Open mic on Mutual Aid?

[dreg]

GOOD NEWS, I hope, not hearing an open carrier on Mutual Aid (155.475) here in Scott an Clinton county, hopefully someone discovered the error.

 

[SCPD]

I just went to my car in the parking lot here at work and also am not getting any signal on 155.145... although I was not this morning either. This is by the CR Airport.

 

[N0GX]

First of all, no one asked for your attitude. If foxhunting doesn't interest you, then you don't need to help. I was merely suggesting that there is a group of people out there (licensed HAMs) who enjoy tracking down hidden transmitters. Of course the HAMs aren't listening to this frequency which is why, perhaps, someone who knows some of the people in the fox-hunt club would need to ask them to get involved. No one is asking you to do anything (quite frankly people with your attitude would be the LAST people I would want helping me, I have enough people like you at my job to last me a lifetime) so drop the attitude and take a deep breath.

If I had the equipment to do radio direction finding I would have been all over this.

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Attitude? You stated "This is supposed to be exactly what the Amateur Radio operators are for, if this was a stuck transmitter on a HAM radio repeater it would have been found within the first day... ". If you meant the hams that do RDF, fine, but you could have been more clear about it. Now chill out and relax, the sky isn't falling Chicken Little.

 

[SCPD]

Yes, your attitude. You must work in public safety, I've dealt with that know-it-all attitude WAY too much in that industry, I can recognize it from a mile away.

Nice taking my "quote" out of context, too.

Here's my original statement:

I will be headed to IC later today and can take a listen. Might be time to get the local fox-hunting club(s) involved. Isn't this one of the things they train for? Perhaps make the agency who is found to be transmitting buy them lunch or something for the trouble... free meal will get lots of HAMs interested.

Don't know how I could have been any more clear about it, since that is exactly what I said. Clearly you have an axe to grind. Maybe you resented my statement about most hams being interested in a free meal? Perhaps you need to spend a little extra time on the treadmill? Either way, you can take that attitude elsewhere, I have no desire to deal with or interact with people like you.

KC0AKY

 

[N0GX]

Yes, your attitude. You must work in public safety, I've dealt with that know-it-all attitude WAY too much in that industry, I can recognize it from a mile away.

Nice taking my "quote" out of context, too.

Here's my original statement:



Don't know how I could have been any more clear about it, since that is exactly what I said. Clearly you have an axe to grind. Maybe you resented my statement about most hams being interested in a free meal? Perhaps you need to spend a little extra time on the treadmill? Either way, you can take that attitude elsewhere, I have no desire to deal with or interact with people like you.

KC0AKY

You're a little uptight bud. I didn't see your previous post, I'm sorry. All I saw was the one that I commented on.

Also, I do not work in public safety, I work in the ready mix concrete industry.

Also, you don't even know me, so the little pot shot about the treadmill was uncalled for. Lighten up Francis!

 

[SCPD]

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[timkilbride]

Does anyone have a VHF beam they can swing around to at least get a bearing on the source? I'm getting it pretty weak still here in DSM. Doing some work with Topo maps, the strongest sources have been Tama and Anamosa. Not enough test points for a proper answer, but might be a clue.

Given the terrain, Tama and Anamosa have a large rise between them, with Cedar rapids being another low spot. And since reception in CR and Waterloo is suprisingly low, I would guess the TX source to be south of Cedar Rapids. With all the work going on in Iowa City, maybe they have a stuck PTT? Maybe need to take a cruise and see what happens. With my luck there is more than one transmitter and it will be a wild goose chase!

Its not coming from Iowa City from what I can tell. I have been to Iowa City a couple times.

Tim K.

 

[kb0uxv]

Signal no longer heard in MN.

 

[Radioman96p71]

Seems that either the band opening that was carrying it has passed, the PA caught fire or they found it!

 

[Signal3and2]

Yay, I can take it off Nuisance Delete in my squad car this week!

 

[IowaGuy1603]

Yep.......I can't hear it on my tall antenna either..............see what happens tonight!