K4YZ wrote:
an old friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
b.b. wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:

Indeed If truely stuck and needing help but with a big batery Id just
send ...---...--- and hope for the best...

Those who heard this transmission would no doubt think that things were
so so.

indeed proving the devotion of the Procoders to the aiding of others

Whoa right there, Mark......

(1) Dave was, again, correct. What you typed was "SOSO"

break


(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

your bluff is called

carry out your threats or drop em

make the call to mental or shreff or FBI,

call the marines if you like

put up or shut up

(3) As for "procoders" aiding others, I have "elmered" and/or
proctored tests for dozens of folks and helped who-knows-how-many folks
ON the radio...regardless of thier class of license.

You've "helped"...how many...?!?!

Steve, K4YZ

K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

becuase he is a Coward and a Bully

73 de Jim, N2EY

wrote in message
oups.com...
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

Good answer, Jim!

"Way back when" the Saturday Evening Post (or maybe Colliers) had a periodic
reader-contribution column called "The Perfect Squelch". With this, you'd have
won the $50.00 prize offered.

73, de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

Good answer, Jim!

"Way back when" the Saturday Evening Post (or maybe Colliers) had a perio=
dic
reader-contribution column called "The Perfect Squelch". With this, you'=
d have
won the $50.00 prize offered.


if it works and shut's stevie rants down I'll pay you the 50$ less 5$
Shipping and handling of course

any one what to bet on wether it will squech Stevie?
=20
73, de Hans, K0HB

sorry I missed this one in your braodsides of ****
K4YZ wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
cuting to the point
I guess you missed the part where the FCC said it was dismissing
all those other petitions and was focusing on the Code issue at the
moment.

No I read it clearly and was of course addressing the cleaning up of
details when the code test is riped out the of the regs

but then you are not bothhered by things like facts



As perhaps one of the few members of that class
making comments it is a subject near and dear to my heart.

Also guess you haven't been paying attention to some of the
demographics of the respondents. You are far and away from being
"...one of the few...", Mark...

without runing all of them I saw few techs mostly generals and extras
(more than a thousand)
no I can't tell

It is also
a question vital to the future of the ARS, and thus in some degree the
safety and future of the USA.

Let's see if Lennie ahs the same Field Day with THAT as he does
anytime any of the REST of us suggest even the remotest degree of
importance or relevance of the Amateur Radio Service...

Auf Anglish Bitte?


I believe the privileges should be what was known as Before the 1998
NPRM as Tech plus, this si because I have frankly observed that many
new Techs tend to get struck on FM repeaters, a fine mode but hard to
break out of, and being hard to break out tends to depress the chances
that they will, ( I refer the FCC to prices on allmode rigs with VHF
frequencies compared to FM rigs) In addition to issues of cost with the
propagation of VHF there are many times that there is no one out there
that a novice operator can find and work.
cuting pointless remarks

From personal experience...(SNIP)

Goat sacrifice counts here?

I'll leave your libelous and defamitory statement for all to see again


as "proof" of your respect for the faiths of others


I can tell you that this is a hard thing to do, and thus tends to imped
the progress of the Techs and separate them from the rest of the ARS.
cuting drivel

This separation is not god for the ARS or it abilities to serve in the
public interest .
ctuing more gratouious insults

wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Now Jim/N2EY has a problem "wasting time" with handicapped people.

Dave Heil wrote:
b.b. wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

an_old_friend wrote:

My own comments

To the persons reading comments for the FCC greetings,
With regard to main body of the NPRM I am a favor of dropping all code
tests at once, however there are a few points concerning related
matters I wish to discuss and respect insist that FCC made something on
these points clear when the R&O is issued.

The privileges of the entry class, Technician, after this action are
frankly unclear to me. As perhaps one of the few members of that class
making comments it is a subject near and dear to my heart. It is also
a question vital to the future of the ARS, and thus in some degree the
safety and future of the USA.

I believe the privileges should be what was known as Before the 1998
NPRM as Tech plus, this si because I have frankly observed that many
new Techs tend to get struck on FM repeaters, a fine mode but hard to
break out of, and being hard to break out tends to depress the chances
that they will, ( I refer the FCC to prices on allmode rigs with VHF
frequencies compared to FM rigs) In addition to issues of cost with the
propagation of VHF there are many times that there is no one out there
that a novice operator can find and work. From personal experience, I
can tell you that this is a hard thing to do, and thus tends to imped
the progress of the Techs and separate them from the rest of the ARS.
This separation is not god for the ARS or it abilities to serve in the
public interest .

Where's that pool of typists when you really need it?

Dave K8MN

Dave, are you volunteering for 702 duty?

To assist Mark? No way. He had a pool of trained typists at his beck
and call and has turned down a job paying nearly a quarter million per
year. I'd have thought that he'd have run his comments through his staff.

Dave K8MN

Maybe he'll just assign you to his QSL buro staff.

You can handle the Out-Of-Band QSO's.

Best of Luck.

Dave Heil wrote:

Those who heard this transmission would no doubt think that things were
so so.

Dave K8MN

That just might match your amateur ethics (so so).

Would you respond to such a signal or not?

b.b. wrote:
wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Now Jim/N2EY has a problem "wasting time" with handicapped people.

No Jim is making a fair point, for once pointing Stevie faults

Ie Since Stevie claims my posts are not worth responding Jim askss why
he does.

That is a fair question and I conmend him for it


Now if Stevie would just have the courage to answer

or follow through

an_old_friend wrote:
b.b. wrote:
wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Now Jim/N2EY has a problem "wasting time" with handicapped people.

No Jim is making a fair point, for once pointing Stevie faults

Ie Since Stevie claims my posts are not worth responding Jim askss why
he does.

That is a fair question and I conmend him for it


Now if Stevie would just have the courage to answer

or follow through

Silence is an answer

wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
b.b. wrote:
wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Now Jim/N2EY has a problem "wasting time" with handicapped people.

No Jim is making a fair point, for once pointing Stevie faults

Ie Since Stevie claims my posts are not worth responding Jim askss why
he does.

That is a fair question and I conmend him for it


Now if Stevie would just have the courage to answer

or follow through

Silence is an answer

I tend to agree, the only problem becomes exactly what does that
answer mean?

In this case it could mean he is lying and thinks it is imperitve that
I be answered (and why he would think becomes an open question)

Or it could mean he is lying when hesays he can't understand

or it could mean...

It would be nice if Stevie had caurage to say what he means instead of
leting his silence answer for him

wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

Those who heard this transmission would no doubt think that things were
so so.

Dave K8MN

That just might match your amateur ethics (so so).

Would you respond to such a signal or not?

I would responding asking if they knew what freequncy they were
operating on and wether their govt allowed that band, Id offer to
answer what frequency they were on if they did not know stuff like that

"an old friend" wrote


I would responding asking if they knew what freequncy they were
operating on and wether their govt allowed that band, Id offer to
answer what frequency they were on if they did not know stuff like that


During a radiosport event like CQWWDX or ARRL DX I'm likely to work upwards of
300-400 band-countries in a 48-hour period. Since I have no idea what each
country allows band-by-band, I'd need to make 300-400 inquiries. Do you think
I'd win the contest?

DAH DIT DIDIDIT DAH de K0HB

an old friend wrote:
wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
b.b. wrote:
wrote:
K4YZ wrote:

(2) You've already demonstrated that you WON'T help yourself
despite having acknowledged that numerous resources are at your
disposal and within your capabilites to use and implement. So why
would Dave (or anyone else, for that matter..??) waste any time on you
for anything?

Good question, Steve!

Why do you?

73 de Jim, N2EY

Now Jim/N2EY has a problem "wasting time" with handicapped people.

No Jim is making a fair point, for once pointing Stevie faults

Ie Since Stevie claims my posts are not worth responding Jim askss why
he does.

That is a fair question and I conmend him for it


Now if Stevie would just have the courage to answer

or follow through

Silence is an answer

I tend to agree, the only problem
becomes exactly what does that
answer mean?

It's pretty clear to me what it means.

In this case it could mean he is lying and thinks it is
imperitve that I be answered (and why he would think
becomes an open question)

Or it could mean he is lying when hesays he can't understand

or it could mean...

That he thinks *you* are lying...

Or that he really can't understand...

Or that there's no real point in answering

It would be nice if Stevie had caurage to say what he means
instead of leting his silence answer for him

Seems pretty clear that Steve is taking his own advice.

Which I will do, too.

K=D8HB wrote:
"an old friend" wrote


I would responding asking if they knew what freequncy they were
operating on and wether their govt allowed that band, Id offer to
answer what frequency they were on if they did not know stuff like that


During a radiosport event like CQWWDX or ARRL DX I'm likely to work upwar=
ds of
300-400 band-countries in a 48-hour period. Since I have no idea what ea=
ch
country allows band-by-band, I'd need to make 300-400 inquiries. Do you =
think
I'd win the contest?

DAH DIT DIDIDIT DAH de K0HB

Hans, if you heard "O SOS OSO SOS..." transmitted during the CQWW,
would you take a moment to investigate?

Captain Obvious asked:

Hans, if you heard "O SOS OSO SOS..." transmitted
during the CQWW, would you take a moment to investigate?

If it were a possible new mult.

titty tum tum titty de K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
Captain Obvious asked:

Hans, if you heard "O SOS OSO SOS..." transmitted
during the CQWW, would you take a moment to investigate?

If it were a possible new mult.

titty tum tum titty de K0HB

IndeedSuch campassionate ops exist on CW

I would try to answer something that sounded like SOS or If I hread it
on my Shortwave receiever try and someoe that could answer it or
failing that Fire up the HF freqs on My Ft 847 sat rigs and answer it
myself or call for other staions to tune and help

IF I heard a CW Sos or something like Id try and help even as much as I
detest the mode itself

"an_old_friend" wrote

IndeedSuch campassionate ops exist on CW

Captain Obvious, meet Captain Satire-Immune.

Mark, I spent years and years at sea standing radio watches in view of a clock
with the 15-18 minute and 45-48 minute positions outlined in red. I know, first
hand, the gut-tightening sound of a real SOS. You may have seen one portrayed
in a movie, so go play make-believe.

de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

IndeedSuch campassionate ops exist on CW

Captain Obvious, meet Captain Satire-Immune.

Mark, I spent years and years at sea standing radio watches in view of a =
clock
with the 15-18 minute and 45-48 minute positions outlined in red. I know=
, first
hand, the gut-tightening sound of a real SOS. You may have seen one port=
rayed
in a movie, so go play make-believe.

Obviously time has made you Jaded

Your remark you chase down an SOs if it were a new multiplier shows
your comapassion

I would try to answer something that sounded like SOS or If I hread it
on my Shortwave receiever try and someoe that could answer it or
failing that Fire up the HF freqs on My Ft 847 sat rigs and answer it
myself or call for other staions to tune and help

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show
you as a pretty unfeeling SoB
=20
de Hans, K0HB

"an_old_friend" wrote

show you as a pretty unfeeling SoB

So far I haven't insulted you with profane names like SoB.

And if your unfortunate medical condition prevents you from recognizing satire
like my "mult" remarks, perhaps it would be best if you didn't read my posts. I
can't guarantee they won't distress you.

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago

Likewise.

Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

show you as a pretty unfeeling SoB

So far I haven't insulted you with profane names like SoB.

No you have insulted me in other ways. I certainly have never promised
you that you would only be insulted in the same manner as you insult me

And if your unfortunate medical condition prevents you from recognizing s=
atire
like my "mult" remarks, perhaps it would be best if you didn't read my po=
sts. I
can't guarantee they won't distress you.

Well to qualify for satire it does need to be funny

But I will read what I choose wether I have your leave or not.

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago

Likewise.

more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling


=20
Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

show you as a pretty unfeeling SoB

So far I haven't insulted you with profane names like SoB.

No you have insulted me in other ways. I certainly have never promised
you that you would only be insulted in the same manner as you insult me

And if your unfortunate medical condition prevents you from recognizing s=
atire
like my "mult" remarks, perhaps it would be best if you didn't read my po=
sts. I
can't guarantee they won't distress you.

Well to qualify for satire it does need to be funny

But I will read what I choose wether I have your leave or not.

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago

Likewise.

more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling


=20
Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB

an_old_friend wrote:
KØHB wrote:

"an_old_friend" wrote


show you as a pretty unfeeling SoB

So far I haven't insulted you with profane names like SoB.


No you have insulted me in other ways. I certainly have never promised
you that you would only be insulted in the same manner as you insult me

And if your unfortunate medical condition prevents you from recognizing satire
like my "mult" remarks, perhaps it would be best if you didn't read my posts. I
can't guarantee they won't distress you.


Well to qualify for satire it does need to be funny

But I will read what I choose wether I have your leave or not.

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago

Likewise.


more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
K=D8HB wrote:
cut
Likewise.


more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.

well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well=20
=20
Dave K8MN

an_old_friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

an_old_friend wrote:

KØHB wrote:

cut

Likewise.


more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.


well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Oh no, Mark, I think that the very idea of you responding to an SOS sent
in morse, is a good subject of a joke.

I think your expounding at length on my HF operations from any DX spot
on the earth would make a good subject for a joke.

I would also find your lifetime of professional victimhood a good
subject for a joke.

Dave K8MN

"an_old_friend" wrote

well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Where did I mention a "joke"? Where did I mention "funny"?

I mentioned "satire". Satire isn't often "funny". I was holding Brians SOS
question up to ridicule (because it was ridiculous). For that you call me a
son-of-a-bitch?

Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Where did I mention a "joke"? Where did I mention "funny"?

I mentioned "satire". Satire isn't often "funny". I was holding Brians =
SOS
question up to ridicule (because it was ridiculous). For that you call =
me a
son-of-a-bitch?

obviously
=20
Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB

an_old_friend wrote:

wonder what they do with transmision "ayday...ayday
...ayday...b9wdy...lling...ayday" the dots being static, something liek
sorry ole boy we migh help you when you fix your radio

The first thing I'd notice is that there were no static dots in front of
the first "ayday". I'd thus assume that it was you, actually yelling
"adyday".

Indeed If truely stuck and needing help but with a big batery Id just
send ...---...--- and hope for the best at interavals as long that
battery would still make sparks but Dave and prehaps a good many other
MMM would not help me

Why not admit that you'd have no idea whether anyone was coming with
assistance since you couldn't read the response? It might help if you
mixed your distress call with information about your estimated position.
Then you and your big battery could hope for the best.

Dave K8MN

an_old_friend wrote:
K=D8HB wrote:

For that you call me a son-of-a-bitch?
=20
obviously

Speaks volumes!

P L O N K

Dave Heil wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:

wonder what they do with transmision "ayday...ayday
...ayday...b9wdy...lling...ayday" the dots being static, something liek
sorry ole boy we migh help you when you fix your radio

The first thing I'd notice is that there were no static dots in front of
the first "ayday". I'd thus assume that it was you, actually yelling
"adyday".

BUZZZ
well that is you making up facts not in eveidence , another Steviesm

rendered even more ineffective by being very very late


Indeed If truely stuck and needing help but with a big batery Id just
send ...---...--- and hope for the best at interavals as long that
battery would still make sparks but Dave and prehaps a good many other
MMM would not help me

Why not admit that you'd have no idea whether anyone was coming with
assistance since you couldn't read the response? It might help if you
mixed your distress call with information about your estimated position.
Then you and your big battery could hope for the best.

but as you say I can't use morse code so obviously I can't mix in my
position nor receive, therefore my Only Hope is RDF, but obviously Not
from MMM like you. only folks that Might try and help me are the
NoCoders

which is ofc ourse a poor coment on the users of the Morse Code, and
the proponents of continued use and testing for same

Unlike you If I heard such a signal, (where would such a spark gap
signal end up BTW?) I world try to find the sender some help, or to
have him arested if this was a bad joke, ether way, round here I'd call
the Coasties, if I could not find a ham to help me, and heard such a
signal. I know they have RDF gear. I saw some of it at the open house
this spring

Dave K8MN

an_old_friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

an_old_friend wrote:


wonder what they do with transmision "ayday...ayday
...ayday...b9wdy...lling...ayday" the dots being static, something liek
sorry ole boy we migh help you when you fix your radio

The first thing I'd notice is that there were no static dots in front of
the first "ayday". I'd thus assume that it was you, actually yelling
"adyday".


BUZZZ
well that is you making up facts not in eveidence , another Steviesm

Take a look at your own words above. The fact is very much in evidence.

rendered even more ineffective by being very very late

Is there a time limit on response times to posts, Colonel?


Indeed If truely stuck and needing help but with a big batery Id just
send ...---...--- and hope for the best at interavals as long that
battery would still make sparks but Dave and prehaps a good many other
MMM would not help me

Why not admit that you'd have no idea whether anyone was coming with
assistance since you couldn't read the response? It might help if you
mixed your distress call with information about your estimated position.
Then you and your big battery could hope for the best.


but as you say I can't use morse code so obviously I can't mix in my
position nor receive, therefore my Only Hope is RDF, but obviously Not
from MMM like you. only folks that Might try and help me are the
NoCoders

Sorry, Mark, I doubt you'll find any help there. You'll just be stuck
with some fellows who ask, "Wonder what that funny noise is"?

which is ofc ourse a poor coment on the users of the Morse Code, and
the proponents of continued use and testing for same

I agree, you've made a poor comment.

Unlike you If I heard such a signal, (where would such a spark gap
signal end up BTW?) I world try to find the sender some help, or to
have him arested if this was a bad joke, ether way, round here I'd call
the Coasties, if I could not find a ham to help me, and heard such a
signal. I know they have RDF gear. I saw some of it at the open house
this spring

Roger. Out.

Dave K8MN

Dave Heil wrote:

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.

Dave K8MN

Smug Dave, I don't recall Mark ever working out-of-band Frenchmen on
6M. So far I think he's got you beat as an A1 Op.

Dave Heil wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

an_old_friend wrote:

K=D8HB wrote:

cut

Likewise.


more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.


well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Oh no, Mark, I think that the very idea of you responding to an SOS sent
in morse, is a good subject of a joke.

I think your expounding at length on my HF operations from any DX spot
on the earth would make a good subject for a joke.

If find your receipt of the "A1 Operator Award" laughable. It must
have been a long, long time ago.

Dave Heil wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

an_old_friend wrote:

K=D8HB wrote:

cut

Likewise.


more of your cuting context
I don't realy care what you knew some time ago, your remarks TODAY show

you as a pretty unfeeling SoB


And so that you think SOS signals are a subject for jokes , then you
are sick as well as unfeeling

In addition to coming across as a complete twit, Mark, you act like one
afflicted with perpetual PMS.


well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Oh no, Mark, I think that the very idea of you responding to an SOS sent
in morse, is a good subject of a joke.

I think your expounding at length on my HF operations from any DX spot
on the earth would make a good subject for a joke.

I find your receipt of the "A1 Operator Award" laughable. It must have
been a long, long time ago.

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

show you as a pretty unfeeling SoB

So far I haven't insulted you with profane names like SoB.

And if your unfortunate medical condition prevents you from recognizing s=
atire
like my "mult" remarks, perhaps it would be best if you didn't read my po=
sts. I
can't guarantee they won't distress you.

SATIRE =3D JOKE

I don't realy care what you knew some time ago
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Likewise.
=20
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de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

IndeedSuch campassionate ops exist on CW

Captain Obvious, meet Captain Satire-Immune.

Mark, I spent years and years at sea standing radio watches in view of a =
clock
with the 15-18 minute and 45-48 minute positions outlined in red. I know=
, first
hand, the gut-tightening sound of a real SOS. You may have seen one port=
rayed
in a movie, so go play make-believe.

de Hans, K0HB

If you are experienced as you claim, then you would have known how to
answer the question. As it is, you failed, even though the FCC does
not require you to respond to "OSOSOSOS..." or to even operate a radio
at all. Your answer falls into the category, "Poor Amateur Practice."

K=D8HB wrote:
"an_old_friend" wrote

well if think that SOS is good subject for a joke well

Where did I mention a "joke"? Where did I mention "funny"?

Satire. Satire is humor.

I mentioned "satire". Satire isn't often "funny".

You aren't funny. You had no business standing watches listening for
"SOS."

I was holding Brians SOS
question up to ridicule (because it was ridiculous). For that you call =
me a
son-of-a-bitch?
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de Hans, K0HB

What about an SOS is ridiculous?

Dave Heil wrote:
an_old_friend wrote:

wonder what they do with transmision "ayday...ayday
...ayday...b9wdy...lling...ayday" the dots being static, something liek
sorry ole boy we migh help you when you fix your radio

The first thing I'd notice is that there were no static dots in front of
the first "ayday". I'd thus assume that it was you, actually yelling
"adyday".

Smug Dave still trying to be funny abaout an SOS/Mayday.

Indeed If truely stuck and needing help but with a big batery Id just
send ...---...--- and hope for the best at interavals as long that
battery would still make sparks but Dave and prehaps a good many other
MMM would not help me

Why not admit that you'd have no idea whether anyone was coming with
assistance since you couldn't read the response? It might help if you
mixed your distress call with information about your estimated position.
Then you and your big battery could hope for the best.

Dave K8MN

Not if you were on the receiving end. You'd be on the other end of the
hallway with a bag of potato chips.

wrote

SATIRE = JOKE

Your dictionary is farkled. My Funk & Wagnalls says "ridicule, irony, sarcasm",
with nary a reference to "joke" or "humor".

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de Hans, K0HB