On Apr 5, 2:40 am, "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. :-)

That's good. That's all you'll ever get.

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!

He never once did ham radio while at work. Just ask him.

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.
That I lucked out on my military assignment wasn't any doing
of mine. But, I DID take advantage of learning, observing
all that went on, asking questions to study more...and making
friends with a lot of good people, both military and civilian.

Lots of night school, too.

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. 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). :-)

I like talking to strangers, as long as there not as strange as some
on RRAP.

-- and the fact that the actuarial
tables state he probably doesn't have 15 years left...

I don't intend to keep reminding him of his remaining time on the
planet. Any of us could easily go before Len does. All it takes is a
traffic accident (Roger Wiseman's death wish for me: failing brakes,
sharp curves, twisting road) or a sudden illness.

Or Robesin's predictions for "Slashed tires, bricks through windows,
and terrorized wives..."

Robesin is the Public Affairs Officer for his CAP unit in TN.
Some "public affairs" of his must be kinda 'private.' :-)

Wow, if Robesin is typical of CAP Public Affairs, the CAP
is in a HEAP of trouble!

He must be screwing up - they've promoted him.

Two words... background investigation.

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. [Robesin syndrome?]

Yikes! I hadn't considered that.

According to a couple websites, he was a rock musician - guitarist
for ten years with several bands. Those aren't "ham bands." :-)
That occupied some of the 22 years between first being licensed
(1963) and being sent to the Finland Embassy (1985). He got his
Vanity call of K8MN in 1977 and there's 8 years between that and
his first Helsinki posting.

Wonder why he selected Minnesota for a suffix?

-- 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?

Compensation?

What does one DO with all those logs? 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.

Mine are in my garage. That's where all my "important" papers are.

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. Very "European."

Europeans work far less than 11 months a year. That's why they have
so many trade restrictions with the USA... to level the playing field.

Get off the branch water and it might be possible for you to get it
done... unless you're taking time out to run for Director of the
Roanoke Division.

He ought to lay off the Marlboros, too...not to mention the
brannvin. Of course, another storm might come up and the
OTHER tower fall over...thus taking more time away from all
that "logging."

Heil had a tower failure?

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). :-)

Mr. Roarke might help him out on an expedition to Fantasy
Island? :-) "de blane! de blane!"

American Samoa might be a good gig.

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 IC-746Pro is made in Japan. The companion SP-23 filter-speaker
is made in China. I haven't looked to see where the PS-125 (free)
12 VDC supply is made. My MFJ dry dummy load is made in
Starkville,
MS. My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of
Chicago, IL.

I don't know about that. Bob used to have his shop in Marissa,
Illinois, just south of my old address in the shadow of St Louis.
Later he opened small shop in Fairview Heights, where the sales tax is
7% because they have a shopping mall. He had mostly high-definition
TV at that location, so I don't know where he's manufacturing the
microphone line, or if he's "outsourced" it.

The vertical antenna I will probably get will be made
in Issaquah, WA, (on the Puget Sound). I dunno WHERE the wire I am
using for a temporary HF antenna was made. That is matched by an
LDG AT-100Pro Autotuner (powered by the IC-746Pro). The Diamond
discone I'm using for 10m through 23cm was made in Japan (very well
made at that) and it is held up by some thin-wall conduit pipe made
in the USA with a Cable Experts RG-8 coax cable bringing it into
the house office (I didn't check where the coax or UHF connector
fitting assembly happened...didn't know that was so IMPORTANT!).

No sweat...whatever I have, Davey Heil will PUT IT DOWN! :-)
He always does...

73, Len AF6AY

I'm partial to ICOM gear. But I've got a little bit of everything -
even radio shack.