[CW] OT: Heartbreaking VOA Sterba Curtain Destruction

Tue Apr 12 06:40:26 EDT 2016

To K1VV and K2BEW, as well as all others that otherwise refrained from hitting the “Reply” key:  My humblest apologies for the below.  I have been tinkering with keyboard macros again and forgot to uninstall the “Rant” macro.  It won’t happen again.

What I MEANT to talk about is Arduino-based CW decoders.  I stumbled upon this link and it looks pretty interesting.  Has anyone else tried something like this?  I am thinking about doing something this as a demonstration for my club’s Field Day in June:

https://raronoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/morse-endecoder/ <https://raronoff.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/morse-endecoder/>

Jim

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:46 PM, k1vv at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> NOTHING 
> 
> From: "Tom k2bew" <tombewick at gmail.com>
> To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:40:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] OT: Heartbreaking VOA Sterba Curtain Destruction
> 
> What does this thread have to do with CW???
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:17 PM, James Hull (NEW) <james.hull at va.metrocast.net <mailto:james.hull at va.metrocast.net>> wrote:
> ... kinda in EagleTracker’s corner.  Judging by his one-liner, either he has my six or I have his.
> 
> I am an American.  Period.  No hyphen required, so no need to bring race into the discussion.
> 
> My professional studies have taught me that the usage of “globalist” themes, similar to the below, are a subtle segue towards a totalitarian, one-world government.  No thank you.
> 
> Sure… we are all on one planet called Earth.  But it is still us-versus-them when it comes to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Competition is still the greatest innovator and ensurer of a better life.
> 
> 
> Jim
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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com <mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> For "Eagletracker" (whoever that is)
> 
> 73, de Hans KØHB
> ----
> Sailor
> American
> Citizen of "the Pale Blue Dot"
> 
> From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
> The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:32 <eagletracker at reagan.com <mailto:eagletracker at reagan.com>> wrote:
> "American World Citizen"???>>Screw your damn Satanic Globalism!!!!
>  
>  
> On Saturday, April 9, 2016 16:25, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com <mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com>> said:
> 
> I don't accept the notion that the USA has withdrawn from presenting ideas, nor that our culture is in need of redemption.
> 
> The idea that oppressed people far away are huddled around a clandestine radio with the curtains drawn against observation, listening for news from America, is no longer valid (if it ever was). The towers at VOA had no more audience.
> 
> My father emigrated from Russia as a child with my grandparents, grew up on a 80 acre farm, married, worked that same crappy 80 acres and raised a big family, died young (57). Four of his sons spent a collective 56 years in uniform, most of it induced by mandatory conscription, otherwise known as "the draft". I wasn't a professional Sailor, but I played around at it for 21 years, and a did good enough job to earn the rank of Master Chief Radioman (E9). Got me off that crappy rocky farm.
> 
> Now I'm an old man, and my great-grand-kids (yes, I have 4 of those)live in a culture so rich and advanced that my grandfather growing up could not have imagined it even in his grandest dreams. 
> 
> My grandkids distant cousins in Russia can communicate instantly with their counterparts here via handheld devices that would seem magic to even my father and mother. The need for a national propaganda engine like the VOA has faded, as American ideas and German ideas and Chinese ideas and Bolivian ideas and Micronesian ideas flow across cultures, not from government propaganda offices, but from the personal experiences of free citizens sharing their real-life dreams, triumphs, and yes, disappointments and setbacks.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> H Hans Brakob
> American
> World Citizen
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:15 Michael Zolno <luv.myipad3 at me.com <mailto:luv.myipad3 at me.com>> wrote:
> Very true; I don't think anyone here would argue that point. All of us are moving to a state of entropy. At least the materials can be reused in this case.
> 
> My take was more of how I mourn the reasons behind VOA's (and ostensively America's) withdrawal from presenting the ideas and concepts that made us both good and great. Dropping these towers/antennas are but a symbol. If there were ever a time when the world needed a standard bearer, one only needs to look at how much the various nefarious forces have grown; now would be a good time. I can't speak to how we have gone about that in the last few decades because I have been a part (albeit a small part) as a professional soldier. So I long for some renewal and possibly some redemption, unfortunately do not see these returning anytime soon. I cannot fathom how those here whom are older than me (49 shortly) experienced the change of our complete culture.
> 
> Completely agree with your statement though.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> > On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com <mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > Old worn our cars are recycled, old worn out ships are scrapped and recycled, old useless radio towers are scrapped and recycled.
> >
> > I can't find any heartbreak in that.
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