[Moon] ..the Swiss are little backwards..?!

[Dominique Fässler / HB9BBD]

Jonathan

I tried hard to give you realistic facts on how I see the poor credibility of many claimed "QSO"s.

 So far I thought that you are reasonably ok. Here I was wrong. You send lies around which are brought to my attention. I will remember next time you lie on the reflector.

If your credibility is to be measured in what you are writing around about the cost of my dish, (Euro 100'000!!??) you have lost all credibility here.
I got it for FREE. The helicopter cost in 1996 were less than Euro 1500.

".. the Swiss are a little backwards"
Believe it or not, our tax burden is still too high but relative to the rest of Europe decent. We may not be as smart as you think you are but we live reasonably well here. We may not be too rich but we are not jealous to anybody in the world. Apparently you would have needed more than 5 years here to find out yourself.
We have financed our homes to a certain extent, but there is no property crisis. We have advised our governemt to ask us from time to time what we want to see next. 
OK, -if you call this backwards, it is your assessment. Keep on giving your income to the government and remember daily that you are not as backwards as the Swiss.
Really convincing, indeed.

73
HB9BBD Dominique


Van: Naylor Jonathan [mailto:naylorjs at yahoo.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 17 april 2008 8:00
Aan: Eddy Jespers
Onderwerp: Re: wsjt-cw

Eddy

> "Buying" a big dish is paying for the scrap aluminium. Go ahead and 
> start engineering the mount, hydrolics, tracking, I am sure this 
> person had sleepless nights figuring out how to put together his 
> setup.

No he didn't. He paid over €100,000 for it.

> A helicopter trip of the antenna seems to be exotic, although, in his 
> country this is not unusual. Renting a crane in Belgium is more 
> expensive than his helicopter trip for his antenna in switserland ....

I lived in Switzerland for five years, he doesn't live in the middle of the alps, he lives in Argau which has good roads, the Swiss are a little backwards, but not that bad.

> Jonathan, The challenge for me going for CW EME on 23cm was to go for 
> "hardcore" to try to challenge nature.

In which case why reject every possible avenue?  Once you've increased your power, improved you RX and have the biggest antenna that you can put up, where next?

This hobby is about experimentation and trying to push technology, and I have to say that amateurs are way behind the professionals now, whereas once we were in front. There are great techniques out there, but despite us being a supposed technical hobby, many are very very conservative, I hate that.

> Sure, you can not do this from your flat in the city ... but I can 
> give you the advice to work hard, sell your flat in the city, buy a 
> house in the country site, go and look to buy a surplus antenna for 
> the scrap aluminium and work us CW EME !

Don't be silly. Most of my work is in Brussels or nearby, I like the short commute, and I like Brussels. Amateur radio isn't the only thing in my life.




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Naylor Jonathan [mailto:naylorjs at yahoo.com] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. April 2008 08:11
An: Dominique Fässler / HB9BBD
Betreff: Re: AW: [Moon-net] wsjt-cw

Gruezi Dominique

Jonathan  ON/G4KLX  ex-HB9DRD




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