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May 26th 05, 10:33 PM
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From: "bb" on Wed,May 25 2005 3:35 pm
wrote: From: on Mon,May 23 2005 3:57 am "who can't argue a subject for squat and does the personal insult thing in order to "win an argument." " Oh, oh! Reverend Jim issued a Sermon On The Antenna Mount! :-) Not only that, the poor guy is still furious over NOT "winning" a newsgroup argument THREE YEARS AGO! :-) Not only that, the "argument" wasn't even about RADIO! Hello? This newsgroup is about AMATEUR RADIO POLICY. Military and international socio-political politics are another group. "RADIO" includes all of the HF portion of the EM spectrum. That's where the major international communications networks WERE in the 1950s. I was part of that - for three years - as a volunteer in the United States Army...operating HF transmitters for an Army station. In Jim's circles, there is no "volunteering." You get bad grades and your waiver goes away. Then the Draftsman comes knocking. Tsk, the "knocking" stopped about 32 years ago. Jimmie has NO worry. He could sit back in comfortable safety in PA and read all about the military and international realpolitik without once having participated in anything. He became a Virtual military expert without once being IN any branch or working in any office of the Department of Defense. Getting to the heart of the matter, Jimmie feels TERRIBLY "insulted" when one doesn't like what Jimmie likes. The slightest negativistic opinion to his lofty views of What Should Be is considered a gaffe of major proportions. He will carry that with him for years and years, attempting to force a continuing confrontation over long-past discussion threads...the most others have dropped long ago. :-) [he is regularly bringing up old, faded postings from Google as if to continue to "do battle" on those topics forever and ever] But, staying with old things seems his forte' such as with homebuilt vacuum tube transmitters "designed" and built in the 1990s...which (according to him) amazes his neighbors when he can draw schematics of it and describe details on it from memory. :-) In my career, I've never encountered any design engineer who couldn't do that on his/her designs! [Jimmie says he is an engineer...but the closest he has come to details on that is (from a Comment at the ECFS) "in the vehicle transportation industry."] [it might be "radio cars" or something like that?] Jimmie wants NUMBERS? He is regularly giving some sort of tabulation on the "valid licenses" of radio amateurs in the USA. However, he has not described the sorting program used or which download of the FCC database used as a base of that tabulation. [slightly over three quarters of a million records to process] We are to accept his NUMBERS as "correct" because Jimmie never makes mistakes. All others, ESPECIALLY those challenging him, always "make mistakes." Most folks would accept some website that regularly downloads the huge FCC amateur database, sorts it, and presents gross totals. Not Jimmie. He wants "massaged" NUMBERS, showing only the "valid" licensees..."valid" in HIS viewpoint. Jimmie needs MASSAGING of those NUMBERS in order to "show us" something...and thus we get the INTERPRETATIONS of those "valid" numbers. It's sort of like laying-on-of-hands devination, almost mystical, guruistic. No one dare defy such radio gods...the Wrath of Jimmie will descend upon the newsgroup years in the future, demanding "discussion" on that so that Jimmie can "triumph" and be gloriously "correct." :-) I especially like his "reason" for maintaining the code test for all amateurs having below-30-MHz operating privileges: "Morse code is the SECOND-most popular mode on HF, therefore the code test 'deserves' to remain!" [I'll drop any comments on his plea for the code test for a "universal language" for amateurs so that all U.S. ham licensees "can talk to the 'underprivileged' hams of the world via morse] He IS persistent to a neurotic degree. Indefatigable although he never wore "fatigues." Maybe he DOES have a Time Machine? :-) |
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