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The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
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The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
From: John Smith I on Wed, 04 Apr 2007
06:17:11 -0700 Dave Heil snarled: ... You aren't lopping off heads, Len. You're a beginner in amateur radio. Trust me on this point: You'll get all the recognition you deserve. Standing in the midst of genderless midgets, he IS bound to get attention! 8-) Careful, JS, you are speaking to Mister DeeEcks, formerly from the Government! [here to help? nah...] He WAS DX! Like that is the "only" function a US amateur "must" have... "working DX on HF with CW." :-) I've got to stay away from those rainbows...all those Little People near them with little round pots. 73, Len AF6AY |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
AF6AY wrote:
... Careful, JS, you are speaking to Mister DeeEcks, formerly from the Government! [here to help? nah...] He WAS DX! ... 73, Len AF6AY Len: I am quite sure the problem is all on this end; the importance of pointless bickering has always escaped me ... Regards, JS |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
On Apr 5, 3:52�am, John Smith I wrote:
AF6AY wrote: * ... * *Careful, JS, you are speaking to Mister DeeEcks, formerly from * *the Government! *[here to help? *nah...] * *He WAS DX! Len: I am quite sure the problem is all on this end; *the importance of pointless bickering has always escaped me ... It ain't "pointless bickering" in Heil's case. In the typical "look at me, I am SOMEBODY" fashion of computer-modem comms, the bickerer has to come out on top, regardless. During Word War 3 prior to FCC 06-178, morsemen HAD to be on top. It was almost a compulsion. Just about all the old morse myths were brought out, dusted off, and presented in all their "glory" despite being outmoded, out- dated, too worn to use in the future. Morsemen were intensely PROUD of their skill and were bound and determined to shove it down everyone's throat...whether anyone actually thought much of the mode or not. They had rank, status, privilege all because of that morse skill and hated to lose any of it. It was almost a fight for survival of a species...it was THEM or no one...and to hell with what any newcomer thinks or for the future of US amateur radio. It was extremism in the defence of their very-private playground. [de fence was up and trying to keep off the encroaching voice modes] Early on I had mentioned my military service assignment. I thought it was adequate proof that "CW" wasn't up to the task of hundreds of thousands of message relays per month (teleprinter was used)...the necessity for an entire military theater of operations doing 24/7 duty during the Cold War. No, the morsemen HAD to try turning that around to "my bragging" and a general big nothing during Word War 3. Sure, I did brag some since I absolutely lucked out on that assignment, even if the station was only the third largest in the Army worldwide network. Even being only third, pushing 220K messages relayed a month 24/7 is Big Business any way one slices it. The amateur national network can't come close to that using RTTY and certainly not via "CW." Manual "CW" even at 20 to 40 WPM just can't beat the old 60 WPM machinery (then the only form of Data using electromechanical terminals). That was in 1953 to 1956 and most of the "CW" super- skilled hams in here were just being born (a few not yet conceived). The military was ramping up its skills and beginning to go 100 WPM teleprinter, 300 WPM "Data" (that word not yet in vogue then), using Troposcatter and hoping satellites could be put up without the launch vehicles constantly exploding on the pad. All was accomplished and more, no military OR commercial service looking back to quaint old methods. Yet the superskilled (self-imagined) hams HAD to stay with ALL needing to be federally tested for "important" skill of morse code! For a hobby activity yet. Morsemen had done it, therefore "all could do it." None of the Word War 3 fighting on morsemanship was "pointless bickering" to the morsemen. They were the "best radio operators" and HAD to tell everyone they were. Years and years of them honing their twitchy- fingered skills on the paddles made them a needed resource in homeland defense and security of the nation, the amateur radio SERVICE...and all should look up to them, admire them, salute them as they entered a room and other ossifer courtesy tenderred in utmost respect and reverence. So, on 17th February I decided to get in the amateur radio hobby. Might be fun...except in here waging the on-going gorilla fight in the post Word War 3 era. I became an Extra Out Of The Box by test on February 25th, by law on 7 March. All the operating privileges of any OTHER Extra are mine, no restrictions by law. Now Heil wants to drone on that I'm such a "Beginner, a Neophyte" in ANY radio, amateur or not. After 54 years of doing it in many radio services? Amateurism is extra super-special most very difficult to learn? No. It is for me and morsemanship, something I will probably never use, but who really cares except morsemen? The FCC gives the OPTION to any amateur to use ANY allocated mode, any allocated band. Ah, but Heil, Miccolis, Kelly, et al, say I "MUST" use "CW" to "PROVE WORTH." Prove to whom? To them? Mais non, mon ami, they be just little people, almost a protected species of old and, with the protection they had gone, now a dying breed. They continue their POINTLESS BICKERING yet, trying to put down all those who do not agree with Their magnificence and god-like skills. It is Them against the rest of the radio world and they are losing. Let them bicker and rant. It is all they have left in the wreckage of their fallen towers and former imagined glory. 73, Len AF6AY |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
AF6AY wrote:
From: on Tues, Apr 3 2007 6:35 pm On Mar 29, 11:24 pm, Dave Heil wrote: KH6HZ wrote: "Dave Heil" wrote: You're being disingenuous again, Leonard. I've stated that you are a newcomer to *amateur* radio. Each time I've done so, you've tried to make it appear that I've used the generic term "radio". I think Grandpa Lennie is simply jealous of the fact that due to his waiting 54 years to get an amateur radio license... It doesn't matter whether he's jealous or not, Mike. He can fill up his years with getting on 75m and telling hams who have been in the game for decades about his experiences at ADA in the 1950's. Wow, lots of envy and hostility in that statement... That's all I expect from the Robust Oberst. :-) There was envy expressed, Windy. But then, we are speaking of "Mister DeeEcks" of Department of State (Retired)...who BECAME DX Out Of Africa and Finland under State's generous "A DX of One" program to help hams worldwide get a rare one. Hard to beat that...and he got PAID to do it! Most folks who work for an employer expect to be paid. Did you ever work for any employer for free? Me, I just did (like you did) what I was told to do and also be proficient at "destroying the enemy" in my military service. Have you ever destroyed an enemy, Leonard? I dunno why Mister DeeEcks thinks I should "get on 75m" when there is already an established net on 20m of ex-RCA employees who get together every morning. Oh, I just picked a band at random. You can tell your tales on 20m if you choose. I worked with some of them in real life (as opposed to the imaginary life spent staring at front panels while gabbing with relative strangers). :-) If I'm to believe your statement, I never stared at a front panel and chatted with relative strangers, I simply imagined that I did. The fact is that I've already enjoyed 43 years in amateur radio. Ahem, minus one year during your tour in Vietnam. Remember, no ham radio for you... We really don't know how long he was there. No, you really don't. According to a couple websites, he was a rock musician - guitarist for ten years with several bands. Those aren't "ham bands." :-) ....nor was there any claim that they were "ham bands." That occupied some of the 22 years between first being licensed (1963) and being sent to the Finland Embassy (1985). Four of my years after licensing were spent completing high school. I was never sent to the Finland Embassy. I was assigned to the American Embassy. He got his Vanity call of K8MN in 1977... I don't have a vanity callsign, Len. ...and there's 8 years between that and his first Helsinki posting. Call them "mytery years" if you like, Leonard. They can remain a mystery to you. -- he will be unable to accumulate 230k+ QSOs that others accumulated here have. If he gets busy and hones his skills, he could get it done. I still don't understand this NECESSITY of "logging thousands of contacts"...just to log thousands of contacts? I see part of your confusion, Leonardo. They aren't done just to log thousands of contacts. What does one DO with all those logs? Ahhhh, another of life's eternal mysteries! I would suggest just recycling those logs to save real logs from being turned into paper pulp to "archive" ham logs. Putting it all into CD R/W discs for archival would require using Chinese-manufacture CD blanks whose plastic is made from non-renewable petroleum. There's no longer any requirement for you to maintain a log, Len. I made over that number in my nearly sixteen years overseas though it wasn't really that long since I was typically in the U.S. for two to three months between assignments and usually burned a month or so of leave in the U.S. or elsewhere each year. I've submitted nearly 30,000 QSOs to LOTW but I still have years of contest logs from the paper logging days which have yet to be entered into the computer logging database. 1985 to 2000 is just FIFTEEN years. Wow, all that FREE TIME (paid for?) between "assignments." Not a bad gig, 11 months of "work" a year. That "free time" isn't all "free time", Len. There are Washington consultations regarding the previous and upcoming assignments. There are visas to be obtained, medical exams, vaccinations to be obtained. There are classes to be taken, sometimes four or five of them. The "free time" can be either before or after those things. It is called Home Leave and it is not charged to annual leave. Usually thirty working days of Home Leave is mandated between assignments. Very "European." It's very American. The Home Leave is mandated by Congress. Most Foreign Service employees spend most of their working lives overseas. It'd be nice to have a half million or so QSOs logged before departure time. Better find a DXpedition. This time he gonna have to PAY for it out of his own pocket (and pension check). :-) ....at least that is your assumption. :-) If Len Anderson wants to pretend that he is part of some revolution, let him play. He'll unbox his JA transceiver, hook it to a vertical antenna and have all the fun he is capable of having. No different than you unboxing your TN transceiver... My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of Chicago, IL. Really? Fairview Heights has been moved from the St. Louis area to near Chicago? You have made another in a long series of factual errors. I use the Heil products here, Leonard. As you may know, with quality microphones, what you get out of it is only as good as what you put into it. Dave K8MN |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
AF6AY wrote:
From: John Smith I on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:17:11 -0700 Dave Heil snarled: ... You aren't lopping off heads, Len. You're a beginner in amateur radio. Trust me on this point: You'll get all the recognition you deserve. Standing in the midst of genderless midgets, he IS bound to get attention! 8-) Careful, JS, you are speaking to Mister DeeEcks, formerly from the Government! [here to help? nah...] He WAS DX! Like that is the "only" function a US amateur "must" have... "working DX on HF with CW." :-) As you've been advised repeatedly, the only person making such a claim is Leonard H. Anderson, now a neophyte in amateur radio. Dave K8MN |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
On Apr 5, 2:41 am, "AF6AY" wrote:
From: John Smith I on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:17:11 -0700 Dave Heil snarled: ... You aren't lopping off heads, Len. You're a beginner in amateur radio. Trust me on this point: You'll get all the recognition you deserve. Standing in the midst of genderless midgets, he IS bound to get attention! 8-) Careful, JS, you are speaking to Mister DeeEcks, formerly from the Government! [here to help? nah...] He WAS DX! Like that is the "only" function a US amateur "must" have... "working DX on HF with CW." :-) I've got to stay away from those rainbows...all those Little People near them with little round pots. 73, Len AF6AY I think Heil's out of band Frenchmen were on voice... that mode will getcha in trouble every time! |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
On Apr 5, 2:40 am, "AF6AY" wrote:
From: on Tues, Apr 3 2007 6:35 pm On Mar 29, 11:24 pm, Dave Heil wrote: KH6HZ wrote: "Dave Heil" wrote: You're being disingenuous again, Leonard. I've stated that you are a newcomer to *amateur* radio. Each time I've done so, you've tried to make it appear that I've used the generic term "radio". I think Grandpa Lennie is simply jealous of the fact that due to his waiting 54 years to get an amateur radio license... It doesn't matter whether he's jealous or not, Mike. He can fill up his years with getting on 75m and telling hams who have been in the game for decades about his experiences at ADA in the 1950's. Wow, lots of envy and hostility in that statement... That's all I expect from the Robust Oberst. :-) That's good. That's all you'll ever get. But then, we are speaking of "Mister DeeEcks" of Department of State (Retired)...who BECAME DX Out Of Africa and Finland under State's generous "A DX of One" program to help hams worldwide get a rare one. Hard to beat that...and he got PAID to do it! He never once did ham radio while at work. Just ask him. Me, I just did (like you did) what I was told to do and also be proficient at "destroying the enemy" in my military service. That I lucked out on my military assignment wasn't any doing of mine. But, I DID take advantage of learning, observing all that went on, asking questions to study more...and making friends with a lot of good people, both military and civilian. Lots of night school, too. I dunno why Mister DeeEcks thinks I should "get on 75m" when there is already an established net on 20m of ex-RCA employees who get together every morning. I worked with some of them in real life (as opposed to the imaginary life spent staring at front panels while gabbing with relative strangers). :-) I like talking to strangers, as long as there not as strange as some on RRAP. -- and the fact that the actuarial tables state he probably doesn't have 15 years left... I don't intend to keep reminding him of his remaining time on the planet. Any of us could easily go before Len does. All it takes is a traffic accident (Roger Wiseman's death wish for me: failing brakes, sharp curves, twisting road) or a sudden illness. Or Robesin's predictions for "Slashed tires, bricks through windows, and terrorized wives..." Robesin is the Public Affairs Officer for his CAP unit in TN. Some "public affairs" of his must be kinda 'private.' :-) Wow, if Robesin is typical of CAP Public Affairs, the CAP is in a HEAP of trouble! He must be screwing up - they've promoted him. Two words... background investigation. The fact is that I've already enjoyed 43 years in amateur radio. Ahem, minus one year during your tour in Vietnam. Remember, no ham radio for you... We really don't know how long he was there. [Robesin syndrome?] Yikes! I hadn't considered that. According to a couple websites, he was a rock musician - guitarist for ten years with several bands. Those aren't "ham bands." :-) That occupied some of the 22 years between first being licensed (1963) and being sent to the Finland Embassy (1985). He got his Vanity call of K8MN in 1977 and there's 8 years between that and his first Helsinki posting. Wonder why he selected Minnesota for a suffix? -- he will be unable to accumulate 230k+ QSOs that others accumulated here have. If he gets busy and hones his skills, he could get it done. I still don't understand this NECESSITY of "logging thousands of contacts"...just to log thousands of contacts? Compensation? What does one DO with all those logs? I would suggest just recycling those logs to save real logs from being turned into paper pulp to "archive" ham logs. Putting it all into CD R/W discs for archival would require using Chinese-manufacture CD blanks whose plastic is made from non-renewable petroleum. Mine are in my garage. That's where all my "important" papers are. I made over that number in my nearly sixteen years overseas though it wasn't really that long since I was typically in the U.S. for two to three months between assignments and usually burned a month or so of leave in the U.S. or elsewhere each year. I've submitted nearly 30,000 QSOs to LOTW but I still have years of contest logs from the paper logging days which have yet to be entered into the computer logging database. 1985 to 2000 is just FIFTEEN years. Wow, all that FREE TIME (paid for?) between "assignments." Not a bad gig, 11 months of "work" a year. Very "European." Europeans work far less than 11 months a year. That's why they have so many trade restrictions with the USA... to level the playing field. Get off the branch water and it might be possible for you to get it done... unless you're taking time out to run for Director of the Roanoke Division. He ought to lay off the Marlboros, too...not to mention the brannvin. Of course, another storm might come up and the OTHER tower fall over...thus taking more time away from all that "logging." Heil had a tower failure? It'd be nice to have a half million or so QSOs logged before departure time. Better find a DXpedition. This time he gonna have to PAY for it out of his own pocket (and pension check). :-) Mr. Roarke might help him out on an expedition to Fantasy Island? :-) "de blane! de blane!" American Samoa might be a good gig. If Len Anderson wants to pretend that he is part of some revolution, let him play. He'll unbox his JA transceiver, hook it to a vertical antenna and have all the fun he is capable of having. No different than you unboxing your TN transceiver... My IC-746Pro is made in Japan. The companion SP-23 filter-speaker is made in China. I haven't looked to see where the PS-125 (free) 12 VDC supply is made. My MFJ dry dummy load is made in Starkville, MS. My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of Chicago, IL. I don't know about that. Bob used to have his shop in Marissa, Illinois, just south of my old address in the shadow of St Louis. Later he opened small shop in Fairview Heights, where the sales tax is 7% because they have a shopping mall. He had mostly high-definition TV at that location, so I don't know where he's manufacturing the microphone line, or if he's "outsourced" it. The vertical antenna I will probably get will be made in Issaquah, WA, (on the Puget Sound). I dunno WHERE the wire I am using for a temporary HF antenna was made. That is matched by an LDG AT-100Pro Autotuner (powered by the IC-746Pro). The Diamond discone I'm using for 10m through 23cm was made in Japan (very well made at that) and it is held up by some thin-wall conduit pipe made in the USA with a Cable Experts RG-8 coax cable bringing it into the house office (I didn't check where the coax or UHF connector fitting assembly happened...didn't know that was so IMPORTANT!). No sweat...whatever I have, Davey Heil will PUT IT DOWN! :-) He always does... 73, Len AF6AY I'm partial to ICOM gear. But I've got a little bit of everything - even radio shack. |
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From: on 5 Apr 2007 15:18:49 -0700
From: on Tues, Apr 3 2007 6:35 pm On Mar 29, 11:24 pm, Dave Heil wrote: KH6HZ wrote: "Dave Heil" wrote: It doesn't matter whether he's jealous or not, Mike. He can fill up his years with getting on 75m and telling hams who have been in the game for decades about his experiences at ADA in the 1950's. Wow, lots of envy and hostility in that statement... That's all I expect from the Robust Oberst. :-) That's good. That's all you'll ever get. I know. It never fails... :-) But then, we are speaking of "Mister DeeEcks" of Department of State (Retired)...who BECAME DX Out Of Africa and Finland under State's generous "A DX of One" program to help hams worldwide get a rare one. Hard to beat that...and he got PAID to do it! He never once did ham radio while at work. Just ask him. That's like asking Robesin something. :-) Me, I just did (like you did) what I was told to do and also be proficient at "destroying the enemy" in my military service. That I lucked out on my military assignment wasn't any doing of mine. But, I DID take advantage of learning, observing all that went on, asking questions to study more...and making friends with a lot of good people, both military and civilian. Lots of night school, too. Not in the Army...in civilian life...to satisfy personnel departments with "credentials" while I had already done the responsible design engineering. :-( Herr Robust made some crack about "how many did I destroy?" Ya know, He NEVER said anything about His military service that could be pinned down to something substantial. I think he's just one of those fakers who IMPLY things and then bluff out on some (bogus) claims of "post traumatic stress." I dunno why Mister DeeEcks thinks I should "get on 75m" when there is already an established net on 20m of ex-RCA employees who get together every morning. I worked with some of them in real life (as opposed to the imaginary life spent staring at front panels while gabbing with relative strangers). :-) I like talking to strangers, as long as there not as strange as some on RRAP. Alas, some strangers ARE most strange indeed. I don't intend to keep reminding him of his remaining time on the planet. Any of us could easily go before Len does. All it takes is a traffic accident (Roger Wiseman's death wish for me: failing brakes, sharp curves, twisting road) or a sudden illness. Or Robesin's predictions for "Slashed tires, bricks through windows, and terrorized wives..." Robesin is the Public Affairs Officer for his CAP unit in TN. Some "public affairs" of his must be kinda 'private.' :-) Wow, if Robesin is typical of CAP Public Affairs, the CAP is in a HEAP of trouble! He must be screwing up - they've promoted him. Two words... background investigation. Two more words... fails background. The fact is that I've already enjoyed 43 years in amateur radio. Ahem, minus one year during your tour in Vietnam. Remember, no ham radio for you... We really don't know how long he was there. [Robesin syndrome?] Yikes! I hadn't considered that. He's a smoothie on "convincing" folks. Turns right around and becomes snarly when someone argues the opposite of what he's declared. Otherwise, same-o, same-o. According to a couple websites, he was a rock musician - guitarist for ten years with several bands. Those aren't "ham bands." :-) That occupied some of the 22 years between first being licensed (1963) and being sent to the Finland Embassy (1985). He got his Vanity call of K8MN in 1977 and there's 8 years between that and his first Helsinki posting. Wonder why he selected Minnesota for a suffix? That's an "in memoriam" Vanity callsign to honor his Elmer. -- he will be unable to accumulate 230k+ QSOs that others accumulated here have. If he gets busy and hones his skills, he could get it done. I still don't understand this NECESSITY of "logging thousands of contacts"...just to log thousands of contacts? Compensation? Well, it's something. Something like collecting string, stamps, dolls, paperweights, all sorts of different memorabilia and knick- knacks. What does one DO with all those logs? I would suggest just recycling those logs to save real logs from being turned into paper pulp to "archive" ham logs. Putting it all into CD R/W discs for archival would require using Chinese-manufacture CD blanks whose plastic is made from non-renewable petroleum. Mine are in my garage. That's where all my "important" papers are. My REALLY important papers are in my safety deposit box. Since there's NO necessity to keep logs (except for the "new" modes like SS) I think some jottings on scratch paper ought to suffice. Words on the VEC QP say "it's a good idea for resolving inter- ference complaints." I don't know how that can "resolve" them since it would be kept by the person allegedly doing the RFI. Such wouldn't stand up in court. But, lots of hams like to act like "pros" at broadcast stations, so they keep logs. Last time I did any broadcasting, the only thing noted in logs was when a station was OFF the air beyond its normal, announced hours. I made over that number in my nearly sixteen years overseas though it wasn't really that long since I was typically in the U.S. for two to three months between assignments and usually burned a month or so of leave in the U.S. or elsewhere each year. I've submitted nearly 30,000 QSOs to LOTW but I still have years of contest logs from the paper logging days which have yet to be entered into the computer logging database. 1985 to 2000 is just FIFTEEN years. Wow, all that FREE TIME (paid for?) between "assignments." Not a bad gig, 11 months of "work" a year. Very "European." Europeans work far less than 11 months a year. That's why they have so many trade restrictions with the USA... to level the playing field. heh heh heh. That's one way to look at it. Get off the branch water and it might be possible for you to get it done... unless you're taking time out to run for Director of the Roanoke Division. He ought to lay off the Marlboros, too...not to mention the brannvin. Of course, another storm might come up and the OTHER tower fall over...thus taking more time away from all that "logging." Heil had a tower failure? Yah. 2004. He's got TWO towers. One buckled somewhere in its middle and it came down, elements of one beam punching a hole in his roof. He has pictures of it on some personal web site. Not a pretty sight. On the same web site he's got a picture of a small bottle of Finnish vodka. Swedes label the "hard" spirits 'brannvin,' literally translates as 'burn wine.' From the same pictures Heil appears to be a lefty, in one of them twiddling a bug's paddles with the left, a package of Marlboros at the ready by his right hand. It'd be nice to have a half million or so QSOs logged before departure time. Better find a DXpedition. This time he gonna have to PAY for it out of his own pocket (and pension check). :-) Mr. Roarke might help him out on an expedition to Fantasy Island? :-) "de blane! de blane!" American Samoa might be a good gig. I think that might have been done. :-) If Len Anderson wants to pretend that he is part of some revolution, let him play. He'll unbox his JA transceiver, hook it to a vertical antenna and have all the fun he is capable of having. No different than you unboxing your TN transceiver... My IC-746Pro is made in Japan. The companion SP-23 filter-speaker is made in China. I haven't looked to see where the PS-125 (free) 12 VDC supply is made. My MFJ dry dummy load is made in Starkville, MS. My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of Chicago, IL. I don't know about that. Heh heh heh...I was testing Heil again to see if he was paying attention. :-) Fairview Heights, IL, is just a few miles east of the Big Muddy and East Saint Louis, IL. A few miles farther east and one cuts north to go to Springfield. BTW, I heartily recommend going to the Abraham Lincoln Museum in downtown Springfield...new, only been open for a few years and is a GREAT experience for anyone wanting to relive the times of his life and the American Civil War era. Good parking a block away and minimal charge to enter. Fabulous exhibits. You can take your own picture standing with the Lincoln family in the rotunda (only place where they allow photography...life-size mannikins with authentic clothing). Note that I did NOT say where the LDG autotuner was made. Tsk, I should have been given a "reminder" by know-it-all morsemen on that! :-) Bob used to have his shop in Marissa, Illinois, just south of my old address in the shadow of St Louis. Later he opened small shop in Fairview Heights, where the sales tax is 7% because they have a shopping mall. He had mostly high-definition TV at that location, so I don't know where he's manufacturing the microphone line, or if he's "outsourced" it. Hi-Def TV? That must be a continuing thing then since HDTV is just beginning to catch on in consumer electronics. Heil Sound uses SOME off-shore made components, certainly in accessories. The color, feel, shape of some of the bags for mikes are the SAME as what H-P had for some of their calculators 25 years ago (such as my olf HP-67). Adapters for various mikes, headphones, headsets have distinctive machining, plating, and plastic encapsulation of Asian manufacture. Those are good, but the prices (allowing for mark-up that is double their cost, easily) add the final touch to be off-shore made. No sweat...whatever I have, Davey Heil will PUT IT DOWN! :-) He always does... I'm partial to ICOM gear. But I've got a little bit of everything - even radio shack. My (now) ancient Icom R-70 is still doing just fine, gets to sit in the line-up of my station...all 3 feet wide, foot and a half high by foot and a quarter deep with room for other goodies, no strain. New stuff is much more compact than old. Whatever works for you and is reliable. But, Davey will PUT IT DOWN, whatever it is. His are "better," whatever he's got. :-( 73, Len AF6AY |
The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio
AF6AY wrote:
From: on 5 Apr 2007 15:18:49 -0700 Not in the Army...in civilian life...to satisfy personnel departments with "credentials" while I had already done the responsible design engineering. :-( Herr Robust made some crack about "how many did I destroy?" I don't recall asking anything about how many credentials or personnel departments you destroyed, Windy. :-) Ya know, He NEVER said anything about His military service that could be pinned down to something substantial. No, I don't believe I ever did. Now what? I think he's just one of those fakers who IMPLY things and then bluff out on some (bogus) claims of "post traumatic stress." I've never made any claims of military heroics. I've never claimed to be a victim of "post traumatic stress". It bugs you that you don't know. I take delight in that. Ahem, minus one year during your tour in Vietnam. Remember, no ham radio for you... We really don't know how long he was there. [Robesin syndrome?] Yikes! I hadn't considered that. He's a smoothie on "convincing" folks. Turns right around and becomes snarly when someone argues the opposite of what he's declared. Otherwise, same-o, same-o. I've not made much of an attempt to convince you of anything regarding my military service, Len. You've said that you've not denigrated your fellow military veterans. The facts show that you have. Wonder why he selected Minnesota for a suffix? That's an "in memoriam" Vanity callsign to honor his Elmer. You still have it wrong. My call was not issued under the vanity callsign program. I've had it for thirty years now. Words on the VEC QP say "it's a good idea for resolving inter- ference complaints." I don't know how that can "resolve" them since it would be kept by the person allegedly doing the RFI. as opposed to the word of the person complaining of RFI. Such wouldn't stand up in court. I think you're wrong on that, Leonard. Such things as a memorandum of conversation or a carefull kept record of events can be used in court. But, lots of hams like to act like "pros" at broadcast stations, so they keep logs. It has nothing to do with broadcast stations or acting like "pros", Len. For decades, amateur radio operators were required by the FCC to maintain logs. There is nothing keeping radio amateurs from maintaining logs. They serve as a record of events for awards tracking, for tracking propagation, for nostalgia and as a memorandum of times/dates/frequencies used. Last time I did any broadcasting, the only thing noted in logs was when a station was OFF the air beyond its normal, announced hours. That's nice. On the same web site he's got a picture of a small bottle of Finnish vodka. Swedes label the "hard" spirits 'brannvin,' literally translates as 'burn wine.' Except it isn't Swedish vodka. It's there because the vodka's label says "Strong 59". From the same pictures Heil appears to be a lefty, in one of them twiddling a bug's paddles with the left, a package of Marlboros at the ready by his right hand. I'm a left hander in some things, a right hander in others. I can use a keyer paddle with either hand. My Heil Sound ProSetPlus is made (somewhat) in a suburb of Chicago, IL. I don't know about that. Heh heh heh...I was testing Heil again to see if he was paying attention. :-) Sure you were, "Anderson". :-) :-) Fairview Heights, IL, is just a few miles east of the Big Muddy and East Saint Louis, IL. ....but you thought it was near Chicago. Note that I did NOT say where the LDG autotuner was made. Tsk, I should have been given a "reminder" by know-it-all morsemen on that! :-) NOT saying likely saved you from another factual error. Dave K8MN |
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