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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

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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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Alun L. Palmer wrote:
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Alun L. Palmer wrote:
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. . 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:
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Alun L. Palmer wrote:

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:


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
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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
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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:
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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
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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...