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Re: f Yeah, I was yammermouthing about the FD situation, wasn't I? :oops:

It's easy to yammer the mouth and make noise and cut people down. It's a little harder to put time and money where the mouth is. Some people see "homeland security" as a big plot with facists sneaking around in the background to erode our freedoms. Yammermouthing doesn't solve a thing. There...

You're right. It really is a sad thing. That's a very accurate comment to make. The guy I was talking about had a whole imaginary world that he lived in and his behavior sometimes affected what people perceived of "real" EMS workers and firefighters. Especially the volunteers who did know what...

We had a wannabe in my area for years who drove around in a yellow car (FD used yellow), with red dashlight, with a huge star of life decal on the trunk. He had scanners, a CB, a "fake" Motorola head unit, "medical kit" an empty Oxygen resuscitator, and I don't know what all. He claimed he was...

Yeah, but it has no hammerfore or henway on it. It will explode without them! :beer

I guess I'm a part of the conspiracy, too. I was doing homeland security long before anyone ever heard of the term. I've spent the last 40 years of my life being heavily involved in volunteer service to my community. I had to cut some of it back but I'm still doing much of it. I became a...

I bought an 847 to replace a 732 that got fried in a near-hit lightning strike. I[m happy with it as far as it goes but I do not use it on HF. I have a Mark V Field I use on HF. I use the 847 for satillite work and it works very well on that I do use it to monitor fire dispatch on VHF when not...

No! It's MY toy! You can't play with it! No you can't, you MEAN PERSON!! Go away or I'll tell momma!

Well, I started the "toy" bit. Everything in ham radio is a toy in one sense or another. And I did recognize that it has a serious side to it. The group of hams here who made up the very first APRS network all were enthusiastic about it. But they're interested in anything new. Bob put storm...

WB4APR is local. I watched him sending QRM on a local packet freq sending "testing now and forever" using the U. S. Naval Academy's ham station every ten seconds. I was one of several packet BBS stations on that freq, and it almost shut the whole network on the freq down. He was testing APRS...

FT-8900R Yaesu has a new four-band FM mobile out. It covers 10m, 6m, 2m, and 70cm with full 2 channel rx with seperate volume and squech and S meter. Crossband repeater, Full duplex mode and ability to work FM satillite. has the WIRES capability and extended wideband rx up into 900 mhz. I'm...

The thing he's wearing IS a transmitter! i don't know if the thing transmits continously or if it goes on when it recieves a signal to transmit. But he'll figure something out, I'd bet 73

I used to do clinical Social Work - trained to do psychotherapy. My diagnosis is that you have OCD and must be sent to a hospital immediately before you have all breaks with reality. , , , , , ,Oh, wait. You're a CBer. ...... Nevermind....

Well, he's out on bond now. has a tracking unit on his ankle, is on house arrest, can't mess with radios (all his equipment was siexed when he was arrested) We will see how long it takes him to get on the air again....

I've got one but its not a D model I haven't played with it much cuz I'm recovering from a medical problem. I have the 2 internal batteries and they both lasted about 3 hours each on recieve. Once I get able to be more physically active, I will connect it to an outside antenna and install the...

It's just a ear peice going to the speaker output on a radio that they have clippped to their belts. And its a mic worn on the wrist that may have a VOX on it. Nothing special about it. You can buy speaker mics easily enough.

Dayton webcan A news post on qrz.com says a guy will be doing live streaming video in the flea market. That's a neat way of seeing how things are in the Hamvention.

I've been to Dayton once, just to see how it was. Flew out, stayed in a hotel Thursday night to Sunday morning, flew back. Got tickets ahead of time. Free bus from hotel to Hara. I was overhelmed with the amount of inside displays and the flea market was unreal. Got a free ICOM cap with...

AOL sucks! Many years ago, I had it and it drove me nuts. I signed up with a local company that had internet access for half of what AOL was charging me and throughput increased really nicely. I now have cable modem and while it's a little expensive compared to the charges I had with the...

We will have to see if he makes bail. Another forum mssg said that he has to make the entire $250,000 bail to get out of jail, but that doesn't sound right to me and I'm checking with the local Feds Monday.