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Seven Years Ago Today

wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/c5qyv

Still in the box!
The dusty box remains unopened. No attempt has yet been made to open
it. The empty boast has yet to be fulfilled.

Dave K8MN

I have an ARX2B like that.

Great. Did you boast that you were going to open it seven years ago?

Why no, Dave. I boasted that I was going to purchase it seven years
ago.

When it does get opened, it will be as if
new.

Maybe it will be; maybe it won't be. You won't know for certain until
you open it.

Why wouldn't it be perfect? It's never been opened, and the box is
intact.

Some mateirals deteriorate over time. The plastics used in some types
of coaxial cable are one example.

Is the World's Greatest DXer suggesting that Cushcraft products are
defective or have poor quality control?

Did Cushcraft use only coax with a noncontaminating jacket?

And rest assured, I can open it at any time.

Len is in his eighth decade of life.

Then he would be perfect as a new ham. He could even apply through the
Vanity Call System and get an old-timey callsign so people would think
he was an old hand at this amateur stuff...

That would require opening the box first. Not going to happen, IMHO.

Seven Years Ago Today

From: on Sun, Jan 21 2007 7:29 am

The dusty box remains unopened. No attempt has yet been made to open
it. The empty boast has yet to be fulfilled.

Dave K8MN

I have an ARX2B like that.

Great. Did you boast that you were going to open it seven years ago?

Why no, Dave. I boasted that I was going to purchase it seven years
ago.

:-)

When it does get opened, it will be as if new.

Maybe it will be; maybe it won't be. You won't know for certain until
you open it.

Why wouldn't it be perfect? It's never been opened, and the box is
intact.

It won't be "perfect" unless the Foremost Authority deems
it perfect. [when he takes off his little red hat, puts
down the tin cup when organ-grinder Miccolis takes a break]

Is the World's Greatest DXer suggesting that Cushcraft products are
defective or have poor quality control?

Hee hee hee...World's Greatest DXer prolly thot that you
had some kind of furrin' callsign or experimental license.
:-)

And rest assured, I can open it at any time.

Len is in his eighth decade of life.

Correction: FIRST CENTURY! :-)

Then he would be perfect as a new ham.

Absolutely NOT! I don't bow down and genuflect in front
of some dumb**** extra control-freaks demanding Instant
Obediance to Their Majesties. Especially the ego-
inflated ex-government employee types who spend all their
time trying to beat on all others who don't agree with
Them.

He could even apply through the
Vanity Call System and get an old-timey callsign so people would think
he was an old hand at this amateur stuff...

Ha ha ha ha ha. Yes, I COULD do that. But I won't.

I started out in radio "at this military stuff" then
"at this commercial stuff" and never really got around
to "this amateur (licensed) stuff." Over a half
century ago. Herr Oberst doesn't like that. In fact,
Herr Oberst has a hate hard-on for anyone talking
against, or anyone NOT following his "superior" orders
like HOW It Should Be Done. Herr Robust and his
organ-grinding pal, Jimmie NOserve (the one who has
a hate memory like an effluent), birds of a feather
(who just can't fly very far).

I now regard Heil and Miccolis as in the same league
as Robesin. All that "elite" little group can do is
to sit around and hate all those who don't agree with
them. All must follow - explicitly - what They Say
or be the target of all sorts of character assassination
attempts for years and years afterwards. I don't think
that is the express purpose of US amateur radio...but
those three certainly act like it is in hundreds of
their postings in here.

There are limits on his ability to
open the box containing his Extra Class license.

Perhaps Handi-Hams could lend a box-cutter.

Thanks but I have one. Used it last time to open the
boxes that contained a Roomba and Scooba. [wife got
her own Christmas present, paid for it by credit card
through the Internet] They work just fine, but it is
beyond their cleaning ability to clean up all the ****
that those snivelling little sore code-test losers
leave in here.

If I need ****-cutters, all I have to do is come in
here and read the "superior" postings by code-tested
extras extolling their mighty radio pioneerings of the
past through dumpster diving and organ grinding.

He hasn't even paid for it with CASH yet.

Extra licenses for sale? Would that be through the ARRL VEC or the
W5YI VEC?

Through the Department of State ex-employees credit union.

I heard they had a Special Sale on...get a furrin' call
and ya get a dinner date with Condi. :-)

LA

Seven Years Ago Today

wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/c5qyv

Still in the box!
The dusty box remains unopened. No attempt has yet been made to open
it. The empty boast has yet to be fulfilled.

Dave K8MN

I have an ARX2B like that.

Great. Did you boast that you were going to open it seven years ago?

Why no, Dave. I boasted that I was going to purchase it seven years
ago.

When it does get opened, it will be as if
new.

Maybe it will be; maybe it won't be. You won't know for certain until
you open it.

Why wouldn't it be perfect? It's never been opened, and the box is
intact.

Some mateirals deteriorate over time. The plastics used in some types
of coaxial cable are one example.

Which part of the ARX2B do you think has deteriorated? The aluminum
elements, the stainless steel screws, or the coaxial runner?

Is the World's Greatest DXer suggesting that Cushcraft products are
defective or have poor quality control?

Did Cushcraft use only coax with a noncontaminating jacket?

Did they?

And rest assured, I can open it at any time.

Len is in his eighth decade of life.

Then he would be perfect as a new ham. He could even apply through the
Vanity Call System and get an old-timey callsign so people would think
he was an old hand at this amateur stuff...

That would require opening the box first. Not going to happen, IMHO.

Your opinion is not humble. Besides, Len just might surprise you.

Instead of your Federal Register Watch, you might query the FCC data
base each day for Len's new callsign.

Best of Luck.

Seven Years Ago Today

From: an_old_friend on Sun, Jan 21 2007 11:43 am

wrote:
From: on Sun, Jan 21 2007 7:29 am

Then he would be perfect as a new ham.

Absolutely NOT! I don't bow down and genuflect in front
of some dumb**** extra control-freaks demanding Instant
Obediance to Their Majesties. Especially the ego-
inflated ex-government employee types who spend all their
time trying to beat on all others who don't agree with
Them.

but turly Len you should consider it althought as I read your thoughts
of that date it is not yet time to take the test for you maybe the 24
of feb?

Mark, what I do in the future is MY business. I should have
learned that the code-tested extra LOSERS of FCC 06-178 are
unscrupulous fabricators of LIES a long time ago. At least
all those that have babbled on in here about my alleged
"promises" and "boasts" of SEVEN YEARS AGO. Especially that
transgendered pedantic prissy pansy who tried to make a
federal case out of a throwaway line in a newsgroup so many
years ago. She never got my knuckles with her spanking
ruler. Maybe that's why she was so mad? :-)

"Seven years ago" I would watch my mother die a little bit
every day in a nursing home. [she would pass on in early
2001] I had already converted her old bedroom into a home
office and my wife and I were enjoying a newly-rebuilt
kitchen make-over (total, including all new appliances)
that was just completed. Wife was beginning to assemble a
"trip notebook" for a planned sight-seeing, visiting, and
45th College class reunion in Wisconsin in early fall.
Was I really slavering over the promise of a ham call?
I don't think so.

Now, according to the exaggerated FABRICATIONS of Jimmie
NOserve, it sounds like I had made some sort of pact with
my dying mother, as if promising I would "get an extra out
of the box" (if it was the last thing I did). Good grief,
the wasy Miccolis went at it, he was so overboard that the
USS Nautilus could never find him in a swimming pool!

Did I "boast" anything? No, I think not because, given all
the requirements, I COULD have done it, even with a code
test. I say "could" because that had a high probability of
completion. Much earlier I had gotten up to about 8 WPM
(when the minimum was 13) on morse code cognition and I had
passed my FCC First 'Phone exam in one sitting at an FCC
Field Office. But, "seven years ago," whatinhell was the
PURPOSE of spending my own time on bringing back code
cognition? To get an AMATEUR radio license so I could
"work HF" when I had already done that without a test
nearly a half century past? Would it have been to add a
callsign behind my name? WHY? Thank you, I was already
secure enough in myself NOT to need some fancy-schmansy
amateur Titles to boast about or preen or tell tall tales
in front of other amateurs. I've had my regular-hours
work experience with its attendant titles and business
cards. On whatever design task I've done or been assigned
to, that work got done successfully.

If I wanted to hear tall tales it was an easy matter to
join a local fraternal order and hang around their bar;
I'm not a fraternal order member and don't care to spend
lots of time drinking. If I wanted to see Moose or Elk
or little Kiwanis flapping their gums I would travel to
their natural habitat and observe them.

most hams are not MMM and the MMM are going to be realy busy I suspect

I don't know "most hams" just about two dozen. The three
I know best all favor retention of the code test...yet we
still get along fine. Come in here, though, and the Mighty
Macho Morsemen are so damn "superior" to everyone else that
they can leap tall pile-ups at a single bound. They are
the "gods of radio" and HAVE NO FLAWS! They are all self-
described GENIUSES of English syntax and spelling (if not
of the Hunnish language which one apparently writes...even
if there was no recording of that ancient tongue)...they are
Masters of Correction, or rather "correction carnivores,"
eager to seize the slightest mistake or typo and shout to
the world (that they perceive) that the corrected party is
UNFIT for all. They will NEVER admit their own flaws of
English and try to put the blame on their accusers if
they are caught at it. Is THAT what modern US radio
amateurs are all about? If so, I want NO part of it. If
so, only masochists would want to join it.

But, as an optimist (not the fraternal order), I think there
might be some hope for a FUN HOBBY of amateur radio. Little
pockets of activity here and there where a few folks are
actually enjoying radio for radio's sake...NOT because some
strident (unofficial) "boss" tries to beat them into
submission to the "bosses" idea of what they "should" do.

I'm not going to fall for the "bosses" emotional-baggage
chastisement of "failing" to get a ham license or any of
that bull****. Thanks but I've had a whole successful
career in radio-electronics and its been (and still is)
lots of fun in itself. If these "bosses" want to rummage
around in their FANTASY of being Gods of Radio as code-
tested extras, they can go right ahead making fools of
themselves. I can't control them but I CAN try to show
them and others how damn foolish they really are.

WHAT are the Mighty Macho Morsemen going to be "busy"
about? Sitting around in here trying to spank those who
don't care for morse code mode? Calling non-coders
names? [they've had LOTS of practice at that] Pretending
they are ruff tuff Dill Instructors chewing out recruits?
[they've had LOTS of practice at that, too] Most of them
seem busy, busy, busy at exaggerating their own
experiences (if not telling outright lies). Let them.
It's the only "life" they seem to have.

LA

Seven Years Ago Today

wrote:
wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/c5qyv

Still in the box!
The dusty box remains unopened. No attempt has yet been made to open
it. The empty boast has yet to be fulfilled.

Dave K8MN

I have an ARX2B like that.

Great. Did you boast that you were going to open it seven years ago?

Why no, Dave. I boasted that I was going to purchase it seven years
ago.

When it does get opened, it will be as if
new.

Maybe it will be; maybe it won't be. You won't know for certain until
you open it.

Why wouldn't it be perfect? It's never been opened, and the box is
intact.

Some mateirals deteriorate over time. The plastics used in some types
of coaxial cable are one example.

Which part of the ARX2B do you think has deteriorated? The aluminum
elements, the stainless steel screws, or the coaxial runner?

He KNOWS, Brian, He KNOWS...now watch a whole new sub-thread
evolve from that...dozens of posts wherein Jimmie NOserve will
"show"
that YOU are at fault and he is absolutely, totally blameless. :-)

Is the World's Greatest DXer suggesting that Cushcraft products are
defective or have poor quality control?

Did Cushcraft use only coax with a noncontaminating jacket?

Did they?

Tsk. Jimmie NOT know?!? Why he ask question instead of stating
reply as his fact?

And rest assured, I can open it at any time.

Len is in his eighth decade of life.

As I said before, it's just my FIRST CENTURY. :-)

Then he would be perfect as a new ham. He could even apply through the
Vanity Call System and get an old-timey callsign so people would think
he was an old hand at this amateur stuff...

That would require opening the box first. Not going to happen, IMHO.

Your opinion is not humble. Besides, Len just might surprise you.

Then again, I might not. :-)

Instead of your Federal Register Watch, you might query the FCC data
base each day for Len's new callsign.

Best of Luck.

"New callsign?" Which one of my old callsigns is changing?
WRRR? WREX? WMCW? WBEL? KFAC? KMPC?

As far as I know WRRR went out of business. All the others are
chugging right along, though. [WRRR was a difficult ID to say
during station breaks...:-) ]

But, I digress. All must remember that engine-ear Jimmie done
made a "pronouncement" on a "deteriorating" Cushcraft product.
It no good if Jimmie done say it is...and that's that! :-)

LA

Seven Years Ago Today

wrote:
wrote:
wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/c5qyv

Still in the box!
The dusty box remains unopened. No attempt has yet been made to open
it. The empty boast has yet to be fulfilled.

Dave K8MN

I have an ARX2B like that.

Great. Did you boast that you were going to open it seven years ago?

Why no, Dave. I boasted that I was going to purchase it seven years
ago.

When it does get opened, it will be as if
new.

Maybe it will be; maybe it won't be. You won't know for certain until
you open it.

Why wouldn't it be perfect? It's never been opened, and the box is
intact.

Some mateirals deteriorate over time. The plastics used in some types
of coaxial cable are one example.

Which part of the ARX2B do you think has deteriorated? The aluminum
elements, the stainless steel screws, or the coaxial runner?

He KNOWS, Brian, He KNOWS...now watch a whole new sub-thread
evolve from that...dozens of posts wherein Jimmie NOserve will
"show"
that YOU are at fault and he is absolutely, totally blameless. :-)

Actually, he is saying that Cushcraft is at fault. Heil may hold that
position as well. Good thing I don't hold stock in Cushcraft as these
two just might drive them out of business. Kind of like Robesin and
his "She's selling something..." (and it's not amateur radio equipment)
remarks about a midwestern amateur radio dealer's ham daughter.

Is the World's Greatest DXer suggesting that Cushcraft products are
defective or have poor quality control?

Did Cushcraft use only coax with a noncontaminating jacket?

Did they?

Tsk. Jimmie NOT know?!? Why he ask question instead of stating
reply as his fact?

Jim broke the first law of asking questions on RRAP.

And rest assured, I can open it at any time.

Len is in his eighth decade of life.

As I said before, it's just my FIRST CENTURY. :-)

Mine two! ;^)

Then he would be perfect as a new ham. He could even apply through the
Vanity Call System and get an old-timey callsign so people would think
he was an old hand at this amateur stuff...

That would require opening the box first. Not going to happen, IMHO.

Your opinion is not humble. Besides, Len just might surprise you.

Then again, I might not. :-)

That just leaves his opinion not being humble...

Instead of your Federal Register Watch, you might query the FCC data
base each day for Len's new callsign.

Best of Luck.

"New callsign?" Which one of my old callsigns is changing?
WRRR? WREX? WMCW? WBEL? KFAC? KMPC?

As far as I know WRRR went out of business. All the others are
chugging right along, though. [WRRR was a difficult ID to say
during station breaks...:-) ]

No phunny fenetics?

But, I digress. All must remember that engine-ear Jimmie done
made a "pronouncement" on a "deteriorating" Cushcraft product.
It no good if Jimmie done say it is...and that's that! :-)

LA

I wouldn't want to be Cushcraft right now - in Jim's crosshairs.