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Quantity Over Quality (Was: Unwritten policy and the intent of the average amateur ...)
On 29 Jan 2007 23:08:00 -0800, " wrote: From: Bob Brock on Mon, Jan 29 2007 11:10 pm On 29 Jan 2007 16:44:02 -0800, " wrote: On Jan 29, 3:32?pm, Dave Heil wrote: KH6HZ wrote: "Bob Brock" writes: Poor Heil doesn't realize he's been controlled every time he tries to control others! :-) Gotta love it...! :-) Right on. Jim and I had a long, long thread going quite some time ago on this very subject ("Owned or free...", IIRC) whereby I attempted to point this very fact out to him. And still, many months later, he continues to correct, proclaim and argue, often in multiple posts daily. Regardless of how quixiotic this pursuit is, the good fight must be fought! Think "Rocky Balboa" as their "role-model" in their heads. [note the geographic nearness of Philadelphia... :-) ] The fanstasy syndrome is, unfortunately, endemic to the human psyche. PR folks earn their living capitalizing on that. CELEBRITES become paragons of just about anything due to PR work. The "audience" confuses the CHARACTER (on-screen) with the real person portraying the character. I am waiting for the first HAM-ACTOR to be featured in QST...how will the League portray him or her? :-) On computer screens the fantasy syndrome can easily "take over" and the God of Radio (in here) is formed, complete with cliques of like-minded "gods" proclaiming "their" greatness, expertise, and "better than the 'inferiors' (not of their clique)." The problem for the group as a whole is that once "IN" that fantasy, their egos refuse to let them admit any wrong-doing...they were "always right" and everyone else disagreeing with them "always wrong." Case in point is Cranky Spanky and his constant "corrections" on minutae, word play (everything "must" be "factual" and "absolutely standard"), history of radio (that he could never have experienced personaly). Ya know (almost paraphrasing 'John Smith I'), after almost two dozen years of computer-modem communications, I'm beginning to wonder if I have seen all the possible basic types...all I see is small variations, sub-sub- genres of basic conditions. The variations vary with the general topic (supposedly) but it all boils down to EGO and "credentialism" and something akin to "the divine right of kings" (to RULE). In a hobby activity. ? For some reason, these guys just don't get it. This personality type seems to be compelled to respond to every 'poke and jab', quite predictably, time after time. It is a classic response to stimulus, right out of your old Psych 101 textbook......If there is, as the old adage goes, "a sucker born every minute", they seem to have a long lifespan. Not always that long. Two regulars in here, high code- rate tested and Titled as "amateur extras" have passed on. Haven't heard of any no-code-test advocates going beyond the ionosphere. They were adamant to their end on the "necessary skills" etc., etc., etc. Some of the gods-of-radio clique have gotten clever in what they consider dialogue. Cranky is really good at the IMPLIED expertise question-challenge: "Len, you don't know all of my education" or "Len, you don't know all the experience I've had with other modes" for two examples. Yes, I don't and Yes, I don't give a ****. What one writes and HOW they write it are the "tell" if anyone has the experience or desire to do something... which lets me know whether anyone really cares to talk about a project or activity. I could care less if their "friends and neighbors" come over to applaud and praise their hobby things. :-) Even a "frankenbox" kluge will look high-tech and mysterious to someone not involved with electronics. shrug I've known that for a long time and don't make it a point to point to "wondrous works" out of my workshop. I do that stuff because I like to to it for me, not "my friends and neighbors" or to earn "credentials" or to tack a (misused) "honours" label of a callsign after my name. Back a while ago we had a friendly little discussion on the old Icom R-70 communications receiver. Cranky and der Robust Oberst had to butt in and attempt to change the subject, apparently on their ever-present need to show me I'm such a newbie, a "nothing" in "radio." :-) I've never claimed that R-70 to be "best in the world" or anything else but reliable. Did a full work-up on it last year and it still meets Icom's stated specs for performance. shrug Those specs were state-of-the- art two decades ago and still are. Heh heh heh...I can turn them on just by mentioning I "paid cash" for it. I did. I earned every penny of that "cash" by working for a living (in regular hours then). I'm still trying to decipher WHY earning a living is such a "moral flaw" to them in regards to radio. :-) It is a lot of fun to crank them up and watch them go, though - must say, I've done it a time or two myself! OK, OK, more than two.... No sweat to me. :-) Been there, done that, got so many T-shirts...etc. I'm still expressing (internal) wonder at Herr Oberst and his moral felony charges of NOT GETTING A HAM LICENSE *FIRST*. And, AFTER ALL THIS TIME! Wow! It's practically a charge of "treason!" This "Joe McCarthy" of the newsgroup is really Captain Oblivious to what I've said about my actual interest in RADIO. Not amateur radio but ALL radio. I think it marvelous and got INTO my career because of a fortuitous exposure to big time HF comms when I was young and serving my country in the Army. NO! NOT CORRECT! NOT PROPER! MORAL FLAW OF CHARACTER NOT TO WORSHIP, LOVE, HONOR MORSE CODE! Sigh. Between Cranky and der Oberst they must have denuded whole forests to collect wood in attempting to burn me at the stake for such RELIGIOUS HERESY! :-) [not "environmentally conscious" are they?] Ahem, on 23 Feb 07 comes the beginning of the Great USA Radio Depression, the END OF THE WORLD their imagined little world of morsemanship! I can't wait to hear what these paragons of pompous propriety (amateur style) are going to say afterwards! Already they've been "warning" me to GET A LICENSE! :-) What, to sanctify my US First 'Phone that morphed into a 'GROL' two decades ago and is still ON RECORD at the FCC? [it is lifetime duration now] To sanctify my work experience that began professionally 55 years ago? To sanctify my (short) 33-year professional membership (now a Free Lifetime membership) in the IEEE? Of course! To these "extraordinary gentlemen" (of comic book fame), my terrible treasonous moral impropriety was NOT GETTING A HAM LICENSE *FIRST*! Quick, call US HOMELAND SECURITY! Have me picked up, arrested straightaway as an ENEMY OF THE STATE! Gotta love it. They are more fun than a barrel of red-hatted morse monkeys! Come to think about it, they ARE the little red-hatted morse monkeys dancing to the ARRL organ tunes! :-) Stay warm up there and best regards, |
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