AF6AY wrote:
From: on Tues, Apr 3 2007 6:35 pm
On Mar 29, 11:24 pm, Dave Heil wrote:
KH6HZ wrote:
"Dave Heil" wrote:
You're being disingenuous again, Leonard. I've stated that you are a
newcomer to *amateur* radio. Each time I've done so, you've tried to make
it appear that I've used the generic term "radio".
I think Grandpa Lennie is simply jealous of the fact that due to his waiting
54 years to get an amateur radio license...
It doesn't matter whether he's jealous or not, Mike. He can fill up his
years with getting on 75m and telling hams who have been in the game for
decades about his experiences at ADA in the 1950's.
Wow, lots of envy and hostility in that statement...
That's all I expect from the Robust Oberst. :-)
There was envy expressed, Windy.
But then, we are speaking of "Mister DeeEcks" of Department of
State (Retired)...who BECAME DX Out Of Africa and Finland under
State's generous "A DX of One" program to help hams worldwide
get a rare one. Hard to beat that...and he got PAID to do it!
Most folks who work for an employer expect to be paid. Did you ever
work for any employer for free?
Me, I just did (like you did) what I was told to do and also
be proficient at "destroying the enemy" in my military service.
Have you ever destroyed an enemy, Leonard?
I dunno why Mister DeeEcks thinks I should "get on 75m" when
there is already an established net on 20m of ex-RCA employees
who get together every morning.
Oh, I just picked a band at random. You can tell your tales on 20m if
you choose.
I worked with some of them
in real life (as opposed to the imaginary life spent staring
at front panels while gabbing with relative strangers). :-)
If I'm to believe your statement, I never stared at a front panel and
chatted with relative strangers, I simply imagined that I did.
The fact is that I've
already enjoyed 43 years in amateur radio.
Ahem, minus one year during your tour in Vietnam. Remember, no ham
radio for you...
We really don't know how long he was there.
No, you really don't.
According to a couple websites, he was a rock musician - guitarist
for ten years with several bands. Those aren't "ham bands." :-)
....nor was there any claim that they were "ham bands."
That occupied some of the 22 years between first being licensed
(1963) and being sent to the Finland Embassy (1985).
Four of my years after licensing were spent completing high school.
I was never sent to the Finland Embassy. I was assigned to the American
Embassy.
He got his
Vanity call of K8MN in 1977...
I don't have a vanity callsign, Len.
...and there's 8 years between that and
his first Helsinki posting.
Call them "mytery years" if you like, Leonard. They can remain a
mystery to you.
-- he will be unable to
accumulate 230k+ QSOs that others accumulated here have.
If he gets busy and hones his skills, he could get it done.
I still don't understand this NECESSITY of "logging thousands
of contacts"...just to log thousands of contacts?
I see part of your confusion, Leonardo. They aren't done just to log
thousands of contacts.
What does one DO with all those logs?
Ahhhh, another of life's eternal mysteries!
I would suggest just
recycling those logs to save real logs from being turned into
paper pulp to "archive" ham logs. Putting it all into CD R/W
discs for archival would require using Chinese-manufacture
CD blanks whose plastic is made from non-renewable petroleum.
There's no longer any requirement for you to maintain a log, Len.
I made over
that number in my nearly sixteen years overseas though it wasn't really
that long since I was typically in the U.S. for two to three months
between assignments and usually burned a month or so of leave in the
U.S. or elsewhere each year. I've submitted nearly 30,000 QSOs to LOTW
but I still have years of contest logs from the paper logging days which
have yet to be entered into the computer logging database.
1985 to 2000 is just FIFTEEN years. Wow, all that FREE TIME
(paid for?) between "assignments." Not a bad gig, 11 months
of "work" a year.
That "free time" isn't all "free time", Len. There are Washington
consultations regarding the previous and upcoming assignments. There
are visas to be obtained, medical exams, vaccinations to be obtained.
There are classes to be taken, sometimes four or five of them.
The "free time" can be either before or after those things. It is
called Home Leave and it is not charged to annual leave. Usually thirty
working days of Home Leave is mandated between assignments.
Very "European."
It's very American. The Home Leave is mandated by Congress. Most
Foreign Service employees spend most of their working lives overseas.
It'd be nice
to have a half million or so QSOs logged before departure time.
Better find a DXpedition.
This time he gonna have to PAY for it out of his own pocket
(and pension check). :-)
....at least that is your assumption. :-)
If Len Anderson wants to pretend that he is part of some revolution, let
him play. He'll unbox his JA transceiver, hook it to a vertical antenna
and have all the fun he is capable of having.
No different than you unboxing your TN transceiver...
My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of
Chicago, IL.
Really? Fairview Heights has been moved from the St. Louis area to near
Chicago? You have made another in a long series of factual errors.
I use the Heil products here, Leonard. As you may know, with quality
microphones, what you get out of it is only as good as what you put into it.
Dave K8MN