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Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Len Over 21) writes: In article , Robert Casey writes: One could sumise that if all the other ships in the area were taking it slow, Titanic should have taken heed and go slow as well. One doesn't have to have knowledge of a field to realize that. I'm sure that the ship's owners would have preferred and understood a late but intact Titanic at the destination. Maybe the ship was "unsinkable" but I wouldn't want to test that with paying passangers aboard. Robert, I will agree with you, but what happened to the Titanic NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO isn't really a subject of this newsgroup and doesn't come close (maybe a couple of light- years) to amateur radio policy. :-) So what, Len? Much of what you talk about doesn't come close to amateur radio policy either. That anyone should chide another on OT posting here in rrap is mildly amusing. When that someone is part of the Lennie/Steve/Brian-William troika in *their* ongoing whizzing contest is much more amusing. Try a quartet. :-) I'm not into any "whizzing contest" with the gunnery nurse. :-) YOU are the one making that charge. Charge is such a nasty legalese sounding term. It's more like "observation". And yes, I do make that observation. I just call them as everyone else can see them. Wouldn't it be better to shed light on what others may not be able to see? Or, as someone else wrote, "the replies just seem to write themselves!" Heh heh heh. Well, except to some who wish to turn this newsgroup into a quasi-private Chat Room involving their own desires and preferences..and to have them damn all others for not thinking and feeling as they do. [yourself excluded] That's a pretty good summation of what *you* want from this newsgroup, Len. After all, you're the one telling other people to "shut the hell up".. I've thought that Lenover21 wanted to be the moderator in here. He claims otherwise. Tsk. Nice troll cast, but inaccurate. Now YOU tell us what the Titanic's sinking of 92 years ago has to do with amateur radio policy of today? Very very little. 1912 was the year of the first U.S. radio regulating agency. That's about the only "relation" to the subject of the Titanic and a very tenuous one...if at all. :-) For the bleeding-heart imaginary sailors aboard, I won't cry great crocodile tears of a thousand-plus humans who perished on the Titanic in 1912. Nope. "Bleeding-heart imaginary sailors"? Who would that be? Yeah, what's with that? Tsk. You two don't really READ what you've written? :-) Jimmie wanted me to show ten kinds of respect and sorrow for all the passengers and crew of the Titanic who perished in 1912! When one would have been sufficient. Respect doesn't make a person a "bleeding heart". I'll just reflect that the subject made a LOT of money for Linda Hamilton's ex-husband You mean James Cameron? If so, why not just use his name? You seem to have a serious problem calling people by their names. Perhaps you don't have the guts to do it. Tsk. "Serious problem?" More tsk. :-) Not much show-biz action in PA...but there is in this neck o' the woods. and employed many Mexican laborers on the set of "Titanic"... many many years later with a little gilt statuette awarded for Best Motion Picture to the producer-director. No crying great tears on-stage on that Oscar Night. What possible significance does that have? And is that on topic for rrap? ;^) Tsk. More PCTA extra Double Standard. Linda is quite quirky in a cute sort of way... or is that quite cute in a quirky sort of way? Why do you wish to continue talking about Linda Hamilton? Well you brought her to the conversation. 8^) Does she have a ham license? [pun intended] [just think what fun the ARRL news page would have with...drum roll...HAM ACTOR! :-) Boeing doesn't test fly new aircraft with commercial paying passengers. Not many aircraft companies were busy working out Test Proceedures for test-flying new aircraft in 1912... :-) How did Bill Boeing's company get into ham radio policy? You guys just can't focus! :-) Not a matter of focus. Just some discussion among friends. And the discussions among friends tend to go where they will. Boeing innovated the pre-flight checklist around 1940 or thereabouts after they lost a prototype Flying Fortress (and their chief test pilot) on takeoff. Of course there was the PROFESSIONAL pilot who tried to roll a B-52 at low altitude. Did you see the case study of that one, Jim? Spooky! Too bad so many of the folk flying with him knew they were probably going to die some day with him at the yoke. So...this is now a FLYING newsgroup? No, but there are some on Netnews, I'm sure. Or are you PCTAs just "high?" Ick, getting high is a sure fire method of wasting one's life. Not to worry. U.S. amateur radio regulations are Up To Date. Yes, they are. Seems like it to me! For maybe, 1913... :-) I took the tests recently, all within the past 5 years, and a couple within 3 years. They are up to date enough, covering satellite ops, all manner of relevant band and technical questions dealing with present day equipment. They are up to date for at least mid 2001. They still require all amateurs to test for beloved morse code cognition capability in order to have priveleges of operating below 30 MHz...in the ham bands. Why does that bother you so much? Tsk. Doesn't bother me much. I haven't gotten an amateur radio license yet. :-) Why should I sell my soul for some high-rate morsemanship? :-) Ahh, maybe there is the problem. You don't have to sell your soul, just study the material. I had great difficulty with Element 1 preparation, but it didn't do me a bit of damage. Here I am, soul intact , and just as fat dumb and happy as ever! 8^) It seems that some amateurs bent on constantly re-living the past (in almost anything) think that morse code skill is still the epitome of "radio operation" in the year 2004. Perhaps some do. Jimmie Who do. Jimmie do the voodoo that who do? 8^) Many more think that a simple test of Morse code skill at a very basic level is a worthwhile requirement for an amateur license. Only because THEY had to do it...therefore everyone else has to do the same! :-) Nahh, I think they should take it because that is the rule at present. Why does that bother you so much, Len? Why is Jimmie so bothered that he has to keep asking that? Oh, Bother..... W.T. Pooh Very "progressive." State of the Art. Len, do you live in a "State Of The Art" house? Drive a "State Of The Art" car? Wear "State Of The Art" clothes? Is your computer "State Of The Art", complete with broadband connection? Far more modern in all respects on all items compared to 1912. :-) If we owns PC's, we isn't state of the art. Tsk. Bad grammar to boot...up. Yup, kind of illustrating the point that many people seem to think that they are some kind of high tech wizard because they own a PC or cell phone, or other such icons. Try "If we own PCs, we are not state of the art." :-) Thanks for the suggestion, but I kind of like the other way if you don't mind. 8^) Your English syntax and grammar is NOT state of the art... Oh, but they are as necessary! Heck, the only HF radio equipment you've admitted to owning is over 20 years old. Definitely not "State Of The Art", yet you lecture others about it. Tsk. Jimmie have loss of memory. Poor fella. Has to "recycle" all his radio construction in order to do "state of the art" TUBE designs in the 1990s. Tsk. With a double degree... :-) Despite their virtual obsolescence, hollow state technology is quite interesting, at least to me. Random though mode on: I have a 1987 Transciever. IC-745. Suits me just fine. All digital (excluding the necessary analog bits) Wow, even digital radios are getting old hat. "Why", the Grinch said as a smile lit his face, "Maybe for everything, everymode all has it's place." I have a chunk of galena setting on the shelf in front of me - maybe I'll make a cat's whisker detector and radio from it Random thought mode off....... Put a carbon mike in your antenna lead and you can do AM like Reggie F. in his Big Broadcast of 1906! :-) AM never really appealed to me. Takes a lot of energy for all you get out of it. But I do like historical processes and equipment as a diversion after working all day with much more modern techniques. Kinda fun. Wow! "State of the Art!" I suppose at one time it was! Amaze your friends and neighbors by being able to talk without wires for at least 10 miles! :-) Hehe, AM is probably just about at the bottom of the heap (with apologies to all the AM'ers out there) Have a Happy, your Grinchness... You also, Lenover21. I do have a question. I had called you Lennie once, and I think you didn't particularly care for that. I've been calling you Lenover21, but that sounds kind of formal if a screen name can be called formal. Do you have a preference? Does simply "Len" work? Or "Leonard"? - Mike KB3EIA - |
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impact loads. Apparently analyses are showing that if one or another
of the tower's steel stucture had been properly insulated it might have not come down. There's a congressionally-mandated technical report in the works which gets into the topic in depth which should be released soon and is reported to pass out some spankings. I was at a presentation made by the head of the engineering team that investigated the Twin towers disaster. ^^^^ "The" engineering firm?? Do you have any idea just how *many* engineering firms have been involved in the WTC disaster?? Um, I said TEAM Brian. I didn't say FIRM! QSL. I ain't lying. I still have his presentation, I will get his name for you. Good, I'll take it if you find it and chase him down. - Mike KB3EIA - w3rv |
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Subject: Designed And Built By PROFESSIONALS....
From: Mike Coslo Date: 10/25/2004 12:05 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: Len Over 21 wrote: In article , Mike Coslo writes: I'm not into any "whizzing contest" with the gunnery nurse. YOU are the one making that charge. Charge is such a nasty legalese sounding term. It's more like "observation". And yes, I do make that observation. Lennie does love to make those "tough sounding" accusations, then chastises anyone who dares to do the same. I just call them as everyone else can see them. Wouldn't it be better to shed light on what others may not be able to see? When you're already in the dark without a clue as to where the light switch is, the best you can do is fumble around and hope to hit it sooner or later... Lennie's DEFINITELY in the "...or later" stage. Now YOU tell us what the Titanic's sinking of 92 years ago has to do with amateur radio policy of today? Very very little. Actually, quite a bit. It was the need to have a "universal" communications medium that has drive the Morse Code issue for all these decades. Of course Lennie KNOWS that, has stated it himself...Re-stating it would ruined the rant effect. Jimmie wanted me to show ten kinds of respect and sorrow for all the passengers and crew of the Titanic who perished in 1912! When one would have been sufficient. Respect doesn't make a person a "bleeding heart". Of course Lennie has no respect or sorrow for those people. How can you respect anyone else when you have no SELF respect? Why do you wish to continue talking about Linda Hamilton? Well you brought her to the conversation. 8^) Who wouldn't...Unless, of course, your "preferences" of the "alternative lifestyle" mode...? So...this is now a FLYING newsgroup? No, but there are some on Netnews, I'm sure. It's only a "FLYING" newsgroup when Lennie wants to discuss his student pilot days in 1950-something. And it's a "MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS" newsgroup when Lennie wants to discuss 1950's-era Army RTTY or 1980's era "SINCGARS" radio. It's also a MODEL AIRPLANE newsgroup when he wants to parallel the AMA with the ARRL. And it's a "MENTAL HEALTH" newsgroup when Lennie wants to make allegations about other's "meds" or how "crazy" they are. In short, it can be ANY KIND of newsgroup that Lennie wants WHEN Lennie wants, but WOE BE to the Licensed Amateur who dares to deviate from Lennie's topic-du-jour. Why should I sell my soul for some high-rate morsemanship? Ahh, maybe there is the problem. You don't have to sell your soul, just study the material. I had great difficulty with Element 1 preparation, but it didn't do me a bit of damage. Here I am, soul intact , and just as fat dumb and happy as ever! 8^) Mike, if you ever notice, Lennie doesn't do ANYthing that requires him being more than an arm-length away from the computer. I do have a question. I had called you Lennie once, and I think you didn't particularly care for that. I've been calling you Lenover21, but that sounds kind of formal if a screen name can be called formal. Do you have a preference? Does simply "Len" work? Or "Leonard"? How about just "Putz", Mike...?!?! Works for me. Steve, K4YZ |
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PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , Mike Coslo writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Len Over 21) writes: In article , Robert Casey writes: One could sumise that if all the other ships in the area were taking it slow, Titanic should have taken heed and go slow as well. One doesn't have to have knowledge of a field to realize that. I'm sure that the ship's owners would have preferred and understood a late but intact Titanic at the destination. Maybe the ship was "unsinkable" but I wouldn't want to test that with paying passangers aboard. Robert, I will agree with you, but what happened to the Titanic NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO isn't really a subject of this newsgroup and doesn't come close (maybe a couple of light- years) to amateur radio policy. :-) So what, Len? Much of what you talk about doesn't come close to amateur radio policy either. That anyone should chide another on OT posting here in rrap is mildly amusing. Agreed! Len does more OT posting than anybody, and is told more often than anybody that he is OT. |
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William wrote:
PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message ... In article , Mike Coslo writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Len Over 21) writes: In article , Robert Casey writes: One could sumise that if all the other ships in the area were taking it slow, Titanic should have taken heed and go slow as well. One doesn't have to have knowledge of a field to realize that. I'm sure that the ship's owners would have preferred and understood a late but intact Titanic at the destination. Maybe the ship was "unsinkable" but I wouldn't want to test that with paying passangers aboard. Robert, I will agree with you, but what happened to the Titanic NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO isn't really a subject of this newsgroup and doesn't come close (maybe a couple of light- years) to amateur radio policy. :-) So what, Len? Much of what you talk about doesn't come close to amateur radio policy either. That anyone should chide another on OT posting here in rrap is mildly amusing. Agreed! Len does more OT posting than anybody, and is told more often than anybody that he is OT. Not by me! AFAIC Lenover21 can post on anything he wishes to. Really, there isn't a need for any of us to be sensitive about this stuff. It is after all, USENET. - Mike KB3EIA - |
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In article , Mike Coslo writes:
Really, there isn't a need for any of us to be sensitive about this stuff. It is after all, USENET. TSK. NO. VERY SERIOUS! Might be better than World Serious! This newsgroup is all about certain PCTAs needing a private chat room to damn the NCTAs to eternal hell for not loving morse. |
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(William) writes: Agreed! Len does more OT posting than anybody, and is told more often than anybody that he is OT. ...by those who are so "OT" they are older than dirt. :-) Hey, gang, let's all make the Titanic disaster of 1912 the principle topic of this newsgroup!!! Hey, gang, let's all play like civil engineers and architects to indict the designers of the WTC!!! Hey, gang, let's all be Pilots In Command and talk all about flying!!! Hey, gang, let's all make sure Jimmie Who gets all that praise and respect for vacuum tube kluges which are State of the Art!!! All of which is vastly important to the few regulars in here who can't figure out how to start their own private Internet chat room so that they can all call the NCTAs nasty names behind their backs and be King of the Ham Hill! bwahahahahah small snicker in place of "hi hi" |
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In article , Mike Coslo writes:
Len Over 21 wrote: In article , Mike Coslo writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Len Over 21) writes: In article , Robert Casey writes: One could sumise that if all the other ships in the area were taking it slow, Titanic should have taken heed and go slow as well. One doesn't have to have knowledge of a field to realize that. I'm sure that the ship's owners would have preferred and understood a late but intact Titanic at the destination. Maybe the ship was "unsinkable" but I wouldn't want to test that with paying passangers aboard. Robert, I will agree with you, but what happened to the Titanic NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO isn't really a subject of this newsgroup and doesn't come close (maybe a couple of light- years) to amateur radio policy. :-) So what, Len? Much of what you talk about doesn't come close to amateur radio policy either. That anyone should chide another on OT posting here in rrap is mildly amusing. When that someone is part of the Lennie/Steve/Brian-William troika in *their* ongoing whizzing contest is much more amusing. Try a quartet. :-) I'm not into any "whizzing contest" with the gunnery nurse. :-) YOU are the one making that charge. Charge is such a nasty legalese sounding term. It's more like "observation". And yes, I do make that observation. Then I advise that your seeing an opthalmologist for an eye examination is a good idea. That way you could observe the several fracases that nursie starts with ANYONE who disagrees with him...besides Brian, try Hans and Dieter. It's all been public. Nursie is eager and chomping at the bit to FIGHT with anyone. I just call them as everyone else can see them. Wouldn't it be better to shed light on what others may not be able to see? Tsk. See that opthalmologist. Warning: You could be a victim of presbyopia and not know it... Or, as someone else wrote, "the replies just seem to write themselves!" Heh heh heh. Gosh...wonder who wrote that original phrase? :-) It wasn't Mike Coslo. It wasn't nursie. It wasn't Brian. It wasn't Rev. Jim, our Artist of the State. It wasn't Kellie. It wasn't Hans. It wasn't Dieter. It wasn't Jim Hampton. It wasn't Dee. It wasn't Kim. OK, that about exhausts the regulars in here. :-) Now YOU tell us what the Titanic's sinking of 92 years ago has to do with amateur radio policy of today? Very very little. Actually, NONE. However, the Titanic disaster is a favorite subject of his lordship, Sir James. As Lord High Admiral of the newsgroup (sailing these turbid waters every day), he has decreed the Titanic disaster IS a worthy subject for amateur radio policy. There we have it. When one would have been sufficient. Respect doesn't make a person a "bleeding heart". True enough. But only in the literal sense. Hello? Can you see some sarcasm in my remarks? :-) How did Bill Boeing's company get into ham radio policy? You guys just can't focus! :-) Not a matter of focus. Just some discussion among friends. And the discussions among friends tend to go where they will. So...you've joined the Society of Friends? We quake at the thought... But, of curse, you regulars all OWN this newsgroup. Despite it going wherever the Internet carries it. What you dictate as Right and Proper MUST be observed at all times! Or are you PCTAs just "high?" Ick, getting high is a sure fire method of wasting one's life. I'm "high" on life itself. No drugs or substances needed. Nor any morse code fantasies as the epitome of hobby radio arts. :-) I took the tests recently, all within the past 5 years, and a couple within 3 years. They are up to date enough, covering satellite ops, all manner of relevant band and technical questions dealing with present day equipment. They are up to date for at least mid 2001. You missed my point on that. The present-day U.S. amateur regulations are just fine and dandy to those who want to keep the morse code test for a license examination. Other than to this circle of "friends," somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 thousand (give or take) licensed amateurs MIGHT have some disagreement with that "up to date." There are presently 18 ("count 'em, 18") petitions for consideration on changes to U.S. amateur radio regulations made public by the FCC. It should be obvious (except to the oblivious) that all is NOT "up to date" in those regulations. Ahh, maybe there is the problem. You don't have to sell your soul, just study the material. Why? :-) I'm really only interested in ending the U.S. amateur radio license exam morse code test. I do NOT need to "study material on morsemanship" to do that. I do NOT need to "study material on any other test element" just to get a federal merit badge saying I am "authorized" something or other. You seem to forget that I was ON HF very legally and correctly over a half century ago, over four decades ago, over three decades ago, and even earlier this year...all without having ANY requirement to "study morsemanship material." I had great difficulty with Element 1 preparation, but it didn't do me a bit of damage. I always study for my blood tests. So far I've passed every time. I do have a question. I had called you Lennie once, and I think you didn't particularly care for that. I've been calling you Lenover21, but that sounds kind of formal if a screen name can be called formal. What do you see on my "signature" line? Tsk. If you can't understand my preferences, then that trip to an opthalmologist for you is necessary. [remember, watch out for presbyopia...] If you pick up an IEEE Membership Directory, you wil see my legal name in there. Been in there since 1973. That's the formal version. Or you can call me any name, nasty or otherwise, that you care to use. Even enclose it in quote marks as "Dave" does it. Just don't call me late for dinner. Shirley you jest. Roger that. Go to the John. Etc. |
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In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes: In article , Mike Coslo writes: N2EY wrote: In article , (Len Over 21) writes: In article , Robert Casey writes: One could sumise that if all the other ships in the area were taking it slow, Titanic should have taken heed and go slow as well. One doesn't have to have knowledge of a field to realize that. I'm sure that the ship's owners would have preferred and understood a late but intact Titanic at the destination. Maybe the ship was "unsinkable" but I wouldn't want to test that with paying passangers aboard. Robert, I will agree with you, but what happened to the Titanic NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO isn't really a subject of this newsgroup and doesn't come close (maybe a couple of light- years) to amateur radio policy. :-) So what, Len? Much of what you talk about doesn't come close to amateur radio policy either. That anyone should chide another on OT posting here in rrap is mildly amusing. Agreed! Len does more OT posting than anybody, yet complains the loudest when others do it. Just another example of his double standard, do as Len says not as Len does mentality. Tsk. I say enjoy the hobby. I say don't try to force archaic, imaginary needs in testing for an amateur radio license just because some olde-tymers had to do it. I say enjoy freedom. I say try to keep up with the technology. I say the technology isn't restricted solely to what the ARRL publishes. Is that "bad mentality?" Or would you rather everyone be subject to rule by the raddio kopps carrying dazzling bright kopp badges? [that way you could get to push around others who don't agree with you and your opinions - which you call "facts"] Do I do "OT posting more than anybody?" No. If I DO talk about old time (OT) subjects it is for a reason of explanation since I've DONE those things and have first-hand experience. I don't need "confirmation" from any "league" organization to "document" it. :-) When that someone is part of the Lennie/Steve/Brian-William troika in *their* ongoing whizzing contest is much more amusing. Agreed! The denials are almost funny. No. Tragic. The damp hankie slap on nursie's wrist isn't very good therapy, "doctor" Jimmie. Well, except to some who wish to turn this newsgroup into a quasi-private Chat Room involving their own desires and preferences..and to have them damn all others for not thinking and feeling as they do. [yourself excluded] That's a pretty good summation of what *you* want from this newsgroup, Len. After all, you're the one telling other people to "shut the hell up".. I've thought that Lenover21 wanted to be the moderator in here. He claims otherwise. It's how he acts that makes the claims ring hollow. Perhaps it's time to repost the "feldwebel" classic... Poor baby. Losing your "group leader" self-imposed title? Awwww. For the bleeding-heart imaginary sailors aboard, I won't cry great crocodile tears of a thousand-plus humans who perished on the Titanic in 1912. Nope. "Bleeding-heart imaginary sailors"? Who would that be? Yeah, what's with that? Len's trying to cover up his gaffe of laughing at them. Tsk, tsk. I don't, have never "laughed" at innocent victims of anything. What you've just said above is a damned LIE, sweetums. Not unexpected from the Wrong Reverend Jimmie Who. It was bound to happen that - as "led" by that other shining example of modern U.S. hamdom, the gunnery nurse. What next? Little eptithets in some language your aren't familiar with? [nursie has the lock on cute Yiddish pejoratives, doesn't know squat about Yiddishers or Judaism] Maybe something choice in Italian? [you could use my neighbor, the Scicilian, in that regard...:-) ] I'll just reflect that the subject made a LOT of money for Linda Hamilton's ex-husband You mean James Cameron? If so, why not just use his name? You seem to have a serious problem calling people by their names. Perhaps you don't have the guts to do it. Have you ever noticed, Mike, that Len practically *never* addresses someone who disagrees with him by the name they use on their posts? He almost always has to make up an insulting nickname for them. Beggin' yer highbrow pardon, m'lord hamme-on-wry. and employed many Mexican laborers on the set of "Titanic"... many many years later with a little gilt statuette awarded for Best Motion Picture to the producer-director. No crying great tears on-stage on that Oscar Night. What possible significance does that have? And is that on topic for rrap? ;^) ;-) ;-) M'lord Hamme, what is the "significance" of discussing the Titanic disaster at all in an amateur radio policy newsgroup? Shouldn't you be taking that up before the House of Lords? Linda is quite quirky in a cute sort of way... or is that quite cute in a quirky sort of way? Very attractive, really. Not at the Jan Smithers level, of course. Tsk. Letting all your sexual fantasies hang out in public again? What possible significance has YOUR sexual fantasies to do with amateur radio policy matters? Oh, yes, you like to present them to show your "manliness?" Weird. Boeing doesn't test fly new aircraft with commercial paying passengers. OT? Commercial air carriers don't concern themselves with amateur radios...requiring ANY RF radiation source to be turned off when in-flight. Again, that and mention of Boeing Aircraft Company is NOT an amateur radio policy subject. Not many aircraft companies were busy working out Test Proceedures for test-flying new aircraft in 1912... :-) Very OT So is claims that vacuum tube kluges you've "designed" in the 1990s as "state of the art." :-) Boeing innovated the pre-flight checklist around 1940 or thereabouts after they lost a prototype Flying Fortress (and their chief test pilot) on takeoff. Yawningly OT So is Rev. Jimmie's regular "subject" of the Titanic disaster in here. Jimmie have fantasies of being a "hero" saving lives through moursemanship in that disaster scenario? Of course there was the PROFESSIONAL pilot who tried to roll a B-52 at low altitude. Did you see the case study of that one, Jim? Spooky! Too bad so many of the folk flying with him knew they were probably going to die some day with him at the yoke. Did you see the film clip? It's on the 'net at a few sites. Not the best quality, but scary enough. Has Jimmie actually RIDDEN in a B-52? Who cares? Jimmie never served his country in a military capacity, wouldn't have any need to ride a B-52 for any reason. Not to worry. U.S. amateur radio regulations are Up To Date. Yes, they are. Seems like it to me! "Yawningly OT." Hi hi. :-) The morsemanship test REMAINS and that suits Mr. "I serve my country in OTHER ways" Miccolis, the artist of the state, just dandy. That will secure U.S. amateur radio for morse-tested hams and assure Jimmie someone to play with... They still require all amateurs to test for beloved morse code cognition capability in order to have priveleges of operating below 30 MHz...in the ham bands. Why does that bother you so much? Notice how Len avoids the relevant questions... What is the "relevant question?" :-) Oh, I see. You be da Lord Hamme-on-wry, de Lawgiver of what be relevant for all to follow! Beggin' me humble pardon, m'lord. It seems that some amateurs bent on constantly re-living the past (in almost anything) think that morse code skill is still the epitome of "radio operation" in the year 2004. Perhaps some do. Many more think that a simple test of Morse code skill at a very basic level is a worthwhile requirement for an amateur license. Why does that bother you so much, Len? Very "progressive." State of the Art. Len, do you live in a "State Of The Art" house? Drive a "State Of The Art" car? Wear "State Of The Art" clothes? Is your computer "State Of The Art", complete with broadband connection? If we owns PC's, we isn't state of the art. Roger that! Who had a "personal computer" in 1912? :-) Heck, the only HF radio equipment you've admitted to owning is over 20 years old. Definitely not "State Of The Art", yet you lecture others about it. "Lecture?" :-) Tsk, tsk, TSK! I have an R-70. Leo has an R-70. Both still work to specifications (which are quite good). Oh, yes, a couple of NCTAs mentioned it, so, according to m'lord hamme (on rye?) they are just snit. :-) Random though mode on: I have a 1987 Transciever. IC-745. Suits me just fine. All digital (excluding the necessary analog bits) Mostly analog, really! Wow, even digital radios are getting old hat. Yep. How so? Can't get any digital parts to "recycle?" :-) "Why", the Grinch said as a smile lit his face, "Maybe for everything, everymode all has it's place." Indeed. Children's story characters? More fantasy portrayed as "fact?" I have a chunk of galena setting on the shelf in front of me - maybe I'll make a cat's whisker detector and radio from it Oatmeal boxes made of cardboard are still used. They have a plastic rim at the top but they still make good coil forms Go for it, Mr. State of the Art! :-) Reinvent the 1920s and claim your fame as the "innovator!" Good grief. Next thing you know, Rev. Jimmie will tout "Ralph 124C41+" as "mainstream science fiction!" :-) bwahahahahahah a snicker |
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