“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
"That’s a story I never heard"
You don't hear packet unless you tune a receiver to an appropriate frequency and listen to the data bursts going back and forth. (;->) Being way out in WPA you would have been served by a different network than those I described, but if you were on a PBBS you would have seen the shit going down on @WW. That's the word for it, no matter the message board shit is still shit. I never bothered with private messaging, waiting a week or more for a reply on a store and forward system is sleep inducing. However, with interesting threads and people from all walks of life in the English speaking world that's larger than only English speaking countries (there were @XX filters for areas served) it was my favorite aspect of Amateur Radio while it lasted, I sorely miss it.
Speaking of listening to packet bursts, I and some friends had an FM simplex "home channel", to borrow an old CB phrase, down in the experimental 2M sub band programmed into the priority scan. Then one day I started hearing packet bursts without let-up on it, yet ANOTHER Internet portal. It was one of scores of ego boxes duplicating the PBBSes already in range of a decent antenna that popped up like lawn mushrooms on a spring morning. The invasion spread far and wide across the band disregarding the accepted bandplan, it was QRM City! It reminded me of when I strongly urged new hams NOT to attempt setting up repeaters, high maintenance, expensive upkeep, and we had a repeater glut already spread out to simplex frequencies. I felt like the only packeteer with a brain, during the summer beach season I turned on the digipeater and beacon as a relay to the BBS for the bennys* in the summer rentals and motels with HTs and rubber duckies. Kinda funny, one guy made old buzzard transmissions, so long each session I had to mount a fan to the rig's heat sink to keep the RF module from going into meltdown, no kidding.
* BENNY - Bayonne Elizabeth Newark New York is where the invaders come from making the population of the Jersey Shore communities swell to overflowing. It's bad enough that we who live here experience city crowding, we experience city conditions too caused by low life scum that can't behave themselves. The cities hire additional police trying to keep them in line, we can't go on our own boardwalks and beaches with elbow to elbow bennies causing and getting into trouble. That show that started on MTV, Jersey Shore was a laugh, every one of them was a benny and their favorite hangout was a bar in Sleazeside Heights I named it such because of what lives there making them feel right at home. I treasure the video clip in my archive where Snookie, The Mouth of Middletown New York got what was coming to her, she got flattened by a one punch knockout! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNNSMf-z44 Speaking of home, Google "benny go home" to see what we have to endure every summer. I'm particularly fond of this band and this particular song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8pTqVRTxQ The name Bayonne Bleeders is after a prizefighter's nickname, Chuck Wepner aka The Bayonne Bleeder. He was one heck of a guy, I knew him from my club days at Art Stock's Playpen Lounge we called the pig pen, it was a meat market just south of the Raritan River bridges in Sayerville. He wasn't afraid to take on the big boys like Andre The Giant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EksOFtILs and actually knocked down Muhammad Ali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA8HIAQEzU
On edit, something I forgot in case anyone is interested, there were two biopics made about his prizefighting career. First came Chuck in 2016 that would inspire the film, Rocky (1976) and later The Brawler (2018).
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"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
73 de Warren KB2VXA
Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
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So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...
I have a KPC-3 w/ v8.2 firmware, an RTC chip and a 512K memory installed.
It's in an old Apple laptop satchel along with a Tandy Model 102 (or 200), a VX-7R and connection cables. That satchel has long been my vacation/Dayton carry bag, wherein I transport the ham gear, FRS/GMRS/MURS stuff, a tablet of some sort, accessories and chargers for everything. There's also a trunking-capable scanner included for good measure.
It comes in handy to introduce people to radiocommunications. At one time such a setup was a nice way of remoting back into my main packet BBS (MSYS) which had a landline port if I was out of reach of the radio links.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
The 10th?
I could possibly do that. Up in the air at the moment is the plan for that afternoon/evening ("Night Under Fire" at Norwalk Raceway) and since Summit sells tickets to the event I may swing over to the joint to pick up a couple if my gal pal is so inclined to go racing. And hamming...
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Will it play well with an IC-207?
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati