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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
wrote in message ups.com... From: Dave on Tues, Aug 29 2006 4:38 pm LenAnderson, You have obviously made an INVESTMENT in your technical profession. Yes, I have. Not only has it been intellectually rewarding, it was also monetarily rewarding...for the last 54 years. Make one in your participation in the radio service!! Kiss my yes, "Dave," I've "participated" in numerous radio SERVICES of USA civil radio and in DoD contract work from below LF to Ku-Band. In these previous 54 years I've communicated from land, from the air, from the ocean surface...even once "worked" a station ON the moon. Never once in 53 years was I EVER required to either use or know on-off-keying manual radiotelegraphy. Amateur Radio is a SERVICE!!! If you only think of it as a hobby your thinking is flawed. "Dave," you are SO FLAWED that you can't think straight. Here's the real story: Go to the FULL Title 47, C.F.R., and LOOK at ALL the radio SERVICES. The word "service" used in Title 47 is a regulatory term denoting a type and kind of radio activity being regulated under a Part. Go write the FCC if you don't believe that. But, you won't believe that since you are obviously stuck in some kind of "patriotic" pipe-dream where you think a HOBBY activity is some kind of "national service." Look in Part 95, the Personal Radio SERVICES. In there you will find the Citizens Band Radio SERVICE and the Radio- Control Radio SERVICE. Those are all SERVICES, "Dave." There is NOTHING wrong with having a HOBBY. It's a fine hobby in fact. What is wrong, seriously wrong, with your (observable) thinking is that US amateur radio is some kind of quasi-military "national need" that is somehow "important to the national welfare." It isn't. Amateur radio is about as "vital to the nation" as CB or some model airplane flyers on one of the 72 MHz channels. Yes, HAMS get neat certificates from the federal government (suitable for framing) and like to go around saying "they are 'authorized' by the feds" as if that were some Nobel- laureate accomplishment. It isn't. The FCC is tasked with regulating and mitigating ALL United States civil radio. Since amateur radio transmitters emit RF that requires the FCC to regulate it. The FCC, or rather its predecessors (before 1934), decided that licensing was a way of doing that regulation. To get that license required taking a test. That TEST was never, ever any sort of academic achievement thing (FCC was never chartered to be an academic institution), just something to satisfy the FCC that a license applicant was sufficiently knowledgeable to get that license. Note: Satisfed the FCC...not the ARRL, NOT the nebulous "ham community" or even any "Hams in da Hood." Have you got that straight yet, "Dave?" Did you take some kind of oath of "service" on getting your amateur license? Raise the right hand and repeat after whoever was prompting you on the oath? No? I didn't think so. I took a REAL oath on 13 March 1952, "Dave," entering the United States Army. A Real SERVICE, "Dave." I did my "eight" and got an Honorable Discharge. From February 1953 to end of January 1956 I worked HF comms in Big Time radio. You can even download a photo essay of that from this link: http://sujan.hallikainen.org/Broadca...s/My3Years.pdf It's 6 MB and will take about 19 minutes download over a POTS dial-up connection. If you look closely at those 20 pages you won't find a single thing about "working CW" (on-off-keying manual telegraphy) yet the whole station ran 24/7 pushing about 220K messages a month. It would be IMPOSSIBLE to send that many (some of which were encrypted) by manual telegraphy unless the signal battalion was doubled. It didn't have to be because the messages got through and on-time. That was 53 to 51 years ago, "Dave." What do you think the military uses NOW for communications? Data, "Dave," Data. High-speed data, "Dave," not some dinky 1200 baud amateur stuff. DIGITAL. Digital can be on-line encrypted and on-line decrypted securely. You show me where the REAL Services use manual radiotelegraphy, "Dave." They don't. It is voice and/or data, most of it in the field done DIGITALLY. /s/ Dave, BSEE, Program Chief Engineer-retired, LGM-118A(RS), MK21/W87 WTF, "Dave?" So, you tacked on a bunch of undescribed acronym things supposedly project numbers or IDs. Are we to be "impressed?" I'm not. I've worked alongside and for PhDs who didn't bother with IMAGE and all that rank-status-title BS... WE got the job done, working together. Amateur radio MIGHT get something done working together. But, you olde-tymers won't. You have to RULE, holding fast to the traditions of 50 to 70 years ago...because YOU and all the olde-tymers had to do it so everyone else has to...and all you olde-tymer morsemen think that "CW" is somehow "best." It isn't "best." If you really have a BSEE instead of just PR BS about morsemanship, you would realize that. http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Peacekeeper/Peacekeeper... "Dave," amateur radio isn't about missles. Save your energy for donating DVDs of "Strategic Air Command" (starring Jimmy Stewart) to give to impressionable youngsters. I've been in the smoke-and-fire trade of rocket engines for a little while (Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International). Trust me, rocket engines do NOT use manual radiotelegraphy. BTW, SAC is GONE, "Dave." A whole reorganization in the USAF some time ago. No more "oil burner routes" or flying out to loiter near the USSR (the USSR is gone, too). BTW, there were SSB transmitters emitting 12 KHz wide RF long before SAC got the single-channel SSB stuff to use on such loitering. I know, having to keep a few of those REAL SSB transmitters running correctly. Now, "Dave," I can't fault on-off-keying CW any. The key fob for our 2005 Malibu MAXX uses that. Yes, the last vestige of high-speed CW (REAL CW) done digitally. Done by the hundreds of thousands all over the country daily. Nearly all of them operated by unlicensed NON-MORSE-TESTED civilians! That Chebbie got in our garage courtesy of "investments," "Dave." Investments in REAL work, not playing like big-time 1930s radio ops "jobs" of a long- past age by AMATEURS. Beep, beep, Life Member, IEEE Oh, my. Lennie is pontificating yet again. Bragging. Reminding us, The Great Unwashed, of his deeds of electronic daring-do. Listen up, gents and Gentiles, as Lenny regales us with his words of wisdom and his off-beat Mississippi brand of home-spun humor. Good to see he is doing so over his own name this time rather than over the callsign of another. YAWN! |
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