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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Dee Flint on Wed, Aug 30 2006 4:17 pm
"Anonyma" wrote in message Dave Said: I'll say it again ... INVESTMENT!! If an activity is to have value it must have INVESTMENT. [ "Dave" is a suspect banker in the investment trade? ] The time investment is not as much as it seems. Dee, the "time investment" for MORSEMANSHIP depends entirely on the psycho-acoustical aptitudes of the learner. "Learning" a psycho-acoustic skill is NOT an intellectual one, it is a physical one. That is even more true of someone who has experience in related fields or has experience in the art of studying. For those with some existing experience in related fields, they can often read up enough in a single weekend to pass the Technician written. You morsepersons need to get a common story. The rabid morsemen keep saying it is all "memorization," taking no skill whatsoever. This will let you get your feet wet in the VHF/UHF and higher frequencies. There's quite a lot that can be done in this area if you invest in the equipment. Come right out and say it...you morsepersons consider the frequency world above 30 MHz to be beneath you, a place for kids and lids (and probably space cadets) to go and PLAY. Again if you have some related background, the General written is not particularly time consuming to study for either. Everyone can just "memorize" the answers, right? :-) The code is only as hard as you make it by fighting yourself. If you decide that you will learn it, the average person only needs about 30 hours to get to 5wpm, assuming that a good training method is used. The ARRL VEC uses the "farnesworth" method which send at FIFTEEN words per minute...even though the FCC regulations have five. Dee, you haven't addressed the subject of the existance of the manual morse code test itself. You (erroneously) think that it is "necessary," possibly because you had to take that test. Getting the General license gives you all modes and all bands and the maximum power privileges. The only thing you do not get are some subsections on some of the bands that are reserved for Extra licensees. Now the Extra test is quite a bit more difficult but is not required unless you want to get into those subsections mentioned above. Extra class are the "elite." Having an extra license allows all the preening and self-righteous attitudes possible in a hobby activity. It is personally rewarding to elitist-wannabes who have to be "better than ordinary persons." You spoke of "learning as you go". Basically ham radio is the same. Even the Extra class license has only scratched the surface of all that might be involved in amateur radio. Really? All those extras in here seem to think they are FAR better than any professionals in radio...because they had to test for morsemanship. The tests & licensing are to insure that you know enough not to get hurt, not to cause harm to other people, and not to make a mess on the bands. Also they are to insure that you have a grounding in the basics so you don't go spinning your wheels trying to get things working. Golleee! All along I thought the FCC just regulated (and mitigated interference) in ALL US civil radio. Their predecessor agencies (before 1934) used Licensing and Testing for same as a REGULATORY tool. I didn't know that those were also academic tests and diplomas... You might ask why this is important. Why IS morsemanship so important? Let's just address the safety area for a moment. FCC amateur radio regulations cover only the radiated RF power field. As a safety issue for ALL affected by that RF field. Does YOUR station obey the federal regulations? Well for example, you can actually get a burn from grabbing an antenna that is being used to transmit. Why would anyone do that? [anything in official rules on that?] If you get into microwave transmissions, you could fry your eyes (or somebody else's) if you look into the end of a wave guide while it's being used to transmit. Why would anyone do that? You can get far worse damage to the eyes looking into a laser beam of much less power...and you don't need any license for that. You can get electrical shocks from feedback due to a poorly set up station. This is just a small sample of some of the things that you should be familiar with. Those aren't covered in FCC regulations, are they? "Feedback gives one shocks?" I suppose...I've made feedback networks for years and never been "electrically shocked" by them. Delighted and surprised that they worked so well, perhaps, but never got any electrical shocks from feedback. I guess I'm just not "amateur" enough...hi hi :-) |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: Dave on Wed, Aug 30 2006 10:34 am
Let me digress into another of your questions: i.e. What is SSB? Fifty years ago ham radio, and still today the AM broadcast band, transmitted three components to put a signal on the air. First, was the carrier that set the dial frequency e.g. 3950 KHz. The carrier contains NO information, it just sets the dial frequency. Then voice audio was added to the carrier. This addition [modulation] produced two audio signals around the carrier. One above the carrier, the other below the carrier. So, the resulting signal had the carrier and one upper side band and one lower sideband. The carrier contained 2X the power of the audio. And the audio was redundant with 1/2 the audio power in each sideband. The resulting signal can be described as Double Sideband Plus Carrier. In the 50s and early 60s design techniques were incorporated to suppress the carrier, which contained NO information; and to eliminate one of the redundant sidebands. The resulting signal is Single Sideband [one audio channel] with suppressed carrier. [SSB = Single Side Band] "Dave," your knowledge of Single Sideband is ferklempt. The spectra of an amplitude modulated signal was mathematically described by John R. Carson of AT&T before the 1920s. SSB, including suppressed carrier, was USED by the telephone infrastructure in the 1920s for long-distance lines. The most common system, "C Carrier," had four separate 3 KHz voice channels and would operate on the open-wire telephone lines then common all over the world. This "C Carrier" was directly adapted to HF radio in the early 1930s, the frequency-multiplexed total signal converted to HF and amplified. The first HF SSB radio link was put into service between the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles carrying four voice channels or (to become the later commercial-military standard of two voice and six to eight TTY channels). While single-channel SSB was experimented with before WW2, it didn't expand until after WW2 and a number of US military contracts awarded to then-prominent radio makers (Collins, RCA as two examples). Based on that success, the amateurs took it up in the 1950s while the ARRL promoted the false idea that "SSB was pioneered by radio amateurs." Technically, your statement was faulty. Each "sideband" (the spectra adjacent to the carrier) carries ONE QUARTER of the total RF power output of single-channel SSB, not "half" in normal AM. In normal AM the carrier is always constant in amplitude. In normal AM receivers the "detector" stage is a mixer, combining the carrier with the two sideband spectra with the output lowpass filtered to yield the original audio signal. Single-channel SSB usually suppresses the carrier (almost to extinction) and the "detector" stage being fed an equivalent constant-amplitude carrier signal from an internal receiver oscillator. The mix products of carrier re-insertion and the input single sideband spectra yield the original audio modulation after lowpass filtering. The important thing about single-channel SSB is that a transmitter peak power output of RF need only be one-half to on-quarter of a conventional AM transmitter to yield the same demodulated audio signal level. No morsemanship skill is necessary to use a single-channel SSB radio. Today it is being used on the open sea by both commercial and private boat/ship owners for voice communications; also data, separate or multiplexed, for written communications. |
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If you had to use CW..., would Robesin still be an idiot?
From: on Wed, Aug 30 2006 4:48 am
wrote: On 29 Aug 2006 16:21:38 -0700, wrote: wrote: Woody wrote: Since I don't know this Robitussin guy, I really can't say anything in reply to this post.... rb All you have to do (if you've got about 8 hours to spare) is go through Google archives since before they bought it from DejaNews several years ago. "Robitussin" has thousands of postings in the same venal manner he continues to use... especially his self-promotion as heroic USMC veteran which he has never, ever proved through any third-party references, digitized documents, or much of anything else other than his own AOL home page and self-description on QRZ. He is clearly into his own fantasy of imagined superpowers without the aid of Stan Lee. There's some real gems in there. Lawsuits. Robeson sues people, or at least he says he does. In his last lawsuit, he got an Upper Peninsula attorney gratis, then made comments on who his free attorney's wife might be sleeping with. Meanwhile, the person he is suing has yet to be served. acrualywaiti ng now for 5 different lawsuits from steve Five??? What are they for? Class A uniforms for when Stebie joins the CAP Judge Advocate General's office and goes on TV. :-) "Bricks through windows, slashed tires, terrorized wives." These are bad things that happen to people who shoot their mouths off, as some people have been told they do. Mind you, Robesin isn't the one throwing bricks, slashing tires, or terrorizing wives. "Other people" do this sort of stuff. his other selves perhaps I wonder if they've all manifested themselves on RRAP, or if there are others for situations at work, at home, on vacation, when in CAP uniform.... Oh, wow, what a thought! Major Dud could have his very own newsgroup featuring all his personnae! :-) "Dialing..." On Robesin's personal authority as a male nurse and failed Marine, he can make a phone call anywhere in the USA and have you picked up on his say so. Really. yep whow much safer we are for him Mmmmm. I don't think it works that way. Now if it were a reverse 911.... Hey! Rebolutionary! 911 operators call Him! :-) "PUTZ, Putz, putz" Disagree with Robesin and you are a penis with a yiddish accent. and then he dinies he makes sexauly based insults Anyone whose read his posts for 5 minutes knows that's a lie. Absolutely true. 'Robitussin' probably has an empty sex life and takes out his frustrations on everyone else. Something on the order of Saddam Hussein now...and about as Yiddish as Hussein... :-) "PEDOPHILE, Pedophile, pedophile" If you disagree with Robesin and you give of your time to a youth group, you are a pervert. or just breath air (witness Tood Hans and Myself) "HOMO, Homo, homo" Disagree with Robesin and you are queer, with lots and lots of inuendo. that is you todd Han and scores of others Everybody's gay. ...but morsemen aren't happy. :-( Robesin is a national hero, taking part in seven hostile actions as a Marine. Yet, his only overseas assignment is Okinawa. Never been injured, but discharged after only 18 years. Says he's retired. Says he's disabled. Says it's not medical. Says he has been rehabilitated by the VA. "Ask the VA." well I he=ard the army in wirtiing today They afrim the existance of my old unit Robesin has given so many mixed messages over the conditions of his "discharge" that no one be;lieves him any longer. At this stage of his fraudulent claims, without ever having presented ANY third-party references or documents or even personal photographs, he is caught up in his own conundrum. If Robeson comes clean and ever shows any documentation now, he is in for tons of remarks of his past claims that he can never weasel out of, not even with the gratuitous personal insults he normally uses against challengers. If Robeson continues on his fraudulent claims, then he is only repeating his present behavior, convincing no one, and building only his own warped fantasy. The rest of us will be stuck with his personal blog output. Robesin got back into uniform as a Tennessee State Guard "officer" of some kind. Very short lived career. maybe that gruop held him to professional stanards unlike CAP Yikes!!! The duties of the Tennessee STATE Guard (not affiliated with the National Guard) were described by them as a sort of in-Tennessee 'custodian' of NG facilities if and only if the NG there is activated into federal service plus being a sort-of 'military police' for that state. As quasi-MPs they would have some ability to access federal records to confirm Robeson's military service. On the other hand, the TN STATE Guard will (by their own statements) accept membership by civilians. Robesin got back into uniform as a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) "officer" of some kind. Says he's a Major now. Photo of him in a sage green (not blue) flight suit on his QRZ website. As far as I know, most CAP volunteers are involved in training youth/Cadets. Hmmmm? I know that does worry me too Naw. It's everybody else you have to worry about. ...unless one is under the flight path of this "pilot in command." :-) Robesin got a vanity call, K4CAP, while in the CAP. The CAP HQ is at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. Then he gave it up. Look where his old call now resides. Robesin got back into uniform as a male nurse. Says he doesn't wear the white dress uniform. Probably just regular pants and a v-neck lavendar colo[u]red top. Robesin has military medals. He has lots of medals. Many of those medals he didn't earn. has he ever listed them? Nope. I'd only be interested in the ones he earned. But that would just raise more questions about seven hostile actions. One doesn't get a Good Conduct Medal for fighting in a bar outside of Camp Pendleton... :-) Robesin used to be an ASSISTANT NCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa. Doesn't know the first thing about it. Doesn't know what a MOD is. "MARS IS Amateur Radio" according to Robesin Yup, you heard it here first. Wayyyy too many times... :-) A well know amateur radio outlet had the owners daughter's photo featured in a prominent amateur radio publication. Robesin said she was selling "Something" but it wasn't radios. He's a swell guy. [ NOT the way to expect a discount from that dealer... ] Robesin can make comments all day long about how your children won't respect you. His child died from severe birth defects and he knows that no one will make comments about his children. He's a swell guy. Robesin needs to talk to the wives. He needs to talk to Len's wife. He needs to talk to my wife. He needs to talk to Mark's wife. He wants to talk to them on the phone or in person. He wants to mail them. He wants to knock on my door to talk to my wife and posts partial addresses so you know to expect a visit. Now he makes jokes about Len and Mark's wife. He's a swell guy. I could go on, but I don't have 8 hours as Len suggests... No? :-) It's like reading "Psychopathia Sexualis" by Kraft- Ebbing...for fun... :-) So what's the real beef??? I disagreed with Robesin. He doesn't like the way I think. prehaps it was he disliked that you THINK at all Robeson imagined himself to be a "real" GSgt, a DILL sergeant who GIVES orders and is immune to any criticsm. :-) I'm not a Morse bot. So what's the real, Real beef? I don't think the Morse Code exam should be retained for an HF license in amateur radio. me neither looks liek we will win With the tons and tons of sour grapes from these Morse Forever folks, no one has won anything. The morsemen have been so brainwashed into believing their own efficacy in radio that it is impossible to "win" anything, certainly not with the ARRL publishing house constantly implying that morsemanship is the "best" skill an amateur could have. Amateur morsemen are so wrapped up in their personal skill that they are unable to come to terms with any amateur or professional radio person who doesn't care for it. To them, US amateur radio is ALL ABOUT manual radiotelegraphy. Tsk. |
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
From: Al Klein on Wed, Aug 30 2006 12:02 pm
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:18:12 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell Al Klein said: Eliminating a requirement is dumbing things down. But no one would expect you to be able to understand that. Well, let me ask, from the point of view of a potential noob to the hobby. What use is the code requirements? In lieu of any other meaningful test (and there currently is none), it shows a willingness to put in a minimum amount of effort. Gotta love your argument "technique," Big Al...it's your way or the highway...! :-) But, given that many professional people like myself are stretched for time, what good does all the licensing and code requirements do for you besides build up boundries to doing something new and fun? You might ask that about anything. Given that insert group here like myself are stretched for time, what do all the requirements for insert something here do for anyone? Poor Big Al...he must have had a TERRIBLE time learning to be an amateur when he was only Lil Al... :-) I'm in a pretty technical field, and I study to keep up in that field everyday, the last thing I want to do, is have to spend my weekends studying to talk on a radio. So don't. Buy a CB, FRS or GMRS radio and talk all you like. Those are the services created for folks who just want to talk on the radio. Seems like that's all the extras and generals I hear on HF doing...just talking on the radio... :-) If less stringent requirements were there, I could easily afford the tools of the trade, and would like to just jump in and start working with a ham setup. I'm particularly interested in exploring the amateur radio/computer connections. You won't like that - you'll have to devote a lot of your precious time to learning things - electronics, both theoretical and practical, programming, reading a waterfall display, keeping your signal distortion-free ... You can't just plug a radio into a computer and start using them. Digital communications doesn't work if you do it that way. No? You mean you can't buy a rig from HRO, unbox it, and connect it, and have it work right away? :-) There's several transceivers on the market that DO that, Big Al. Have you kept up with radio technology since Spark was outlawed? Can you give me valid reasons as to what useful purpose in today's age they serve? No, since someone who wants instant gratification can't be bothered to listen to why that's the wrong way to do something. Your time is probably much to valuable to spend it learning enough to understand why you can't learn enough in an instant. Go memorize some test answers, get a code-free tech, hook your computer up to your radio and, in 6 months, you'll have your radio up for sale on eBay, because "it doesn't really work". Is eBay where you sold your radios, Big Al? :-) Hey, Big Al, have you written the QPC yet about those simple, easy-to-memorize questions on writtens? No? Why not? Have you written the FCC yet about the anyone-can-get-a-ham- license and tell 'em "what for?" [it's easy to submit a petition to get back to them good ol days you want, FCC tells you the procedure on their website] No? Why not? Maybe you ought to write your congressperson, then. Tell THEM that US amateur radio testing has gone down (your imaginative) toilet and DEMAND that something be DOME about it! You sure are ANGRY about things, Big Al. Maybe you need some tranquilizers or mental therapy? No, you say? Okay, then I'll just put you down in the Cranky Old Coot category. Here, have a Foxtrot Uniform with my best wishes... :-) |
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If you saw KB9RQZ next to a large mud puddle would you drive close and splash him?
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If you had to use CW..., would Robesin still be an idiot?
wrote: wrote: From: on Wed, Aug 30 2006 4:48 am wrote: On 29 Aug 2006 16:21:38 -0700, wrote: wrote: Woody wrote: Since I don't know this Robitussin guy, I really can't say anything in reply to this post.... rb All you have to do (if you've got about 8 hours to spare) is go through Google archives since before they bought it from DejaNews several years ago. "Robitussin" has thousands of postings in the same venal manner he continues to use... especially his self-promotion as heroic USMC veteran which he has never, ever proved through any third-party references, digitized documents, or much of anything else other than his own AOL home page and self-description on QRZ. He is clearly into his own fantasy of imagined superpowers without the aid of Stan Lee. There's some real gems in there. Lawsuits. Robeson sues people, or at least he says he does. In his last lawsuit, he got an Upper Peninsula attorney gratis, then made comments on who his free attorney's wife might be sleeping with. Meanwhile, the person he is suing has yet to be served. acrualywaiti ng now for 5 different lawsuits from steve Five??? What are they for? Class A uniforms for when Stebie joins the CAP Judge Advocate General's office and goes on TV. :-) The CAP has a JAG? I think robesin just likes to collect suits. He loves UNIFORMS, Brian, not suits. ANY uniform. :-) I'm going to have to find an organization chart and locate the JAG's office. I was jesting on the "JAG" part. :-) Robeson-Robesin has been on such a jag trying to impress folks (as a fraud) that his posts have enough material for at least two seasons of "JAG - a personal story." "Bricks through windows, slashed tires, terrorized wives." These are bad things that happen to people who shoot their mouths off, as some people have been told they do. Mind you, Robesin isn't the one throwing bricks, slashing tires, or terrorizing wives. "Other people" do this sort of stuff. his other selves perhaps I wonder if they've all manifested themselves on RRAP, or if there are others for situations at work, at home, on vacation, when in CAP uniform.... Oh, wow, what a thought! Major Dud could have his very own newsgroup featuring all his personnae! :-) Sgt York-Robesin and Chesty Puller-Robesin. And probably Sgt Schultz-Robesin from Hogan's Heroes, and Corporal Agarn-Robesin from F-Troop. Then there's Walter Mitty-Robesin from fiction. Don't forget the skirt-wearing guy from MASH. :-) "Dialing..." On Robesin's personal authority as a male nurse and failed Marine, he can make a phone call anywhere in the USA and have you picked up on his say so. Really. yep whow much safer we are for him Mmmmm. I don't think it works that way. Now if it were a reverse 911.... Hey! Rebolutionary! 911 operators call Him! :-) He knows everything. But he'll never get the call. He taught the 911 Ops that there's a dash between the digits, i.e., 9-1-1, and they can't find the dash on th{i]er dialpads, even in reverse. Sunnuvagun! "PUTZ, Putz, putz" Disagree with Robesin and you are a penis with a yiddish accent. and then he dinies he makes sexauly based insults Anyone whose read his posts for 5 minutes knows that's a lie. Absolutely true. 'Robitussin' probably has an empty sex life and takes out his frustrations on everyone else. Something on the order of Saddam Hussein now...and about as Yiddish as Hussein... :-) Queezay and Oooday had a rape room. Don't know if Saddam participated. Them's Hussein sons? Could they do morse code? :-) Perhaps if robesin had been captured on one of his seven hostile forays behind enemy lines, we might have known the truth about Saddam. "PEDOPHILE, Pedophile, pedophile" If you disagree with Robesin and you give of your time to a youth group, you are a pervert. or just breath air (witness Tood Hans and Myself) "HOMO, Homo, homo" Disagree with Robesin and you are queer, with lots and lots of inuendo. that is you todd Han and scores of others Everybody's gay. ...but morsemen aren't happy. :-( It's not the Gay 90's anymore. But maybe before the 1st decade of the new millenium lets out, we'll have a decision from the FCC. Maybe. Who knows what the ARRL backroom boys are doing in DC? Robesin is a national hero, taking part in seven hostile actions as a Marine. Yet, his only overseas assignment is Okinawa. Never been injured, but discharged after only 18 years. Says he's retired. Says he's disabled. Says it's not medical. Says he has been rehabilitated by the VA. "Ask the VA." well I he=ard the army in wirtiing today They afrim the existance of my old unit Robesin has given so many mixed messages over the conditions of his "discharge" that no one be;lieves him any longer. At this stage of his fraudulent claims, without ever having presented ANY third-party references or documents or even personal photographs, he is caught up in his own conundrum. The sad thing is, even if he were to finally tell the truth no one would believe him. That's one of my points... If Robeson comes clean and ever shows any documentation now, he is in for tons of remarks of his past claims that he can never weasel out of, not even with the gratuitous personal insults he normally uses against challengers. And so, robesin can never come clean. He will go to his grave with lies heaped up, pushing up the daisies. "Hedgerow flowers," Brian, also known as weeds... If Robeson continues on his fraudulent claims, then he is only repeating his present behavior, convincing no one, and building only his own warped fantasy. The rest of us will be stuck with his personal blog output. We know better. We are stuck with nothing, the nothing that is robesin. We got plenty o' nuthin... [from the song] Robesin got back into uniform as a Tennessee State Guard "officer" of some kind. Very short lived career. maybe that gruop held him to professional stanards unlike CAP Yikes!!! The duties of the Tennessee STATE Guard (not affiliated with the National Guard) were described by them as a sort of in-Tennessee 'custodian' of NG facilities if and only if the NG there is activated into federal service plus being a sort-of 'military police' for that state. As quasi-MPs they would have some ability to access federal records to confirm Robeson's military service. On the other hand, the TN STATE Guard will (by their own statements) accept membership by civilians. So they would be free to raid the armory? Yikes! The armories would no doubt be empty if full activation happens. Prolly better quarters for their monthly meetings, though... Robesin got back into uniform as a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) "officer" of some kind. Says he's a Major now. Photo of him in a sage green (not blue) flight suit on his QRZ website. As far as I know, most CAP volunteers are involved in training youth/Cadets. Hmmmm? I know that does worry me too Naw. It's everybody else you have to worry about. ...unless one is under the flight path of this "pilot in command." :-) I pity anyone under that flight path. They don't know the danger they might be in. And the CAP and American Taxpayers are liable. Well, be thankful we aren't in TN. Robesin got a vanity call, K4CAP, while in the CAP. The CAP HQ is at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. Then he gave it up. Look where his old call now resides. Robesin got back into uniform as a male nurse. Says he doesn't wear the white dress uniform. Probably just regular pants and a v-neck lavendar colo[u]red top. Robesin has military medals. He has lots of medals. Many of those medals he didn't earn. has he ever listed them? Nope. I'd only be interested in the ones he earned. But that would just raise more questions about seven hostile actions. One doesn't get a Good Conduct Medal for fighting in a bar outside of Camp Pendleton... :-) Probably why he rests his chin on his chest. Can't hold it high. Sounds plausible... Robesin used to be an ASSISTANT NCOIC of NMC MARS on Okinawa. Doesn't know the first thing about it. Doesn't know what a MOD is. "MARS IS Amateur Radio" according to Robesin Yup, you heard it here first. Wayyyy too many times... :-) Froot Loops. We've been exposed to his cereal killing of the truth... A well know amateur radio outlet had the owners daughter's photo featured in a prominent amateur radio publication. Robesin said she was selling "Something" but it wasn't radios. He's a swell guy. [ NOT the way to expect a discount from that dealer... ] I'm sure that that amateur radio dealer became aware of robesin's remarks. Tsk on me, I missed those exchanges. Robesin can make comments all day long about how your children won't respect you. His child died from severe birth defects and he knows that no one will make comments about his children. He's a swell guy. Robesin needs to talk to the wives. He needs to talk to Len's wife. He needs to talk to my wife. He needs to talk to Mark's wife. He wants to talk to them on the phone or in person. He wants to mail them. He wants to knock on my door to talk to my wife and posts partial addresses so you know to expect a visit. Now he makes jokes about Len and Mark's wife. He's a swell guy. I could go on, but I don't have 8 hours as Len suggests... No? :-) It's like reading "Psychopathia Sexualis" by Kraft- Ebbing...for fun... :-) Ordinary sex is good enough for me. I think Robeson wants to experience OTHERS' sex lives... So what's the real beef??? I disagreed with Robesin. He doesn't like the way I think. prehaps it was he disliked that you THINK at all Robeson imagined himself to be a "real" GSgt, a DILL sergeant who GIVES orders and is immune to any criticsm. :-) Sorry Anderson Amateur Radio IS NOT Boot Camp! Guess the wannabe DILL sergeant told me, huh? :-) I'm not a Morse bot. So what's the real, Real beef? I don't think the Morse Code exam should be retained for an HF license in amateur radio. me neither looks liek we will win With the tons and tons of sour grapes from these Morse Forever folks, no one has won anything. The morsemen have been so brainwashed into believing their own efficacy in radio that it is impossible to "win" anything, certainly not with the ARRL publishing house constantly implying that morsemanship is the "best" skill an amateur could have. Amateur morsemen are so wrapped up in their personal skill that they are unable to come to terms with any amateur or professional radio person who doesn't care for it. To them, US amateur radio is ALL ABOUT manual radiotelegraphy. Tsk. The day of reckoning is coming. Ah reckon y'all are raht... :-) |
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If you had to use CW..., would Robesin still be an idiot?
From: on Thurs, Aug 31 2006 8:27 pm
wrote: At this stage of his fraudulent claims, without ever having presented ANY third-party references or documents or even personal photographs, he is caught up in his own conundrum. The sad thing is, even if he were to finally tell the truth no one would believe him. That's one of my points... indeed ut if he told something convincing enough I might pretend to believe just for the sake of peace So far, Robeson has NOT been convincing. He IMPLIES and ALLUDES to things but hardly ever states anything outright and then never with any referencible sources that anyone can access. Robeson has tried to construct an edifice, indeed almost a temple in which we should all venerate his mighty accomplishments AND, at the same time, has leveled barrages of personal insults and deragatory accusations against all challengers. That latter action negated his mighty constructs and established his fraud. That 'edifice' has to be torn down...if for no other reason than being an eyesore to us in his field of dreams. The duties of the Tennessee STATE Guard (not affiliated with the National Guard) were described by them as a sort of in-Tennessee 'custodian' of NG facilities if and only if the NG there is activated into federal service plus being a sort-of 'military police' for that state. As quasi-MPs they would have some ability to access federal records to confirm Robeson's military service. On the other hand, the TN STATE Guard will (by their own statements) accept membership by civilians. So they would be free to raid the armory? Yikes! The armories would no doubt be empty if full activation happens. well they would be defending things like the kitchen sinks and the bathrooms In reality, the STATE Guards (not all states have them) are little more than state political constructs to enable a few to play soldier and otherwise establish their machismo. Part of that is the ever-present "conspiracy theory" coupled with some kind of imaginative armageddon scenario of a doomed future where everything in a state is in ruins or anarchy but the "state guard" can step in and "restore order." The curious thing about the latter is that some of the Believers in the efficacy of morsemanship think in the same manner...that only amateur radio survives the worst emergency and that only morsemanship can be used to call for help. That is patently absurd in light of reality but founded on the mythos of morse that grew following the Titanic disaster of 94 years ago. As to fully-activated National Guard units, the states have various plans to keep the NG structures and land intact, usually using civilian personnel (law enforcement, probably) and that does not require a lot of personnel. In the field of communications for the REAL public safety agencies, those agencies are well-supplied with many forms of communication of their own (outnumbering amateur licensees according to EIA data of about 15 years ago) that is NOT part of the "telephone infrastructure" that many ham-patriots erroneously think "always fails in an emergency." Most public safety agencies in the USA have established emergency-scenario plans and they periodically train/drill for those procedures. Very few amateur radio local organizations do that. A well know amateur radio outlet had the owners daughter's photo featured in a prominent amateur radio publication. Robesin said she was selling "Something" but it wasn't radios. He's a swell guy. [ NOT the way to expect a discount from that dealer... ] I'm sure that that amateur radio dealer became aware of robesin's remarks. Tsk on me, I missed those exchanges. me too For several months past I simply did not bother accessing Google for this newsgroup. It was a waste of time when the macho middle-school mental-adolescents came in and talked trash and filth to anyone. How many of those anony-mousies were actual amateur radio licensees is unknown and irrelevant. The known licensed amateurs just didn't do anything about them. That presents a very BIG negative on the amateurs' ability "to police their own." They couldn't. They can't despite their brags about such "policing." Robeson once made claims that he was IN one of the local Los Angeles HRO stores, with "friends while visiting them." A big problem with that was that was his claimed time-line and NOT being able to describe, even in minor detail, the locations or the surrounding territory. The first HRO in northern L.A. was in Van Nuys, CA, in the center of the San Fernando Valley. [bought my Icom R70 there years ago] That HRO moved to Burbank, CA, a few years ago, at the corner of Buena Vista and Victory (a major intersection with shops at all four corners). It is across the street from a relatively new food supermarket having a huge elevated sign visible from all four corners. Robeson could not describe that sign, let alone the location, even though it was easily visible (he didn't name the supermarket). It is very familiar to me since my wife and I shop there regularly. Robeson couldn't name a single store in the mini-mall across the street from the market even though there's a Radio Shack outlet next to that HRO. That HRO has now moved again (they had a window sign announcing that for weeks) and we will see if Robeson wants to repeat all of his lies about being in any one of them. :-) Robeson imagined himself to be a "real" GSgt, a DILL sergeant who GIVES orders and is immune to any criticsm. :-) Sorry Anderson Amateur Radio IS NOT Boot Camp! Guess the wannabe DILL sergeant told me, huh? :-) well real boot camp would pleasenter than what Robesin would devise I know Boot camp was accuauly the most fun I had in the army Brian and I were being sarcastic about "boot camp." The US Army and the USAF *never* had "boot camp." In those branches is was called BASIC TRAINING. It still is and is usually referred to familiarly as just "Basic." I "took Basic" at Camp Gordon (now Fort Gordon) which was in 1952 a Signal Corps center and now THE Center for Army Signal Corps. We had to learn basic infantryman soldiering, how to "close with the enemy and destroy them." No fun in that part of Georgia near Agusta. The only communications taught in Basic were courier duties and connecting/using an EE-8 Field Telephone plus laying field wire (real grunt work carrying that auto-pay-out wire box on a back pack). After 8 weeks of Basic we were assigned to Signal Schools...Field Radio and TTY at Gordon, radar-microwave-photography at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. For me, "fun" didn't begin until Monmouth and the ability to actually handle radios, examine their guts and theory, use them on the air. Things have changed greatly in military communications since 54 years ago. The Field Radio MOS long since became extinct and with it the need to learn manual radio- telegraphy. HF radio is still taught but more as an adjunct to VHF radios common from small units to battalion level...the SINCGARS family of digital voice/data, optional frequency-hopping and encrypted modes with a quarter million produced since 1989 and all operational...to be replaced soon with a compatible but upgraded family of radios with more and better features. HT-sized SINCGARS-compatible radios are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan now (you can see them on news telecasts). The ONLY radiotelegraphy classes are centered at the Military Intelligence School at Ft. Huachuca and that for (passive, listening-only) Intercept Analysis purposes, not communications. Some non-active or never-serving morsemen in here have insisted that Special Forces "use" radiotelegraphy since a Special Forces Communications Sergeant MOS is required to know that. Special Forces are very macho in image but they, like the USN SEALs, are a very small group of specialists, for (as their name implies) Special operations. The major Army and land-force marines effort is done by regular land soldiers. "Behind the lines" (quaint euphemism) comms can be done by regular land signal units by encrypted data over VHF-UHF, relay by aircraft or satellite, extemely hard to intercept. Even in the 1990 First Gulf War there was no "CW" used from "Behind enemy lines." The AN/PSC-3 did that or, in a few locations inside Iraq, by VHF voice or data. The extreme mobility of USA land forces now, and in 1990, is described in the many land-forces reports done on the First Gulf War, namely Operation "73-Easting." The final hundred hours of the First Gulf War outdid the best panzerfaust actions of Rommel in North Africa of 1942- 1943. About two orders of magnitude better. One thing that the American military did copy from Rommel's units was "Nevis" or NVIS, Near Vertical Incidence Skywave, short-distance ionospheric bounce that some hams deride as "cloud burning." Nevis works rather well and has been a field procedure in USA-USMC-USAF land-to-land comms for at least a quarter century. World War 2 was over 61 years ago. Vietnam War was over 33 years go. The First Gulf War started (and finished almost as quickly) 16 years ago. The Korean War went into a state of perpetual Truce 53 years ago. Amateur morsemen still gorge their imaginations on the Titanic disaster CW comms of 94 years ago. Time has gone on and technology has changed...for all but those hidebound morsemen are still pipe-dreaming their imagined glory and self-steam after watching old WW2 movies on late-night TV, demanding that future amateurs learn morse to defend their homeland. :-) |
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If you saw KB9RQZ standing next to a large mud puddle would you drive close and splash him?
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On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:06:39 GMT, Slow Code wrote: wrote in m: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:21:34 GMT, Slow Code wrote: wrote in m: On 30 Aug 2006 04:48:26 -0700, wrote: but you are a bad one wanting to take away the preledges other earned for themselves You don't want to earn radio "preledges" Mark. You're too lazy to put forth an effort to earn them. I have earned them You might have gotten some priviledges, but that was only because ham radio has been dumbed down and you didn't have to make an effort to earn them. You're too friggen lazy to put forth an effort to earn anymore priviledges, that's why you want ham radio dumbed down. Now, if I lived near you, I would do CW practice for you to upgrade. I honestly would. What you should do if you have an HF receiver is to try to find some code on air to practice copying. Maybe you could talk N9OGL into making Omega One a code practice station. He could send Code practice runs in between all the ****ty songs he plays. SC |
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trolling right along
Slow Code wrote: wrote in : You might have gotten some priviledges, but that was only because ham radio has been dumbed down and you didn't have to make an effort to earn them. funy how for all you claim to be better than I and better than those that agree with me on code tesing Our view is going to prevail trolling right along |
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