It has not escaped notice that you have become one of the more
responsible contributors to the shortwave newsgroup. I've been
following rrs for nearly 15 years and have never seen it so near death
for such an extended period of time as it currently is.

As you know, the destruction was done by a relatively few number of
individuals (the group has never recovered from RHF's i.e. Roy Fisk,
relentless campaign of changing the subject heading of every shortwave
related post to sabotage the thread. Consequently rrs was rendered
nearly useless as an archived resource for shortwave information.

Frankly, I don't see it ever recovering to the former days of
excellence but hope springs eternal. So thank you for at least keeping
rec.radio.shortwave on life support while serious shortwavers hope
for its resurrection. Your efforts are very commendable.

On 2/14/10 24:32 , Priest wrote:
It has not escaped notice that you have become one of the more
responsible contributors to the shortwave newsgroup. I've been
following rrs for nearly 15 years and have never seen it so near death
for such an extended period of time as it currently is.

As you know, the destruction was done by a relatively few number of
individuals (the group has never recovered from RHF's i.e. Roy Fisk,
relentless campaign of changing the subject heading of every shortwave
related post to sabotage the thread. Consequently rrs was rendered
nearly useless as an archived resource for shortwave information.

Frankly, I don't see it ever recovering to the former days of
excellence but hope springs eternal. So thank you for at least keeping
rec.radio.shortwave on life support while serious shortwavers hope
for its resurrection. Your efforts are very commendable.



Truthfully, he's always been like that. The only times he gets out
into the ozone, is when he gets fed up with some of the noise. Or
when someone whose purpose is not to serve the hobby starts making
claims he can't backup. A certain mouthy college instructor comes to
mind, but there are many who fit the criteria.

But he's always offered solid and consistent radio content, even
when between distractions.

I bought an R8A because of his endorsement. And tried antenna
configurations, and transmission line configurations based on his
shared experiences.

There's no doubt, when things got noisy, he could be in there
swinging with the best of them, but even then, he kept up his radio
content.

On Feb 14, 3:54*am, "D. Peter Maus"
wrote:
On 2/14/10 24:32 , Priest wrote:

It has not escaped notice that you have become one of the more
responsible contributors to the shortwave newsgroup. I've been
following rrs for nearly 15 years and have never seen it so near death
for such an extended period of time as it currently is.

As you know, the destruction was done by a relatively few number of
individuals (the group has never recovered from RHF's i.e. Roy Fisk,
relentless campaign of changing the subject heading of every shortwave
related post to sabotage the thread. Consequently rrs was rendered
nearly useless as an archived resource for shortwave information.

Frankly, I don't see it ever recovering to the former days of
excellence but hope springs eternal. So thank you for at least keeping
rec.radio.shortwave on life support while *serious shortwavers hope
for its resurrection. Your efforts are very commendable.

* Truthfully, he's always been like that. The only times he gets out
into the ozone, is when he gets fed up with some of the noise. Or
when someone whose purpose is not to serve the hobby starts making
claims he can't backup. A certain mouthy college instructor comes to
mind, but there are many who fit the criteria.

* But he's always offered solid and consistent radio content, even
when between distractions.

* I bought an R8A because of his endorsement. And tried antenna
configurations, and transmission line configurations based on his
shared experiences.

* There's no doubt, when things got noisy, he could be in there
swinging with the best of them, but even then, he kept up his radio
content.

As always, well said Peter. Can you feel the love Steve - especially
on Valentine's Day? ;-P

Priest wrote:
It has not escaped notice that you have become one of the more
responsible contributors to the shortwave newsgroup. I've been
following rrs for nearly 15 years and have never seen it so near death
for such an extended period of time as it currently is.

As you know, the destruction was done by a relatively few number of
individuals (the group has never recovered from RHF's i.e. Roy Fisk,
relentless campaign of changing the subject heading of every shortwave
related post to sabotage the thread. Consequently rrs was rendered
nearly useless as an archived resource for shortwave information.

Frankly, I don't see it ever recovering to the former days of
excellence but hope springs eternal. So thank you for at least keeping
rec.radio.shortwave on life support while serious shortwavers hope
for its resurrection. Your efforts are very commendable.

This board went to **** after 9-11. Interesting how something like that
brings out the fraidy cats.

D. Peter Maus wrote:


There's no doubt, when things got noisy, he could be in there swinging
with the best of them, but even then, he kept up his radio content.


From one WLS zombie to another...

On 2/14/10 07:47 , Gregg wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:54 am, "D. Peter
wrote:
On 2/14/10 24:32 , Priest wrote:

It has not escaped notice that you have become one of the more
responsible contributors to the shortwave newsgroup. I've been
following rrs for nearly 15 years and have never seen it so near death
for such an extended period of time as it currently is.

As you know, the destruction was done by a relatively few number of
individuals (the group has never recovered from RHF's i.e. Roy Fisk,
relentless campaign of changing the subject heading of every shortwave
related post to sabotage the thread. Consequently rrs was rendered
nearly useless as an archived resource for shortwave information.

Frankly, I don't see it ever recovering to the former days of
excellence but hope springs eternal. So thank you for at least keeping
rec.radio.shortwave on life support while serious shortwavers hope
for its resurrection. Your efforts are very commendable.

Truthfully, he's always been like that. The only times he gets out
into the ozone, is when he gets fed up with some of the noise. Or
when someone whose purpose is not to serve the hobby starts making
claims he can't backup. A certain mouthy college instructor comes to
mind, but there are many who fit the criteria.

But he's always offered solid and consistent radio content, even
when between distractions.

I bought an R8A because of his endorsement. And tried antenna
configurations, and transmission line configurations based on his
shared experiences.

There's no doubt, when things got noisy, he could be in there
swinging with the best of them, but even then, he kept up his radio
content.

As always, well said Peter. Can you feel the love Steve - especially
on Valentine's Day? ;-P


LOL!

dave wrote:
This board went to **** after 9-11. Interesting how something like that
brings out the fraidy cats.


I disagree, this board as you call it, went to ****, as it were, the day the
wall street journal published that the law firm which did the first USENET
SPAM got $230,000 in business from it.

The signal to noise ratio, always low, has gotten much lower over the years,
but a good filter helps.

People come and go, and I remember the time anyone could bring a newsgroup to
its knees with 3 words: "Turkish Armenian Genocide"

:-)

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.

http://www.gambino.com/bio/bugsmoran.htm

dxAce is Good at keeping the Radio Content.

You mean it is Valentines Day? I never noticed.
Tomorrow is the 15th.That means I will apply a litte tube of Bayer
Advantage 55 to the top of doggy's neck.
cuhulin

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
dave wrote:
This board went to **** after 9-11. Interesting how something like that
brings out the fraidy cats.


I disagree, this board as you call it, went to ****, as it were, the day the
wall street journal published that the law firm which did the first USENET
SPAM got $230,000 in business from it.

The signal to noise ratio, always low, has gotten much lower over the years,
but a good filter helps.

People come and go, and I remember the time anyone could bring a newsgroup to
its knees with 3 words: "Turkish Armenian Genocide"

:-)

Geoff.

Apparently my usenet provider filters for me as I rarely see any spam
here. I find toying with the dittoheads amusing.

I am always ready to talk radio. Unfortunately, what's left besides bad
commercial radio, un-listenable non-commercial radio, and disappearing
HFBC, is UTE monitoring, which seems to generate little interest around
here.