Dick Carroll wrote in message ...
Larry Roll K3LT wrote:

In article ,
(Len Over 21) writes:


A half century ago I felt right at home working primary communications
on Army radio station ADA. Not only feeling that but BEING AT HOME
at the new site of Camp Tomlinson...barracks at one corner of the huge
antenna field. ADA never used "CW" (on-off keying), trans-Pacific or
local.

DICK, you've NEVER done that in the US Army, have you?

All you can do is demand that EVERYONE HAD TO DO IT LIKE YOU
DID but you can never offer any viable proof why they should.

LHA

Lennie:

Your half-century old experiences in military communications, where, by
your own admission, you never utilized the Morse/CW mode, are irrelevant
to the discussion of Morse code testing requirements within the AMATEUR
Radio Service in 2003. In fact, as a person who does not use the Morse
code for any reason whatsoever, you are self-disqualified from rendering
any judgment on the topic whatsoever. Therefore, I suggest that you
stop wasting your time, find something you know something about (which
from my personal observation seems to be limited to megalomaniacal,
ego-driven character assassination) and talk about that, instead. You
are not influencing anyone on the topic of code testing.

73 de Larry, K3LT

Well, Well...Lennie is still touting his BC610 babysitting experience as
being (= / ) ham radio, hmm??

While he was sitting around twiddling his
thumbs and waiting for a breaker to trip so he'd have something to do, I was
busily involved in operating AND REPAIRING one of the very first video tape
systems in the country, among many other very interesting work activities at
the Signal School at Fort Monmouth.
You see, instead of sending me to an obscure, remote MINOR outpost about as far
away as it's possible to be sent,

And just the other day you were bragging about how you had a field job
with the troopers.

when I finished electronics training, the
Signal School kept me there as permanent party, to work as a broadcast
engineer at the educational TV station ran by the school. A most interesting
and challenging assignment, indeed.

Indeed. Typical duty given to sycophant students.

I would have been completely happy to have
stayed there for the remainder of my term of service, but my name came up for an
overseas tour of duty rotation, so off to Europe I went after a year and a half.

I thought you were sending CW as the ChiComs were overrunning your
position?

I sure do feel for poor ol' Lennie, tho, he must have had a rough go of it 'way
out there in the JA boondocks with nothing to do but listen to the transformers
hum and wait for another overload. And I hear those BC610's didn't overload all
that often, either. Tsk, tsk.

Yet all that message traffic was sent w/o touching a Morse key.