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June 4th 04, 04:30 AM
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(William) writes: (Len Over 21) wrote in message ... In article , (William) writes: I suppose now I'll be commanded to provide names and dates, patent numbers, and a portfolio of 8x10 glossies with circles and arrows. But I won't. Don't forget the QSL cards to "prove" you used a tilted whip to work somebody...AND the signature of your authorizing officer plus the appropriate directive/regulation! :-) After all, "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio." Hi, hi! Don Rumsfeld and company might take some issue with that, but then someone here "knows" all about MARS. Donnie better start kissing the former Marine's butt before Steve decides to pull all of -his- Amateurs out of MARS. Nursie may be cutting orders to that effect even now... :-) Donnie just screwed with the wrong ex-Marine. I think he'll be treated to some close order drill followed by some one-handed pushups in a gravel parking lot. Maybe he/she went there... :-) "QRM Interplanetary" is the title of a short story by George O. Smith, appeared in Astounding Science Fiction of the late 1940s. It was part of the "Venus Equilateral" series, had very little to do with Mars. :-) LHA / WMD "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio!!!" Hi hi That statement is rather like Fantasy Fiction...not enough science to be Science Fiction, though. Look Boss, Da Pain, Da Pain! George O. Smith was a ham also, spent WW2 as a civilian on the first proximity fuse production and development as an engineer. His "Venus Equilateral" series was based on a future communications relay station in solar orbit between Earth and Venus...not knowing as we found out later that Venus is un- inhabitable for humans. But not for the ex-Marine... Once he puts on his space cadet uniform, he's nearly there. So, we have nursie being a MARS volunteer thinking that "MARS is amateur radio." Unlike Smith, he should have known from DoD documents that MARS is a military radio service. MARS, as such by name, existed since 1948, rather before nursie's time. Hi hi hi. :-) LHA / WMD Definitely hi hi. And so "da blane" landed and another episode of Fantasy Island begins. I wonder what nursie will come up with for a plot next episode? All stay tuned for the next exciting (yawn) chapter... [I'd rather watch my hard disk defrag but, if nursie wants to revise DoD, ain't many that will take the time to point it out to him...] LHA / WMD |
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