From: Dave Heil on Sun, Jan 1 2006 11:42 pm

wrote:
From: on Sat, Dec 31 2005 7:05 am
Dave Heil wrote:

My mail carrier delivered the January, 2006 issue of QST on December 24.
Isn't that the annual "antique" issue?

1942 was, ummm, SIXTY THREE YEARS AGO! Heh, I'd say that was
"antique." :-)

But you seldom get much right. To be considered an antique, something
generally needs to be at least 100 years old. :-) :-)

Who the fork are YOU, Heil? Webster?

Obviously you've never been to all those many east coast "antique
shops."



It carries an interesting article "Secret Agent Hams: Remembering Camp
X" by Gil McElroy VE3PKD. McElroy's piece mentions us that the camp was
also the location of a high-powered radio station known as "Hydra" and
the article states "Not surprisingly, hams had a central role in it all".
An article in QST states "Not surprisingly, hams had a central role in
it all."

Why am I not suprised?

"Camp X" was a Canadian spy school near Ottawa.

That's what the article says.

So, that isn't right? I was reading direct from CANADIAN history,
not some rewritten blurb in an amateur magazine.

"Hydra" station was intended to keep communications with England
during WW2. It ceased operation in the 1960s.

That's what the article says.

So, that isn't right? I was reading direct from CANADIAN history,
not some rewritten blurb in an amateur magazine.


More can be found under the Canadian Communications and Electronics
Branch website (as Branch History) under:

http://www.img.forces.gc.ca/commelec...ory/cont_e.htm

Thanks, Leonard. One can also read the QST article and/or the the other
books it references.

I'd rather go to the SOURCE for history information...such as
the Communications and Electronics Branch of the Canadian
military.

By the way, "non-antique," the CANADIAN HISTORICAL information
ALSO contains a bibliography of books on that subject. Those
were compiled earlier than the QST "article."

Hello, can we say "re-write" and "cribbing" by the QST article
author?


Secret Agent Man!

"Secret Agent Ham," soon to be an action-filled TV series
starring Patrick Macgoohan as "X" the camp leader... :-)

There's room for the well-known profile of your likely behavior. Your
actions are accurately predicted by the profile.

"Profile" all you want, Dubya Junior.


But, those at the not-very-famous "Camp X" near Ottawa were
of the clandestine amateur persuasion 62 years ago...

Most clandestine things aren't very famous.

Horse maneuvers, Dubya Junior. Go talk to James Bamford. He
wrote a few books about the CIA and the NSA. Go talk to the
curators of Bletchley Park museum in the UK. Go talk to
David Kahn, whose best-seller (on NYT non-fiction category in
the 1960s) was "Codebreakers, a History of Cryptography."
Better yet, go talk to someone else who can be persuaded
you are a super-extra-special "superior" person.

MOST clandestine things, ops, etc. are VERY famous.


Besides, the big station at WAR (in MD outside of DC) was
doing its high-power HF multi-circuit thing with the UK
and other places back then. For heavy traffic they used
RTTY even back then.

The story wasn't about WAR.

Oh? Yes, this was all about "glamour" in a little known
Canadian Signals installation...as done by AMATEURS.

Problem you league-polishers have is NOT understanding all
you think you know about the REST of radio. That includes
those who were ONCE in "the foreign service."

COMMERCIAL communications services of the USA and Canada
were active BEFORE the UK got involved in WW2. Washington
Army Radio (WAR) took the nod from them and went TTY for
the majority of messaging before 7 Dec 41.


Would an amateur centered publication be posting the names of the
professional engineers associated with the project? Maybe that
wouldn't be self-serving?

Nah. Amateurs did it all and did it better...in the imaginations
of other amateurs...

That's not what the article says and it isn't what the book referenced
says.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, I KNOW the style of things done in QST...and how
to write for them. That's why I do NOT try to write for them.

How do you come to know so much about it?

Whaa, whaa, whaa, "duh, how come you know so much," whaa, whaa...

Were you there?

Not in/around Ottawa, only Montreal and Vancouver. :-)

I DID Signals work in another part of the globe. BIG TIME
work, three-dozen-plus high-power HF transmitters on 24/7.
Do you need a link to see where and what of that? :-)



Steve will do anything to get hisself into the spotlight, even forge
postings on RRAP. You would have thought he would have left all that
attention seeking behind when he left the orphanage, but its just a
part of who he is, now.

Major Dud will probably claim some sort of "assistant" NCOIC
status with the RCAF marine detachment at Camp X. :-)

It seems that you're setting yourself up as the expert on Camp X,
Leonid. :-) :-)

Who's "Leonid?"

Are we going to have to "profile" YOU, Dubya Junior?

[it's already been done...]


Geez, this is getting better than the old "reserve colonel"
telling about his son over in the Persian Gulf during the
1990-1991 first Gulf War "behind the lines sending intel
to Hq via CW!" :-)

Do you have any reference material which demonstrates that the article
is anything but true, or are you simply compelled to live up to the
profile of your likely behavior?

"Profile" all you want, Dubya Junior.

You come in out of the black with some cribbed "article" in
QST about some Canadian Signals effort during WW2 when the
history, written by Canadians themselves, was openly published
between 1995 and 2003 and think it is NEWS?

Good grief, Secret Agent Ham, you ARE dense!

Now be a good little extra and go fondle your code key. That
will take you back to the halcyon days of yore when Kode was
King and hams were the epitome of all radio operators...long
before you existed, Secret Agent Ham.

Most bestest of good fortune on that one now...