From: on Dec 2, 5:33 pm


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From: on Tues, Nov 29 2005 3:38 am
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From: on Nov 27, 3:55 pm


Not longer than 71 years in the regulations of the FCC.

You didn't specify "regulations of the FCC" before. Now you're
trying to change the boundary conditions. Old trick, doesn't work.

"Boundary conditions?" :-)

Tsk, you aren't old enough to have been licensed under any
other federal radio agency besides the FCC. :-)


You have no valid comparison to morse code.

Yes, I do. Manual transmissions are a valid comparison to Morse Code.

Sorry, but that's really so far out of "boundary conditions"
that it is a ridiculous analogue. :-)


I don't do that, Len. I am skilled in both manual transmission
operation and Morse Code operation.

Oh? Tsk, I didn't see you at that NASCAR awards banquet
telecast tonight...were you waiting in the wings or
something?

Can you hop into any 18-wheeler's tractor and "skillfully"
operate the gear shifting there? :-)


You, on the other hand, have no competence in Morse Code operation,
yet you blather on about it endlessly. Perhaps you should take your
own advice of "Try not to venture into areas where you have no
competence."

Now, now, your "boundary conditions" are getting blurred by
the red haze of your hostility... :-)


When my wife and I got our new 2005 Chevy Malibu in June, we both
had to learn part of its transmission control, very different in
it's "low" setting from previous Chevrolets with automatic
transmission. That automatic transmission allows manual gear
changing. The automatic transmission on our older 1992 Chevy
Cavalier Wagon allowed manual gear changing. The automatic
transmission on our even older 1982 Chevy Berlinetta Camaro
(as well as my old '70 Camaro and '67 Camaro) allowed manual
gear changing.

But they are not manual transmissions. They are automatic
transmissions.

Funny! Takes MANUAL MOVEMENT by hands to set the right gear. :-)


Doesn't answer the question, Len.

What "question?" Vehicle transmissions aren't involved in any
amateur radio license examinations. My, you DO stray from the
subject a lot when misdirecting... :-)


There are more differences than "they just don't have any clutch",
however. But that is all beside the point.

Ah! NOW you are getting the point. Took you long enough...



There is NO federal requirement to learn morse code in order
to pilot a sailing vessel.

Not the point.

Ah, but YOU brought that up to begin with... :-)


Obviously you've never been on a water vessel that had "sound-
powered" telecommunications sets.

Actually, I have.

Oh, my, you "have" done everything? :-)


Sure there is - it's called wigwag.

No, those are called SEMAPHORE FLAGS. Those are useless at night
so the U.S. Army Signal Corps used TORCHES at night. Both kinds
on both sides during the U.S. Civil War. The very same flag/torch
positions, too! :-)

The flags crossed, overlaid by a single torch, appear as the
collar insignia of all U.S. Army signal persons today...the
same as they did when I served in the U.S. Army as a signalman.



Except for a few floating museum pieces, the US Navy stopped using
sail power about 100 years ago.

Go to the docking area at the U.S. Naval Academy or the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy. Are those "tall ships" illusions? No, they are
real.

Nobody said they aren't real. They're floating museum pieces.

Funny! I suppose lots of USN and USCG academy midshipmen
"train to be museum curators?" :-)

They represent less than 1% of the fleet of those military services.

How do you KNOW? :-)


No morse code skill is needed to pilot a sail or power boat.

There are almost no commercial uses
for sailboats in the USA - powerboats dominate all but "hobby" boating,
and power boats probably dominate hobby boating as well.

That is an absolute?

Yes - is it not true?

Yes, it is not true. :-)


Very well, we will put you down as a claimed "Master of Marine Craft."

Why? I don't claim to be an expert. I just stated a few plain, simple facts.
Are those facts not true? Do not powerboats dominate all but "hobby"
boating?

I think your terms are a bit wrong. It is PLEASURE boating, not
"hobby" boating. :-)

So, is morse code skill required to pilot ANY boat or ship?



In any event, the analogy between sailing and Morse Code is obvious,
valid, and very clear.

Only in a dense fog of your own making. Sound your foghorn
like a good little "hobby" mariner...toot, toot! :-)



- Drawing and painting instead of photography

No problem to me...I did all three as a kid, still do.

Still have your crayons, huh?

Ha. Ha. You would be a hit at the Art Center School of Design
in the Pasadena area of Greater Los Angeles.

Do you teach there, Len? Do you have a degree from there?

I went to Art Center for a year at their old campus on
3rd Street in Los Angeles. :-)

Pasadena forensics
could practice on what was left of you after saying that.

Why? Are you threatening violence against me for asking a
simple question? Sure looks like it.

BWWAAAAAAHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!

Poor lad, you are WORRIED? :-)


Do you still have your crayons, Len?

A couple of "Conte crayons." Stubs, left-overs. Few use Conte
crayons now. As far as I know, those weren't made by Crayola.

Do you need lessons in art, illustration, or photography?

No.

You might find references to Conte crayons in an old art text.

Texts and old books seems to be where you get your "experience."


I can
give you them and show how it is done by actual examples. My
photographs and illustrations have been published in national
magazines. I can work with nearly all media in art and
illustration: pencil, pen, (yes) crayon (but of a type that
isn't sold to children), chalk, ink on scratchboard, Ben Day
screen illustration board, oils, watercolors, caesin paints,
brush or air-brush (my Paasche air-brush compressor still
works although I preferred the CO2 bottle pressure system
common in commercial practice). I've given up "canvas" for
painting in preference for the finer linen media.

That's nice, Len. But the fact is that all those are old technologies.
Many would say they are "dying" or "dead" compared to computer
graphics.

Oh, my, you'll have to tell all the illustrators everywhere that
their techniques are "dying!" All the lithography producers
will have to shut down! All the Art Schools have to shut down!
Oh, my, all that commotion! :-)

Why do you live in the past?

I live in the past?!?

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell us how morse code skill is used in art or illustration or
photography?

By analogy.

Is "analogy" a new kind of art media? [yes, I Gesso... :-) ]


- Homemade food instead of packaged

How do you categorize campfire cooking? :-)

Is that where your cooking winds up, Len?

Only when camping, Jimmy, and then into the interior of fellow
campers.

I meant it winds up *in* the campfire....;-)

How do you KNOW?

Tsk, tsk, more HOSTILITY showing there...


Awwww...can't you take a little humor, Len? :-)

I love humor. Too bad you don't display any.

Are you so INTENSE and SERIOUS that you must threaten
others?

I "threatened" you? How so?

Are you worried about "threats?" Are you insecure?


How? The point is simply that Fessenden was using AM voice
effectively more than 100 years ago. You deny and denigrate
his successes, but they are well documented all the same.

Tsk. Show me ANY OTHER AM transmitter that "modulates" by
putting a carbon microphone in series with the antenna lead.

:-)


... I studied lots of Physics in both highschool and college.
None of the physics courses covered Electronics. Electrical
engineering covered electronics.

Tsk. "As you studied it" so goes the world? :-)


Benjamin Franklin was both a scientist and the first true
electrical engineer. His elegant (and very dangerous)
kite/key/Leyden jar experiment proved that lightning was
simply an electrical discharge, and not the wrath of God,
celestial fire, or some other force as was commonly
thought at the time.

Tsk, tsk. I read Ben's biography entitled "Benjamin
Franklin - An American Life," by Walter Isaacson.

Franklin the scientist determined the nature of
lightning.

Franklin was hardly schooled. He had only HONORARY
degrees.

But ol' Ben (who also founded the University where
I earned my first Electrical Engineering degree)

Yes, yes, on and on with the Philly stuff. :-)

Franklin died in 1790. The first morse code wasn't
used until 1844. "Radio" was still very unknown as
to what it was in 1844.


You have never, ever been subject to the Uniform Code of
Military Justice. You have never had a DD-214 issued to
you. You will never have a DD-214 issued to you. You
cannot ever understand the actual implications of the UCMJ
other than some casual thing that applies only to others.

Irrelevant - you didn't even know what the acronym "UCMJ"
stood for.

You mean UNIFORM Code of Military Justice? :-)

I knew full well what it "stood for." I was subject to it
for four years of active duty in the United States Army.

You made a mistake.

Oh HORRORS! A MISTAKE! :-)

Let's see...this is the year 2005...and the last time I wore
a full U.S. Army UNIFORM was in 1956. That's 49 years in the
past. I still have one set of winter, one set of summer
UNIFORM clothing in a clothing bag stored in the empty space
of the guest room at the southern house. All mine. Has
the last four digits of my Army serial number stamped on the
clothing. Do you have anything like that? I don't think so.


If you actually read all of the comments, you'd know that.

Each and every filing from 15 July 2005 to 23 November 2005.
3,795 of them. :-)


So you claim, but the evidence says otherwise.

The evidence is the filings on WT Docket 05-235. All 3,796 of
them from 15 July 2005 to 25 November 2005. Note that one
more has been added in the ECFS.

You didn't know where to find the other analysis of the filings, Len,
even though the url was given in the filed comments.

I don't really care one lil bitty rat snit about those
"other analyses." :-)

I did mine. The Commission knows it. That's enough for me.

By the way, as of 2 PM EST on 2 December 2005, there were
exactly 3,800 filings in WT Docket 05-235.

Haven't you been keeping up?


I think you're jealous that someone else made the comments
so accessible.

"Jealous" of Joe Speroni? The Hawaiian Morseman?

Hardly. All his Petitions before the Commission have been DENIED.


Lots of people have had their petitions DENIED,
either in whole or in part:

Speroni's have been DENIED in WHOLE. :-)


And your request (not even a petition, really) to create an age
requirement for an amateur radio license was DENIED.

Tsk, my SUGGESTION to the Commission (filed on 13 January
1999) on page 14 of my 14-page Reply to Comments wasn't
even mentioned in FCC 99-412, the R&O for Restructuring. :-)

Those are the breaks in regulatory politics. :-)



You see facts and truth as hostile, Len. Your problem, not mine.

Nope, NOT "my problem." You are simply hostile to anyone
who won't accept morse code wholeheartedly. You insist on
keeping the code test and don't have any valid reasons
for doing so except for canned phrases that were conditioned
into your mind by the league.

Why ARE you so obsessed with putting down all who want the
code test eliminated? I won't matter to you, personally.
You will retain your full amateur rank-status-privileges
regardless of whether the code test goes away or stays.

Not to worry. There will always be some morseperson around
to play with you in your morse playground.


If I had evidence that you operated an amateur radio station
illegally, I would report it to FCC. Enforcement is their job,
not mine.

Oh, my...do you carry a "shield" that states you are an
"official" radio person "authorized by the federal
government" or something like that?

Tsk, tsk, you ought to hang around truck stops and butt in
on truckers who you suspect are doing "illegal" CB activity!

Why, you could even be a RADIO BOUNTY HUNTER! Might even
get a movie done on your life a la Domino Harvey!


You do not understand the difference between "qualified" and
AUTHORIZED.

Yes, I do. You are neither qualified nor authorized to operate an
amateur radio station.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...you have no "boundary conditions" there, senior.

[ chuckle, chuckle ]



All persons who have not demonstrated qualification to FCC are
considered unqualified. You, Leonard H. Anderson, are neither
qualified nor authorized.

[ remember the "boundary conditions!" :-) ]




FCC says you're not qualified to operate an amateur radio station.

The FCC has "said" no such thing to me.

Yes, they have.

In a real document addressed to ME? :-)

Maybe in a telephone call? :-)

They've never once
written to me that I am "unqualified" in anything...

They don't have to, Len.

Please make up your mind. :-)

First you said the FCC "said something to me," now you say
"they don't have to."

You contradict yourself.


You have none of those.

None of what?

You have no DD-214 form. You will never have a DD-214 form.
Yet you claim to have knowledge of "how military life is."

Hey, no problem with me. Dudly the Imposter probably does
all your fantasizing for you. :-)


By definition, you are not authorized, qualified, permitted or licensed
to operate an amateur radio station.

Wow! Several months ago I was looking at the Burbank HRO store
station, even tweaked a transceiver dial to tune in a SSB signal
clearer! Hey, get the surveilance camera tapes! You might find
me on them doing that! Wowee! You can make an ARREST!

You might even make the cover of QST for doing that! Fame!
:-)

Article 73 of the UNIFORM Code of Amateur Morse Excellence?

[ UCAME ] [ I'll bet you did! ]



Do you think you are qualified to operate *my* amateur radio
station, Len?

Tsk, why SHOULD I do such a thing? :-)

You might ARREST me or something!

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



What date should I look for?

Yours for Saturday night...you need to get out more...



I'm just telling you the facts.

Before you kept on saying "all I'm doing is asking questions."

Which is it?



You can't even pass the tests once. Not all of them, anyway.

How do you KNOW that? :-)



Where have I made my opinions absolute? Give us a concrete example.

What kind of mix? Structural? Fill? Fine-sand type?


Your implication of "cowardice" is misplaced.

Really? ;-)

I have served in the military of the United States. Volunteering
during a war time. Taking an oath to defend the United States
and its Constitution with my life if needs be.

You've NEVER done that, haven't served, don't know dink about
real military life...yet you imply "cowardice" on the part of
others and try to tell them what real military life is like.

Yes, really, no-guts.


First, I was
not at any HF receiver during most of the Thanksgiving Day
holiday weekend.

But you could have been...

BBWWWAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I have never claimed to have served in any military. That does not
mean I never served.

You served as a civilian waiter in an officer's club? :-)



There's a lot of things I have done which I have not mentioned here.

You and Dudly the Imposter ought to get together and write a book
about "all the things you've not mentioned here!"

It ought to be a best smeller on some newspapers' literary section!


It's a fact that you have near-complete ignorance of Morse Code and
amateur radio, Len.

Oh, dear, there you go again...all that HOSTILITY! :-)

Near-COMPLETE Ignorance! :-)



Do you think others should act like you, Len?

Considering I'm NOT in show business, yes, I don't think so! :-)

My acting would return Hollywood productions back to the silent
era. :-)


Not to worry. I'll wait patiently for amateur agents of the
UNIFORM Code of Amateur Morsemanship Excellence (UCAME) to
arrest me for "cowardice" and "being a bad role model", perhaps
some unspecified "charges" which are considered heretical to
the mighty Church of St. Hiram!

Captain Code! Captain Code! Where is Captain Code when he is
needed?!?

Help! Help! Call Isaac...I'm laughing my ass-im-off!