helping with the
* *pry bar when it happens. *:-)

I've already got one; don't need another. *For all I care they can be
buried with them. *Hopefully it's not one of those $400 jewels and the
grave robbers leave them alone. *RIP, I say!

Well, some of those keys have beautiful mechanical and plating
workmanship. Saw one at the local HRO outlet in Burbank, CA,
the other day...imported from Sweden! :-) I got a kick out of
that "imported" remark...being of Swedish descent and Burbank
having more-than-average Scandinavians who once worked at
Lockheed Aircraft. So nicely made that I doubt the morse code
on it had any Swedish accent. :-)

73, Len AF6AY