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wrote in message oups.com... From: "bb" on 23 Feb 2005 17:38:53 -0800 wrote: Michael Coslo wrote on Feb 22 2005 9:58 am Buy a rig, an antenna, and pay some people to put it up. Presumably the only requirement is to know how to read, talk and mash the PTT button. "Mash" the push-to-talk button? That means those owners have to know where to get the PTT control fixed! :-) Yep, he said "mash," but must have been mistaken when he said they would know how to read. You see, people that use a microphone are clods. They would never "depress" the ptt button, nor would they "press down" on it. They are of low intelligence and barely human, and only know how to "mash" said button. If no one is looking, they may actually step on the microphone with bare, dirty feet and yell into it. [sounds like Dan of a few years ago, reminiscing of how hams used to do early FM by YELLING into their VFOs...:-) ] People who use a telegraph key are genteel. They know how to properly close the contacts, form a character, and move on. They do so with their pinkie finger extended, and have no dirt under their nails. Agreed. Amateur morsemen are the very EPITOME of "radio operators." None are their equal. They are Superhams, faster than a speeding TTY, able to jump tall pile-ups at a single bound. They wear hair shirts emblazoned with a Big S and carry shiny Raddio Kopp shields to ward off evildoers speaking of Change. All who do not love, honor, worship, and obey them are Full of Hate For All Radio Amateurs! For it is written. ...in here. :-) Poor Lenny the Loon is having another insecurity fit. Try some Alka Seltzer. Dan/W4NTI |
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@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: Alun L. Palmer wrote: wrote in news:1109386325.451170.282470 @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com: Alun L. Palmer wrote: wrote in news:1109271864.160442.290220 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: . . test of - say - skill in solving transmission-line problems with the Smith Chart... 73 de Jim, N2EY There already are Smith Chart questions in the pool Smith Charts became obsolete eons ago. w3rv It's much easier to use a Smith chart than to do the calculations You don't need a Smith chart and you don't have to do the calculations either. http://www.circuitsage.com/matching.html w3rv I still have a pad of Smith charts. I don't have Mathcad. I have the same attitude to this as I do to Morse, i.e. to each his own. I don't see anything wrong in having test questions on either subject, as I think people should know about them, I just don't think that there should be a test on copying code by ear. |
Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in news:1109446458.805271.244940 @g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: Alun L. Palmer wrote: wrote in news:1109386325.451170.282470 : Alun L. Palmer wrote: wrote in news:1109271864.160442.290220 : . . test of - say - skill in solving transmission-line problems with the Smith Chart... 73 de Jim, N2EY There already are Smith Chart questions in the pool Smith Charts became obsolete eons ago. w3rv It's much easier to use a Smith chart than to do the calculations You don't need a Smith chart and you don't have to do the calculations either. http://www.circuitsage.com/matching.html w3rv I still have a pad of Smith charts. I don't have Mathcad. I have the same attitude to this as I do to Morse, i.e. to each his own. I don't see anything wrong in having test questions on either subject, as I think people should know about them, I just don't think that there should be a test on copying code by ear. Smith charts are just as obsolete as Ohms law.............. - Mike KB3EIA - |
Dan/W4NTI wrote: wrote in message oups.com... A real "communicator" will say 'key the mike', or 'key the circuit'. Dan/W4NTI Sorry, but real "communicators" refer to "key" when they load an encryption code. BOL, bb Poor Dan never got his crypto clearance... :-) Oh dear....here he is again. Your right. I've been meaning to turn in my decoder ring to the arms room ever since I left the KY-7 on the floor of the room. Screw off dip****. Dan/W4NTI Do you eat with that dirty mouth? |
Dan/W4NTI wrote: "bb" wrote in message oups.com... Dan/W4NTI wrote: A real "communicator" will say 'key the mike', or 'key the circuit'. Dan/W4NTI Sorry, but real "communicators" refer to "key" when they load an encryption code. BOL, bb Oh yes indeed they do, as in KAC codes or the old antique KY-7 stuff, eh? Well bb we are talking about ham radio. Of course I understand, LEN the LOON, that you have no understanding of that subject. Tweek twit. Dan/W4NTI Now Dan, you're mixing metaphors. You're either talking about "real communicators" or you're talking about "ham radio" ops. Which is it? |
bb wrote: Dan/W4NTI wrote: "bb" wrote in message oups.com... Dan/W4NTI wrote: A real "communicator" will say 'key the mike', or 'key the circuit'. Dan/W4NTI Sorry, but real "communicators" refer to "key" when they load an encryption code. BOL, bb Oh yes indeed they do, as in KAC codes or the old antique KY-7 stuff, eh? Well bb we are talking about ham radio. Of course I understand, LEN the LOON, that you have no understanding of that subject. Tweek twit. Dan/W4NTI Now Dan, you're mixing metaphors. You're either talking about "real communicators" or you're talking about "ham radio" ops. Which is it? In either case it's doubtful you're covered, so why sweat it? Steve, K4YZ |
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:39:00 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote:
Smith charts are just as obsolete as Ohms law.............. With some of the Russian-trained engineers whose work my wife has to correct, Ohm's Law, as well as electrical codes, are mere "suggestions". -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane |
Alun L. Palmer wrote: wrote in news:1109446458.805271.244940 @g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: It's much easier to use a Smith chart than to do the calculations You don't need a Smith chart and you don't have to do the calculations either. http://www.circuitsage.com/matching.html w3rv I still have a pad of Smith charts. I don't have Mathcad. I have the same attitude to this as I do to Morse, i.e. to each his own. I don't see anything wrong in having test questions on either subject, as I think people should know about them, I just don't think that there should be a test on copying code by ear. .. . "Test questions on Morse"? . . "People should know about Morse"? How many WPM izzat?? You obviously didn't spend much time cruising the link I posted. You don't have to have Mathcad to solve transmission line problems to get away from the primitive paper and pencil nonsense. There are freely available Excel and Java routines which will do the job too. Mathcad . . ah, yes . . If you do any engineering math which gets complicated in Excel you need Mathcad Alun. I've been using it for about ten years and it's become absolutely indispensible. Maybe only a half hour after I first loaded and fired Mathcad up those ten years ago and started messing with it I was running rapid-fire "what-if's" on a double integral I'd dreamed up as an exercise. Very intuitive. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to run it. Heh. 'Tis an incredible solver which has saved me hundreds of hours of grunt number crunching (and curve plotting BS) labor both on and off the job. Don't believe the prices for it you see floating around the Web. My latest iteration is v.2000 Pro ($800) which I bought in a shrink-wrapped package for $65 at a local computer show after it was one version outdated. w3rv |
From: "Dan/W4NTI" on Sun, Feb 27 2005 12:10 am
"bb" wrote in message roups.com... Dan/W4NTI wrote: "Michael Coslo" wrote in message ... bb wrote: wrote: Michael Coslo wrote on Feb 22 2005 9:58 am BOL, bb Oh yes indeed they do, as in KAC codes or the old antique KY-7 stuff, eh? Well bb we are talking about ham radio. Of course I understand, LEN the LOON, that you have no understanding of that subject. Tweek twit. Dan, did you get drunk again? You are replying to Brian Burke, yet you think I am "bb." You mixed-messed up. Try to keep everyone straight. Good luck on this one now... |
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