Heard on TG 9524
Well... Wouldn't ya know it... {WAN GRIN!} (A little `history'... SWMBO has a twice a month `get together' over in Longmont where a bunch of ladies gather at a local sewing shop and have what they call a `Sewing Sweatshop' where they bring in projects they've been trying to get done but just haven't quite managed to do so.) Well... She just got back home about 2hrs ago and just finally got `a round tuit' telling me about one of the things that had been discussed at this one. Seems that one of the ladies sons, or some other `relative', has a connection of some sort with the LFD and had mentioned that there had been some sort of `test' of some new radios yesterday fairly close to the time I caught the conversation(s) on TG 9524! Of course, SWMBO then mentioned that I'd caught part of it and had been surprised at how clear their signal/audio had been. Which, after the lady said that she'd pass that info along, kind of degenerated into the `usual' discussion about `how does one do that?', `isn't that illegal?', `isn't the equipment awfully expensive?', ETC.. SWMBO, to her lovely credit, did as best as she could to try and explain scanning to the ladies *and*, possibly unfortunately, said that she would *try* and `pry' one of my HHs away from me and bring it in to one of the future `Sweatshops' to let them actually listen a bit. {YIKES!}
'Course, and this is probably something that's going to cause the Moderator to hit me and I promise that I'll try and keep it as short, `fat chance?' as I can, this then brings up the question of whether I should just send one HH and try and have it programmed for both the Boulder County / Longmont `conventional' and also Weld County and CSP DTRS *or* send two HHs with one strictly `conventional' and the other strictly DTRS? (Either way I am *not* going to let my PSR-500 go! And... I don't think that it would also be all that great sending one of my base/mobiles as I *do* know that they seem to always have problems finding enough outlets and extension cords just for all the sewing machines that show up and I don't think that they'd be all that `happy' at having to give up an outlet just for `some radio'. [One SWMBO can be easily `coped with' but, a *whole store full* of them...!!! {RDAC!}]) In the first scenario I'd be sending a PRO-96 and in the second it would most likely be augmented by a PRO-97. Either way I am wondering if I should just basically leave the PRO-96 programmed `as usual' or `custom program' it' and, and here is the other question, possibly just make up a set of `notes' SWMBO can refer to to explain the `why' it isn't going to receive Longmont even *if* they managed to finally get the system completely up and running. Or... Just say `the heck with it' and tell SWMBO tell them that I sent the `second string' scanner because I won't let the `first string' scanner out of my `evil clutches' unless she kills me. The PRO-97 would most likely stay pretty much programmed `as usual' since most of them have pretty much been reprogrammed such that the majority of what agencies I use them to listen to on `conventional' systems have been reduced enough that I can lock/unlock them pretty much individually already and only a couple are programmed for `special?' use and I'd make certain I didn't send along either of those.
What *might* make the preceeding a tad bit more `on topic' is that, from what SWMBO said, we just *might* end up with both some new `scannists' and, even though it *is* a `long shot', possibly another `someone on the inside' to help us get the Longmont system worked out? From what SWMBO has mention in the past there are *some* ladies who have mentioned that they would like to have a way, beyond what they find in the `SlimesCall', `hear' as `gossip', or *maybe* catch on broadcast news, to know just what is happening around them. Maybe this *might* be `a ticket' / `foot in the door' for them and possibly us here on RR? I *do* know that around here SWMBO, and even sometimes both children, catch a lot of things that I'll miss for one reason or another. SWMBO can tell by just the `tones' on Fire S/N which department is getting paged out and even at some times where they are going from out in our kitchen quicker than I. ('Course *some* of that could be because of my times spent around too many loud noises and advancing years? {GRIMACE!}) Oh, yeah... *Except* for only 2 - 3 of the `Sweatshop' group the majority of these ladies live either right in Longmont or right on the outer fringes and we are `talking' about close to 2 - 2½ dozen ladies! *If* we could get a quarter to a third of them listening...??? It would be a `nice bump' in `ears' for us?
Oh, well... Just an `Olde Fart's' 2¢ worth. {WAN GRIN!}
And... *NO* I am *not* going to go to one of those `Sweatshops' and leave our `2 sweet darlings', *NOT*, `in charge' of everything! It's hard enough to get them to do `their chores' when there is someone around to `crack a whip' over them. I shudder to think about what things would be like *if* we gave them an `opening' like that! (Actually they *do* `do things' fairly well on their own. But, I *do* have to CMA *if* I want to keep my `Old Crumudgen License' intact. {SNICKER!} [Sort of a `good parent/cop' VS `bad parent/cop' `act'. {CHORTLE!}])
