Ham Radio - A skype chat with Josh Nass of Ham Radio Crash Course.

Understood.

IIRC, it was your cohort who instigated the "en viz" patter.

Related: I've been witness to much acronym-speak in our company's Continual Improvement meetings. When I don't know the meaning of one of the acronyms, my hand goes up and I ask. And when my hand goes up, I frequently see the rolling eyes and looks of dismay.

I'm not sure what is worse - the CI presenter not knowing the meaning of the acronym he had just spat out (which is often the case), or that the rest of my fellow underlings don't know either but simply don't give a damn. It's as if they're perfectly comfortable swimming in their pool of ignorance.

 

I've started updating a wiki post at work with all the myriad acronyms to link people to. That and all the special one-off links that are needed to different documents. "Acronym Archivist" could almost be a fulltime position.

 

As a tech and fiction writer writer, this is something I have to fight with myself.

The DOT mil crowd makes it a second language - it took me years to relearn English & to avoid Grunt or Zoomie dialects after I retired. (smiles)

BTW - I've enjoyed many of your tech-oriented vids.

 

Huh. I've always heard it verbalized as "inviz" unless it was being used in an audience that didn't know the acronym.

"Continuous Improvement".
And don't get me started on CI in general. I can't seem to get people to understand that undergoing a massive CI initiative is pointless if you're not solidly in CMMI Level 4. "Your processes are poorly defined and understood and everything is ad hoc, you're not ready for a fancy CI program". No, I'm not triggered, why do you ask?

"TLA Archivist". Could you imagine the job posting? It would (should, even) be all TLAs.
My company (huge overseas telco and IT services provider) maintains an acronym page on our intranet.

Chris

 

Wow, I am surprised at the overly negative comments! Serious question, why?

I love these guys, K6UDA, HamRadioConcepts, K8MRD, HamRadio2.0, Josh, CommsPrepper... Its like having a cable channel totally devoted to Ham tech, news, experiments, product reviews... Who cares if they get free stuff here and there. Some of them pass it on with give aways and whatnot.

I am also amazed how humble they are, just normal dudes. I first hand have regular convos on twitter with Mike K8MRD

I am happy for them. They filled a niche and are able to profit from it. "Find a job doing what you like and you never have to work a day in your life" right?

 

Be careful what you ask for, don't you think that actually spelling "N e a r v e r t i c a l i n c i d e n c e s k y w a v e" would be boring, or perhaps you prefer He use phonetics.

Keep up the fun you tube vids Josh

 

AAM.


(All Acronyms Matter)

 

These 'YouTubers' squeezing content out to generate view time for their YouTube monetization, I find it sad for them. There are some exceptions, Commsprepper and Kevin Loughin, but alot just seem like most are just trying to come up with any reason to make a new video to make YouTube happy.

Carson
VA3OSO

 

Is there still more to say about the amazing Baofang?

 

I have no idea what 'En Viz' propagation is, for the simple reason that no form of propagation is called that.

There is 'near vertical incidence skywave' (or 'NVIS').... I am quite familiar with that.