From: "RST Engineering" on Sat 2 Jul 2005 14:27

Did anybody else catch the scatalogical implications of the mis-spelling?

Jim

"John Smith" wrote in message
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Len:

You are right, they do look like a little like a dutch boy with his finger
stuck in a dyke.

"Scatalogic" no. Somewhat "erotic," perhaps. Clever word play,
most definitely! :-)

This group is NOT fully fired up on all bands, Jim. Few have the
reading perception to see any sort of humorous word play. A few
of them lean towards the "humerus" side, wanting to break a bone
of anyone talking against them. :-)

Ever fire up that LCie4 package I sent you?

Len:

The words and wit which flow from your rather quick mind are
enlightening, entertaining and enjoyable, if not for you, this thread
is rather drab and boring...

.... doesn't the chanting from the ARRL/FCC monks and worshipers ever
annoy you? It drives me nuts! grin

John

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From: "John Smith" on Sat 2 Jul 2005 13:24

Len:

You are right, they do look like a little like a dutch boy with his
finger stuck in a dyke.

Tsk, clever wordplay in this heavily-homophobic group of PCTA
extras isn't going to be noticed much...:-)

The only part which amazes me is that they fail to see or feel the
flood waters which have already risen above their heads. This is
all
going on and no law, person or group even slows it a bit. Progress
has a life of it owns, it waits for no man, no group, no law...

Well, my take on THIS group of worshippers at the Church
of St. Hiram is that they are (unconsciously) try to hold
back the time. They seem to long for an earlier time when
they got started in ham radio, at least three decades past.
By holding onto those "early days" they feel they can stave
off encroaching age.

Three decades and more ago were a "simpler time" in radio.
Most radios were analog. Only a few high-end models had
things like digital readout of frequency, for example. DSP
was a thing for the future. These old timers could barely
understand basic analog circuits in "radio." Give them a
digital thing and they were lost. ["whuzzat? a lil bug?
we don' need no stinkin' digital! give us "radio!"]

Claude Shannon gave the entire communications world his laws
in 1947. Trouble is, Claude's landmark paper used a Teletype
as an example. Olde-fahrt morsemen didn't pay attention,
thought it didn't apply to their beloved "code." It did, and
the ARRL Handbook early on had the (unreferenced) statement of
noise versus bandwidth (of filters) and never went much farther.
Few hams had teleprinters in 1948. They had beloved MORSE
CODE! Supposedly morse code information "does not apply" to
Shannon's Laws...and has been argued as such in here in the
past (mainly by a now-SK Missourian). Sheesh. (to be polite)

As Yogi Berra said, "The future ain't what it usta' be..."

Funny thing is, amateur radio was implemented with the idea these
"experimenters" would give back to the community in advances in the
field--somewhere this got totally reversed and now they cry for more
laws and regulations to halt progress--now I have never seen a
better
display of insanity!

It's the antithesis of experimentation. A "fill in the blanks"
kind of rote work that pleases those who just want to play in
a sandbox and pretend to be "pioneers advancing the state of
the (merchandising) art." They know NOT of what is behind their
front panels but they take emotional sustenance in feeling the
nice knobs and admiring the glowing digital displays. They
READ of experimentation once in a while in QST, learn the buzz-
words (from the ads therein) and pretend to know state-of-the-
art. Shrug.

But, somehow they think they can argue this as a "service" to their
fellow citizens. Krist, the egyptian high priests who held their
whole
nation hostage were more progressive! At least they made good
durable
mummies...

Tut, Tut! :-)

Most of us prefer to use Webster as opposed to that monument of ignorance
called Wikopedia. In the United States version of English, a dike is used
to hold back water. A dyke is a slang term for lesbian.

Sorry, sir, your lack of both education and street smarts shows.

Jim



"John Smith" wrote in message
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"A dyke (or dike) is a stone or earthen wall constructed as a defense or
as a boundary.
I fail to really see your point, however, I did not miss the fact you
point to your lack of education, I wonder if that was really your intent?

Not only fired it up, but passed it along to every student every semester
from then to now. Sorry, I thought I emailed you back that I thought it was
really a great thing.

Jim


Ever fire up that LCie4 package I sent you?

Webster is wrong.

Dyke is a word with roots coming from holland and surrounding areas
(and not coincidently, they also have a lot of dykes holding back
water--probably the name is indicative of the first man building
one--example, Van Dyke.)

Dike (a greek goddess of justice) is a reference to an ancient
goddess, and its' reference to lesbians sprang from there.

Because american dictionaries got it wrong is a surprise, however you
will find correct references in any decent european/english
dictionary--or a google search.

John

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
Most of us prefer to use Webster as opposed to that monument of
ignorance called Wikopedia. In the United States version of
English, a dike is used to hold back water. A dyke is a slang term
for lesbian.

Sorry, sir, your lack of both education and street smarts shows.

Jim



"John Smith" wrote in message
...
"A dyke (or dike) is a stone or earthen wall constructed as a
defense or as a boundary.
I fail to really see your point, however, I did not miss the fact
you point to your lack of education, I wonder if that was really
your intent?

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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They don't have to collect it. They just pass it down the line to the
next
agency of the Federal Government that does.

FCC did it job just fine.

Dan/W4NTI



"its" Gosh, you're not infallible. How 'bout that!

Kim W5TIT

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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I didn't know you were so familiar with the rights of the KKK. Please
give
us more information. I am sure the FBI would be interested.....go head
dork.

Dan/W4NTI



go "a"head, Dork. Gosh you are not infallible. How 'bout that!

Kim W5TIT

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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Very impresive indeed Lennie. Got any proof? Your the one that demand
proof all the time....put it up right here. You have a scanner, right?


"impressive" You're "demands"

I never had a need for the 1st or 2nd commercial. Most to all of my
electronics technicial work was done with military contractors, or
companies that had a 1st ph there already. Of course you do realize that
all the first pnones and seconds were just dropped away. So they really
didn't amount to much anyway.


Of course, pnones?

Sorta like the ham tests of today. And hey good deal on passing the
on-line
tests of today. Pre teen age children do the same with ease. What does
that tell you Lennie?


And, hey, you, Lennie?

I don't belong to the VFW Lennie. They didn't want any Vietnam Vets to
join
a few years ago (course they want us now), so I gave them their wish. I
am a lifetime member of the DAV however. Oh you know them don't ya
Lennie?
Only way to get in is to be disabled while in military service and have a
service connected rating.


VFW, Lennie. ('course...) DAV, however. Oh, ya, Lennie? in, is

We don't have a local branch I'm sorry to say. I may join with the
Vietnam
Veterans of America, ain't decided just yet.

See ya.

Dan/W4NTI


branch, I'm.

So, several posts, with typical human error. Is that ignorance of the very
language you speak, Dan? Remember how you go off on tirades all the time
about my "ignorance" of ham radio. Payback is hell, ain't it?

I'll quit now. I made my point, even though you'll be indignantly opposed
to it.

Kim W5TIT

RST Engineering wrote:
Did anybody else catch the scatalogical implications of the mis-spelling?

But I'm waiting to catch any technological solution to the digital
image transmission problem at hand.

I read much invective.

I read very little that is tangible.

Not even how modern video compression techniques could be applied to
Amateur TV. *That* is one area in which some advances could be made.

But it looks like invective is what we have to settle for.


- Mike KB3EIA -

John Smith wrote:
Len:

The words and wit which flow from your rather quick mind are
enlightening, entertaining and enjoyable, if not for you, this thread
is rather drab and boring...

John, do you have a technical dissertation on digital transmission of
imagery on HF? Not how it can be done, of course. That is a given. But
how it can be done practically, as in a reasonable amount of time.

I agree that Len is quick witted. It keeps me reading his posts.

- Ciao - Mike KB3EIA -