RST Engineering wrote:
Novice 1967 (age 13)

Same age.

2nd Class Commercial Radiotelephone 1972

1st Class Commercial Radiotelephone 1964 (age 17), Radar Endorsement

Coinventer US patent #5,358,202

I quit the company and the boss got the patent designations from my
notebooks, but I'm not going to press the issue.

There's always "something", isn't there...?!?!

However, designated responsible engineer for FCC type
acceptance/certification on seven commercial two-way transceivers; two for
studio-transmitter links and five for aircraft transceivers. Currently on
the "approved" list for type acceptance/certification for FCC Laurel
Laboratories.


That's pretty impressive, Jim. You've been involved in quite a number
of
things in and out of amateur radio. Even if I was
an "Internationally
acknowledged expert in the subject of hidden antennas", I don't think I
could bring myself to so describe myself.

Well, if you had sold ten thousand (actual count may vary a few percent)
hidden antenna original design products everywhere from Latvia to Louisiana,
you may describe yourself that way.

Aside from your not including attributions,

What do you mean by attributions? I'll give proof of anything I've said.

not signing your
post

I thought I signed it Jim. If you want a full formal signing, it is Jim
Weir, WX6RST. Most people know who I am; I don't hide behind a pseudonym.

and
the top posting,

In the vernacular, go screw yourself.

Well there we go!

What is it about California engineers that tends to present a foul
mouthed, two-faced, It's-OK-For-Me-But-You-Better-Do-It-Like-I-Say
attitude...?!?!

I'll top post, interleave post, or
bottom post, whichever I think will get the point across better. "A foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." Or, in the Latin, "Pusca,
puscalorum."

you even manage to present some of your ideas here in a
reasonable manner.

It is the engineer showing through the politician.

The arrogant showing through the deceitful?

That slipped my mind. Len has taken numerous shots at my Air Force
service in Vietnam, though he doesn't seem to know what it is that I did
there. He keeps alluding to MARS duty and I did spend time operating a
MARS circuit from Tan Son Nhut, but only in an off duty capacity.

I have only the highest regard for anybody who wore the uniform. It was not
my privilege to do military duty as my parents neatly sandwiched me in
between Korea and Vietnam. Sure, I did MARS duty for twenty years, and
sure, I wear the local sheriff's Search and Rescue volunteer uniform, but it
pales in weak comparison to actual military duty. I bow my head in
gratitude.

You're welcome.

Here's another fun quote from Len, made two years ago today:

Then there's his classic "sphincters post", but you get the general
idea.

$#!+, we all get into the bottle from time to time and post stuff that we
regret in the morning, but what the hell. Two quotes from two years? Give
the guy a break. I'd hate (although my political opponents have done it
mercilessly) to be quoted two years after the fact and have to defend myself
at that time.

"TWO QUOTES FROM TWO YEARS?"..............?!?!

So where's that "engineer" you alluded to a moment ago, Jim...?!?!

There's only EIGHT YEARS of solid profanity, deceit, arrogance,
argumenitivness, and down right ugly behaviour from Lennie!

That brings us back to RST Jim. It is apparent that he's done a number of
things in amateur radio.

Who is "he's". Me? Len? You? Steve? ???? And don't worry about RST.
It has been around since 1973 and will probably be around long after you and
I are SK. Don't worry about it. I have the cojones to put my reputation
and my company's reputation on the line when I see something that just cries
for comment.

Like tacit support for a know liar, Jim...?!?!

Where do they teach that in business school?

Perhaps he hasn't been around long enough
to see who and what Len Anderson is. Maybe his agenda in defending Len is
something entirely different. Perhaps he'll explain. I'll be around after
the CQ WW SSB DX 'test.

If you are talking about me, I've been on the usenet and this ng since 1995.
I don't claim to defend Len, but again, most of what he says makes perfect
sense.

Perfect sense if you are into self mutilation and flagellation.

It is YOU TWO that I'm worried about.

Oh jeeze...Yet another "General Hospital" trained psychiatrist.

Steve, K4YZ