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September 2nd 04, 03:20 AM

On 01 Sep 2004 20:09:34 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

Lots of "Chiefs" in here, but Hans Brakob qualifies as a
Master Chief, USN, with some years under his belt. Very few
can approach that in experience, yet so many try to "out-title"
him. :-)

Name sounds foriegn, like German or Dutch or something like that where
they don't speak English. Also, I think he's a liberal, maybe a
liberal immigrant. (heheh |-))

Retired (from regular hours) electronics engineer person
Life Member, IEEE (all for free now, no extra payments, no dues)
Veteran, United States Army (voluntary enlistment)
Managing partner of PINETREE, a small company performing
technical services for consultants willing to pay the fee.
Former associated editor of the finest amateur radio technical
publication ever, HAM RADIO magazine, in independent
publishing for 22 years.
First on-the-air on HF 51 years ago.
First-class commercial radiotelephone license granted (one test
sitting) in 1956.
Happily married to my high school sweetheart.

I suppose I could generate some more "titles" given some thought.
I was once the entire staff of WMCW, "the voice of Boone, McHenry,
and Walworth Counties," in Harvard (Illinois). [WMCW remains on
the air daily at the top of the AM band with "studios" in "downtown
Harvard"]
I was once "Chief Engineer" at Birtcher Instruments, Monterey Park,
CA...had to be, was the only one... :-)

Never did make "Pilot in Command" wings as a civilian...or military
person...of a two-seater, single-engine general aviation craft. :-)

You sure have a lot of jobs on your resume. Maybe 30 years of 1 year's
experience. Is there some particular reason that you couldn't have
remained stable at one place of employment for several years? Has a
job interview at a major company ever asked you that?

Also, the IEEE stuff doesn't count for much. It's just a
management-funded front organization to keep the various Colleges of
Engineering well-enrolled, chiefly by publishing overblown starting
salaries and predicting Engineer shortages (5 years from now, every
year). This has been to keep the engineers' salaries low (compare IEEE
to the AMA or ABA and you will see the difference). IEEE has now
decreased significantly in importance due to increased off-shoring of
engineering professional positions to China, India and other foriegn
**** holes, to people who don't even have BSEE degrees in the
traditional sense.

Regarding your statements on complex math: No, it is NOT essential
(mandatory) to learn for the calculation of impedances, admittances
etc.. Instead of using the x + yj complex math cartesian approach, it
is very possible to suffer through the calculations and obtain the
exact same answers using the trig. phase angle approach. Complex math
knowledge becomes 'useful' but it is only a tool that assists in using
other tools such as the smith chart. But it is by no means
'essential' or mandatory, as you state.

Never once did I need to know morse code nor did I use it to
communicate on HF...or VHF or UHF or MF or LF or VLF or in
the microwave frequency region in all of 51+ years. However, to
be a "real" ham to these mighty macho morsemen in here one
MUST give in to the dark side of the Force and do morse. :-)

So you can't do Morse. You sound proud of it. Hey, I can't speak
Chinese. So should I go all over Usenet screaming about how proud I am
that I CAN'T speak Chinese? Geese.

Morse and all those TITLES must be what "real" (morsemen)
hams are about...?

Then it follows that the lack thereof, are what others' are not about.

Gareeb
BSEE
UW Madison 1972