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Re: [Amps] Ham Tests, was Price per Watt Conversation

To: Mark Bitterlich <markbitterlich@embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Ham Tests, was Price per Watt Conversation
From: Thomas Walsh <w2co@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:08:32 -0600
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Yeah it's ok, let the hillhairy voters bend history to fit their fake  agenda, 
you know something? I have learned a new acronym in these forums in the last 
week and that is "NFB" talk about NFB with a bunch of perfect NCL's..ha! Mr. 
Negative? Yeah...


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> On Apr 27, 2017, at 17:46, Mark Bitterlich <markbitterlich@embarqmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> "I'm sure if the Titanic radio op had voice capability he would have
> used it first. Of course in the Titanic case it wouldn't have mattered
> since the only ship listening was too far away. "  Bill W6WRT
> 
> The above is a typical "Bill W6WRT" response.  Biased, made to believe he is 
> always correct, and belittling of the person who disagreed with him.  Worse 
> it does disservice to the hero's of the day who used Morse Code to save over 
> half of the crew of this famous ship.
> 
> Actually numerous ships and shore stations heard the Titanic.  Not just "the 
> only ship listening" as W6WRT would have you believe, which is just so much 
> misinformation.
> 
> "Come at once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, old man," the Titanic 
> called to another ship, the Carpathia.
> "We have struck an iceberg and sinking by the head," she told a German ship, 
> the Frankfurt.
> 
> "In response her sister ship, the Olympic called back: "Am lighting up all 
> boilers as fast as we can."
> 
> "there was "never a tremor" in the Morse tapped out by Jack Phillips."
> 
> "I will never live to forget the work of Phillips during the last awful 15 
> minutes," said Bride.
> 
> "I suddenly felt a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his 
> work while everybody else was raging about."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To repeat:  "Bill Turner" <dezrat@outlook.com> said:  "Relying on CW will get 
> people killed."
> 
> 
> 
> No, I don't think so Bill.  History has shown overwise.  But you can ignore 
> history if you'd like.

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