Len Over 21 wrote:

In article , Dave Heil
writes:

In article ,

(N2EY) writes:

Tsk. I lost interest in DXing in "radio sports" and the wallpaper
collection of QSLs after working at station ADA long ago.

Really? Did you do lots of contesting and DXing from ADA? Still have
the QSLs?

Tsk. Poor Davie doesn't understand that 24/7 REAL communications
in the military wasn't any "contest" and no "QSLs" were exchanged.

You can understand my confusion when you wrote about losing "interest in
DXing in 'radio sports' and the wallpaper collection of QSLs after
working at station ADA long ago". You made it sound as if you got a
belly full of those things at ADA. So am I to understand that you have
no actual experience in DXing, contesting or QSLing?

So, Davie, did you do much contesting from those embassies in
the middle of Africa or from Finland? Get many QSLs?

Well, Lennie, my contesting overseas was from my home, not from an
embassy. I did plenty of contesting and plenty of DXing. I was never
in "the middle of Africa", only in West Africa, Southern Africa and East
Africa. Yes, I received tens of thousands of QSL cards for each of
those African operations. Of course I didn't operate 24/7, only in my
spare time and I didn't have a staff of operators. There was just me.

Len, I have known many men who have done similar work. With few
exceptions, I have viewed their work as honorable.

I'll bet you didn't understand much of it...

So....they weren't honorable men, doing honorable work?

It obviously had
worth as all of them received paychecks.

No "A" grades on their report cards? Tsk.

Was their goal to obtain good grades? Tsk, tsk.

We radio amateurs don't
receive paychecks for what we do. We do it strictly for the love of
it.

Tsk. Ask the behind-the-counter types at HRO if they do 9-5
for free... :-)

Are those men working as radio amateurs or is amateur radio what they do
as an avocation? Tsk, tsk. :-) :-)

I'm sure your professional achievements have pleased you.

They sure did.

I thought as much since you've recounted them for us here on numerous
occasions.

They don't get you any passes in amateur radio.

Yes, and amateur radio licenses don't mean squat to legal
operating in the rest of the radio world.

I fail to see what difference that makes. Why should we, as radio
amateurs, posting in an amateur radio newsgroup, be concerned about what
qualifications are required for other services? Is is your aspiration
to participate in other radio service? Please, go forth and do so.

Sunnuvagun!

Yeah. You made a rather pointless comment.

What pleases you hasn't necessarily impressed us.

Yes, your supreme royalness. Humblest of apologies, your worship.

I don't sense sincerity from you.

Your grating manner and rudeness to radio amateurs have not endeared you
to more than a couple of people here.

Awwwww.

Tsk. Nothing an NCTA says can please the PCTA extras...or the
World's Greatest DXer. :-)

I'm not the World's Greatest DXer but I thank you and your little
electrolyte for the compliments. There are things that you could write
which would please me. You just haven't written any of them.

You strike me as the kind of guy
who goes wandering through life asking, "Why don't people like me?".

Tsk. Don't project your own personality on others.

I'm not, Leonard. You see the reaction your antics get from others.

I'll bet you haven't an idea of the answer.

Tsk, tsk. We all know you don't.

I have a very good idea of why you grate on people. It is immediately
apparent.

...in anyone's world, Leonard. It is simply fact. You were wrong. :-)

Nope.

You'll be right when pigs fly or you obtain an amateur radio license,
whichever comes first.

Deal with it.

No problem.

Now, why can't Mr. DX handle opposite opinions to his?

Answer: He never could! :-)

I'm handling them rather well, Mr. No DX, but we're not talking of an
opinion; we're talking about one of your factual errors.

Dave K8MN