QST over-emphasizes
the ham involvement of MARS and under-emphasizes the fact that
the U.S. Army started it in 1925 and now all three major military
service branches are involved in that Military Affiliate Radio System
as a self-standing radio system which MIGHT, but hardly ever does
for a fact, serve the long-existing regular military communications
facilities.
"Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio." Hi, hi!
[did QST every write up anything on the Grecial Firebolt
exercises? I don't think so but then I don't read enough ham-only
"technical" material]
My last QST lays there unread. Didn't renew membership.
Now, in this thread, there's much "learned" palaver on the wrongs
and wrongs of U.S. spaceflight efforts between the two participants
who haven't gotten much beyond the Popular Science write-ups.
The Cassini-Huygens probes are considered another outstanding
success but the critics are highly critical. [maybe because ham
radio isn't essential to such efforts?]
The world passes them by and they just shake their fists.
Meanwhile, BPL is the spectre on the ham horizon but nobody
seems very concerned. Either they can't think beyond their
personal fantasies or they think that "CW will get through?"
They'll switch to MCW on all HF. Don't care about noise floor.
Some folks in here are so into the personal attack mode that
all they can do is carp and bark and toss snit at Cart Stevenson
for a mild rebuke against UPLC, a group that was arrogantly
snitting on amateur radio.
They hate Carl. He had a rational argument concerning the retention
of code testing, and it found favor within the FCC. He doesn't
worship at the Altar of St. Hiram, so he's the antichrist to them. If
it were within their power, Carl would be tied to a stake and burned.
Luckily only one PCTA thinks he can get a government bureaucrat to do
his dirtywork. And he's nuts.
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