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Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. |
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"Web Foote" wrote in message ... Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Welcome to Usenet. RRS is unmoderated. |
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Web Foote wrote:
Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. |
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dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! dxAce Michigan USA |
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On Feb 12, 2:53�pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote: Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! You're not even in charge of yourself. You're just a welfare-sucking loser who only has his radios and QSL collection to remind yourself how great you once hoped to be. Prediction: Steve can't respond without insulting someone else. |
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Michael W. "I'm a college professor with a PhD" Bryant wrote: On Feb 12, 2:53�pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! You're not even in charge of yourself. You're just a welfare-sucking loser who only has his radios and QSL collection to remind yourself how great you once hoped to be. Welfare? Loser? Yes I do have some nice radios. Much nicer than yours. Suffer! Yes, I do have some nice QSL's (veries, for those in Glendale) Much nicer than yours. Suffer! Prediction: Steve can't respond without insulting someone else. When I respond to you, I just laugh, and think about that whopper you told about having a PhD! dxAce Michigan USA |
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Michael W. "I'm a college professor with a PhD" Bryant wrote: On Feb 12, 2:53�pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! You're not even in charge of yourself. You're just a welfare-sucking loser who only has his radios and QSL collection to remind yourself how great you once hoped to be. All you have is the echo of that lie you told about having a PhD to remind yourself how great you once hoped to be! LMFAO at the PhDufus. dxAce Michigan USA |
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On Feb 12, 2:53*pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! dxAce Michigan USA Gee you're real popular, Steve. Right now I'm reading 11 one star ratings on your last post. Any chance that you'd leave if we all say "pretty please"? |
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Mike wrote: On Feb 12, 2:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! dxAce Michigan USA Gee you're real popular, Steve. Right now I'm reading 11 one star ratings on your last post. Ratings? What ratings, boy? Is that some nonsensical Google thing? Any chance that you'd leave if we all say "pretty please"? There's far more of a chance that you'll leave because you lied about having a PhD, boy! |
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On Feb 12, 7:53*pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! dxAce Michigan USA Its not that eazey .. only takes one to get in .. then your flooded ... I sometimes see lots of join requests for the uk500khz group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open for a while .. but had to close post to members G .. |
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Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! Its not that eazey .. only takes one to get in .. then your flooded ... I sometimes see lots of join requests for the uk500khz group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open for a while .. but had to close post to members Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose over in Europe? |
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On Feb 12, 2:53*pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! dxAce Michigan USA Testing 1-2-3... |
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On Feb 12, 3:53*pm, dxAce wrote:
When I respond to you, I just laugh, and think about that whopper you told about having a PhD! You used to say I was lying about being a college professor. Then you called the schools I've taught at and tried to convince them that I was claiming to have a PhD. They laughed at you when they got off the phone, because I've never obtained a teaching position by claiming to have a PhD. If anything, my superiors can't understand why I would bother communicating with a loser with psychotic tendencies like yourself. Come to think of it, there probably is no good justification for communicating with you. A total waste of time and effort. That pretty much sums the totality of your contributions to the human race. |
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Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. It is possible to set up moderated Usenet groups. Unfortunately, this one wasn't... so we're stuck with the detritus. |
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On Feb 12, 1:17*pm, (Web Foote) wrote:
Where are all the excellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Almost all have left. I've tried on here over the past few months. I really have. The spam and childish infighting is making these group all but unreadable anymore. There are some good yahoo groups like DXLD and other shortwave groups. |
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On Feb 12, 12:45*pm, Mike wrote:
On Feb 12, 2:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! - You're not even in charge of yourself. - You're just a welfare-sucking loser - who only has his radios and QSL collection - to remind yourself how great you once hoped to be. - - Prediction: Steve can't respond without insulting someone else. Dang MWB - How can you decry Welfare and Support President Barack 'Hussein' Obama's Porkulus Bill --- it boggles the mind ~ RHF |
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On Feb 12, 5:18*pm, dxAce wrote:
Ratings? What ratings, boy? Is that some nonsensical Google thing? Yep. Other people that read your posts rate them with one to five stars. Your posts generally come closer to negative numbers. RHF also seems to collect an incredible amount of single stars. Generally it proves that a lot of other folks agree that your posts are a general waste of time and effort to read. But, hey, that's kind of obvious....since you even lack the ability to come up with a fresh insult in the last nine years. I did leave for awhile, but it had nothing to do with your constant posts on the status of my educational attainment. |
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On Feb 12, 5:18*pm, dxAce wrote:
Ratings? What ratings, boy? Is that some nonsensical Google thing? Right now you're at 22 single star evaluations of your posts in this thread. No one has found anything you've posted in this thread to be worth more than a single star evaluation. Pretty much mirrors the impact you have on the world in general. |
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Porkulus.Somebody at www.libertypost.org posted a big
picture/photo of a lot of little piggies feeding on big mama pig. cuhulin |
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Mike wrote: On Feb 12, 3:53 pm, dxAce wrote: When I respond to you, I just laugh, and think about that whopper you told about having a PhD! You used to say I was lying about being a college professor. Then you called the schools I've taught at and tried to convince them that I was claiming to have a PhD. You did claim to have a PhD. They laughed at you when they got off the phone, because I've never obtained a teaching position by claiming to have a PhD. In reality, they were laughing at you, just like the woman in the Wayne State records office was doing! If anything, my superiors can't understand why I would bother communicating with a loser with psychotic tendencies like yourself. Psychotic is claiming to have a PhD. Come to think of it, there probably is no good justification for communicating with you. Awesome! A total waste of time and effort. Yep, your attempts to obtain a PhD were just that, agreed! That pretty much sums the totality of your contributions to the human race. Not only have you failed to obtain a PhD, but you are very poor at sums as well. |
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Mike wrote: On Feb 12, 5:18 pm, dxAce wrote: Ratings? What ratings, boy? Is that some nonsensical Google thing? Yep. Other people that read your posts rate them with one to five stars. Your posts generally come closer to negative numbers. RHF also seems to collect an incredible amount of single stars. Generally it proves that a lot of other folks agree that your posts are a general waste of time and effort to read. But, hey, that's kind of obvious....since you even lack the ability to come up with a fresh insult in the last nine years. I did leave for awhile, but it had nothing to do with your constant posts on the status of my educational attainment. Educational attainment? What you meant to say was lying about having a PhD. |
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Mike wrote: On Feb 12, 5:18 pm, dxAce wrote: Ratings? What ratings, boy? Is that some nonsensical Google thing? Right now you're at 22 single star evaluations of your posts in this thread. No one has found anything you've posted in this thread to be worth more than a single star evaluation. Pretty much mirrors the impact you have on the world in general. I don't live my life via the polls like you Liberal/Democrat/Marxists. |
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SC Dxing wrote:
On Feb 12, 1:17 pm, (Web Foote) wrote: Where are all the excellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Almost all have left. I've tried on here over the past few months. I really have. The spam and childish infighting is making these group all but unreadable anymore. There are some good yahoo groups like DXLD and other shortwave groups. This group has slowly been reduced to it's lowest common denominator. It's no longer worth monitoring for any useful shortwave information. I occasionally check to see if anything has improved but it appears to be hopeless. There are plenty of other shortwave groups and forums where you can participate without expecting to see your post hijacked and then deteriorate into a food fight. You also won't have to waste your time keeping kill files up to date. The subject of a moderator comes up now and then but don't expect that to ever happen. In fact, it's time for Usenet to cancel this group. Then perhaps someone can start a new moderated Usenet shortwave group. |
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On Feb 13, 2:04 am, Kennely Heaviside wrote:
SC Dxing wrote: On Feb 12, 1:17 pm, (Web Foote) wrote: Where are all the excellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Almost all have left. I've tried on here over the past few months. I really have. The spam and childish infighting is making these group all but unreadable anymore. There are some good yahoo groups like DXLD and other shortwave groups. This group has slowly been reduced to it's lowest common denominator. It's no longer worth monitoring for any useful shortwave information. I occasionally check to see if anything has improved but it appears to be hopeless. There are plenty of other shortwave groups and forums where you can participate without expecting to see your post hijacked and then deteriorate into a food fight. You also won't have to waste your time keeping kill files up to date. The subject of a moderator comes up now and then but don't expect that to ever happen. In fact, it's time for Usenet to cancel this group. Then perhaps someone can start a new moderated Usenet shortwave group. You are spot on the mark. Several years ago this was a fantastic site for shortwave information. The best and the brightest contributers are no longer here because they grew sick and tired of wading through his never ending barrage of garbage. It is a real shame because they are veteran shortwavers who love the hobby who want to preserve it and pass along their expertise to others considering taking up our wonderful hobby. Classy individuals who are willing to share their time helping newbies, but too well balanced and socially adjusted to waste large chunks of their time dealing with the lonely losers who currently dominate rrs. The destruction of the group is the work of a relatively small number of posters but one individual - ROY FISK of Twain Harte, California has done the most damage. A click on his profile reveals that he has made 20,680 postings as of today. He has changed email addys several times so the number of his postings is actually much higher - well over 30,000. He is a retired government bureaucRAT who has nothing but free time and uses it to destroy rec.radio.shortwave by changing the subject heading of nearly every posting. Thereby effectively eliminating rrs as a useful resource for shortwavers because it makes browsing the group for shortwave info virtually impossible. What he is doing to this group is equivalent of walking into your local library and ripping up its card catalog everyday. That is why the great guys from the past don't even bother to browse and contribute here anymore - even if the original postings are about shortwave they can't find it because the header has been changed to whatever off topic bs Roy Fisk changes it to. |
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Kennely Heaviside wrote: SC Dxing wrote: On Feb 12, 1:17 pm, (Web Foote) wrote: Where are all the excellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Almost all have left. I've tried on here over the past few months. I really have. The spam and childish infighting is making these group all but unreadable anymore. There are some good yahoo groups like DXLD and other shortwave groups. This group has slowly been reduced to it's lowest common denominator. It's no longer worth monitoring for any useful shortwave information. I occasionally check to see if anything has improved but it appears to be hopeless. There are plenty of other shortwave groups and forums where you can participate without expecting to see your post hijacked and then deteriorate into a food fight. You also won't have to waste your time keeping kill files up to date. The subject of a moderator comes up now and then but don't expect that to ever happen. In fact, it's time for Usenet to cancel this group. Then perhaps someone can start a new moderated Usenet shortwave group. What is interesting is that goofballs like you always show up and complain about the state of the news group but never contribute any worthwhile posts themselves. This is an active news group with no chance of it being killed off. This news group will not ever be moderated as it was not created that way. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. So, what have you contributed ? |
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Unfortunately, this one wasn't... so we're stuck with the detritus. And pompous verbosity. |
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Kennely Heaviside wrote:
This group has slowly been reduced to it's lowest common denominator. It's no longer worth monitoring for any useful shortwave information. I occasionally check to see if anything has improved but it appears to be hopeless. We're at war, dammit! |
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On Feb 12, 10:33*pm, dxAce wrote:
Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! Its not that eazey .. only takes one to *get in .. then your flooded ... I sometimes *see lots of join requests for the uk500khz group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open for a while .. but had to *close post to members Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose over in Europe?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No its no longer used for cw comms .. but still has navetext on 518 and 490 ? or round there uk has issued 501 to 504 as a experimental band .. about 40 licence issued .. lots of beacons slightly hf located in europe .. belgium also has allocation for hams .. cw only .. not many active G . |
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Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 10:33 pm, dxAce wrote: Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! Its not that eazey .. only takes one to get in .. then your flooded ... I sometimes see lots of join requests for the uk500khz group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open for a while .. but had to close post to members Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose over in Europe?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No its no longer used for cw comms .. but still has navetext on 518 and 490 ? or round there uk has issued 501 to 504 as a experimental band .. about 40 licence issued .. lots of beacons slightly hf located in europe .. belgium also has allocation for hams .. cw only .. not many active OK. Thanks. dxAce Michigan USA |
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webtv suits my needs and I am very happy wth it for nearly 10 years, so
what's YOUR problem? You saw MY post, didn't you? |
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In 2004, I bought a Velocity Micro ProMagix desk top computer from the
company in Richmond,Virginia.I paid $1,440.00 for my computer. www.velocitymicro.com I hardly use my computer.I like to read online newspaper around the World and science and technology sites.I can do that with my Philips MAT 976 Plus WebTV box.No computer viruses and crap to worry about either, WebTV doesn't have a hard drive. But, you know how it goes, everybody hates WebTV.I have been using WebTV since October 1999.I am going to stay with WebTV/MSN TV untill they decide to pull the plug or I croak first, whatever. cuhulin |
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John Kasupski wrote in
: Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go, leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions. No, this is what happens when THIN SKINNED so called intelligent people give up the fight and allow the trolls to win. People like me, Blinky the Shark, John Weeks, and many others have been trying to tell these so called intelligent users how to beat the trolls for many years. They always ignore us, then go off to some Yahoo Group crying their eyes out. They then run into some kind of Hitler styled moderator there, and soon are simply gone. You can't be thin skinned and survive on Usenet. They ignore advice on how to killfile the trolls, how to ignore them so they will go away. They insist on getting into flame wars with them, and then you see another one of these weak ass pathetic posts... "I'm leaving...." I read several groups where the trolls do not win, and that is because there is a dedicated core group that refuses to lose, takes the advice on how to deal with trolls, and has a thick enough skin to survive. As far as "all the intelligent posters went running off to somewhere else..." well, they were not intelligent enough to listen to some simple advice. I know it's been posted here for years, because I myself posted it here years ago. They allowed the trolls to win. |
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On Feb 13, 2:43*pm, dxAce wrote:
Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 10:33 pm, dxAce wrote: Graham wrote: On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote: dave wrote: Web Foote wrote: Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge. Damn right I am, boy! Its not that eazey .. only takes one to *get in .. then your flooded ... I sometimes *see lots of join requests for the uk500khz group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open for a while .. but had to *close post to members Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose over in Europe?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No its no longer used for cw comms .. but *still has navetext on 518 and 490 ? or round there uk has issued * 501 to *504 *as a experimental band *.. about 40 licence issued .. lots of beacons slightly hf located in europe .. belgium also *has allocation for hams .. cw only .. not many active OK. Thanks. dxAce Michigan USA- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You can check out whats on with these on line grabbers ... most are up 100% http://groups.google.com/group/uk500...0-khz-grabbers Grabber1 - 500.000 KHz to 504.000 KHz. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wgtaylor/grabber1.html Grabber2 - 504.000 KHz to 508.000 KHz. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wgtaylor/grabber2.html - G .. |
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On Feb 12, 5:30*pm, Nobody wrote:
Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. - It is possible to set up moderated Usenet groups. - Unfortunately, this one wasn't... - so we're stuck with the detritus. ? Detritus ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus |
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On Feb 13, 5:00*am, dave wrote:
- - Nobody wrote: - - Unfortunately, this one wasn't... so we're stuck with the detritus. - And pompous verbosity. ? Pompous Verbosity ? http://www.answers.com/pompous http://www.answers.com/verbosity |
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On Feb 13, 10:01*pm, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:17:08 -0500, (Web Foote) wrote: Who runs this group? Nobody. This is not a forum on AOL, a chat room on MSN, or some other such thing. This is a newsgroup on Usenet, a throwback to the days when the Internet had recently hatched from its origins in ARPANet and was mostly inhabited by government employees and people at colleges and universities (i.e. .gov and .edu users). Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? No. It is possible for users to do this themselves using a proper news reader application and filtering. As far as I know, it is not possible for WebTV users to accomplish this. Where are all the ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights, reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks like CB sounds like anymore. Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go, leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions. It's also what happens when outfits like AOL and, later, Google decide to create proprietary implementations of Usenet, ignoring conventions such as NNTP in favor of their own concoctions, and then throw access open to the masses without implementing any means of controlling the drivel they post - thereby making it possible for morons to pollute the newsgroups with impunity. And now we have WebTV, the new AOL. Nothing personal, and no offense meant - for all I know you may be as dedicated to the radio arts as I am, and perhaps even moreso. If that's the case - the problem is that for every person like you, there's fifty who wouldn't know Universal Serial Bus from Upper Sideband and spend their time mostly forwarding junk mail to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have their e-mail address fall into the hands of one of these cretins. If you've ever received an e-mail that begins with several screenfuls of e-mail addresses belonging to people you've never heard of, you know exactly what I'm referring to; If you have ever actually forwarded one to someone else, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your genitalia. And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dig out my list of frequencies for NTSB. Somebody crash-landed an airplane into somebody's living room here last night, well within scanner range. ? Morons ? http://www.answers.com/topic/moron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology) |
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