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From: "K4YZ" on Fri,Apr 29 2005 9:54 pm
wrote: From: "K4YZ" on Fri,Apr 29 2005 2:07 am K0HB wrote: "K4YZ" wrote If Brian or Lennie had such an error pointed out, there'd be a six month long rant on how licensing in Somalia or how Lennie single handedly passsed 1.2 million messages at ADA in 1953. 1. Brian had simply mentioned he did some ham radio from Somalia when he was on active duty, assigned there. I saw no "discussion of licensing IN Somalia." I've never seen anyone ask about rear area Army radio stations in the 50's, Lennie, but you sure do let us know about it. Someone has to do it...poor Stevie NEVER did anything close to such HF communications...as an amateur or anything else. Stevie fails to get the point: A half century ago, the MAJOR message load throughout the U.S. military was by teleprinter, NOT morse code. Way higher than 90% of ALL message "traffic" in the military. A HALF CENTURY AGO. Perhaps nearly a quarter million messages a MONTH is not enough traffic in your fevered imagination? Tsk. That kind of traffic was done by the third-largest Army station in ACAN (later STARCOM, later the DCS or Defense Communications System)...using the old 60 WPM rate teleprinters. "WAR" (actually RUEP at Fort Detrick) handled over a MILLION messages per month. 2. I've never claimed credit for "single-handedly passing 1.2 million" anything. Your INITIAL claim, before everyone with a grade school mathematics education put the numbers back in your face was that YOU were responsible for this feat. Tsk, tsk, tsk. You still don't understand what the word APPROXIMATION means. :-) Neither transmitters nor receivers personnel kept a count of the messages going and coming...we kept the radio equipment OPERATING...most circuits being 24/7. Traffic Analysis group at Control did the tallying, primarily for administrative purposes and to gauge the loading on the many and various radio paths to the rest of the network. No more than about four, two in Control (one being the Duty Officer on shift) and two in the TTY Relay section. OK, let's do an APPROXIMATION of the numbers based on very brief data that appeared in the Pacific Stars & Stripes military newspaper of 1955 (exact issue not known, not that it matters except to certain pedantic literalist morsemen)...that being 220,000 messages a month average in 1955. Based on a 30 day month, that works out to about 7333 messages a day average... which is about 2444 messages (average) per 8-hour shift...or 306 messages an hour (average) or 5 messages a minute (average)...all day, all night, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year...continuous traffic...stopped only for about 3 hours during a solar storm some time in late 1955 (neither receivers nor transmitters shut down, were on-line and waiting but it gave the TTY Relay section a nice break time). By the way, there's a nice mnemonic in "220" which is also the APPROXIMATE number of teleprinters in the TTY Relay section floor handling all the TTY in/out of RUEP (the node identifier for Tokyo at the time). My active duty time in the 8235th Army Unit (the "other" identifier for my Signal Battalion) was three years. So, given that I was actively responsible for my part in handling all that traffic (none of us did it all on our own) then, IF and only IF the 220 thousand per month was an average for all three years, a total of message traffic through ADA/RUEP was APPROXIMATELY 7.92 MILLION! An average PER YEAR would be 2.64 million. Now, if I were only directly, intimately, hands-on like involved for 8 hours per day AVERAGE that works out to a "mere" 880 thousand per year... except I was there for three years so that AVERAGE APPROXIMATE ESTIMATE (give or take) jumps back to 2.64 MILLION. [I do hope I haven't taxed your 16 neurons excessively on this so far...] As to this "1.2 million" figure, that would be WRONG IF and only IF TAKEN LITERALLY...IT HAS TO BE MORE! My AVERAGE APPROXIMATE ESTIMATE was being very kind to your one-op, one-transceiver amateur minds in taking that 2.6 million down to roughly half. There were some duties that involved simple maintenance, testing, administrative duties, a couple of quick equipment courses, etc., etc., that did NOT involve DIRECT, HANDS-ON RESPONSIBILITY for keeping the motto of GETTING THE MESSAGE THROUGH "live." For example, in a month of duty exchange spent in Control (to relieve another E-5 who was sick) my ON-LINE RESPONSIBILITY was for a GREATER NUMBER than the ones I ESTIMATED. An EXACT tally is impossible. None of that was a requirement. The only requirement was ABSOLUTE: GET THE MESSAGES THROUGH. WE did. All of us in our unit. You only changed your story to "team" after a week of being hit over the head with your silliness. I used the term "team" for understanding by those who have NOT been in that kind of communications. WE used the term "trick chief" to denote a team leader for operations and maintenance on a shift. ADA transmitters had four teams working in a curious 12-day cycle of three days on each shift followed by three days off. "Trick chiefs" were usually E-5s with an E-4 as Assistant "trick chief." the rank (E-5) to BE an Operating Team Leader. It is obvious to any rational mind that NO ONE PERSON could possibly transmit 220 thousand messages a month over a single radio station. That takes teamwork and ALL on the team MUST do their part. If could have been in ANY time era, Lennie...Your INITIAL "story" was that YOU were responsible for this feat. "Teamwork" didn't enter the picture until days later. Tsk, tsk, tsk. TEAMWORK was NECESSARY a half century ago, always has been, still is (at least in USA and USAF and USN military communications). The U.S. Military is entirely PROFESSIONAL...not a bunch of amateurs having fun in a hobby activity. 3. Saying you can read the future is itself a LIE. I never said I could, Lennie. Then why do you WRITE "what would be?" You don't KNOW that your imaginings will take place. I just acknowledged the error when it was shown and moved on. That is (probably) the BIGGEST LIE of Robeson. Robeson tries and tries and tries and tries to turn around ANY accusation by misdirection, personal insult of others, and general accusation of misdeeds by his accusers. Ahhhhhhhhhh....I see....Saying that I realized I made a mistake and accepting that fact is "misdirection"... Misdirection, personal insult of others, and a general accusation of misdeeds by accusers. Google archives are packed with your examples of NOT "acknowledging an error and moving on!" :-) I NEVER claimed that MARS was under anyone's direction other than DoD. I DID say that the same SPIRIT of AMATEUR RADIO was what made MARS what it is. Bull**** squared. What Robeson wrote was - "Sorry, Hans, MARS IS amateur radio." The only "spirit" there is unwilling to come out in the light of day. :-) MARS was "made what it is" by the United States Army prior to World War 2...a grandiose public relations thing "to get radio amateurs [of the early 30s] involved with Army radio communications." [from Army history as I originally pointed out] After World War 2, the USAF joined with USA and adopted the acronym of MILITARY Affiliate Radio System. Note that "amateur" does NOT appear in that name. Civilian radio amateurs were NOT very active in the pre-WW2 MARS (few volunteers who did not contribute as much as the Army founders hoped). Civilian radio amateurs were active in the post- WW2 MARS, helping the morale effort of a generally peacetime military scattered across the globe through messages and "phone patches" stateside. That dwindled after the "end" of the Vietnam War. Today's military enjoys a much more DIRECT route of communications through the DSN and Internet. It's unfortunate (for the U.S. military) that certain amateur radio publications have made much more than reality of the "contributions" to the "military" for so long...they have brainwashed too many amateurs into thinking they are the heart and soul of MARS. Amateurs are NOT the heart and soul. Some volunteers (not all) USE their volunteerism as a perverted badge of herosim/patriotism as if they "serve" the nation. The DoD still runs/directs/operates MARS...and NOT ON the amateur radio bands. Leonard H. Anderson IS And putz.... Poor baby. Robeson just can't get through a few minutes without insulting an "opponent." Robeson CANNOT acknowledge that some have much more experience IN radio communications than he ever had. Rather than find out anything of the various communications systems or organizations he winds up doing PERSONAL INSULTS in lieu of discussion on a SUBJECT. That's Robeson's sickness demonstrated in here against all of his opponents. Robeson is the role model of today's amateur extra? |
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