"Brian Reay" wrote in message
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He always preached that 'real hams' should write their our software and he
claims to be a software engineer.

You were the one who was sacked as a software specialist a very
short time after changing jobs in the warmongering industry.

Perhaps he could take a break from his busy Freecell playing schedule

One of the ways to encourage newcomers is to discuss quite openly
what we do, including the pratfalls that we have, in order to show those
newcomers that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Despite your claim
to have been let go as a schoolteacher, you do not behave as
someone who encourages newcomers, insofar as you regularly sneer
at such descriptions, probably doing more to discourage rather
than encourage newcomers in passing.

Keeping mentally active, it
is true that I usually have a game of Freecell in the background, although
some games do not get much attention and can lurk on the screen for days.

and
develop his own antenna modelling package.

I'm working through a treatise of the NE Code at the moment.

I am sure another slight delay
in his 18 year project to build a receiver can stand another slippage,

Plans to build a top-of-the-line RX suffer slippage when new technology
comes along; but several other projects have been complete in recent years,
notably a chinese copy of a vibroplex.

But in your haste to sneer, you are being reckless as to the truth, for the
dream of building my own RX goes back 50 years, and not 18.

it
will make a change from the much reused excuse of 'gear hobbing' problems.

I've been quite open that I wanted an Eddystone-type dial, and being a
complete
do-it-yourselfer, wanted to have a go at hobbing the gears myself,
especially as I
have produced software in the past 5 years to supoprt the leading amateur
gear cutter in England in order to calculate the drive train ratios for
cutting helical gears. (Non-integer ratios, needing to be accurate to an 8th
place
of decimals). So, I thought I'd have a go at producing a gear hobbing
attachment
for my milling machine, and that involved quite a bit of electronics.

As I has reported, the assembly was not rigid enough to deal with the 200
tooth
gears, but it was 18 months of technicalo experimentation and dabbling.

Once again, i encourage newcomers by discussing what I do whereas you put
them off by sneering at experimentation.

This Rx must have more gears than my Rolex.

What a silly infantile comment!

You seem to be obsessed with directing abusive slurs in my direction,
many of which are not relevant to the subject of discussion.

What is it that compels you to make a fool of yourself by coming
across as a child in the school playground mouthing off insults?