From: on Sun, Sep 17 2006 4:42 am


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No, Len, you were just wrong.

yawn



How is that relevant to your mistake, Len?

yawn



You mean the professionals messed up? The professionals weren't
prepared?

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.



Amateur radio emergency communications can be more than health and
welfare, Len.

How much emergency comms have YOU done?


Why weren't the professionals better prepared, Len?

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.



Do you think that health and welfare traffic is all that amateur radio
ever does in an emergency?

Don't you KNOW?!?


Do you think that health and welfare traffic is not a service to the
country?

Don't you KNOW?!?


Where, exactly, did I ever write about *my* service "in other ways"?

Don't you KNOW?!?



So what? NOLA is definitely in a hurricane zone. It's been below sea
level for a very long time. There's no excuse for not being prepared.

"NOLA?" One of your infatuations? What happened to Audrey?

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.


Why weren't the professionals prepared?

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.



Except that when Katrina hit, that didn't happen.

Tsk, tsk, it DID happen. NEW ORLEANS infrastructure was
never COMPLETELY destroyed.


And your point is?

You don't KNOW?!?


You seem to be saying that since you were hundreds of miles form NOLA
and Katrina didn't really affect you, that amateur radio performs no
service to the country.

Here's a plain and simple fact: Jimmy implies OTHER things
about OTHER'S statements, connecting dots on different
planes of existance in order to make some kind of point.

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.



So Amateur Radio *does* provide a service to the country.

Complete with uniforms, insignia, brass bands, and
monuments to be erected whenever some smug, arrogant
morsemen quit getting erections over their morsemanship.


Glad to see you've finally admitted your mistakes, Len.

Here's a plain and simple fact: Whenever Jimmy gets caught
up in ENTRAPMENT, he will NEVER ever admit he got caught
and tries to weasel-word his reponses to show "others" are
at "fault." :-)



The "service" aspect is largely confined to refills of the
pipe that some smoke while dreaming in front of their radios.

I don't smoke, Len.

Here's a plain and simple fact: Jimmy has NEVER had any
bad habit. Indeed he has NEVER had or done or even thought
about "bad" things.


Why were the professionals so unprepared for Katrina, Len?

New Orleans AMATEURS were messed up more than the pros.



And yet at least some of the search efforts were aided by amateur radio
communication. That's proven by first-had accounts by amateurs who were
there, doing the job.

Tell us all about, Mr. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.


Not all of them. Amateur Radio played a role.

You are not in the entertainment industry, stop all that
role-playing about being a professional in acting.


Some of those efforts used Amateur Radio communications.

That is because radio amateurs are NOT licensed to operate
non-amateur radios.



Try reading the account of the Shuttle debris search - from someone who
was there.

Here's a plain and simple fact: Jimmy can't understand that
professionals in the space business know and can do their
job better than wanna-be space cadets...or that mistakes DO
happen but are FIXED by professionals in the space business.

Yet another plain and simple fact: Amateur morsemen are NOT
divinely blessed with "rightness" more than no-code-test
advocate mortals...despite their protestations that "all others
are 'wrong.'"

Yet Jimmy has (perhaps is compelled by some self-righteousness)
the chutzpah to tell off anyone who has been IN the aerospace
industry as a professional. Yes, he feels "more correct"
because he has an amateur extra license gained largely through
morsemanship...even though never stating he worked in it.

Now tell us where that fabled "morse code key" is located in
any space shuttle...by station and deck and compartment. You
know, the one that is supposed to be there for "emergencies"
tucked away "just in case." I've been inside a shuttle being
built, seen the plans, talked to a couple astronauts (John
Young, Bob Crippen, the first pilots of STS), worked for the
corporations that made the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME).
Give us all the straight info, scoop, without all that stuff
about sounding like the "poop."

Then YOU go back to FR Doc. 06-6013 and REALLY READ it,
without all that imagining of "greatness" and "nobility" about
"serving the nation" by having a HOBBY. Put things into
perspective without the Picasso cubism pictured by the League.
Think of the MILLIONS still displaced by Katrina into other parts
of the USA. What is amateur radio doing to HELP them now?

Here's a finger, Jimmy. Enjoy.