In article , "Jim Hampton"
writes:

Whatever you may think about Hans, I do recall the typhoon that hit Saipan.
I do recall being at the station (KG6AAY) that made good contact with
Sparkplug1 on Saipan. That was Hans on Saipan and I was at KG6AAY
(NavCommSta Guam). Whatever you may think of him, he served his country (we
are both Vietnam vets - I had 11 months of combat pay) and did a lot of good
after that typhoon.

Jim, this wasn't a comment about "military service time" or "typhoons"
on Saipan or anywhere else.

Hans Brakob came out of the blue with a personally insulting comment
about "bad research," something that I allegedly "always do," solely
about "the first voice transmission by radio." Hans claimed, but did
not reference or otherwise verify that it was done with a SPARK
TRANSMITTER.

I quoted an Electronics magazine special edition text paragraph that
stated this 1906 Christmas transmission was done with a 1 KW
ALTERNATOR, probably using a water cooled microphone in the
antenna line. I gave the Electronics magazine (then a biweekly
subscription magazine published by McGraw-Hill, the large book
company) page number and the location on that page. I was a
subscriber to Electronics magazine and also a contributor (Designer's
Casebook section, 1978)...as well as other electronics trade
publications. McGraw-Hill Book Company is in the top textbook
publishers of the world on a great number of technological fields.

"Poor research?" Hardly. Part of what I do for a living IS research
and I've done fairly well in making a living...IN radio-electronics.

So, along comes a very irritated a disrespectful person tossing out
direct personal insults as the FIRST MESSAGE in a new thread...
for whatever personal pique picking at him. Poor baby. He tried a
random shot in my direction and got heavy caliber automatic fire
right back. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Big "hero of Saipan" is supposed to be
given some special dispensation and approval of random personal
pot shots at anyone? I don't think so.

In case it's slipped your mind, I served in the United States Army
from March 1952 to April 1960. Remember the Korean War? It never
ended...started in June 1950 and slowed down to a state of truce in
July 1953. Note that March 1952 fits inside that time frame. The
Korean War HAS NOT ENDED. The state of truce still exists.

I was never assigned to any Korean unit, but spent three years with
a Signal battalion whose task was providing primary HF radio
communications for the Far East Command Headquarters. Three
years beginning February 1953. A group of courage-spilled civilians
who NEVER served in ANY military wanted to make personal insults
of MY service. One jarhead (who claims "seven hostile actions" on
his record...no proof presented) seems to make that her ONLY
output in here...she never did anything like primary comm in her service.
My proof of service and when is archived at NARA, the National Archives
and Records place in St. Louis. The FBI, IRS, SocSec, DCAS, and a
bunch of government alphabet soup agencies haven't had any trouble
with that for years.

Station ADA where I worked never did anything dramatic. Over 700 of
us simply Got The Messages Through 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
No fanfares, in any kind of weather. Over 200K of messages a month.
My battalion got TWO Presidential Unit Citations while I was there.
Callsign ADA is still used in the Pacific, 57 years later, for the U. S.
Army Pacific Headquarters at Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Some other NON-COMBATANTS seem eager for verbal bloodshed in
here over PAST trivia...way back in the very beginning of radio, far
before I served the USA, far before they existed, before the Church of
St Hiram was dedicated, before the first US radio regulatory agency.

Tsk, tsk...such "radio experts" ought to devote some time learning
the radio arts of THIS CENTURY, not the past one. I spent my working
time and some of my non-working time keeping up with radio and
electronics technology...not endless debates over minutae of history
that matters not to electrons, fields, and waves.

Hans has to bandage his own wounds. Not my problem. If he wants
to take first pot-shots, he better damn well get better artillery, body
armor, and a good revetment next time. The alternate is a graves
registration unit picking up his body parts for the big rubber bag.

NOBODY gets special dispensation for anything in here.

At ease...as you were...

LHA