Graham wrote:

On Feb 12, 10:33 pm, dxAce wrote:
Graham wrote:
On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote:
Web Foote wrote:
Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.

Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge.

Damn right I am, boy!

Its not that eazey .. only takes one to get in .. then your
flooded ... I sometimes see lots of join requests for the uk500khz
group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open
for a while .. but had to close post to members

Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose
over in Europe?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

No its no longer used for cw comms .. but still has navetext on 518
and 490 ? or round there

uk has issued 501 to 504 as a experimental band .. about 40
licence issued .. lots of beacons slightly hf located in europe ..
belgium also has allocation for hams .. cw only .. not many active

OK. Thanks.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

webtv suits my needs and I am very happy wth it for nearly 10 years, so
what's YOUR problem? You saw MY post, didn't you?

In 2004, I bought a Velocity Micro ProMagix desk top computer from the
company in Richmond,Virginia.I paid $1,440.00 for my computer.
www.velocitymicro.com I hardly use my computer.I like to read online
newspaper around the World and science and technology sites.I can do
that with my Philips MAT 976 Plus WebTV box.No computer viruses and crap
to worry about either, WebTV doesn't have a hard drive.
But, you know how it goes, everybody hates WebTV.I have been using WebTV
since October 1999.I am going to stay with WebTV/MSN TV untill they
decide to pull the plug or I croak first, whatever.
cuhulin

In article ,
(RM MS) wrote:

webtv suits my needs and I am very happy wth it for nearly 10 years, so
what's YOUR problem? You saw MY post, didn't you?

That's the problem.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:17:08 -0500, (Web Foote)
wrote:

Who runs this group?

Nobody. This is not a forum on AOL, a chat room on MSN, or some other
such thing. This is a newsgroup on Usenet, a throwback to the days
when the Internet had recently hatched from its origins in ARPANet and
was mostly inhabited by government employees and people at colleges
and universities (i.e. .gov and .edu users).

Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk?

No. It is possible for users to do this themselves using a proper news
reader application and filtering. As far as I know, it is not possible
for WebTV users to accomplish this.

Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.

Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired
of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go,
leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions.

It's also what happens when outfits like AOL and, later, Google decide
to create proprietary implementations of Usenet, ignoring conventions
such as NNTP in favor of their own concoctions, and then throw access
open to the masses without implementing any means of controlling the
drivel they post - thereby making it possible for morons to pollute
the newsgroups with impunity.

And now we have WebTV, the new AOL. Nothing personal, and no offense
meant - for all I know you may be as dedicated to the radio arts as I
am, and perhaps even moreso. If that's the case - the problem is that
for every person like you, there's fifty who wouldn't know Universal
Serial Bus from Upper Sideband and spend their time mostly forwarding
junk mail to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have their e-mail
address fall into the hands of one of these cretins.

If you've ever received an e-mail that begins with several screenfuls
of e-mail addresses belonging to people you've never heard of, you
know exactly what I'm referring to; If you have ever actually
forwarded one to someone else, may the fleas of a thousand camels
infest your genitalia.

And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dig out my list of
frequencies for NTSB. Somebody crash-landed an airplane into
somebody's living room here last night, well within scanner range.

John Kasupski wrote in
:

Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired
of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go,
leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions.

No, this is what happens when THIN SKINNED so called intelligent people
give up the fight and allow the trolls to win.

People like me, Blinky the Shark, John Weeks, and many others have been
trying to tell these so called intelligent users how to beat the trolls for
many years. They always ignore us, then go off to some Yahoo Group crying
their eyes out. They then run into some kind of Hitler styled moderator
there, and soon are simply gone.

You can't be thin skinned and survive on Usenet. They ignore advice on how
to killfile the trolls, how to ignore them so they will go away. They
insist on getting into flame wars with them, and then you see another one
of these weak ass pathetic posts... "I'm leaving...."

I read several groups where the trolls do not win, and that is because
there is a dedicated core group that refuses to lose, takes the advice on
how to deal with trolls, and has a thick enough skin to survive.

As far as "all the intelligent posters went running off to somewhere
else..." well, they were not intelligent enough to listen to some simple
advice. I know it's been posted here for years, because I myself posted it
here years ago. They allowed the trolls to win.

On Feb 13, 2:43*pm, dxAce wrote:
Graham wrote:
On Feb 12, 10:33 pm, dxAce wrote:
Graham wrote:
On Feb 12, 7:53 pm, dxAce wrote:
dave wrote:
Web Foote wrote:
Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.

Steve Lare, of East Bumphukk, Michigan, is in charge.

Damn right I am, boy!

Its not that eazey .. only takes one to *get in .. then your
flooded ... I sometimes *see lots of join requests for the uk500khz
group .. never thought 500 Khz was that popular ..I did have it open
for a while .. but had to *close post to members

Is that frequency still in use for emergency comms, or for some other purpose
over in Europe?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

No its no longer used for cw comms .. but *still has navetext on 518
and 490 ? or round there

uk has issued * 501 to *504 *as a experimental band *.. about 40
licence issued .. lots of beacons slightly hf located in europe ..
belgium also *has allocation for hams .. cw only .. not many active

OK. Thanks.

dxAce
Michigan
USA- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You can check out whats on with these on line grabbers ... most are up
100%


http://groups.google.com/group/uk500...0-khz-grabbers

Grabber1 - 500.000 KHz to 504.000 KHz.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wgtaylor/grabber1.html



Grabber2 - 504.000 KHz to 508.000 KHz.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wgtaylor/grabber2.html


- G ..

On Feb 12, 5:30*pm, Nobody wrote:
Who runs this group? Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk? Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.

- It is possible to set up moderated Usenet groups.
- Unfortunately, this one wasn't...
- so we're stuck with the detritus.

? Detritus ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus

On Feb 13, 5:00*am, dave wrote:

- - Nobody wrote:
- - Unfortunately, this one wasn't... so we're stuck with the
detritus.

- And pompous verbosity.

? Pompous Verbosity ?

http://www.answers.com/pompous

http://www.answers.com/verbosity

On Feb 13, 10:01*pm, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:17:08 -0500, (Web Foote)
wrote:

Who runs this group?

Nobody. This is not a forum on AOL, a chat room on MSN, or some other
such thing. This is a newsgroup on Usenet, a throwback to the days
when the Internet had recently hatched from its origins in ARPANet and
was mostly inhabited by government employees and people at colleges
and universities (i.e. .gov and .edu users).

Does anybody screen the hundreds of OT posts about
politics and hucksters trying to sell their junk?

No. It is possible for users to do this themselves using a proper news
reader application and filtering. As far as I know, it is not possible
for WebTV users to accomplish this.

Where are all the
ecellent technical posts about radio repair, QSL's, program highlights,
reciever discussions and opnions and reminiscing? Antenna for SWL, Ham
and BC? Backyard antennas, shack photos? Manual swaps? This place looks
like CB sounds like anymore.

Yes, well, this is what happens when the intelligent people get tired
of the morons. The intelligent people find somewhere else to go,
leaving the morons behind to continue their fine traditions.

It's also what happens when outfits like AOL and, later, Google decide
to create proprietary implementations of Usenet, ignoring conventions
such as NNTP in favor of their own concoctions, and then throw access
open to the masses without implementing any means of controlling the
drivel they post - thereby making it possible for morons to pollute
the newsgroups with impunity.

And now we have WebTV, the new AOL. Nothing personal, and no offense
meant - for all I know you may be as dedicated to the radio arts as I
am, and perhaps even moreso. If that's the case - the problem is that
for every person like you, there's fifty who wouldn't know Universal
Serial Bus from Upper Sideband and spend their time mostly forwarding
junk mail to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have their e-mail
address fall into the hands of one of these cretins.

If you've ever received an e-mail that begins with several screenfuls
of e-mail addresses belonging to people you've never heard of, you
know exactly what I'm referring to; If you have ever actually
forwarded one to someone else, may the fleas of a thousand camels
infest your genitalia.

And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dig out my list of
frequencies for NTSB. Somebody crash-landed an airplane into
somebody's living room here last night, well within scanner range.

? Morons ?
http://www.answers.com/topic/moron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology)