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Lloyd:
Quit expecting everyone to format your text the way you would like it--if you like it a particular way--format it that way. Get a new generation news reader! Usenet is NOT what it used to be... if you only have a 300 baud modem, upgrade! Next thing you will want is your welfare check delivered with your morning paper! John "Lloyd" wrote in message ... If you are going to mouth off, stop top posting, and use the correct headers. 73, Lloyd "John Smith" wrote in message ... Lloyd: I don't doubt that everything you do is as simple as it looks, I don't think you are devious, cunning or stealthy--however, don't be fool enough to think everyone else the same--you will make one grave error... Yanno, my life is a conspiracy, and it is my family, my friends and me against the world. In my job, we have trade secrets and act in the companies best interests--we don't disclose these interests or our long range plans--however, you can bet that we do NOT feel obligated to look out for others best interests--that is their responsibility... ... perhaps you are just one simple guy--but you make a grave error if you think that applies to all others... now, go back to sleep--don't worry, be happy--others will take care of things for you... John "Lloyd" wrote in message ... "John Smith" wrote in message ... Here is Hollingsworth on his "vision(s)", some may interpret it differently: John The only "vision" Hollingsworth has is a lavish tax payer finance retirement. |
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"John Smith" wrote in message ... Lloyd: Quit expecting everyone to format your text the way you would like it--if you like it a particular way--format it that way. Get a new generation news reader! Usenet is NOT what it used to be... if you only have a 300 baud modem, upgrade! Next thing you will want is your welfare check delivered with your morning paper! John To paraphrase Stagger Lee, I accept your humble apolgy and hope you have learned something. 73, Lloyd |
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Lloyd wrote:
If you are going to mouth off, stop top posting, and use the correct headers. 73, Lloyd "John Smith" wrote in message ... Just like you top-posted? ....... |
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Although several years ago, Riley's comments are worth a look:
"This Amateur Radio service is serious business." Not once in the speech is the word "hobby" used. "...I know that when a natural disaster hits, they're [cell towers] the first ones to go down. And the few that are remaining are jammed and you can't get access. The people who are going to be taking care of the real communications are sitting right here in this room. It's the Amateur Radio service. And in the first few days, or the first few hours of these multi-jurisdictional incidents, it's the amateurs who keep things going." "There was a big newspaper chain that had a reporter with headphones on listening to the hurricane emergency net. That made us nervous. The last thing we wanted was some bad publicity for the Amateur Radio service anywhere." "Our people that go to these ITU meetings will tell us that it's often a personal embarassment to them when these countries play back tapes of what they hear on 75 and 20 Meters in the American amateur bands." On the American 'phone subbands. Not CW/data subbands... "It puts them in a very difficult position when they have to defend examples of conduct that other countries hear." Should be "'nuff said"..... 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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bb wrote: wrote: Although several years ago, Riley's comments are worth a look: "This Amateur Radio service is serious business." Not once in the speech is the word "hobby" used. Must be why this newsgroup is on "rec" along with all the other hobbies. Guess it's because someone OTHER than an FCC operative had to make that call? Steve, K4YZ |
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wrote: From: on Mon 27 Jun 2005 03:19 Hollingsworth is NOT in the FCC "Key People," "Division Chiefs," or "Regional Director" listings at the FCC of their Enforcement Bureau. One has to go deeper into the Spectral office of the Enforcement Bureau where Hollingsworth is listed as second from bottom on that office's "key people" listing...as one of two who are "Special Counsel." And this has what to do with his impact on Amateur Radio? At least he's ON a "list, Lennie... You're not even an "also ran..." It is true that nowhere in Title 47 C.F.R. are the words "hobby" or "ham radio" given. On the other hand, Part 97 rather specifically defines amateur radio as an activity done for a NON-pecuniary reason. That doesn't even mention "money" though it is obvious that it means that amateur radio CANNOT accept money for doing any communications service for others. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............THAT'S it! No Money = Doesn't Count. Alllllllllllllllll riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighty then! Amateur radio in the USA is forbidden by law to engage in broadcasting. Amateur radio in the USA is forbidden by law to be a public communications common carrier...that is, specifically as a provider of radio communications services. Amateur radio regulations even state that amateur communications themselves are to be of a trivial nature and amateurs themselves are supposed to avail themselves of commercial communications services for non-trivial communications. However the FCC ALSO says that Amateur Radio is a pool of radio operators for EMERGENCY communications, and both history and current events bears out that Amateur Radio is/was/and shall continue for the foreseeable future to be the resource of choice for numerous disaster relief providers and agencies, public and private. Amateur radio in the USA is NOT a "national service." Sure it is. All throughout Title 47 C.F.R. the word "service" is a regulatory term denoting a type and kind of radio activity being regulated. Keep repeating that to yourself over and over, Lennie. Is the Citizens Band Radio SERVICE a "national service?" No. Sure it is. Is the Amateur Radio Service a "national service?" No. Sure it is. There's a difference between words used "de jure" (by law as stated) and "de facto" (what it really is in practice). Neither of THOSE terms show up in Part 97 either! Amateur radio is a HOBBY...a recreational pursuit done for personal pleasure, federally regulated only because of the physical nature of radio wave propagation and possible interference with other radio users. DE FACTO a HOBBY. Wrong. Amateur Radio is a radio service that may be USED as a hobby, and virtually is. However there are a great many things in this Nation of ours that it's citizens do for their own personal gratification (ie: hobby) that I seriously doubt anyone would consider a "hobby"...EMS, or Emergency Medical Services, for example. Depending on whose numbers you like better, anywhere from 55% to 75% of EMS is provided by volunteers. Ditto fire suppression...(yes, even in Southern California, Lennie...) By YOUR rationalization, Lennie, we can call EMS and fire suppression "hobbies". How assinine would THAT be...?!?! "...I know that when a natural disaster hits, they're [cell towers] the first ones to go down. And the few that are remaining are jammed and you can't get access." Hollingsworth is "playing to his audience" (to use a show business phrase). No. It's documented fact. Physically, the cellular telephone services, an adjunct to the wired telephone infrastructure, does NOT "go down" either "first" or last. No...In Southern Florida this most recent past hurricaine season, many of the towers WENT DOWN...Not meaning "for maintenance" or due to "overload"...They were toppled. TELEPHONE communications is "jammed" only by too many panic-stricken subscribers trying to use it simultaneously at the onset of some emergency. That too. But inoperative is inoperative. " The people who are going to be taking care of the real communications are sitting right here in this room. It's the Amateur Radio service. And in the first few days, or the first few hours of these multi-jurisdictional incidents, it's the amateurs who keep things going." In light of recent REAL EMERGENCIES, REAL HISTORY has shown that the commercial services HAVE CONTINUED TO WORK despite SOME of their facilities being "downed." And some have not...In some cases for WEEKS. In those cases, Amateur Radio was asked to and did fill those gaps. Facilities are NOT RESTRICTED to JUST telephones, wired and/or cellular. There are, in this nation, literally, hundreds of thousands of OTHER radios which can, and have, been used for two-way communications. "We" know that...because "we" are asked to man those other facilities...Hospitals, fire stations, Red Cross offices. That is NOT counting CB or the approximately 100 million cellular telephone radio handsets. CB is useless as anything other than an ancilliary function, and cellphones have too many of their own inadequacies to "go the distance". Proven. Eleven and a half years ago...(SNIP) Lennie, yuo keep citing ONE instance where there was no MAJOR implementation of Amateur Radio as an interim communications resource. One example in over 90 years of history does NOT a trend make. Hollingsworth is a special counsel to the Enforcement Bureau's Spectral enforcers. He should KNOW BETTER than to perpetuate such myths as he stated. But, Hollingsworth does NOT specifically speak FOR amateur radio. He is little more than a "radio cop in a suit." He did not lie. He did NOT "perpetuate such myths"... You are welcome to try and refute his comments, Lennie, but there's tons of historical (and yes CURRENT historical) evidence to support eacn and every word. "There was a big newspaper chain that had a reporter with headphones on listening to the hurricane emergency net. That made us nervous. The last thing we wanted was some bad publicity for the Amateur Radio service anywhere." "Our people that go to these ITU meetings will tell us that it's often a personal embarassment to them when these countries play back tapes of what they hear on 75 and 20 Meters in the American amateur bands." On the American 'phone subbands. Not CW/data subbands... Oh, my, another MYTH. Simon Pure morseman "does not swear with morse code!" He is "safe to be around the children?" [how many children did you say you "parented?"] What myth? Unfortunatley there ARE some very ill-mouthed persons just as Jim described. And in over 30+ years as an Amateur, mos tof which was HF-CW, I have never "heard" a profanity... I can't say that of phone operations. If you had any practical experience, Lennie, you'd know. Heck, if you even tuneded that antiquated R-70 down band a bit you'd know better... "It puts them in a very difficult position when they have to defend examples of conduct that other countries hear." All those "75 and 20 Meters" radiotelephone users were CODE TESTED (or had the equivalent of same). The CODE TEST does NOT prevent verbal abuse via radio. WHO said it did? However it DOES appear as though code USE at least minimizes if not prevents "verbal" abuse...Whether it's just a better class of people or the "effort" one has to put into it makes it less attractive to potential abusers. Should be "'nuff said"..... Here's another: David Sumner's editorial pieces in QST are done by David Sumner. James Miccolis has not been invited to become any "guest commentator" or "moral guardian" of U.S. amateur radio. But, he has set himself out as the same sort of "moral guardian" and "giver of ethos" as if he was "respresentative" of over 700 thousand U.S. amateur radio licensees. Even then he perpetuates the past with parodic perfidy. Can we add that certain ex-radio technician and his Army days to that? Seems he has HIS weaknesses about wanting to be the "moral guardian" of a radio service that he haas NO licensure or vested interest in... Steve, K4YZ |
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From: K4YZ on Jun 28, 7:05
am Is the Citizens Band Radio SERVICE a "national service?" No. Sure it is. Is the Amateur Radio Service a "national service?" No. Sure it is. Waaaa, waaaa, liddle Stebie stamps his feet and yells "is too! is too!" :-) "We" know that...because "we" are asked to man those other facilities...Hospitals, fire stations, Red Cross offices. Heroes to a man, Medal of Honor winners, Nobel Laureates and forever in the hearts of their countrymen.....yawwwwn. "The patriotic bunting is up, the bunting is waving...the bunting is down...you have twenty seconds..." One example in over 90 years of history does NOT a trend make. Jimmie Grasshopper always says that. Unfortunatley there ARE some very ill-mouthed persons just as Jim described. And in over 30+ years as an Amateur, mos tof which was HF-CW, I have never "heard" a profanity... "Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!" :-) "Mos Tof?" Is that a sister planet to "Mos Eisely" in "Star Wars?" "Unfortunatley" poor Stebie is mad as hell again and can't take his spelling again... Heck, if you even tuneded that antiquated R-70 down band a bit you'd know better... Samantha needs to cast a "spell" on Stebie... Should be easy, everyone else wrinkling their nose when Stebie writes... However it DOES appear as though code USE at least minimizes if not prevents "verbal" abuse...Whether it's just a better class of people or the "effort" one has to put into it makes it less attractive to potential abusers. Morse code is safe for CHILDREN? Yes. All morsemen can behave as children safely...in here. And some do! :-) A jolly Foxtrot Uniform to you, too, hero of "seven hostile actions!" Temper fry. |
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Amateur radio in the USA is forbidden by law to engage in broadcasting. Amateur radio in the USA is forbidden by law to be a public communications common carrier...that is, specifically as a provider of radio communications services. Amateur radio regulations even state that amateur communications themselves are to be of a trivial nature and amateurs themselves are supposed to avail themselves of commercial communications services for non-trivial communications. This rule exists more to protect our bands from being taken over by commercial interests. Can you imagine getting sued for QRM? Physically, the cellular telephone services, an adjunct to the wired telephone infrastructure, does NOT "go down" either "first" or last. TELEPHONE communications is "jammed" only by too many panic-stricken subscribers trying to use it simultaneously at the onset of some emergency. The TELEPHONE infrastructure would not have survived as a communications service provider if "all" subscribers were free to use it simultaneously. It takes a regional disaster to make that happen, like earthquakes. Stuff like car accidents is easily taken care of with cell phones. But a regional disaster may take out the phone system physically or it gets overloaded. And many times hams handle the lower priority "health and welfare" traffic to free up the police and fire comms for the more important stuff. " The people who are going to be taking care of the real communications are sitting right here in this room. It's the Amateur Radio service. And in the first few days, or the first few hours of these multi-jurisdictional incidents, it's the amateurs who keep things going." In light of recent REAL EMERGENCIES, REAL HISTORY has shown that the commercial services HAVE CONTINUED TO WORK despite SOME of their facilities being "downed." Facilities are NOT RESTRICTED to JUST telephones, wired and/or cellular. There are, in this nation, literally, hundreds of thousands of OTHER radios which can, and have, been used for two-way communications. That is NOT counting CB or the approximately 100 million cellular telephone radio handsets. CBs are sometimes useful, but cell phones without the phone system are useless. They can only talk to a tower, not to other cell phones. (Not sure of those "walkie talkie" feature some cell providers supply, but that might require the cell tower to function as a repeater). "It puts them in a very difficult position when they have to defend examples of conduct that other countries hear." THose third world dictators don't like our ability to complain about our government.... :-) |
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