HI Bob,   
      
   On Sat 2012-Mar-03 11:55, BOB BREED (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
      
      
    RW> Yeah, but if you know it's coming you know it's coming.   
    RW> Besides, decent jobs are so rare, and adults who've done   
    RW> their time and have families to support need them.  IT's   
    RW> fair, because everybody *must* do it under such a plan.  nO   
    RW> buyout, no opt out.  nO pleading, no begging, no whining.   
      
   BB> I like the plan but don't think it will ever fly.  First of all it   
   BB> has to be voted in and how many congress critters do you think are   
   BB> going to vote yea when their own daughter or son may get sucked up   
   BB> in this draft.  So I see a modification to allow these kids to drop   
   BB> out of the plan, or if they can't get that in - kill the plan.  (I   
   BB> suspect the last anyway because of the gal thing.)    
      
   Probably so, but it's still imho the best way to do it.  I   
   think it was Wrangell out of NEw YOrk state that was one of   
   the few congressors I ever heard advocate for such a thing.   
      
      
    BB> Really?  He was sure pouring in here, would have swore he was in CA.   
    BB> :) (C6AKQ was the call.)   
      
    RW> YEp, that'd be the Bahamas.  WAs that on 20 meters?  IF so   
    RW> it's been rather long last few days.  That would definitely   
    RW> be a bahamas call sign though.   
      
   BB> Yup, some contest thing going on last Saturday.   
      
   OH yeah, the arrl cw dx contest.  YEp, iirc you would have   
   probably heard BAhamas real well last weekend on cw from out your way.  I   
   think I was working boats off Hawaii last   
   weekend pretty easily with my hundred watts and a dipole   
   looking east/west.   
      
    RW> YEah it's a different world these days.  When I heard an   
    RW> extra class the other day asking how to figure the length of a dipole,   
    RW> and another saying he didn't know how to tune up   
    RW> his new tube type linear amplifier I was rolling on the   
    RW> floor making strange noises.   
      
    BB>  Oh, we've always had those guys around.  :)   Ops, but no technical   
    BB> knowlege at all. :)   
      
    RW> YEah I know, and i kidna resemble that remark, I'm the   
    RW> world's biggest klutz with a soldering iron, but I can do   
    RW> alright with the theory, and guiding the guy with the iron   
    RW> at least .   
      
   BB>  By any standards, you have a valid excuse for not swinging a   
   BB> soldering iron around. :)   
      
   YEah but I know some blind guys that are actually pretty   
   good.  there are alternative techniques.  some guys rig up a foot switch to   
   control a regular iron instead of the   
   trigger.  In fact, a guy who wrote an article telling blind   
   folks adaptations for soldering talked to an eye surgeon who said he could   
   understand why even sighted techs might want   
   to do such  a thing.  HIs logic was that by squeezing the   
   trigger you mess with that whole mechanism that is your   
   arm/wrist/shoulder thing.  Where if you support the iron   
   with you arm and wrist stable and just move the hand, making the tip an   
   extension of your hand then you've got a stable   
   base to work from.  hE was talking about the whole   
   mechanical linkage between hand wrist arm and shoulder.   
   Kidn of interesting.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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