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"Mike Coslo" wrote | | So you and Mr Black just say there wouldn't be any such thing. | That's correct. If amateur radio did not already exist there is Zero point Zero Zero Zero (and I'm rounding upwards) probability that it would be created today. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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"KØHB" wrote in message hlink.net...
"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote | | This thread, Michael, was started by a known newsgroup antagonist | who is not, himself, an Amateur Radio licensee...Not even a Novice | Class. His perception of "radio" is strictly from that of a person | looking to make a buck...nothing else. | Mike Coslo isn't a ham? What's this "KB3EIA" business he puts in his signature then? You're just a bit too eager to jump into someones Wheaties, Your One-Upmanship. That thread was ORIGINATED by Lennie. Please refer to: Message 1 in thread From: Len Over 21 ) Subject: If Ham Radio Were Invented Today (reprise) For YOUR benefit, Master Chief, I point out the words "MESSAGE 1 IN THREAD" and the "FROM" line. Now...Next time you find yourself a bit over-anxious to try and humilate someone with your dazzling self righteousness, I hope you'll be sure you have your facts right... Steve, K4YZ |
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Now I got it!
73, Leo On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:21:05 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote: Leo wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:14:17 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote: DLTDHYOTAOTWO Mike - you've piqued my curiosity - Was ist los? Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out (a little paraphrased, you'll get the other OTA in the middle, I think! 8^) - Mike KB3EIA - |
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Steve Robeson, K4CAP wrote:
"KØHB" wrote in message hlink.net... "Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote | | This thread, Michael, was started by a known newsgroup antagonist | who is not, himself, an Amateur Radio licensee...Not even a Novice | Class. His perception of "radio" is strictly from that of a person | looking to make a buck...nothing else. | Mike Coslo isn't a ham? What's this "KB3EIA" business he puts in his signature then? You're just a bit too eager to jump into someones Wheaties, Your One-Upmanship. That thread was ORIGINATED by Lennie. Please refer to: Message 1 in thread From: Len Over 21 ) Subject: If Ham Radio Were Invented Today (reprise) For YOUR benefit, Master Chief, I point out the words "MESSAGE 1 IN THREAD" and the "FROM" line. Now...Next time you find yourself a bit over-anxious to try and humilate someone with your dazzling self righteousness, I hope you'll be sure you have your facts right... Ahh, the confusion lies in that I originated the thread, and then Lenover21 - for reasons unknown - perhaps not to taint himself with replying to a thread I started, then started a new thread that was titled the same, save for the "reprise". - Mike KB3EIA - |
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Mike Coslo wrote in message ...
Now...Next time you find yourself a bit over-anxious to try and humilate someone with your dazzling self righteousness, I hope you'll be sure you have your facts right... Ahh, the confusion lies in that I originated the thread, and then Lenover21 - for reasons unknown - perhaps not to taint himself with replying to a thread I started, then started a new thread that was titled the same, save for the "reprise". Therein lies some of the reason for confusion...I shudda known Lennie would have somehting to do with it...But that STILL doesn't excuse Hans' sniping since the thread group he was quoting from WAS the one His Putziness had generated...As were the comments I was refering to...If I had slipped up like that, the Master Chief and His Most Putziness would have had a Field Day (with apologies to the ARRL...) BTW, Mike, you snowed in? My YL is absolutely livid that we AREN'T getting any of the snow...I grew up in it so I HAVE had my fill! 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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Steve Robeson, K4CAP wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote in message ... Now...Next time you find yourself a bit over-anxious to try and humilate someone with your dazzling self righteousness, I hope you'll be sure you have your facts right... Ahh, the confusion lies in that I originated the thread, and then Lenover21 - for reasons unknown - perhaps not to taint himself with replying to a thread I started, then started a new thread that was titled the same, save for the "reprise". Therein lies some of the reason for confusion...I shudda known Lennie would have somehting to do with it...But that STILL doesn't excuse Hans' sniping since the thread group he was quoting from WAS the one His Putziness had generated...As were the comments I was refering to...If I had slipped up like that, the Master Chief and His Most Putziness would have had a Field Day (with apologies to the ARRL...) Agreed. I've noticed that Hans seems to get a nasty case of cabin fever around this time of year, and becomes a hammer in search of nails. It's his only tool, and *everything* looks like a nail. BTW, Mike, you snowed in? My YL is absolutely livid that we AREN'T getting any of the snow...I grew up in it so I HAVE had my fill! We have maybe 8 inches on the ground. Roads are slippery enough that I keep the Jeep in 4WD full time. It isn't too bad, but it isn't a pretty kind of snow. Yesterday and today most of the schools in the center of the state are closed. But they are all wusses! 8^) - Mike KB3EIA - |
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In article .net, "KØHB"
writes: "Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote | | This thread, Michael, was started by a known newsgroup antagonist | who is not, himself, an Amateur Radio licensee...Not even a Novice | Class. His perception of "radio" is strictly from that of a person | looking to make a buck...nothing else. | Mike Coslo isn't a ham? What's this "KB3EIA" business he puts in his signature then? The gunnery nurse seems to think that his PC is infested with an A.I. virus that masquerades as all kinds of different communicators. It's getting so that he can't tell reality from his internal fantasy. Excuse me, I'm going off to practice my K0HB, Billy Beeper, and Leo posting. :-) LHA / WMD |
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In article k.net, "KØHB"
writes: "Michael Black" wrote | Take out that history from amateur radio, and I really | don't see it starting up today. You absolutely NAILED it Michael. Amateur radio was started and sustained until post-WWII by tinkerers, experimenters, and technically orientated types. "Technically oriented," not 'orientated.' They were using information on radio hardware theory that was being refined and detailed by commercial, government, and military radio users. Principally that was in the period from 1900 to the mid-1930s. Lots and lots of non-amateurs were very busy trying to get a slice of what appeared to be a lucrative new technology. A similar happening started in personal computing in the late 1970s, many amateurs involved, until the USERS and the makers got going to make the personal computer a tool for everyday life and work. For a more widened view of early radio development, the text history by Hugh G. J. Aitken, "The Continuous Wave, Technology and American Radio 1900-1932," Princeton University Press 1985 is recommended as a source. The first "driver" of radio technology was the maritime world. Maritime radio was considered indespensible for ocean vessels, giving them something they had never had before - communications beyond the horizon. Some amateurs, restricted to sources from a CT publisher, will insist that amateurs "discovered short waves" 83 years ago. Not quite since the Marconi Company first noted the long leaps in "short wave" paths 84 years ago. Some 82 years ago a commercial communications carrier was already trying out HF on several wavelengths ("down" to 30 meters) to improve daylight radio transmission paths. Commercial concerns, especially broadcasting, were the drivers of radio technology after WW1.. Those who do 24/7 radio communications are more likely to notice effects than amateurs limited to a few hours each day. The commercial-industrial-governmental-military users of radio were already migrating upwards iin frequency from the late 1930s and especially so after WW2. However, the "tinkerers, experimenters, and technically" oriented folks have ALWAYS existed and grew more numerous after the "military surplus" years just following WW2. That is most notable in NON-ham electronics activities such as robotics, personal computing, music systems, security-alarm-control applications. Radio control of model aircraft and other vehicles is a big market (AMA has as many or slightly more members than ARRL). AMA got a large block of frequencies at 72 MHz just for R/C all by itself. Despite the grousing, bitching, and whining of "experimenters" unable to get the exact parts for copying a magazine article project from Radio Shack, electronic parts remain on the market, as numerous as they were in 1947 or 1967 (actually more so) but are not solely concerned with the so-called alalog radio field. Even the giant and growing Fry's Electronics chain carries a whole aisle of packaged components from capacitors to circuit board blanks. Modern day electronics "experimenters" have gone well beyond radio in the scope of their fun. While some hams look with distaste, disgust, and some with pejorations of evil upon "CB," the 27 MHz kind of personal communications opened in 1958 (that's a mere 46 years ago) WITHOUT the amateurs and expanded enormously when the offshore designs and manufacturings took off. Offshore design and manufacture facilities have greatly aided the availability of everything from parts to finished systems at relatively low cost. That allowed the hobbyists to pursue all kinds of areas of electronics design and construction in home workshops. Had amateur radio remained cut off after WW1, there would have been NO ARRL to lobby or do anything. The club clocks would have been reset to the competition for national memberships of the pre-1914 times...telegrams and telegraphy messages would still have gotten through in the commercial-government world of radio. Broadcasting would have expanded enormously after 1920 despite amateur activities along with receiver development and all the peripheral electronics around "radio" (everything from wireless mikes to radio-coupled phonographs and eventually to stereo- binaural sound and magnetic recording for "hi-fi" sound). HF would still have been a pre-WW2 hotbed of commercial-government communicatios carriers, everything from 4 voice channel width SSB to single-channel RTTY. By 1938 some police departments had been "experimenting" (trying out) mobile FM, with success. Once rocketry had become relatively practical after WW2, the commercial satellite communications "birds" would have existed (Telstar was a US telephone company project). Now the equatorial geosynchrous orbit is FILLED with comm sats (about every 3 degrees or so) and the "long-distance" radio communications goes over them rather than old HF (if not over fiber-optics cables or microwave radio relay having even more bandwidth). That our service continues to exist today is a miracle, attributable mainly to the efforts of RAC, ARRL, DARC, JARL, IARU, RAE, RSGB, and all the other national societies who so far have convinced the regulators to allow us to continue. Ah, but in this hypothetical alternate reality, there would be NO such organizations. They MIGHT form again but there is NOTHING to guarantee that they would be even close to doing what they do now. Evolution of amateur radio organizations happened just as it did to every other radio service...some would survive, others would not. The "selling job" of these FUTURE clubs (not really "societies") would be difficult since they would have NO "track record" to fall back on, no mythical claims of being necessary in any emergency, or any of the legends they loved to trot out. It would be back to Square One for most of them except for the first one, the Radio Club of America. Remember that the ARRL began as a local CT radio club with the ideal of serving as a freebie message-forwarding service. In today's world it would be a Hacker club "hacking" on Western Union's and other telegram suppliers' high telegram fees. All the high-sounding PR BS of today hadn't happened and all the ARRL would have to show for itself in this new alternate reality is some nebulous, rationalized message relay Hacking. Not a good thing to expand upon and not something to convince regulators that they should allocate bands and things to amateurs. That could be done in a different way. But, without the "tradition" and "glory of service" (or whatever) that has been the propaganda tool of the membership organizations' spoon-feeding of What To Do, What To Say, How To Act, the present-day orgs couldn't do it the same way they have for years. In this alternate reality, the word "ham" might never have caught on. It was a pejorative given by professional telegraphers to amateurs originally (from ARRL's own etymological definition). "Amateur" is not a bad thing since there are many and varied amateur activities of all kinds, especially in sports. "Ham" as a prefix has never been a good label, especially in show business. My speculation is that HF would definitely be open for allocation for recreational activity. The commercial and government users of HF have vacated much of it, use it primarily for time-frequency standards, broadcasting, much less communications than two to three decades ago. If R/C models can get a block of lower VHF frequencies, I'm sure that amateur radio could get some HF bands for fun and games. The notion of a "start up" amateur radio service or any personal radio service with such broad gifts of spectrum and freedom to experiment as we enjoy wouldn't gain any traction at all in todays technological environment. A quaint notion based almost entirely on the past present reality happenings...not to mention several boatloads of mythology and legend PR that is more puffery than substance. Sorry, not bought. There is absolutely NOTHING "wrong" with getting a block of frequencies just for recreation. R/C did it and modelers have NEVER claimed anything close to aiding homeland security or being of some vital and important aid in times of emergency. 27 MHz CB is already 46 years old. FRS and GMRS exists today as do almost innumerable "cordless" and "wireless" low power RF communications devices of many purposes, from VHF on up to C Band (5 GHz) in microwaves. I say there would definitely be a lot of personal communications "radios" in this alternate reality, regardless of amateur claims (in this universe) of pioneering them. But, in this alternate reality, there might be some bitter and prolonged fighting in urban and semi-urban residential areas as amateur radio folks tried to put up large, ugly wire and tubing structures (beautiful to them, maybe, but a decided eyesore to non-radio neighbors). Amateur radio, if it came to be, would have a decidedly different scope of activities in this alternate universe. It would BEGIN to evolve, probably to something else, since there was no "tradition" to "preserve" nor any set of 1930s Standards and Practices to uphold 7 decades later. Radio amateurism would begin ANEW. LHA / WMD |
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