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   Mike Luther to Sergey Poziturin   
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   02 Aug 15 09:12:40   
   
   Howdy Sergey!   
      
    SP> Hello, Mike Luther.   
    SP> On 30.07.15 8:02 you wrote:   
      
    ML> I was the key part to the creation of 'private' telephone numbers    
    ML> for FidoNet as I was the creator of the original underground    
    ML> telephone lines that might survive the Russian whop on the US back    
    ML> in the days of the Cold War.   
      
    SP> Mua-ha-ha, now we've got your name. :)   
      
   Not quite Sergey.  I wasn't the actual creator of the underground telephone   
   lines themselves.  However I knew that the underground lines could best be   
   able to survive the EMP pulse from an atomic explosion.  And even way back   
   then that the solar flare/coronal explosions on the sun could be MUCH worse on   
   us humans even with the level of electrical technolgy we had back then as   
   well.  So my name is only a tiny minor part of what Tesla, Einstein had all   
   presented as what would grow upward into complexity as technology grew up for   
   'us' as time and quantities of this and that became exposed to us all.   
      
   I already knew about the Carrington Event of 1859 two years after 1857 when   
   the Golden Spike was driven where the railroad lines were merged into the   
   first rail line that went from the East Coast to the West Coast of the whole   
   USA.  When that solar flare from the Sun hit us, it burned up all the   
   telegraph sounders in the whole USA.  It killed three people sending Morse   
   Code and put 23 more in the hospital as best I know it.  And in ten places in   
   the whole USA where it arced from the railroad rails to the Earth over the   
   wood cross-ties, it SET THEM ON FIRE!  If we ever got another one like that,   
   all the power lines, the telephone systems above ground would be destroyed.    
   And everything sensitive to electrical pulses in your home or car would even   
   be burned up.   
      
   Even at age 10 in 1949, as a boy growing up here confounded by all that was a   
   part of Texas A&M College where my Dad became a math professor in 1936, I was,   
   say it a little better, 'dumb founded', grin!  Dad had taught me that though   
   Einstein was a child early on in Ulm, Germany, he had been moved away to   
   England.  And Ulm, Germany was the home of the highest church steeple in the   
   world.  It hadn't been finished when Einstein was moved to England.  But when   
   it was later on, Einstein went back to Ulm to get to climb up the 651 foot   
   steeple on stairs to the top and look out on the world from it.  Dad taught me   
   that when Einstein did so, as anyone could do, at each window was higher up   
   away from the Earth, since Earth was a round ball, you could see further away   
   the higher you climbed.  Which I was taught, that when Einstein noticed that   
   at each window he saw more and more 'spots' on the surface of the Earth that   
   is exactly how he realized how to handle math in multiple dimensions! Even at   
   a tiny cost of climbing each step upwards for the some 45 minutes it took an   
   average person to climb to the top of the cathedral.   
      
   At even ten years of age in 1949, when I had already been 'hooked' by one of   
   my unbelievably wonderful mentors from A&M, Dr, George Huebner who was ham   
   radio operator W5WQN, was coaching me to learn Morse Code.  As my then whole   
   family was hugely musically oriented.  I still have the old 78 RPM plastic   
   records from my Erie, Pennsylvania Uncle Bill Schuster that had the Morse Code   
   lessons which I played on our record player to learn it.  When I got my first   
   ham radio license in very early 1952, the only thing I was interested in at   
   all was Morse Code.  And started the whole ham radio stuff by building my own   
   transmitters back then as even then I was allowed in all the Aggie engineering   
   labs poking my nose in everything.  My first decent receiver was a   
   Hallicrafters S-38 although I actually started using a crystal set and winding   
   my own coils.  I still have the whisker crystal I used then!   
      
   I was fascinated with long distance contacts and was really only mostly able   
   to work DX at night in a little room out behind the garage when my parents   
   kicked me out of the house since I really LOVED 40 meter CW DX even all night   
   long at times,  Keeping them awake and - oh well!  I had already discovered on   
   my own that I could actually work places like Perth, Australia from my ham   
   shack on 40 meter CW really loud at sunrise time for me an sunset time for a   
   ham friend there!  We were so poor I had to even mow the lawn of the Texas A&M   
   professor for the Texas Aggie Band with a push lawn mower during WWII for even   
   a single US Dollar per mow job.  Just for money to feed me food as well as   
   help buy my pants and shirt back then.  As well to even help get the 'money'   
   to help me in ham radio, I got a job as a paper boy throwing one of the   
   Houston, Texas early morning newspapers in our neighborhood on my bicycle at   
   about 5:00AM in the morning.  My 807 tube CW transmitter for Morse Code had a   
   WONDERFUL strong signal in the total darkness before the sun came up in the   
   morning!  I wondered how low in power I could reduce my power to my Perth,   
   Australia friend and he could still hear me.  We tried that test.  I was   
   SHOCKED!   
      
   I got down to ONE WATT output into my dipole antenna on 40 Meter CW and my   
   friend in Perth, Australia could still hear me!!  Then what Daddy had taught   
   me about Einstein hit me somehow in my head!  I had a four cell flashlight   
   that I used on my bike to deliver the newspapers there beside me.  In the   
   total dark moon night before the sun had come up, after I and my friend had   
   said '73' on Morse Code,  I took my flashlight outside into the back yard. I   
   pointed it up into the dark sky and turned it on.  I looked up how far into   
   the sky my adjusted long beam light could be seen!  Not very far.  It hit me   
   again and I almost collapsed onto the lawn!  WOW!  If that's the distance that   
   one watt of light beam goes, even given how far anyone could see it at a   
   maximum from far way and even my ONE WATT Morse Code 40 meter Radio wave   
   signal could be heard in Australia, half way around the world..   
      
      There has to be really something about the Heavans, a Power and   
      Future Way bigger than all humans are really in control of.  Plus   
      as things like radio, nuclear power, electical generators, fuel of   
      all kinds, agricultural farms, airplanes, ammunition .. whatever.   
      Especially that even though I am using only ONE WATT of power on   
      my 40 meter CW station and thousands of miles everywher from me,,   
      
            Even at the right time IF NEEDED IN AN EMERGENCY ..   
      
              Even a hundred thousand humans could hear a   
                    needed message for survival.   
      
                   To survive being poked in the   
                     side or rear and having things   
                        stolen from them even.   
      
   And as I had learned even from before then from people of the many different   
   cultures and races of humans here around Texas A&M College..  My job and the   
   real goal of all the human tribe is to put forward the most possible options   
   for ALL human beings.  So that all of us all the way into the future can have   
   the best opportunity in life.  It's OK to earn a profit.  But you must not   
   lie, cheat and steal from others or try to force them, hurt them or kill them   
   to take away their possible future.  There is even more than the fourth   
   dimension in life.  Look upward and around you.  It's really true.   
      
      
   Mike Luther as N117C at 1:117/100   
      
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    * Origin: BV HUB CLL(979)696-3600 (1:117/100)   

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