wrote:
From: "bb" on 23 Feb 2005 17:38:53 -0800


For it is written.

...in here. :-)



Heh, heh, heh.

I had Kim shuddering that Larry tRoll had come back, Dan defining what
a real communicator is (hi, hi), Alun ready to kill file me (ouch!).

All in all, I'd say I done excellent, but my nails are clean and I
depress the PTT button. There goes the damned stereotype.

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

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... :-)

For it is written.

...in here. :-)



Heh, heh, heh.

I had Kim shuddering that Larry tRoll had come back, Dan defining what
a real communicator is (hi, hi), Alun ready to kill file me (ouch!).

All in all, I'd say I done excellent, but my nails are clean and I
depress the PTT button. There goes the damned stereotype.

"Stereotype?" Baudot or 8-level? :-)

Mash that ASR!

Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in news:1109271864.160442.290220
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Perhaps a compromise could be used. Suppose the code test
were replaced
with a 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

You must have missed this one, Alun:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d?dmode=source

73 de Jim, N2EY

wrote in
ups.com:


Alun L. Palmer wrote:
wrote in news:1109271864.160442.290220
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Perhaps a compromise could be used. Suppose the code test
were replaced
with a 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

You must have missed this one, Alun:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...cy/msg/0206dcd
6822763ed?dmode=source

73 de Jim, N2EY



It's quite whimsical, but hardly really comparable with CW. I would be
happy with just theory tests where both the Smith chart and CW were in the
question pool. If there had to be a skill test it ought to involve
soldering and/or putting on a PL 259, IMHO, but I don't think even those
things as essential, in fact for my money you could just put those things
in the theory test too. When it comes to doing them, people learn quickly
enough.

73 de Alun, N3KIP

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

From: on Fri, Feb 25 2005 6:52 pm
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.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

etc.

Kellie never used one in his life, apparently...:-)

Phil Smith's "wonderful diagram" is a standard
tool - today - for all RF designers.

It is so MUCH used that network analyzers even
have it for graphical display on the front panels of
such equipment. Today as well as 30 years ago.

But, a polar coordinate chart is for TWO related
quantities and that may be one too many for Kellie.

Tsk. I'll bet Kellie told that to the Captain at
dinner. Too bad Tenille wasn't there...

"bb" wrote in message
oups.com...

Dan/W4NTI wrote:
"Michael Coslo" wrote in message
...
bb wrote:
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.

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.

For it is written.


People around my area say "mash" as in referring to "pressing"
something I
say it too at times. In general it is said in contesxt such as "Hey
Bob,
mash that light switch will ya?

I'll quite saying mash if it offends all of you that much.


- Mike KB3EIA -

(who does mash his PTT when he works SSB)


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