To Whom It May Concern:

OK, I have had some fun here in the newsgroups--I'll admit that ...
sarcastic smile

However, I am now ready to give you the really bad news, don't hate the
psychic messenger, please ...

Amateur radio is just about ready to be assimilated by the internet
(remember startreks' Borg?) And, it will start quickly and develop
quickly (yes, you OTs' do have a couple of good years left)

Mark my words ... mystic-solemn-look

Regards,
JS

P.S. Don't say ya ain't been warned.
classical-horror-movie-theme-music-here

John Smith I wrote:

Oh yeah, I forgot, unless the ARRL swings towards becoming an ISP,
publisher of internet material or are able to become the
"High-Priest-of-the-Internet" (remember al gore, he tried) you can kiss
them GOODBYE ... tear-streaked-face

Regards,
JS

On Jan 23, 9:38*pm, John Smith I wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:

OK, I have had some fun here in the newsgroups--I'll admit that ...
sarcastic smile

However, I am now ready to give you the really bad news, don't hate the
psychic messenger, please ...

Amateur radio is just about ready to be assimilated by the internet
(remember startreks' Borg?) *And, it will start quickly and develop
quickly (yes, you OTs' do have a couple of good years left)

Mark my words ... mystic-solemn-look

Regards,
JS

P.S. *Don't say ya ain't been warned.
classical-horror-movie-theme-music-here

Ohm's Law of Resistance is Futile? :-)

LA

wrote:


Ohm's Law of Resistance is Futile? :-)

LA


Len:

They didn't even see it, blindsided, isn't that what it is termed?

Yanno how many see the complete picture now--or, perhaps it is just
sinking in? he-he-he-hee-heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Regards,
JS

On Jan 23, 9:58*pm, John Smith I wrote:
wrote:

* *Ohm's Law of Resistance is Futile? * * * * * :-)

* *LALen:

They didn't even see it, blindsided, isn't that what it is termed?

Yas. But to get most morse mavens above the SIMPLE
algebra of Ohm's Law is most futile. [to many that is
"rocket science."

Well, the kind of "rocket science" exemplified by that
long-defunct TV series "Buzz Corey." I.e., comic-book
stuff.

Yanno how many see the complete picture now--or, perhaps it is just
sinking in? he-he-he-hee-heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Nooo..."they" won't see it because their blindfolds are still ON.
What they "see" is what they are TOLD to see by that printing
house somewhat close to Hartford, CT.

BTW, the "Borg Queen" is now US Army and making out with
Agent Gibbs. :-)

The bush league has made page 1 and KTLA got its special star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on its 50th anniversary of existance.
"Scooter" Libby's trial has begun (bush league getting back pages
as an encore). All sorts of "news" this 24th day of January 2007.

Regards,
LA

On Jan 23, 9:47*pm, John Smith I wrote:
John Smith I wrote:Oh yeah, I forgot, unless the ARRL swings towards becoming an ISP,
publisher of internet material or are able to become the
"High-Priest-of-the-Internet" (remember al gore, he tried) you can kiss
them GOODBYE ... tear-streaked-face

Er, not quite, John. For years the ARRL has been losing members.
They don't make a big fuss over that and one can't tell without
going
to QST's "sworn statement" (of circulation) that they publish twice
a
year. Their MAJOR income HAS to be from the publishing side of
that triad. Three or four years ago it had an IRS reported income
of
$12.5 million. [not bad for a "non-profit" organization] There
was,
may still be, a website that publishes the IRS income statements of
the ARRL.

Just the same, the Believers, the Acolytes at the Alter of Maxim
(note "alter" not 'altar') shall Raise The Hue and Cry! for the
heads
of all who DARE negatively criticize the god-given glory of the
ARRL.
That may start a whole new juicy thread of Flame War as the
fedayin of the morse mavens rise up from the ashes of their coded
glory, sort of like a "Feenix" that was once the home town of one
Hashafisti Scratchi.

LA

On Jan 24, 11:38*am, "
wrote:
On Jan 23, 9:47?pm, John Smith I wrote:

* *That may start a whole new juicy thread of Flame War as the
* * fedayin of the morse mavens rise up from the ashes of their
coded* glory, sort of like a "Feenix" that was once the home
town of one Hashafisti Scratchi.

Gotta explain that last for all you young squirts of fiftysomething
or less...

One of the independent ham magazines, may have been CQ,
used to carry a column in the back of each issue around 1950
to 1960 time, written in pseudo Japanese-American dialect by one
"Hashafisti Scratchi" who "lived in Feenix, AZ." Always the same
small art work portraying "Hashafisti" as a grinning boob in front
of his radio set.

I used to think it amusing before I enlisted in the US Army and
spent three duty years in Japan. Afterwards, I didn't think it so
funny and, at times, appeared racially biased. Some of the points
the real author was trying to make got lost in the improper pseudo-
Japanese-American "language."

Looking back at that period, and for a couple decades following,
that sort of racial bias pervaded American amateur radio
periodicals. The hobby was mainly MALE and WHITE with only
a scant few exceptions. That can be seen in thousands of photos
of hams there were depicted in all of those periodicals...male and
white. Clear evidence that, untouchable being preserved on real
paper with real ink (unlike the ephemeral computer "records").

Such rather obvious gender and racial bias continues in US ham
radio publications today. It's obvious that some of the more vocal
of the hammus americanus breed in newsgroups keep on with it
and adding the idocy of "morally proper" sexual practices...indeed
expanding that to "morally proper" any-kind-of-practice nonsense.

If the remaining publishers manage to squeeze out enough ad
revenue to survive into the future, they had damn well ought to
LEARN to be more liberal when it comes to readers and
subscribers. This old bull**** of always pandering to the OLD
and overly-venerating long-ago times is going to be their ending.
Firstly, those that love the olde-tyme pandering will decrease
due to simple facts of actuarial tables. Secondly, the advertisers,
those who REALLY pay for each issue's production, are going to
find BETTER venues to spend their advertising money; they are
the ones producing and making the cutting-edge-of-technology
radio systems, not a bunch of nostalgia buffs longing for the
days of their long-vanished youth.

Only PART of your lead-off posting was tongue-in-cheek. The
reality is that the number of US amateur radio specialty
magazines has been continually shrinking despite an expansion
not long after the end of WW2. CQ was - apparently - the first
of the post-war independent magazines, followed (or preceded,
irrelevant) 73. Both enjoyed a growth period of a couple decades.
Ham Radio was a late-comer but that technically-oriented
independent publication managed to make a profit for 22 years.
HR had to fold for only one reason: lack of attracting ad space.
73 quit later for the same reason. CQ started, and then dropped
CQ VHF. Same reason, not enough ad revenue for the publisher
to make a profit. QST has hung in there for only ONE reason:
it is the membership magazine of ARRL members and can point
to all its members as being the magazine's demographic base.
However, ARRL membership is slowly decreasing, not increasing
and the League hasn't taken much effort in attracting HALF of all
US amateur radio licensees...the Technician class. The Tech
class has always been growing since the original no-code-test
class was created in 1991...so much so that it became de facto
the "entry level" class, far surpassing the constantly-decreasing
Novice class (the supposed entry-level).

A lot of US radio amateurs think mistakenly that their subscription
fee "pays for all the magazine content." NO WAY. Subscription
fees go instead to what the periodical industry calls "fulfillment,"
the costs involved in mailing, maintaining subscriber lists,
reminders of subscription termination coming up, and the grunt
work of putting real ink on real paper, then sending it out en masse
to distributors. The income publishers get goes to the magazine
staff (the paid workers), maintaining their offices and equipment,
compensation for authors, and all the assorted little costs of
staying in business. Author compensation in the hobby activity
area is minimal, even if the author gives up all "first rights" and
subsequent rights for reproduction.

To explain more, "first rights" by a publisher is fairly standard;
they get the (copy) right to publish a work first. Usually that
also involves the right to reprint it as many times as they want
in the future. Normally, an author can get sale rights such that
they can LATER publish it with anyone the author cares to go to
(and be accepted by another publisher). The good publishers
usually compensate authors when reprinting material later, giving
them (a small pittance) some monies for that reprinting. The
ARRL is NOT anywhere close to being that generous...not only
do they demand first-rights but they keep all subsequent repro
rights in anything they press out. To add to that is that they
seldom, if ever, give the author credit for a reprinted work and
if reprinted, just say it appeared in a previous edition. Anyone
selling to ARRL will NOT make any monetary profit and such
work is solely for the author's emotional sustenance.

What appears to readers is that "the ARRL did all that
marvelous radio gear and instruments seen in Handbooks
(all by itself)" but hundreds and hundreds of individual
authors did. There's some sign that the League is relaxing
those "rights" for compensation, but not enough. Yes, they
can do whatever they want to, perfectly legal of them to do
so. But, the other side of the ARRL house is supposed to be
the all-seeing, all-knowing, "we KNOW what is best for [US}
amateur radio" membership organization. There's a deep
dichotomy there, border-line hypocrisy on (elusive) SPIRIT.

With the (final) legalization of FCC 06-178, the League might
wise up, see some light, and do some CHANGE of its
attitudes. I am very pessimistic on that but miracles have
happened. The League must change to fit the times. They
can't run around fat and happy on nostalgia of the prioneering
days of the 1930s with "spark-gap experiments" featured as
the Latest, Greatest State of the Art re-creation. The Great
Battle Re-Enactors do it for fun and can't possibly change
history of who won and who lost. Neither can the ARRL hold
back the dawn and refuse to recognize that over half of US
radio amateurs just don't give a **** for morse code...and the
US government agrees.

wrote:

...
Nooo..."they" won't see it because their blindfolds are still ON.
What they "see" is what they are TOLD to see by that printing
house somewhat close to Hartford, CT.
...

Len:

I think you wrong there buddy.

Those in the high church of the "Ancient Retarded Radio Lagers" know at
least one rule and they know it well--PYOB!

However, I think they are scrambling like the mice which inhabit a
printing house to do it ... if, and I grant you, that "IF" is a big one,
they are able to grasp the importance of "John Smiths' Psychic Prediction."

Just don't forget to "Protect Your Own Backside!"

Regards,
JS

wrote:

Looking back at that period, and for a couple decades following,
that sort of racial bias pervaded American amateur radio
periodicals. The hobby was mainly MALE and WHITE with only
a scant few exceptions. That can be seen in thousands of photos
of hams there were depicted in all of those periodicals...male and
white. Clear evidence that, untouchable being preserved on real
paper with real ink (unlike the ephemeral computer "records").

Such rather obvious gender and racial bias continues in US ham
radio publications today.

Your story might be cause for concern if it were not for the fact that
there have never been any prohibitions on amateur radio licensing for
women and minorities. There is nothing wrong with being either
Caucasian or male. If I'm not mistaken, you yourself are both.

It's obvious that some of the more vocal
of the hammus americanus breed in newsgroups keep on with it
and adding the idocy of "morally proper" sexual practices...indeed
expanding that to "morally proper" any-kind-of-practice nonsense.

I'm sorry that you've discarded your morals, Len. I'm sticking with the
"idocy" of believing in morally proper sexual practices. By the way,
even deviates are not precluded from obtaining amateur radio licenses.

If the remaining publishers manage to squeeze out enough ad
revenue to survive into the future, they had damn well ought to
LEARN to be more liberal when it comes to readers and
subscribers.

Pffffffft!!!!! Now THAT was funny!

This old bull**** of always pandering to the OLD
and overly-venerating long-ago times is going to be their ending.

I've stopped venerating those old people who feel some compelling need
to tell and retell the glories of their rear echelon military days of
over half a century ago. I'll pander to you no longer.

Firstly, those that love the olde-tyme pandering will decrease
due to simple facts of actuarial tables.

It is peculiar how those actuarial tables work, Leonard. When I was
licensed, there were oodles of old timers licensed in the 1920s. There
are very few of them left. Decades passed and I'm now an old timer.

If you obtain that "Extra right out of the box", the actuarial tables
say that you'll never be able to achieve old timer status.

Secondly, the advertisers,
those who REALLY pay for each issue's production, are going to
find BETTER venues to spend their advertising money; they are
the ones producing and making the cutting-edge-of-technology
radio systems, not a bunch of nostalgia buffs longing for the
days of their long-vanished youth.

A guy who buys an HT or an FM mobile radio with a mag-mount antenna
isn't going to be the guy who makes it happen for the advertisers, Len.
Those aren't the folks buying the "cutting-edge-of-technology". This is
simply another instance of you not knowing what you're talking about.

Only PART of your lead-off posting was tongue-in-cheek. The
reality is that the number of US amateur radio specialty
magazines has been continually shrinking despite an expansion
not long after the end of WW2. CQ was - apparently - the first
of the post-war independent magazines, followed (or preceded,
irrelevant) 73.

It is relevant, Len. 73 magazine didn't come into being until 1960.
Wayne Green was a former editor of CQ. He was fired.

CQ didn't suddenly come into being after WWII. It was the old "Radio"
magazine pre-war, produced on the West Coast. It was bought by Cowan
Publications and moved to New York.

Both enjoyed a growth period of a couple decades.

CQ grew for at least four decades. I have no idea what present
circulation is.

Ham Radio was a late-comer but that technically-oriented
independent publication managed to make a profit for 22 years.
HR had to fold for only one reason: lack of attracting ad space.

That's a big problem.

73 quit later for the same reason.

Not really. It's problems were that Wayne Green grew old and
increasingly irrational. He sold the magazine and then bought it back.
It was too late to turn it around.

CQ started, and then dropped
CQ VHF. Same reason, not enough ad revenue for the publisher
to make a profit.

That's another of your factual errors, Len. You were right as far as
you went, but you didn't go far enough. CQ VHF has been back as a
quarterly publication for some time.

http://www.cq-vhf.com/

QST has hung in there for only ONE reason:
it is the membership magazine of ARRL members and can point
to all its members as being the magazine's demographic base.

QST isn't "hanging in there" at all. It does quite nicely. It is full
of advertising. The reason it has done well is that it is the premier
amateur radio publication in this country.

However, ARRL membership is slowly decreasing, not increasing
and the League hasn't taken much effort in attracting HALF of all
US amateur radio licensees...the Technician class. The Tech
class has always been growing since the original no-code-test
class was created in 1991...so much so that it became de facto
the "entry level" class, far surpassing the constantly-decreasing
Novice class (the supposed entry-level).

The Technician Class license became the entry level license because
short-sighted folks like Fred Maia pushed for the Novice Class to be
done away with. The codeless Tech license never granted any HF
privileges. It was a dead end ticket.

A lot of US radio amateurs think mistakenly that their subscription
fee "pays for all the magazine content." NO WAY. Subscription
fees go instead to what the periodical industry calls "fulfillment,"
the costs involved in mailing, maintaining subscriber lists,
reminders of subscription termination coming up, and the grunt
work of putting real ink on real paper, then sending it out en masse
to distributors. The income publishers get goes to the magazine
staff (the paid workers), maintaining their offices and equipment,
compensation for authors, and all the assorted little costs of
staying in business.

Thanks for your lesson in how the ARRL keeps QST coming.

Author compensation in the hobby activity
area is minimal, even if the author gives up all "first rights" and
subsequent rights for reproduction.

CQ has paid pretty well over the years, better than Ham Radio and better
than QST.

To explain more, "first rights" by a publisher is fairly standard;
they get the (copy) right to publish a work first. Usually that
also involves the right to reprint it as many times as they want
in the future.

That isn't the case, Mr. PROFESSIONAL writer. You have to know what you
are selling and you have to outline your terms. Reprint rights are
generally separate though a magazine may insist on buying first rights
and reprint rights.

Normally, an author can get sale rights such that
they can LATER publish it with anyone the author cares to go to
(and be accepted by another publisher). The good publishers
usually compensate authors when reprinting material later, giving
them (a small pittance) some monies for that reprinting.

If you don't know what rights you are granting when you sell the
article, don't cash the check.

The
ARRL is NOT anywhere close to being that generous...not only
do they demand first-rights but they keep all subsequent repro
rights in anything they press out. To add to that is that they
seldom, if ever, give the author credit for a reprinted work and
if reprinted, just say it appeared in a previous edition. Anyone
selling to ARRL will NOT make any monetary profit and such
work is solely for the author's emotional sustenance.

Anyone who sells an article to the ARRL makes money from his article.

It is true that in the past, the League did not pay at all for articles.
Having one's material published in QST was deemed reward enough. Times
changes and the League now pays. They probably don't pay enough to have
you grace them with your material. Ah well, that's really your point,
isn't it?

What appears to readers is that "the ARRL did all that
marvelous radio gear and instruments seen in Handbooks
(all by itself)" but hundreds and hundreds of individual
authors did. There's some sign that the League is relaxing
those "rights" for compensation, but not enough.

Not enough for whom, Len?

Yes, they
can do whatever they want to, perfectly legal of them to do
so.

It is only legal if you have agreed to the ARRL's terms. You do know
what you are agreeing to, don't you?

But, the other side of the ARRL house is supposed to be
the all-seeing, all-knowing, "we KNOW what is best for [US}
amateur radio" membership organization. There's a deep
dichotomy there, border-line hypocrisy on (elusive) SPIRIT.

There must have been a point buried in there somewhere. I'm damned if I
could find it. Where's the deep dichotomy? Where's the "border-line" or
borderline hypocrisy?

With the (final) legalization of FCC 06-178, the League might
wise up, see some light, and do some CHANGE of its
attitudes. I am very pessimistic on that but miracles have
happened.

Does it matter whether you are pessimistic on matters concerning the
ARRL? Are you a member?


The League must change to fit the times. They
can't run around fat and happy on nostalgia of the prioneering
days of the 1930s with "spark-gap experiments" featured as
the Latest, Greatest State of the Art re-creation.

It is evident that you don't read QST.

The Great
Battle Re-Enactors do it for fun and can't possibly change
history of who won and who lost. Neither can the ARRL hold
back the dawn and refuse to recognize that over half of US
radio amateurs just don't give a **** for morse code...and the
US government agrees.

The U.S. government agrees that over half of U.S. radio amateurs don't
give a **** for morse code? Recent comments to the Commission say
otherwise.


see IEEE Code of Ethics

Dave K8MN

wrote:

On Jan 23, 9:47�pm, John Smith I wrote:
John Smith I wrote:Oh yeah, I forgot, unless the ARRL swings towards becoming an ISP,
publisher of internet material or are able to become the
"High-Priest-of-the-Internet" (remember al gore, he tried) you can kiss
them GOODBYE ... tear-streaked-face

Er, not quite, John. For years the ARRL has been losing members.
They don't make a big fuss over that and one can't tell without
going
to QST's "sworn statement" (of circulation) that they publish twice
a
year.


Right, Len. It's all very secret.

Their MAJOR income HAS to be from the publishing side of
that triad. Three or four years ago it had an IRS reported income
of
$12.5 million. [not bad for a "non-profit" organization] There
was,
may still be, a website that publishes the IRS income statements of
the ARRL.

What do you believe the term "non-profit" means, Leonard? Does it mean
that an organization doesn't take in any money?

Just the same, the Believers, the Acolytes at the Alter of Maxim
(note "alter" not 'altar') shall Raise The Hue and Cry! for the
heads
of all who DARE negatively criticize the god-given glory of the
ARRL.

"Alter" is what you wrote and alter is what you've done. We needn't
worry about your head. That isn't the end from where the rhetoric comes.


That may start a whole new juicy thread of Flame War as the
fedayin of the morse mavens rise up from the ashes of their coded
glory, sort of like a "Feenix" that was once the home town of one
Hashafisti Scratchi.

Don't worry too much about the ARRL, Len. It has gotten along from
1914-2006 without you. It can likely continue to do so.

Dave K8MN