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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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