From: on 8 Apr 2007 08:32:35 -0700

Subject: The First Month of the Revolution in USA Amateur Radio

On Apr 7, 2:25 am, Dave Heil wrote:
AF6AY wrote:
Tsk, Brian, there ain't NO booze, branch water, or aqvavit to
make Davey say such a thing without the adjective of
"neophyte," "beginner" or whatever he needs to PUT DOWN
OTHERS he no like! :-)

I'm sorry that you don't like it, Len, but you are a beginner or
neophyte in amateur radio. You're just getting started. You're just
getting your feet wet.

Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it.

73, Len AF6AY [Extra Out Of The Box!]

...after a delay of seven long years. "Right out of the box" never took place.

FACTUAL ERROR by Heil!

"Extra Out Of The Box" is a colloquial phrase referring to
one who takes ALL test elements at one test session and
passes all of them. That is what I did on 25 Feb 07.

Four VE examiners in that session, all Amateur Extras who
cross-checked each other's scoring for accuracy. An ARRL
VEC exam team, their work was checked in Newington and
approved...then sent to the FCC who approved my application
and granted my Amateur Extra class license on 7 Mar 07.

Judge "Roy Bean" Heil doesn't like that. My license was
granted without HIS approval. Tsk, tsk. He should take
that to a higher court and DEMAND a retrial (until I am
proven "guilty")? Sure seems like it.


That's a fine way for the future director of the Roanoke Division to
welcome a fellow amateur into the service. You're just the kind of
amateur we need in the leadership.

Maybe the Roanoke Division is like that. I don't know. NOT
my territory. If that is the kind of "welcome" a new US
radio amateur gets there, it is a wonder they have ANY new
amateurs in that Division.

I care less of what another "Division" does. I am a resident
of California, the most populous of the USA and also with the
most US amateur radio licensees. I've not gotten Heil's
"treatment" of newcomers out here, but rather the opposite.
I enjoy that in-person and on the air. I'm not ready to visit
the land of the east coasties with their aloof, I-am-your-
superior-and-rule-over-you attitude. :-(

Fuggem say I.

73, Len AF6AY