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In case their are those who get a CB-type rig such as the 817
in their stockings and are misled by those-who-ought-to-know-better into thinking that they are Radio Hams, the weekly (and revised) FAQ is posted a couple of days early to enable the parents to take the CB gear back to the shop..... What is Ham Radio? Ham Radio is a technical pursuit for those who are interested in the science of radio wave propagation and who are also interested in the way that their radios function. It has a long-standing tradition of providing a source of engineers who are born naturals. Ham Radio awakens in its aficionados a whole-life fascination with all things technical and gives an all-abiding curiosity to improve one's scientific knowledge. It's a great swimming pool, please dive in! This excitement causes a wish to share the experience with ones fellow man, and shows itself in the gentlemanly traditions of Ham Radio. Radio Hams are in a unique privileged position in that they can construct and operate their own equipment! No-one else has this privilege. Users, such as broadcasters, the po lice and armed farces, CBers and mobile phone users have to purchase ready-made gear. Manufacturers are not licensed to operate their gear. Radio Hams are qualified to design, build and then operate their own pieces of equipment. They do this with gusto, and also repair and modify their own equipment. This is a privilege well worth the effort to gain, and one to be jealously guarded. The excitement that drives a Radio Ham starts with relatively simple technologies at first, perhaps making his own Wimshurst machine and primary cells. Small pieces of test equipment follow, possibly multimeters and signal generators. Then comes receivers and transmitters. It is with the latter that communication with like-minded technically motivated people takes off. The scope for technical development grows with the years and now encompasses DSP and DDS. There is also a great deal of excitement in the areas of computer programming to be learnt and applied. The technical excitement motivates Radio Hams to compete with each other to determine who has designed and manufactured the best-quality station. This competitiveness is found in DXing, competitions and fox-hunts. -----OOOOO---- However, beware! A Ham Radio licence is such a desirable thing to have that there are large numbers of people who wish to be thought of as Radio Hams when, in fact, they are nothing of the kind! Usually such people are a variation of the CB Radio hobbyist; they buy their radios off the shelf and send them back to be repaired; they are not interested in technical discussion and sneer at those who are; they have no idea how their radios work inside and have no wish to find out; they are free with rather silly personal insults; they have not satisfied any technical qualification and their licences prevent the use of self-designed-and-built equipment. These CB types engage in the competitive activities with their Cheque-Book-purchased off-the-shelf radios in a forlorn effort to prove that they are Radio Hams. No _REAL_ Radio Hams are deceived by such people! -----ooooo----- One such CB type is the so-called "Not-Ham". Otherwise known as the CBer-Masquerading-As-A-Radio-Ham, this type had their background in the hobby that is CB Radio and not in the technical pursuits that lead up to a coveted Ham licence. Easily recognised by their boasts of the criminal activity of 11 metre SSB operation, one wonders why they don't go back to the CB Bands if such bands are dearer in their hearts than are the Ham Bands? No _REAL Radio Hams associate with those who made an illegal installation of transmitting equipment before being in possession of an appropriate licence. -----ooooo----- One infallible way to disambiguate the CB Radio Hobbyist from the _REAL_ Radio Ham is to solicit their view of the difference between CB Radio and Ham Radio. A Radio Ham will perceive Ham Radio to be a technical pursuit and will perceive CB Radio to be a social communications facility no different in essence to a land-line telephone or a GSM mobile in the hands of a 6-year-old. Thus a Radio Ham could also hold a CB licence safe in the knowledge that such a licence says no more about him than having a land-line telephone, whilst continuing to regard Ham Radio as a separate technical pursuit. A CB Radio hobbyist, on the other hand, sees no difference between a Ham Radio licence and a CB Radio licence. To him, they are sisters-under-the-skin. Wrongly, the CB Radio Hobbyist then tries to classify himself as the equal of the Radio Ham when, in fact, he is nothing of the kind. A sure sign of a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds, or has ever held, a licence issued under the gangrenous degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme. -----ooooo----- One group of people who claim to be of the standard of Radio Hams but who are in reality nothing more than an apology for the failure of a CBer are those class B licensees who falsely proclaimed that they were against the use of a Morse Test to control access to the HF bands, until, that is, a test was introduced at their intellectual level, the intellectual level of 6-year-olds. 6 year-olds simply lack the mathematical tool kit to enable them to handle even the simplest algebraic manipulation for Ohm's Law and thus, the disgraceful Class Ber's in the aforementioned category are not Radio Hams by any stretch of the imagination! Remember - A sure sign of a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds, or has ever held, a licence issued under the gangrenous degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme! |
FAQ - revised version
Over-wound Spring wrote: In case their are those who get a CB-type rig such as the 817 in their stockings and are misled by those-who-ought-to-know-better into thinking that they are Radio Hams, the weekly (and revised) FAQ is posted a couple of days early to enable the parents to take the CB gear back to the shop..... Could this possibly have been posted by the man who, just 8 years ago, was selling his FT101E on the grounds that it was too difficult to tune up without the manual? 2. FT101E, pristine condition, CW filter. (Purchased Longleat '95, never used on TX by me 'cos critical tuning-up pages missing from manual!) " 73 de Gareth G4SDW 13 Hardens Close, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3AA (01249) 651897 You should get an 817 yourself - no tuning required! |
FAQ - revised version
If you wish to be henceforth perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer)
then carry right on with the Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you utter below. You seem to be obsessed with me, you are chanting your infantile playground tirades at every turn. Brian Reay says that such obsession is a sign of envy. Have you no life of your own? All _REAL_ Radio Hams have a number of ongoing projects simultaneously. Some are held up for lack of components, some for a lack of time, others for lack of info. I wouldn't recommend anyone whose background is in transistorised QRP to tackle the neutralising of a compact PA stage with 600 VDC on the anodes after replacing the antenna coupling capacitor unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. The project was held up awaiting info, and when I needed the space, was one of a number that I disposed of. ISTR that an R1475 awaiting restoration also was disposed of at the same time. The project was underway, I was fully prepared to have a go, in sharp contrast to the CBers-Masquerading-As-Radio-Hams of today who buy their goods from a shop and return them to a shop if needing repair. You really do seem anxious to score some pathetic and childish points. You may feel at home starting and then desperately trying to continue a ****ing-in-the-playground competition, but that is not my style. You do yourself, this NG, and Ham Radio in general no service by discouraging the discussion of what we do and the problems we encounter along the way if you pick up on minor points out of context and sneer and chant from the sidelines. How are we to encourage the novitiate other than by discussing what we do? Shame on you. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: Over-wound Spring wrote: In case their are those who get a CB-type rig such as the 817 in their stockings and are misled by those-who-ought-to-know-better into thinking that they are Radio Hams, the weekly (and revised) FAQ is posted a couple of days early to enable the parents to take the CB gear back to the shop..... Could this possibly have been posted by the man who, just 8 years ago, was selling his FT101E on the grounds that it was too difficult to tune up without the manual? 2. FT101E, pristine condition, CW filter. (Purchased Longleat '95, never used on TX by me 'cos critical tuning-up pages missing from manual!) " You should get an 817 yourself - no tuning required! |
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OK - are you a man, or a yellow-bellied coward?
I notice that your own personal details are withheld in the callbook. How brave of you to publish someone else's, including their phone number while you yourself hide shaking and quivering behind the safety of the playground fence while you chant your infantile sneers. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: 73 de Gareth G4SDW 13 Hardens Close, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3AA (01249) 651897 |
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Pierian Spring wrote: You may feel at home starting and then desperately trying to continue a ****ing-in-the-playground competition, but that is not my style. Oh - it seems I owe you an apology? It must be some other Pierian Spring who "****es" the same tedious self-righteous drivel into these newsgroups umpteen times a week. |
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Pierian Spring wrote: OK - are you a man, or a yellow-bellied coward? I notice that your own personal details are withheld in the callbook. How brave of you to publish someone else's, including their phone number while you yourself hide shaking and quivering behind the safety of the playground fence while you chant your infantile sneers. QTHR on the website (www.g4kfk.co.uk) and at QRZ.com You'll also find Nick G3VCP, whom you accused of being a pirate, is QTHR at qrz.com And at least I use my own name, rather than claiming to be the Pierian Spring of Greek mythology. "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring" Alexander Pope 73 Mike G4KFK |
tedious bollocks - revised version
If it is your wish to be for ever perceived as a Childish
Broadcaster (CBer), then carry right on with uttering your obsessive Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you do below. You're not doing yourself any favours with your infantile tirades, and you really ought to know better. Shame on you. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: Pierian Spring wrote: You may feel at home starting and then desperately trying to continue a ****ing-in-the-playground competition, but that is not my style. Oh - it seems I owe you an apology? It must be some other Pierian Spring who "****es" the same tedious self-righteous drivel into these newsgroups umpteen times a week. |
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I don't follow web links - if you have something valid
to contribute to a discussion in this NG - possibly your address and telephone number, then contribute it, or else be for ever dismissed as a cowardly child. You really must get out of this habit of yours of chanting infantile untruths; it does you no favours. I did not accuse anybody of being a pirate as you imply below. As to using one's own name, I used to until my family was subject to malicious and threatening correspondence coming from Stephen G Bryan G0SGB. I advise anybody to remain anonymous as there are malicious and obsessive loonies to be found in this NG and in this thread to this day. You also seem to not understand the tradition of using a pseudonym, in my case for the reason discussed above - I do not claim to be a font of any sort; I am merely using a pseudonym. Once again, you should give serious consideration to presenting to this NG a persona other than the insult-sneering infant that you continue to do below. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: Pierian Spring wrote: OK - are you a man, or a yellow-bellied coward? I notice that your own personal details are withheld in the callbook. How brave of you to publish someone else's, including their phone number while you yourself hide shaking and quivering behind the safety of the playground fence while you chant your infantile sneers. QTHR on the website (www.g4kfk.co.uk) and at QRZ.com You'll also find Nick G3VCP, whom you accused of being a pirate, is QTHR at qrz.com And at least I use my own name, rather than claiming to be the Pierian Spring of Greek mythology. "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring" Alexander Pope |
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Pierian Spring wrote: ... there are malicious and obsessive loonies to be found in this NG You're right about one thing! |
FAQ - revised version
Pierian Spring wrote: ... there are malicious and obsessive loonies to be found in this NG You're right about one thing! |
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"Spike" wrote in message ... "I wouldn't recommend anyone whose background is in transistorised QRP to tackle the neutralising of a compact PA stage with 600 VDC on the anodes after replacing the antenna coupling capacitor " Is there is a conflict here between the so-called 'FAQ' as laid down, and its practice as suggested by its own adherent? Under what circumstances should others 'repair with gusto' but not consider adjustments to a valve PA? All PAs? Ones with 12V on the anode? What are the limitations here? Is there a safety issue here? Where does one go to get 'a suitable background'? The so-called 'FAQ' should make things clear, not have the issues clouded by postings elsewhere. Plus, of course, such a neutralisation isn't that difficult a task- being a normal process after replacing a valve. I've done a couple of FT101's over the years and I don't recall the PA being that compact. Either way, assuming the technician involved had even a modicum of experience in electronics, it is the sort of job I'd expect them to be able to tackle. 73 Brian |
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However as it's Christmas, please feel free to join me at my run down QTH
for a spot of meths! Pierian Spring wrote: I don't follow web links - if you have something valid to contribute to a discussion in this NG - possibly your address and telephone number, then contribute it, or else be for ever dismissed as a cowardly child. |
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Spike wrote: It would seem that this so-called 'FAQ' is itself in need of serious repair; let us see if the author can tackle that, or whether he merely intends to tackle it but then abandon it in favour of some activity that actually lies within his ambit. It is suggested that for a number of reasons, some possibly legal in scope, he does not republish it until the problems inherent in it are satisfactorily dealt with, otherwise serious issues might arise by any who follow it. But why would he allow "nugatories" (his word) such as truth and common-sense to spoil his vision of amateur radio? A vision which, according to this posting from 1999, included an HND-level exam! Gareth Alun Evans wrote in message ... Perhaps the answer would be to widen the terms of the CB license, to include what are now the 2m, 6m, 10m and 20m amateur bands, using only type-approved eqpt (which should suit the quasi- CB activities of DX, WAB and contests, and the current behavioural habits of the denizens of those bands); and then to bring in a much higher educational requirement (say, 'A' level maths and electronics) as a pre-requisite for an RAE at about the HND level. It cannot be ignored that a good mathematical grounding is essential for engineering design. This would also provide a break-time to ease the Morse requirement. Needless to say, all current Radio Hams (myself included) would get only the expanded CB, and would have to sit the new exams. I cannot see that there would be any objection to this because if you consider yourself to competent to design and construct radios, then you'd pass the exam with flying colours, wouldn't you? A Radio Ham licence would then, indeed, be a prized privilege One wonders what would be the point? If 136kHz, 1.8, 3.5, 5, 7, 10, 18, 21 and 24MHz were only available to qualified engineers, what would they use them for? What could they learn about propagation on these bands that we don't already know? And, in a world where mission-critical long-distance comms has already moved to fibre and satellite, to what use would any new knowledge be put? Surely it's better to promote the social side of the hobby (and yes Gareth, it IS a hobby) to at least the same extent as the technical side, and the only way to do this is for entry into the hobby to remain "competitive" with other pastimes. The RSGB have shown that they can do this efficiently. 73 and Happy CHRISTmas Mike G4KFK www.g4kfk.co.uk |
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Pierian Spring wrote:
One such CB type is the so-called "Not-Ham". Otherwise known as the CBer-Masquerading-As-A-Radio-Ham, this type had their background in the hobby that is CB Radio and not in the technical pursuits that lead up to a coveted Ham licence. Easily recognised by their boasts of the criminal activity of 11 metre SSB operation, one wonders why they don't go back to the CB Bands if such bands are dearer in their hearts than are the Ham Bands? No _REAL Radio Hams associate with those who made an illegal installation of transmitting equipment before being in possession of an appropriate licence. Cool! I'm in the G4SDW hall of flame! -- huLLy Mobile phone 07976 123278 ICQ 136-987-925 |
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Pierian Spring wrote:
In case their are those who get a CB-type rig such as the 817 in their stockings and are misled by those-who-ought-to-know-better into thinking that they are Radio Hams, I got news for ya chappie, the war's over, you can get those parts for your head now. Yeah, yeah, I know, 'stupid boy.' You need some new material, and maybe some vitamin C tabs, ya been suckin' limes* so long you're sour completely through. *- Apologies to all the British possibly offended by this remark with the exception of G4SDW, who it was intended to offend. |
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"Spike" wrote in message ... but elsewhere. If this was done as part of a professional's duties, it would be regarded as, well, unprofessional; but in the context of encouraging newcomers, it is a dangerous and disgraceful practice. Certainly most professions expect the "established" to encourage and support newcomers. Experienced engineers tend to have newcomers as assistants, qualified teachers have PGCE students to mentor and advise, new police officers are put with experienced officers, junior Doctors are assign to a registrar, etc., etc., etc. Such a system only fails if the "established" person isn't so "established" as maybe they should be. 73 Brian |
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"Pierian Spring" wrote in message oups.com... crap snipped I wouldn't recommend anyone whose background is in transistorised QRP to tackle the neutralising of a compact PA stage with 600 VDC on the anodes after replacing the antenna coupling capacitor unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. So how are people supposed to learn/progress if they are not going to tackle something they have no previous experience of? Is that not the whole point of Ham Radio, as you seem to continually remind us of in your FAQ? |
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Pierian Spring wrote: However as it's Christmas, please feel free to join me at my run down QTH for a spot of meths! That's a very kind offer and, as it happens, we will be visiting friends in Canal Road over the hols, so I might well take you up on the offer. It it BYOB? Should I bring my own anti-freeze? Merry CHRISTmas Mike G4KFK www.g4kfk.co.uk |
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Pierian Spring wrote:
[snip] I advise anybody to remain anonymous As in getting yourself arrested, and your name and picture published in your local newspaper..thus bringing amateur radio into disrepute, is that what you version of anonymous is ? http://archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk.../10/91923.html |
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Me wrote: As in getting yourself arrested, and your name and picture published in your local newspaper..thus bringing amateur radio into disrepute, is that what you version of anonymous is ? Maybe a clean CRB check should be a pre-requisite for an amateur radio licence? 73 Mike G4KFK |
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I see that some cowardly child has hidden behind an
anonymising server to forge an abusive posting that did not come from me. What more proof do we need that the dumbing down that has come in from, amongst other things, the gangrenous degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence, has done irreparable harm to the society of Radio Hams? In the light of the forged posting below, it is more and more important that _ALL_ self-respecting _REAL_ Radio Hams resign forthwith from the RSCB, if only to show support for decency and for civilised behaviour in Radio Hammery. Pierian Spring wrote: However as it's Christmas, please feel free to join me at my run down QTH for a spot of meths! Pierian Spring wrote: I don't follow web links - if you have something valid to contribute to a discussion in this NG - possibly your address and telephone number, then contribute it, or else be for ever dismissed as a cowardly child. |
FAQ - revised version
If it was your intention to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster
(CBer), and deliberately setting out to cause offence is most certainly childish, then continue with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you use below. Grow up, Galen Watts! Stupid child. W8LNA wrote: I got news for ya chappie, the war's over, you can get those parts for your head now. Yeah, yeah, I know, 'stupid boy.' You need some new material, and maybe some vitamin C tabs, ya been suckin' limes* so long you're sour completely through. *- Apologies to all the British possibly offended by this remark with the exception of G4SDW, who it was intended to offend. |
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At no time have I indicated that I wasn't prepared to
tackle something of which I had no experience. I was prepared to tackle it, and was awaiting the appropriate instructions. How many of those who boast of having neutralised the PA stage of an FT101 did so without the manufacturer's instructions thereto, and if they lacked the instructions, how did they know that their attempts to so neutralise were successful? You really do seem desperate to score some infantile point, Andy GilFillan! DrBoris wrote: "Pierian Spring" wrote in message oups.com... crap snipped I wouldn't recommend anyone whose background is in transistorised QRP to tackle the neutralising of a compact PA stage with 600 VDC on the anodes after replacing the antenna coupling capacitor unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. So how are people supposed to learn/progress if they are not going to tackle something they have no previous experience of? Is that not the whole point of Ham Radio, as you seem to continually remind us of in your FAQ? |
FAQ - revised version
If it is your wish to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer)
then just carry right on with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you utter below. You do yourslef no favours by your continual use of gratuitous and abusive outbursts. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: Pierian Spring wrote: However as it's Christmas, please feel free to join me at my run down QTH for a spot of meths! That's a very kind offer and, as it happens, we will be visiting friends in Canal Road over the hols, so I might well take you up on the offer. It it BYOB? Should I bring my own anti-freeze? Merry CHRISTmas Mike G4KFK www.g4kfk.co.uk |
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Firstly, why not identify yourself, rather than hiding like the
infantile coward that you undoubtedly are behind an anonymising server? (Talking of infantile anonymous cowards, have you ever thought about joining the plods yourself?) Secondly, if anyone is arrested as the result of a malicious and perjurous complaint, then that arrest, and any corresponding bringing of Ham Radio into disrepute, is a reflection on the criminal making the complaint, in this case, Brian Reay, G8OSN/M3OSN, and not on his unfortunate victim. Brian Reay subjected me to a vicious, malicious and distressing campaign of harassment over a number of years when he repeatedly accused me of sheep-shagging, said that my wife was a sheep in the bed next to me, and accused me of drinking methylated spirit. I did not respond to him other than to chastise him for his grossly offensive behaviour. When it became apparent that Brian Reay was a schoolteacher, and had been conducting his sexually deviant campaign when he was under training at a girls's school in Dartford, Kent, I responded by suggesting that such a campaign meant that he was a danger to children. Brian Reay's infantile psyche could not deal with having the tables turned on him, and he made a perjurous and malicious complaint to the plods suggesting that it was I who was harassing him, rather than the other way about. Brian Reay is a w*nkmason and it seems that his fellow w*nkmasons in the plods will not take action against him for wasting plod time in the way that he did. Me wrote: Pierian Spring wrote: [snip] I advise anybody to remain anonymous As in getting yourself arrested, and your name and picture published in your local newspaper..thus bringing amateur radio into disrepute, is that what you version of anonymous is ? http://archive.thisiswiltshire.co.uk.../10/91923.html |
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Pierian Spring wrote:
If it was your intention to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer), and deliberately setting out to cause offence is most certainly childish, then continue with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you use below. Grow up, Galen Watts! Bullseye! Gee, he can use a call sign lookup page, I'm really, really scared! Maybe I should file a report with the Melksham police. I'd bet they know who you are, Springy Ol' boy. What's more childish, a casual insult across the internet or actually going far enough to get arrested for intimidation across the internet? I suspect the latter. W8LNA Galen Watts HC 63 Box 309 Arbovale, WV 24915-9741 |
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If anyone is arrested as the result of a malicious
and perjurous complaint, then that arrest, and any corresponding bringing of Ham Radio into disrepute, is a reflection on the criminal making the complaint, in this case, Brian Reay, G8OSN/M3OSN, and not on his unfortunate victim. Brian Reay subjected me to a vicious, malicious and distressing campaign of harassment over a number of years when he repeatedly accused me of sheep-shagging, said that my wife was a sheep in the bed next to me, and accused me of drinking methylated spirit. I did not respond to him other than to chastise him for his grossly offensive behaviour. When it became apparent that Brian Reay was a schoolteacher, and had been conducting his sexually deviant campaign when he was under training at a girls's school in Dartford, Kent, I responded by suggesting that such a campaign meant that he was a danger to children. Brian Reay's infantile psyche could not deal with having the tables turned on him, and he made a perjurous and malicious complaint to the plods suggesting that it was I who was harassing him, rather than the other way about. Brian Reay is a w*nkmason and it seems that his fellow w*nkmasons in the plods will not take action against him for wasting plod time in the way that he did. If it was your intention to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer), and deliberately setting out to cause offence is most certainly childish, then continue with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you use below. Grow up, Galen Watts! Stupid child. W8LNA wrote: Bullseye! Gee, he can use a call sign lookup page, I'm really, really scared! Maybe I should file a report with the Melksham police. I'd bet they know who you are, Springy Ol' boy. What's more childish, a casual insult across the internet or actually going far enough to get arrested for intimidation across the internet? I suspect the latter. |
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Pierian Spring wrote: If it is your wish to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer) then just carry right on with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you utter below. You do yourslef no favours by your continual use of gratuitous and abusive outbursts. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. Go on then - you drink that meths all by yourself. See if I care. That's the last time I accept an invitation for a boys night out with you! 73 Mike G4KFK |
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If you wish to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer)
then just carry on with your Childish Broadcasting (CB) such as you use below. You do yourself no favours by your continual use of gratuitous and abusive outbursts. You bemuse those of us who observe your behaviour. Grow up, Mike Gathergood! Stupid boy. wrote: Go on then - you drink that meths all by yourself. See if I care. That's the last time I accept an invitation for a boys night out with you! |
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Typo (in the third word as well!)
For "their", read "there". Pierian Spring wrote: In case their are those who get a CB-type rig such as the 817 in their stockings and are misled by those-who-ought-to-know-better into thinking that they are Radio Hams, the weekly (and revised) FAQ is posted a couple of days early to enable the parents to take the CB gear back to the shop..... What is Ham Radio? Ham Radio is a technical pursuit for those who are interested in the science of radio wave propagation and who are also interested in the way that their radios function. It has a long-standing tradition of providing a source of engineers who are born naturals. Ham Radio awakens in its aficionados a whole-life fascination with all things technical and gives an all-abiding curiosity to improve one's scientific knowledge. It's a great swimming pool, please dive in! This excitement causes a wish to share the experience with ones fellow man, and shows itself in the gentlemanly traditions of Ham Radio. Radio Hams are in a unique privileged position in that they can construct and operate their own equipment! No-one else has this privilege. Users, such as broadcasters, the po lice and armed farces, CBers and mobile phone users have to purchase ready-made gear. Manufacturers are not licensed to operate their gear. Radio Hams are qualified to design, build and then operate their own pieces of equipment. They do this with gusto, and also repair and modify their own equipment. This is a privilege well worth the effort to gain, and one to be jealously guarded. The excitement that drives a Radio Ham starts with relatively simple technologies at first, perhaps making his own Wimshurst machine and primary cells. Small pieces of test equipment follow, possibly multimeters and signal generators. Then comes receivers and transmitters. It is with the latter that communication with like-minded technically motivated people takes off. The scope for technical development grows with the years and now encompasses DSP and DDS. There is also a great deal of excitement in the areas of computer programming to be learnt and applied. The technical excitement motivates Radio Hams to compete with each other to determine who has designed and manufactured the best-quality station. This competitiveness is found in DXing, competitions and fox-hunts. -----OOOOO---- However, beware! A Ham Radio licence is such a desirable thing to have that there are large numbers of people who wish to be thought of as Radio Hams when, in fact, they are nothing of the kind! Usually such people are a variation of the CB Radio hobbyist; they buy their radios off the shelf and send them back to be repaired; they are not interested in technical discussion and sneer at those who are; they have no idea how their radios work inside and have no wish to find out; they are free with rather silly personal insults; they have not satisfied any technical qualification and their licences prevent the use of self-designed-and-built equipment. These CB types engage in the competitive activities with their Cheque-Book-purchased off-the-shelf radios in a forlorn effort to prove that they are Radio Hams. No _REAL_ Radio Hams are deceived by such people! -----ooooo----- One such CB type is the so-called "Not-Ham". Otherwise known as the CBer-Masquerading-As-A-Radio-Ham, this type had their background in the hobby that is CB Radio and not in the technical pursuits that lead up to a coveted Ham licence. Easily recognised by their boasts of the criminal activity of 11 metre SSB operation, one wonders why they don't go back to the CB Bands if such bands are dearer in their hearts than are the Ham Bands? No _REAL Radio Hams associate with those who made an illegal installation of transmitting equipment before being in possession of an appropriate licence. -----ooooo----- One infallible way to disambiguate the CB Radio Hobbyist from the _REAL_ Radio Ham is to solicit their view of the difference between CB Radio and Ham Radio. A Radio Ham will perceive Ham Radio to be a technical pursuit and will perceive CB Radio to be a social communications facility no different in essence to a land-line telephone or a GSM mobile in the hands of a 6-year-old. Thus a Radio Ham could also hold a CB licence safe in the knowledge that such a licence says no more about him than having a land-line telephone, whilst continuing to regard Ham Radio as a separate technical pursuit. A CB Radio hobbyist, on the other hand, sees no difference between a Ham Radio licence and a CB Radio licence. To him, they are sisters-under-the-skin. Wrongly, the CB Radio Hobbyist then tries to classify himself as the equal of the Radio Ham when, in fact, he is nothing of the kind. A sure sign of a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds, or has ever held, a licence issued under the gangrenous degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme. -----ooooo----- One group of people who claim to be of the standard of Radio Hams but who are in reality nothing more than an apology for the failure of a CBer are those class B licensees who falsely proclaimed that they were against the use of a Morse Test to control access to the HF bands, until, that is, a test was introduced at their intellectual level, the intellectual level of 6-year-olds. 6 year-olds simply lack the mathematical tool kit to enable them to handle even the simplest algebraic manipulation for Ohm's Law and thus, the disgraceful Class Ber's in the aforementioned category are not Radio Hams by any stretch of the imagination! Remember - A sure sign of a CB Radio hobbyist is if he holds, or has ever held, a licence issued under the gangrenous degeneration that is the M3/CB Fools' Licence scheme! |
FAQ - revised version
"Pierian Spring" wrote in message ups.com... If anyone is arrested as the result of a malicious and perjurous complaint, Pray tell, has there been a prosecution, or conviction against Mr Reay for the above "alleged" malicious and perjurous complaints, if not your allegations must be groundless. Brian Reay is a we*nkmason Right all is now clear...I take it you have never been invited to join, yet another goal you have failed to achieve. |
FAQ - revised version
Pierian Spring wrote:
Brian Reay subjected me to a vicious, malicious and distressing campaign of harassment... Considering your behavior here I sincerely doubt your account of Mr. Reay's actions, especially when you refer to the constabulary as 'the plods,' a strong indication of your own denial of reality. I suspect (there's a word you're used to, eh?) the police reviewed transcripts of your exchanges with Mr. Reay and apparently determined you were the threat, as you were the party taken in to custody. Ta ta, W8LNA, 'Stupid Child' |
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wrote:
Pierian Spring wrote: However as it's Christmas, please feel free to join me at my run down QTH for a spot of meths! That's a very kind offer and, as it happens, we will be visiting friends in Canal Road over the hols, so I might well take you up on the offer. It it BYOB? Should I bring my own anti-freeze? Merry CHRISTmas Mike G4KFK www.g4kfk.co.uk In case anyone has trouble finding his qth (you might want to deliver christmas cards) here is a map http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...pcode=SN15+3AA The fact that Wood Lane Police Station is only just down the road is just coincidental (I think) |
FAQ - revised version
The plods did not check out any transcripts of mine, and took
Brian Reay at his word. I rapidly produced in defence a pile 6 inches thick of Brian Reay's infantile and grossly offensive remarks to me and the plods had to back down. I had no "exchanges" with Reay - I merely responded in defence against him to chasitise him for his gratuitous offensive onslaughts - not dissimilar from your own. The trial of the plod Richard Fuller for assault is scheduled to take place on the 8th February at Chippenham Magistrates' Court. My behaviour here has always been in support of the technical pursuit that is _REAL Ham Radio and trying to maintain standards of decency in response to the outbursts of rather silly and infantile people such as yourself. Indeed, in respect of your rather silly and infantile behaviour, if you wish to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster (CBer) then just carry on with the Childish Broadcasting (CB) that you utter below. W8LNA wrote: Pierian Spring wrote: Brian Reay subjected me to a vicious, malicious and distressing campaign of harassment... Considering your behavior here I sincerely doubt your account of Mr. Reay's actions, especially when you refer to the constabulary as 'the plods,' a strong indication of your own denial of reality. I suspect (there's a word you're used to, eh?) the police reviewed transcripts of your exchanges with Mr. Reay and apparently determined you were the threat, as you were the party taken in to custody. Ta ta, W8LNA, 'Stupid Child' |
FAQ - revised version
Pierian Spring wrote:
Brian Reay subjected me to a vicious, malicious and distressing campaign of harassment over a number of years when he repeatedly accused me of sheep-shagging, said that my wife was a sheep in the bed next to me, and accused me of drinking methylated spirit. I did not respond to him other than to chastise him for his grossly offensive behaviour. No, Gareth. You are the instigator against Brian. YOU are the guilty man. YOU are the harrassing stalker. Unfortunately, you are too mentally unstable to ever see that. How your wife puts up with you I shall never know. Maybe she's locked in a trunk in the attic or mummified in a rocking chair? -- huLLy Mobile phone 07976 123278 ICQ 136-987-925 |
FAQ - revised version
Pierian Spring wrote:
.... if you wish to be perceived as a Childish Broadcaster... Frankly I don't care how you perceive me. You, on the other hand, seem to be perceived by the others on this group as just that you decry, childish. My behaviour here has always been in support of the technical pursuit that is _REAL Ham Radio and trying to maintain standards of decency... Whose standards? Yours? Do those 'standards' involve assisting newcomers, or do you just call them 'childish' and gloat from your soiled, ivory tower? Oh for pity's sake. It seems everyone here knows who you are, where you live etc. So why can't you post under your own name and call sign, instead of some fantastically pompous delusion that you're representative of some font of wisdom? A font of pomposity, yes. Wisdom and knowledge? I'd laugh if you weren't so incredibly pitiful. Go build something, follow your own FAQ, W8LNA |
FAQ - revised version
There's no denial of reality in following the example
set by the Oddity Of Ploddity that is the We'll ****e (All Over You) Constabulary.... At 16:45 on the 3rd July 2000, Bobby Young, an Acting Inspector screamed at me, "ANY OLD PLOD WILL NOT DO!". (Perhaps it is no wonder the childish disposition of the common plod when their leaders behave so badly) In the evening of 7th March this year, David Hunt W1361 referred to the "common plod". So.....it seems to me that if it is acceptable for the plods to use the word, "plod" when discussing the plods with members of the public, then it is acceptable for members of the public to use the word, "plod" when discussing the plods, either with the plods, or with people who are not plods. W8LNA wrote: ... especially when you refer to the constabulary as 'the plods,' a strong indication of your own denial of reality. |
FAQ - revised version
Pierian Spring of verbal diarrhoea wrote:
At 16:45 on the 3rd July 2000, Bobby Young, an Acting Inspector screamed at me, "ANY OLD PLOD WILL NOT DO!". (Perhaps it is no wonder the childish disposition of the common plod when their leaders behave so badly) OK Beanie, don't keep us in suspense, what caused him to scream that at you, and why did you note the exact date and time? ....(_!_)... |
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