Amen, brother... By and large, I think we Towertalkians treat our fellow
hams pretty well, but it never hurts to go the extra yard... thanks for very
eloquently reminding us what it's all about.
Jerry K3BZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Smith" <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] screw-in guy anchors, was Could this happen to you
> What follows is a response to all the posts on this topic, not just the
> one to which this reply is attached.
>
> C'mon guys, he's one of us. He put his story and pix up in good faith
> and he gets tromped on by fellow hams ridiculing his "mistakes". I'm
> not competent to judge whether or not they're mistakes but I do know
> that that's no way to treat a fellow ham. I see plenty of ignorant
> statements on various ham reflectors about stuff that I know a lot
> about. I don't call the guy down. I either say nothing or I try to say
> something that will alleviate his ignorance about this particular item.
> Lots of guys haven't a clue about, for example, using a transistor to
> interface a computer parallel port to the key jack, and I venture to say
> that includes a number of Towertalkians. They may read about various
> ways of doing it and try them until they find something that works but
> never understand why one method works for them and others don't. If you
> know this stuff, it's a trivial exercise. If you don't, it's a great
> mystery.
>
> Ignorance means that you don't know. Stupidity means that you don't
> have the mental ability to enable you to know.
>
> So, in the spirit of the above, may I suggest that when one of us comes
> up with something that makes the rest of us cringe, that those who
> respond do so in the same helpful manner that would make the person feel
> good about being part of the fraternity and, to the extent possible,
> grateful for advice kindly offered that any of us would like to receive
> if we, in good faith, offered up something that revealed that we had our
> head up our butt.
>
> An old expression of the Golden Rule. "Do as you would be done by."
>
> 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
>
> DMartin560@aol.com wrote:
>
> >I can't believe no one has noticed he used mobile home tie-down anchors.
> >What, about 30 inches long with a 4 inch auger??
> >
> >Dwayne, KG4ADM
> >
> >
> >>The link below is why I never use screw anchors. Check the
pictures...very
> >>interesting.
> >>
> >>http://ki4d.org/towerlean/
> >>
> >>Bill K4XS
> >>
> >
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questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
> >
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