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Cecil Moore August 26th 06 05:14 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
 
wrote:
I'll bet copying a message by voice from someone with the cyrillic
alphabet would end up a lot better results than copying the same
message with cw.


I would like to see Al try to copy Japanese CW.
Let's see, -.-. --.- would be "ni" "ne". Wonder
what he would do with .-.-- and --.-. ? :-)
--
73, Cecil
http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil Moore August 26th 06 05:16 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
 
jawod wrote:
My MENSA membership number is 1006281. What's yours?


What's your Social Security number?


.... 66 ... 6
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

an old friend August 26th 06 06:14 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:
I'll bet copying a message by voice from someone with the cyrillic
alphabet would end up a lot better results than copying the same
message with cw.


I would like to see Al try to copy Japanese CW.
Let's see, -.-. --.- would be "ni" "ne". Wonder
what he would do with .-.-- and --.-. ? :-)
--
73, Cecil
http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

of course I suspect tht Al is old enough to think them Japs don't count
for much


an old friend August 26th 06 06:15 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

Cecil Moore wrote:
jawod wrote:
My MENSA membership number is 1006281. What's yours?


What's your Social Security number?


... 66 ... 6
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

you know I suspect it is from the PoV of the procoders


jawod August 26th 06 09:22 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
 
Cecil Moore wrote:
jawod wrote:

My MENSA membership number is 1006281. What's yours?



What's your Social Security number?



... 66 ... 6

Cecil,
Are you REALLY the spawn of Satan?
I'll kid with you no more!
(Imagine me making the sign of the cross right now.)

Cecil Moore August 26th 06 10:59 PM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
 
jawod wrote:
Are you REALLY the spawn of Satan?


How many 6's do you have in your SS#?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Slow Code August 26th 06 11:54 PM

If you had to use CB to save Markies life, would you use CW then?
 
"an old friend" wrote in
oups.com:


Cecil Moore wrote:
jawod wrote:
My MENSA membership number is 1006281. What's yours?

What's your Social Security number?


... 66 ... 6
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


you know I suspect it is from the PoV of the procoders





an old freind August 27th 06 12:32 AM

kooks on parade
 

Slow Code wrote:
"an old friend" wrote in
oups.com:

more kookery


Woody August 28th 06 12:31 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
And ever so slowly we creep up on the *actual* point....

pick a freq, pick a mode, pick a language, pick a moment in time.
*Nothing* is perfect and CW or no CW, it's about circumstance, not code.
Then again, you can back it up one more and acknowledge the foolishness of
the whole CW argument.
As it stands, hams are so crazy they somehow think they are the only hope
for mankind.
I pray that farce never becomes fact!

Everything has it's place.
Ham radio is a novelty. CW is a novelty within the same. That's all....
As long as there are 40wpm ops out there that can't program a radio, it's
just a bunch of
ding-dongs arguing amongst each other, looking like a bunch of ding-dongs.
And it goes both ways.... no reason to ditch CW but this "my tapper is
faster than your tapper"
stupidity is just phallic and pathetic. Which finally brings us to the
overall problem...
As usual, the last word in any hammy hashing is the same.
Control freaks needing to feel in control, and the subject matters not.
That's why these goofy threads carry on forever.

rb

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
9...
"Woody" wrote in news:1o2Hg.19713$Te.3938@trnddc07:


"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
9...
"Woody" wrote in
news:%RJGg.27319$uV.13889@trnddc08:

Did someone drop you on your head at birth? The reason 50wpm can
save lives is probably a bit complex for you to get both your
functioning neurons around, but believe me, having done CW for a
living for some decades I do know that it can save lives. And if
you're faster than the average bear at it, you can tell someone on
the scene things they need to know all that much faster.


Possibly, because try as I might, I can't really remember much about
that day.... I had pyloric stenosis, if that counts?

So apparently YOUR answer to this question is that you couldn't send
your name if your own life depended on it.


Now that's true... I'd require a CW setup of some kind in order to
send my name; or anything else for that matter.
Or as previously pointed out, hack up a headphone jack and tippy tap
the wires together. Either way, I don't see my life depending on it at
any time, so I'll just let my CW skills continue to rust.
However; your argument does make me wonder how non-hams even have a
chance at life in this world... ??


Believe me, I get it. I don't think CW ought to be mandatory and it
isn't where I live. I do think people who intend to use it should
learn how to use it properly, though. For CW to be effective, both
operators must be competent. IF they are, they can often transcend
barriers of language that only digital modes can get over. In my own
case, the fact that I could read CW and read written Spanish a bit
once enabled me to render aid to a burning fishing boat. (There were
other more routine examples of where the language barrier was crossed
by CW--many messages I copied were not in English at all, but were
readable by their end recipients).


OK.... so by your own words, CW still didn't save a life... CW mixed
with bad Spanish passed a message. So now we'll have to add a Spanish
test. Thanks a lot.


My point is, my bad Spanish might not have recognized the word "fuego" if
it was spoken fast among a lot of other words. But on CW it came across
loud and clear.

As for the language thing.... I can copy voice language and hand it
off to another native just as easy and they'll figure it out too.
No CW necessary.


Except you'll be a lot slower because you'll need phonetic spellings for
everything. Believe me, I know. I've done this. For a living for many
years.

BTW, I noticed you conveniently left out the specific year in which
said burning boat was offshore with an obsolete CW outfit, and how
your CW expertise put out a fire.... but I'm guessing we're talking
many a year ago, so again, a moot point.


Not that long ago, really. Early 1990's if I remember.

Actually,
The boat thing in general is really killing me... If these numb-nuts
are offshore and not on the correct USCG freqs and/or unaware of how
to properly tune their radios in an emergency, then it isn't CW saving
lives, it's the grace of God that somebody happened to be on their
freq at that time. But again, what boats are out there with a CW
rig???? That's crazy, bubba. :-) rb


This was on 500khz (and 484). CW was the mode of operation on those
frequencies until well into the 90's. Cheap SSB radios were plentiful.
So were some SITOR lashups. But what finally killed it was INMARSAT.

So now, instead of getting nailed by solar flares on HF, you get nailed
by them on INMARSAT and have to wait 6 to 9 months for a new launch.
Meanwhile you're limping along on SSB using a phonetic alphabet to send
traffic at a SLOWER rate.

--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667




Woody August 28th 06 12:42 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Well... no, I got the point just fine. I can't imagine being surrounded by
Spanish-speaking people needing a code interp, or being on a CW freq anyway,
while some emergency happens to be taking place. And yeah, I'm elite like
that... I have a gift for gab... just like a monkey can be trained to tap
out a code of communication, I can parrot what I hear. It [or 50wpm CW]
isn't intelligence in any way, it's just a stupid circus trick. Once
again..... this wasn't or isn't the issue anyway... No one said there were
no pros to the mode, just that the whole "save a life" thing is laughable.
This argument jumps from an issue of speed, then to the generation gap, then
to simple name-calling banter. It's quite humorous and totally stupid. Kudos
to the OP troll! LOL
rb



"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:54:37 GMT, "Woody" wrote:

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
. 159...
For CW to be effective, both operators
must be competent. IF they are, they can often transcend barriers of
language that only digital modes can get over. In my own case, the fact
that I could read CW and read written Spanish a bit once enabled me to
render aid to a burning fishing boat. (There were other more routine
examples of where the language barrier was crossed by CW--many messages
I
copied were not in English at all, but were readable by their end
recipients).


OK.... so by your own words, CW still didn't save a life... CW mixed with
bad Spanish passed a message. So now we'll have to add a Spanish test.
Thanks a lot.


I think you missed the point. Even if you didn't know "ola" from
"adios", you can copy Spanish in CW and hand it to the recipient, who
can read it. Try that with a mic.

As for the language thing.... I can copy voice language and hand it off to
another native just as easy and they'll figure it out too.
No CW necessary.


Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.




Woody August 28th 06 12:46 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Thank you.
rb

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
et...
Al Klein wrote:
Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.


Spanish words are easy to write even if one doesn't
understand them. In general, unlike English, there
is usually only one possible way to pronounce and to
spell a Spanish word. You hear "a-di-os". You write
a-d-i-o-s. You don't need to know what it means.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp




Woody August 28th 06 12:56 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
And for the millionth time, all you control/speed freaks just don't get
it...... If I could take down a message in CW at 200wpm in High German,
guess what? It'll take me hours to locate a German to translate it. SO.....
shot down yet again, a big burning ball of fire falling from the sky beepin'
SOS till ya hit the water right next to a burning boat...

Let's get back on point please. The question was if you had to use CW to
save a life, would that person die?
The answer is simple. If the person in question knows CW, then no, and if
the person in question doesn't know CW, then yes.
How hard is that? Why can't everyone keep to the issue?
rb




"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:32:01 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.


Spanish words are easy to write even if one doesn't
understand them.


Ever try taking dictation at 100wpm spoken speed in a foreign
language? I have. Even in one I understand, it's difficult. In one
I don't understand it's impossible. Maybe you're better than I am.

In general, unlike English, there
is usually only one possible way to pronounce and to
spell a Spanish word. You hear "a-di-os". You write
a-d-i-o-s. You don't need to know what it means.


When it's spoken very quickly and in a panic, it's more like
"adhyose". Understandable, if weird looking, to a Spaniard. Try some
other languages, though - those you've never heard spoken before. See
how well you do. Then see how well you do in CW ... oh, you already
know that, don't you? -.-. is the same, whether it's hard, soft or
unpronounced. Whether you put a cedilla on it or not, a Spaniard will
understand it. So will a Turk, even though it sounds more like - -.-.
But would you write "Con" for something that sounds like Tchonn?




Woody August 28th 06 12:56 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Murderer!
rb

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
. net...
Al Klein wrote:
Ever try taking dictation at 100wpm spoken speed in a foreign
language? I have. Even in one I understand, it's difficult. In one
I don't understand it's impossible. Maybe you're better than I am.


I can certainly write down Spanish spoken at my CW
speed of 13 wpm which is the whole point. If one speaks
faster, I may not be able to copy it. If one sends CW
to me faster than 13 wpm, for sure I cannot copy it even
in English.
--
73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp




Woody August 28th 06 01:00 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Hi-quality Maui Wowie bud, bra.... you know, da kine Mary-Jane....
rb

"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:52:28 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
Ever try taking dictation at 100wpm spoken speed in a foreign
language? I have. Even in one I understand, it's difficult. In one
I don't understand it's impossible. Maybe you're better than I am.


I can certainly write down Spanish spoken at my CW
speed of 13 wpm


Really? You listen to people speaking at 13 wpm? What are they on?
It sounds like good stuff.




Woody August 28th 06 01:08 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Ok.... you just ruined your whole argument.... you're now comparing
commercial and professional ops to amateur ops.
What is your point? The issue here is hobby radio operated by hobbyists.

The dark question has yet to be asked anyway... "Should amateur radio ops be
held to professional standards?"
Or maybe it's something about saving a life with CW... it's kinda muddy at
this point....

rb

"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:06:47 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
I can certainly write down Spanish spoken at my CW
speed of 13 wpm

Really? You listen to people speaking at 13 wpm? What are they on?
It sounds like good stuff.


Your objection was that I cannot write Spanish at 100 wpm.
I admit that but I know how to say "despacio" until they
slow down so I can write it down.


As I said in another post, try that in Turkish. Or Latvian. Or any
other language you don't know a single word of.

But in CW, it doesn't matter - you write the letters as they come,
whether you know what they mean or not. In the Navy, we had to read
what we had copied to know what it said - the CW came in your ear and
went out your fingers, you didn't pay attention to it. English? Who
knew, until you read it?




Woody August 28th 06 01:15 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Excuse me? If you are going to operate on a worldwide basis, you should be
well versed on world languages so you don't have that problem. Ask any
hi-speed op and they should agree.
The funny part being most all foreign ops know English and most US natives
are small appliance bulbs in a world of Xenon driving lights.
rb

"an old friend" wrote in message
ups.com...

Al Klein wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:06:47 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
I can certainly write down Spanish spoken at my CW
speed of 13 wpm

Really? You listen to people speaking at 13 wpm? What are they on?
It sounds like good stuff.

Your objection was that I cannot write Spanish at 100 wpm.
I admit that but I know how to say "despacio" until they
slow down so I can write it down.


As I said in another post, try that in Turkish. Or Latvian. Or any
other language you don't know a single word of.



But in CW, it doesn't matter - you write the letters as they come,
whether you know what they mean or not. In the Navy, we had to read
what we had copied to know what it said - the CW came in your ear and
went out your fingers, you didn't pay attention to it. English? Who
knew, until you read it?

if you get a message in turkish in most of the USA you still have a
useless message since where are yo going to find some that read the
lang




Woody August 28th 06 01:18 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Git'em Cecil....

I'm still wondering why he thinks we'd be in the CW band in the first place.
I've killed millions with my lax attitude towards
listening in, and figure I'll be guilty of genocide before I'm done!
rb

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
om...
Al Klein wrote:
As I said in another post, try that in Turkish. Or Latvian. Or any
other language you don't know a single word of.


Sorry, you first challenged me to do that in Spanish.
I have proved beyond any doubt that I can do that.
Your need to suddenly change languages on me speaks
volumes.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp




Woody August 28th 06 01:31 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
LOL.... I assume you think you've made a point at any time?

It's a simple yes or no question....
If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Stay on point please.

Sheesh, why would we be in the CW band in the first place, and then why
taking down code or voice in a foreign language we don't understand?
That Mister, *must* be the epitome of ham....

You know, there are children starving in South America, Babies being
slaughtered at birth in India, and you
think some stupid ham op parked in a chair in poshville USA has a clue about
anything that really matters?
Oh! I know CW, I know CW! I passed a message once and saved the world! And
for the next 30 years I bumbled
around in my back yard drinking beer, eating donuts and doing nothing for
anyone except my own self.

Arrogant Americans lost in space.
That's thick.

rb

"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:12:14 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:


About your lack of content, yes.




Woody August 28th 06 01:36 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Yeah, yoo big chikin. LOL

I dare you to pick up a mic and do a radio test on 3.865
by saying "Beep, beep, beep, beeeeeeeep"!

rb

"an old friend" wrote in message
ps.com...

Al Klein wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:12:14 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
As I said in another post, try that in Turkish. Or Latvian. Or any
other language you don't know a single word of.


Sorry, you first challenged me to do that in Spanish.


David's choice was Spanish. My choice was a language one couldn't
understand. Pay attention.

I have proved beyond any doubt that I can do that.
Your need to suddenly change languages on me speaks
volumes.


About your lack of content, yes.

nope your efforts to keep chaning to rules

it is tranperant as see though as your cowardly nature




Woody August 28th 06 01:38 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
It's all in the same language... Eastern Deuphus.
rb



"Phil Wheeler" wrote in message
...
Cecil Moore wrote:
Al Klein wrote:
As I said in another post, try that in Turkish. Or Latvian. Or any
other language you don't know a single word of.


Sorry, you first challenged me to do that in Spanish.
I have proved beyond any doubt that I can do that.
Your need to suddenly change languages on me speaks
volumes.



But in what language? ;)




Woody August 28th 06 01:41 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
And as previously stated, slow equals death. If you can't do 20wpm you
should stay off the bands.

rb

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
9...
Al Klein wrote in
:

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:54:37 GMT, "Woody" wrote:

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
.159...
For CW to be effective, both operators
must be competent. IF they are, they can often transcend barriers
of language that only digital modes can get over. In my own case,
the fact that I could read CW and read written Spanish a bit once
enabled me to render aid to a burning fishing boat. (There were
other more routine examples of where the language barrier was
crossed by CW--many messages I copied were not in English at all,
but were readable by their end recipients).


OK.... so by your own words, CW still didn't save a life... CW mixed
with bad Spanish passed a message. So now we'll have to add a Spanish
test. Thanks a lot.


I think you missed the point. Even if you didn't know "ola" from
"adios", you can copy Spanish in CW and hand it to the recipient, who
can read it. Try that with a mic.

As for the language thing.... I can copy voice language and hand it
off to another native just as easy and they'll figure it out too.
No CW necessary.


Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.


I can do it (and have done so) using phonetics. But that's SLOWER than
CW.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667




Woody August 28th 06 01:42 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Eh? Now you say its ok to be slow? Make up your mind will ya? People are
dying while you decide!
rb

"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:22:21 GMT, Dave Oldridge
wrote:

Al Klein wrote in
m:


Really? You can write a spoken language you don't understand well
enough to be read by someone who understands it? Maybe. Maybe not.
In CW, you can.


I can do it (and have done so) using phonetics. But that's SLOWER than
CW.


You're preaching to the choir, Dave. I've had to handle foreign
language traffic phonetically by voice and by CW - and I much prefer
CW for that kind of work, even though I prefer voice for most
rag-chewing. As you say, needing it spelled out is quite slow.




Woody August 28th 06 01:49 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
. ..

Not an exact date, though it's probably in the archives of the Canadian
Coast Guard, my employer at the time.


Bam... burnin' beepin' ball of fire trailing smoke to the white bubbly patch
in the ocean.... [next to the beepin' burnin' boat]...

Let's get with it people.... are we have a commercial radio argument or an
amateur radio argument???

If commercial then we all agree, argument is moot.

If amateur, it doesn't matter as it's just a hobby, argument is moot.

Make up your mind folks. Either this is a stupid argument or it's a stupid
point to argue.
[hint: its the one that's stupid]
rb



Woody August 28th 06 01:49 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
So did your guy die or not?
rb

"Dee Flint" wrote in message
. ..

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
. ..

[snip]


Now, today, we have such things a PSK31 to do much of the grunt work.
That will work as well as CW in most cases, I find.


Don't forget thought that solar flares and especially the aurora they
create induce a phase shift in signals and that wipes out PSK31.

Dee, N8UZE




Woody August 28th 06 01:55 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
I thought it was illegal to change modes during the EMF stage... ??
You should be able to remodulate your carrier to offset the gravimetric
effect on the signal
as it nears subspace. I scavenged a modulator wheel from an electronic piano
and work it with the left
hand whilst straight-keying with my right, as obviously this can't be done
with a keyer or bug of any kind.
Manual manipulation of each character's component time/phase is a must to
get a synch.
rb

"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
9...
"Dee Flint" wrote in
:


"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
. ..

[snip]


Now, today, we have such things a PSK31 to do much of the grunt work.
That will work as well as CW in most cases, I find.


Don't forget thought that solar flares and especially the aurora they
create induce a phase shift in signals and that wipes out PSK31.


True, I've never had much success during 2 metere aurora openings with
anything BUT CW. It ain't CW by the time it gets to the other end, but
it's still readable there.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667




Woody August 28th 06 02:00 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

wrote in message
...
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:22:53 GMT, Dave Oldridge
wrote:


where did you encounter total stupidity? I missed it I saw someone



Uhhhh...... Start with the OP and read to this point or beyond....

rb



Woody August 28th 06 02:03 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Good call. Admit nothing, deny everything.

Hey, if you had to use CW to make chicken salad for a starving Latvian,
would that person starve to death?
rb



I'm not responsible for your perceptual difficulties.



--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667




Woody August 28th 06 02:05 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
I think I saw him at a Star Trek convention once, does that count?
rb


wrote in message
oups.com...

From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm


wrote:
From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm
wrote:
From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm
wrote:
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57 pm



Robesin is merely a product of the "incentive" licensing
system where all those who hunger for being a "somebody"
can get a Title - Rank - Privilege through a singular skill.


If it doesn't have rank or a uniform, Robesin isn't interested.


That certainly seems the case. The "uniform" is his
emperor's new clothes...

I didn't make that system, neither did you, neither did
anyone in these four forums. The FCC took a big chunk out
of it (license classes and morsemanship skill) with the
Restructuring of 2000 and that ****ed off the Title-Rank-
Status seekers. Devout morsemen are angry and venting steam
because their self-esteem has fallen.


Only in their minds. They are the very same good or bad hams that they
were with all the layers of hamdom.


All of those "layers" hams are examples to the general public,
good or bad or indifferent. So?

"Self-esteem" is a nice-nice word for EGO tied in with self-
perception. Trying to represent themselves as "expert" radio
persons in this new millennium is a rather stupid idea of those
devout morsepersons when they want to force the FCC to keep the
code test.

Those who LIKE morse code should, and can, go on using it. That
is in no sense any validity for making it an amateur radio test
requirement for a license.


Simply amazing. EIGHTEEN years alleged on active duty and
he can't supply a single photo or document to support his
claim? In November of this year I can truthfully say I've
been in the southern California aerospace business 50 years.
I have all sorts of documentation and photos on that which
I may fully digitize some day (some are already digitized).
Some time ago I posted my resume in here...which only made
Robesin ballistic then since he has NO comparable
experience in industry and cannot prove any radio experience
other than amateur and alleged "chief operator" status at
some small MARS station long ago. [that was before his
less-than-a-half-year as a purchasing agent at a small
set top box maker]


Yet as "chief operator" or ANCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa, he remains
woefully ignorant of MARS. I just don't get it.


It's easy to "get." He wasn't what he says he was. He hasn't
supplied a single bit of evidence to prove his claims.


In another recent post, Robesin keeps referring to a "CV."
That's an acronym for the Latin 'curriculum vitae,' a list
of life experiences (education, work experience).


Maybe he meant "constant velocity" as in "CV joints" because he's
always "spun up" about one thing or another.


He tries to "spin" his claims to be the truth. Still no
evidence presented.

Robesin used the wrong word/acronym for a RESUME' presented
as part of an interview for a job.

Robesin an academic? Not in this lifetime.

It's just his inappropriate use of what to him are important sounding
words and acronyms.


Some of those he makes up as he goes along.

The rec.radio newsgroups have showcased Robesin. He HAS earned his
reputation. He's worked very hard for it.


He's hardly worked in radio.






Woody August 28th 06 02:15 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Never ever saw a
CAP in a flight suit before robesin's well advertised home page


Big blue jumpsuits... never seen anything else...

, and a male nurses uniform.


Wanna explain what a male nurses uniform is??


Thought he had a "killer" job as a male nurse?


Wow, that sounds rather condescending....


Oh, I don't know. After a hard day behind the microphone, he's got

that 1,000 yard stare.


Yeah, those "real" radio ops really have it tough, don't they? There should
be a reality show called
"Two-Way Trauma: Life in the radio room."

rb



Woody August 28th 06 02:17 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Since I don't know this Robitussin guy, I really can't say anything in reply
to this post....
rb

wrote in message
oups.com...
From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm


wrote:
From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm
wrote:
From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm
wrote:
From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm
wrote:
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57
pm


Robesin is merely a product of the "incentive" licensing
system where all those who hunger for being a "somebody"
can get a Title - Rank - Privilege through a singular skill.


If it doesn't have rank or a uniform, Robesin isn't interested.


That certainly seems the case. The "uniform" is his
emperor's new clothes...


Lessee. He's got a Marine uniform (he says). A Tennessee State Guard
uniform (whatever that is), an ill-fitting Air Force CAP flight suit
uniform, and a male nurses uniform. And he has lots of military medals
that he never earned (according to him).

You know, whenever I saw folks in the CAP uniform at any Air Force
Base, including Maxwell, they work the 4b or Class A. Never ever saw a
CAP in a flight suit before robesin's well advertised home page.


In all my visits to USAF bases I've never seen any CAP
personnel there, let alone some in a poopy suit. I've seen
several civilians on USAF bases, employed by the USAF, wearing
flight suits and clearly identified as to being civilian.


I didn't make that system, neither did you, neither did
anyone in these four forums. The FCC took a big chunk out
of it (license classes and morsemanship skill) with the
Restructuring of 2000 and that ****ed off the Title-Rank-
Status seekers. Devout morsemen are angry and venting steam
because their self-esteem has fallen.


Only in their minds. They are the very same good or bad hams that they
were with all the layers of hamdom.


All of those "layers" hams are examples to the general public,
good or bad or indifferent. So?


"Self-esteem" is a nice-nice word for EGO tied in with self-
perception. Trying to represent themselves as "expert" radio
persons in this new millennium is a rather stupid idea of those
devout morsepersons when they want to force the FCC to keep the
code test.


Some do. Some don't. robesin does.


He's a bad example for the morsemen.


Those who LIKE morse code should, and can, go on using it.


Roger.


Roger that. salute


That
is in no sense any validity for making it an amateur radio test
requirement for a license.


No valid reason to maintain it as a barrier to the ARS.


Oh, oh...in the PC (Political Correctness) of morsedom,
the code test cannot possibly ever be a "barrier."

ALL "good hams" should WORK for their AMATEUR licenses!

Those that won't are worse than river-bottom slime...:-)

Trying to speak logically, the FCC grants amateur licenses
in the USA and even they proposed (via an NPRM) to eliminate
the amateur radio morse code test for a license. FCC is on
record of a couple decades ago that this singular manual
skill test does not tell them if a license applicant is
worthy of a federal license.


Simply amazing. EIGHTEEN years alleged on active duty and
he can't supply a single photo or document to support his
claim? In November of this year I can truthfully say I've
been in the southern California aerospace business 50 years.
I have all sorts of documentation and photos on that which
I may fully digitize some day (some are already digitized).
Some time ago I posted my resume in here...which only made
Robesin ballistic then since he has NO comparable
experience in industry and cannot prove any radio experience
other than amateur and alleged "chief operator" status at
some small MARS station long ago. [that was before his
less-than-a-half-year as a purchasing agent at a small
set top box maker]


Yet as "chief operator" or ANCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa, he remains
woefully ignorant of MARS. I just don't get it.


It's easy to "get." He wasn't what he says he was. He hasn't
supplied a single bit of evidence to prove his claims.


Now it all makes sense.


It was all one great big super-brag.



Robesin used the wrong word/acronym for a RESUME' presented
as part of an interview for a job.


Thought he had a "killer" job as a male nurse?


God forbid!


Robesin an academic? Not in this lifetime.


It's just his inappropriate use of what to him are important sounding
words and acronyms.


Some of those he makes up as he goes along.


Probably how his career in the Marines was invented.


Well, he might have been in the reserves?


The rec.radio newsgroups have showcased Robesin. He HAS earned his
reputation. He's worked very hard for it.


He's hardly worked in radio.


Oh, I don't know. After a hard day behind the microphone, he's got
that 1,000 yard stare.


That's also a symptom of anoxia...lack of oxygen used up in
his bragging of what he did that never was... :-)

Tsk, all that work he does in trying to bluff us. All he had to
do was present SOME sort of document proof or even a personal
snapshot taken while in that "hostile-action-filled" 18 year
"career" in the USMC. He hasn't done so after many years.

If he can't present a single item of 18 years of his life, it
is hard for the rest of us to believe anything he said.






Woody August 28th 06 02:19 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Me either.
rb

wrote in message
ups.com...

RLW wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm


wrote:
From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm
wrote:
From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm
wrote:
From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm
wrote:
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006 2:57
pm

Robesin is merely a product of the "incentive" licensing
system where all those who hunger for being a "somebody"
can get a Title - Rank - Privilege through a singular skill.

If it doesn't have rank or a uniform, Robesin isn't interested.

That certainly seems the case. The "uniform" is his
emperor's new clothes...

Lessee. He's got a Marine uniform (he says). A Tennessee State Guard
uniform (whatever that is), an ill-fitting Air Force CAP flight suit
uniform, and a male nurses uniform. And he has lots of military medals
that he never earned (according to him).

You know, whenever I saw folks in the CAP uniform at any Air Force
Base, including Maxwell, they work the 4b or Class A. Never ever saw a
CAP in a flight suit before robesin's well advertised home page.


In all my visits to USAF bases I've never seen any CAP
personnel there, let alone some in a poopy suit. I've seen
several civilians on USAF bases, employed by the USAF, wearing
flight suits and clearly identified as to being civilian.


Saturdays. They bring the kids in for a tour and a meal at the chow
hall.

Oh, I don't know. After a hard day behind the microphone, he's got
that 1,000 yard stare.


That's also a symptom of anoxia...lack of oxygen used up in
his bragging of what he did that never was... :-)

Tsk, all that work he does in trying to bluff us. All he had to
do was present SOME sort of document proof or even a personal
snapshot taken while in that "hostile-action-filled" 18 year
"career" in the USMC. He hasn't done so after many years.

If he can't present a single item of 18 years of his life, it
is hard for the rest of us to believe anything he said.



Well, doggone it, Lennie. Next thing ya know he'll be posting over the
callsign of another Amateur.

Nope...ya just cain't believe guys like that, can you Len?


I don't believe his bs.




Woody August 28th 06 02:20 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
So you guys got sidetracked and missed the CW call so both your guys died.
You are the weakest link.
Goodbye.
rb

wrote in message
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rom: on Thurs, Aug 24 2006 6:39 pm


wrote in message
oups.com...
From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm
wrote:
From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm
wrote:
From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm
wrote:
From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm
wrote:
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006
2:57 pm



In all my visits to USAF bases I've never seen any CAP
personnel there, let alone some in a poopy suit. I've seen
several civilians on USAF bases, employed by the USAF, wearing
flight suits and clearly identified as to being civilian.


Saturdays. They bring the kids in for a tour and a meal at the chow
hall.


OK, that explains it. :-) If I was on-site for some company
business, I wouldn't be there on weekends. :-)

Oh, I don't know. After a hard day behind the microphone, he's got
that 1,000 yard stare.


That's also a symptom of anoxia...lack of oxygen used up in
his bragging of what he did that never was... :-)


Tsk, all that work he does in trying to bluff us. All he had to
do was present SOME sort of document proof or even a personal
snapshot taken while in that "hostile-action-filled" 18 year
"career" in the USMC. He hasn't done so after many years.


If he can't present a single item of 18 years of his life, it
is hard for the rest of us to believe anything he said.


I don't believe his bs.


Any rational, sane person can't believe his claims. Hopefully,
that is most of us reading some of the garbage going on in here
now.

I found it uproarious that Robeson tried to cover up his NOT
naming a single military radio that was operational during his
alleged 18-year "USMC career," claiming "all the information is
classified!" :-)

Absolute bull****. The names, ID, functions have all been in
public view...the 'Public' being the makers or those wanting to
get in on an RFQ (Request for Quote) being advertised by the
DoD. Even though I never operated (as a civilian) anything
more than an old ARC-27 or PRC-119 SINCGARS, all the military
radios operational between the times of those two are easily
recognizeable to me (well, the VRCs have lots of differences
between families but the same case and general form). The
operating manuals are NOT classified, just in limited
distribution. LOGSA the Logistics Supply Agency is busy making
CDs of all the printed manuals for darn near ALL military
equipment; it's a piece of cake to pop one of those CDs in an
ever-present military PC and read them. LOGSA has a website
and even civilians can download some of the older equipment's
manuals. LOGSA has some internal priority on what can be
downloaded (depending on the cookie generated by a non-military
PC). That was a tip I got from rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
and rec.radio.amateur.homebrew. The nomenclatures and quick-
look facts are on a couple websites in a long, long, long list.
Even BAMA has some manuals for free download plus big link
lists for other sites that have them.

Robesin DID list some (questionable) nomenclatures for MARS
equipment once but NOTHING else. That kind of info can be
had from other hams' personal websites. MARS doesn't
normally talk about regular military tactical radio gear.
MARS doesn't normally use such. :-)






Woody August 28th 06 02:21 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
I saw a C-130 fly almost directly over my house last year. Couldn't see who
was in it though...
rb

wrote in message
ups.com...

wrote:
from: on Thurs, Aug 24 2006 6:39 pm
wrote in message
oups.com...
From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm
wrote:
From: on Tues, Aug 22 2006 7:14 pm
wrote:
From: on Mon, Aug 21 2006 6:30 pm
wrote:
From: an old friend on Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:16 pm
wrote:
From: on Sun, Aug 20 2006
2:57 pm



In all my visits to USAF bases I've never seen any CAP
personnel there, let alone some in a poopy suit. I've seen
several civilians on USAF bases, employed by the USAF, wearing
flight suits and clearly identified as to being civilian.

Saturdays. They bring the kids in for a tour and a meal at the chow
hall.


OK, that explains it. :-) If I was on-site for some company
business, I wouldn't be there on weekends. :-)


I attended 3 weeks of CWPC training at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery,
Alabama. It hosts CAP HQ. Didn't see any CAP uniforms there, either.

Odd, though. The new owner of robesin's old vanity callsign, K4CAP,
resides in Montgomery, Alabama.

Oh, I don't know. After a hard day behind the microphone, he's got
that 1,000 yard stare.

That's also a symptom of anoxia...lack of oxygen used up in
his bragging of what he did that never was... :-)

Tsk, all that work he does in trying to bluff us. All he had to
do was present SOME sort of document proof or even a personal
snapshot taken while in that "hostile-action-filled" 18 year
"career" in the USMC. He hasn't done so after many years.

If he can't present a single item of 18 years of his life, it
is hard for the rest of us to believe anything he said.

I don't believe his bs.


Any rational, sane person can't believe his claims. Hopefully,
that is most of us reading some of the garbage going on in here
now.


Some of the whacko Anon's have championed robesin's cause, whatever it
might be.

I found it uproarious that Robeson tried to cover up his NOT
naming a single military radio that was operational during his
alleged 18-year "USMC career," claiming "all the information is
classified!" :-)


Scuse me while I blow the pepsi out of my nose.

Absolute bull****. The names, ID, functions have all been in
public view...the 'Public' being the makers or those wanting to
get in on an RFQ (Request for Quote) being advertised by the
DoD. Even though I never operated (as a civilian) anything
more than an old ARC-27 or PRC-119 SINCGARS, all the military
radios operational between the times of those two are easily
recognizeable to me (well, the VRCs have lots of differences
between families but the same case and general form). The
operating manuals are NOT classified, just in limited
distribution. LOGSA the Logistics Supply Agency is busy making
CDs of all the printed manuals for darn near ALL military
equipment; it's a piece of cake to pop one of those CDs in an
ever-present military PC and read them. LOGSA has a website
and even civilians can download some of the older equipment's
manuals. LOGSA has some internal priority on what can be
downloaded (depending on the cookie generated by a non-military
PC). That was a tip I got from rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
and rec.radio.amateur.homebrew. The nomenclatures and quick-
look facts are on a couple websites in a long, long, long list.
Even BAMA has some manuals for free download plus big link
lists for other sites that have them.


Too much work for robesin. So he just "classified" everything. He was
definitely confused by Major Vincent and his key on a necklace. Hah!

Robesin DID list some (questionable) nomenclatures for MARS
equipment once but NOTHING else. That kind of info can be
had from other hams' personal websites. MARS doesn't
normally talk about regular military tactical radio gear.
MARS doesn't normally use such. :-)



If he was involved in MARS, it was probably just to eavesdrop on morale
calls from a lonely GI to his wife or girlfriend back home.




Slow Code August 28th 06 02:23 AM

If you had to use microphone to save Markies life, would use CW instead?
 
"an old freind" wrote in
oups.com:


Slow Code wrote:
"an old friend" wrote in
oups.com:

more kookery




Not Lloyd August 28th 06 02:26 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

"Woody" wrote in message
news:FYqIg.36416$NF3.28742@trnddc05...
And as previously stated, slow equals death. If you can't do 20wpm you
should stay off the bands.

rb

Aw, fer Chrissake Woody, kwit yer cryin' and whinin'.



Woody August 28th 06 02:30 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

wrote in message
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I knew a SSgt that was also a Major. When he had on his Major Uniform,
he strutted around escorting the JrCAPs to the chow hall to show them
how it's really done.


Cool, so he could wear one of each rank per shoulder and you can just call
him Sgt. Major.

Yet as "chief operator" or ANCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa, he remains
woefully ignorant of MARS. I just don't get it.


Uh, hello.... Looks like perfect qualifications for a management position.

He never thought that a mere Army or Air Force NCO would know anything
about MARS.


It's the 4th planet from the Sun, and there's a probe thingy driving in
uncontrollable circles around Deuphus Prime.


Very, very unfortunate for him.


Not good for the probe either...


Seven hostile actions, I'm told. I can't imagine being short-sheeted 7
times by members of my flight.

The marines can fly? I thought they were just to cover the beaches so the
Army doesn't get sand in their boots....

rb



Woody August 28th 06 02:32 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
Yeah, but with the VNER sanctions, you can't get the ALE to link up with
them to start the whole CVAC anyway.
rb

"an old friend" wrote in message
ups.com...

wrote:
wrote:
From: on Wed, Aug 23 2006 7:46 pm


Trying to speak logically, the FCC grants amateur licenses
in the USA and even they proposed (via an NPRM) to eliminate
the amateur radio morse code test for a license. FCC is on
record of a couple decades ago that this singular manual
skill test does not tell them if a license applicant is
worthy of a federal license.


So what's the hold up?
most likely the fact that some at the FCC wouldlike to plase the ARRL as
long as it costs them nothing ut the cpsts are starting to build since
NVEC realy needs to know soon what the general license involves so they
can write the new pool





[email protected] August 28th 06 03:17 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

Woody wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...

I knew a SSgt that was also a Major. When he had on his Major Uniform,
he strutted around escorting the JrCAPs to the chow hall to show them
how it's really done.


Cool, so he could wear one of each rank per shoulder and you can just call
him Sgt. Major.


Yikes!

Yet as "chief operator" or ANCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa, he remains
woefully ignorant of MARS. I just don't get it.


Uh, hello.... Looks like perfect qualifications for a management position.


I like the way you think.

He never thought that a mere Army or Air Force NCO would know anything
about MARS.


It's the 4th planet from the Sun, and there's a probe thingy driving in
uncontrollable circles around Deuphus Prime.


Careful. You might get him excited with the probe talk.

Very, very unfortunate for him.


Not good for the probe either...


Can't it be factory refurbished?

Seven hostile actions, I'm told. I can't imagine being short-sheeted 7
times by members of my flight.

The marines can fly? I thought they were just to cover the beaches so the
Army doesn't get sand in their boots....


Welp, when the AF took the airplanes away from the Army in 1947...

....this guy named Sikorsky came along and sold them some helicopters.
Anyway, they were a lot of fun and the idea really caught on. Now the
marines have them, too. Robesin says he worked on helicopters in some
capacity, and got hisself involved in 7 hostile actions.


[email protected] August 28th 06 03:25 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 

Woody wrote:
I saw a C-130 fly almost directly over my house last year. Couldn't see who
was in it though...
rb


The aluminum skin of a C130 is sort of hard to see through. The only
craft that I ever saw with a glass underbelly was a tour boat in
Florida.

But you can rest assured that neither robesin nor the CAP was flying
that C130.


Dave Oldridge August 28th 06 06:54 AM

If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
 
"Woody" wrote in news:i4rIg.901$N84.191@trnddc08:

So did your guy die or not?


Which one? You win some, you lose some. In more than twenty years there
were lots. You see until 1995 CW was still being used for serious ship-to-
shore comms. SSB is OK for phone calls but if you want written copy, you
need something that works. And, though we tried it with some fairly good
equipment, RTTY just didn't cut it. What did the job was INMARSAT.
Satellite comms can take place on VHF, UHF and SHF bands that don't
restrict bandwidth. And they can do that because the antenna is finally
high enough to make a real difference.

And that's why I'm watching TV from a 12ghz satellite signal right now.
Putting the antenna that high makes all modes pretty much equal as far as
signal-to-noise goes.

Of course, if a big solar flare takes out a whole bunch of sats, we're
gonna have a comm squeeze.


--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667


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