At this point in the thread, is this topic going anywhere? Or is it gonna end up in a fight where everyone hates everone in the end? Or should i be quiet?
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You obviously missed my point.Rayjk110 said:
Let me repeat: He has a scanner, now he wants the next best thing. What will be the next best thing after he gets a GMRS programmed HT1000? Very likely it will have a transmitter that could be used to do something harmful or illegal.
While it is not guaranteed that a child will use a transmitter in an abusive way, teenagers have a clear propensity to use transmitters wrongly. Therefore, any interest they show in radios, beyond receivers and FRS, should be discouraged. Let's stop it a few steps before they do what kids all too often do: set up bootleg FM stations, cause malicious interference, and behave in such a way on the CB that angry adults show up on mommy and daddy's doorstep.
Good God people,
When I was in Southern California, I heard more garbage coming from the mouths of licensed hams than I have ever heard from "kids" using FRS radios.
When I was in Southern California, I heard more garbage coming from the mouths of licensed hams than I have ever heard from "kids" using FRS radios.
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n6orz said:
Next best thing? How about a ham ticket? Or maybe his interest in public safety radio will lead to a career as a 9-1-1 operator / dispatcher, and maybe he'll save someone's life someday.
Or maybe he'll get fed up with stuffy old hams who think amateur radio is "a good ol' boys club where snot nosed kids ain't welcome" and then he probably will get a transceiver and raise hell. I knew a kid growing up that did just that because his dad spent more time with his ham radio collection than he did with the kid - so the kid, wanting to get back at his dad, used the radios to raise hell on the public safety bands. If I recall correctly, the dad not only got to bail his kid out of jail and pay lots of fines on his behalf, he lost his ticket and his ham radios too.
All I'm saying is that maybe if he'd get less grief and more help from the hams on this board he'll be less inclined to do anything nasty to you guys. Make sense?
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I Have Nothing Against You, Scott
Only my GOD!!! You lived in the land of fruits and nuts?? At least you got smart and left that H***hole and made it to Texas, That has restored my faith in you!!! Scott *Laughs*rescue161 said:
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KE4ASQ said:
Don't forget flakes. The whole state is part of a complete breakfast.
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Rayjk110
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I think it's cool that he's interested in REAL radios and not some POS Icom, yeasu or the like with front end overload and a cheapass feel. And you want him to stick with crappy FRS radios? ****. He has a license for GMRS, not little kiddy FRS crap that he's too old to be dicking around with anyhow.
I think it's absolutley hilarious that you guys feel this way about him. The 'group' on the motorola schaumburg ham system was havaing a huge laugh about this today as they read here too and I just *had* to jump in and agree. Waaaay to many people here who act like "know it all professionals" just because they're some retired security guard or ares/react whackers..
good times
I think it's absolutley hilarious that you guys feel this way about him. The 'group' on the motorola schaumburg ham system was havaing a huge laugh about this today as they read here too and I just *had* to jump in and agree. Waaaay to many people here who act like "know it all professionals" just because they're some retired security guard or ares/react whackers..
good times
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Rayjk110 said:
I think if n6orz had his way he'd be banished from FRS too and would have to resort to kite string and Dixie cups for his communications needs.
Yep this thread has been a great big lollerfest. Even my boss and my coworker/roomate have enjoyed it immensely. Sometimes hams take that whole "self-policing" business a little too seriously. They can't be happy with policing their own frequencies so they have to play guardian to the rest of the RF spectrum as well. Hollingsworth is gonna start getting jealous of you guys you know.
OT: Why do people always type it HAM (all caps)? It's not an acronym....or is it? I suppose Hairless, Aging Men would be accurate enough.
I didn't live there by choice.
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n7lxi
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Why do you guys insist on feeding the trolls like n6orz?
Let's just get the kid's radio programmed. For God's sake... how many of us have the RSS to do it? I know I do, and I have no problem doing the radio for him.
When I was 15, I was working at a radio station and I had an HT220 on 161.67 (The station's RPU channel) Was I supposed to have it? No way. Did I abuse it? Nope.
I've had all kinds of radios since I was a kid. CBs, ham gear, plenty of Motorola stuff... and now I control the output on a 100,000 watt radio station in Seattle.
I think I turned out ok. Let the kid have his radio.
Let's just get the kid's radio programmed. For God's sake... how many of us have the RSS to do it? I know I do, and I have no problem doing the radio for him.
When I was 15, I was working at a radio station and I had an HT220 on 161.67 (The station's RPU channel) Was I supposed to have it? No way. Did I abuse it? Nope.
I've had all kinds of radios since I was a kid. CBs, ham gear, plenty of Motorola stuff... and now I control the output on a 100,000 watt radio station in Seattle.
I think I turned out ok. Let the kid have his radio.
Id personly like to make a motion to end this topic being that it has gone off topic several times and it is only cause too much controversy. Or I can just be quite, whatever one works is all good to me 
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Rayjk110
Rayjk110
your PM box is full
Rayjk110 said:
Rayjk110
your PM box is full
w4rez
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n7lxi said:
Because trolls make rather fun pets! :-D
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Rayjk110
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Landon,
Try sending me a PM now about the radio
I emptied the box.
Try sending me a PM now about the radio
I emptied the box.
Like I wrote in another thread (Poll: How Long Have You Been Into Radio Communications?), when I was about his age (a little younger), I was taking the crystals out of my handheld CB radios and mix-matching the pairs to create different TX/RX combos.
If you actually read what Landon has written (posted) in this thread, he is a scout (I am assuming a Boy Scout or maybe an Explorer Scout) and his troop uses GMRS (FRS) on camping trips; and for the RX, all he wants is FIRE (not police). He never once wrote that he wanted to TX on any unauthorized frequencies. As for the GMRS (lic req), I think he, as many other people do, is confusing it with FRS (no lic req) - or maybe he and/or his scout troop has a license.
When I was a Boy Scout on a camping trip, I would have liked to have been able to hear the fire dept or rangers. When I was an LAPD Explorer Scout, I wanted to hear the police frequencies (although, we had our own police radios).
When I was in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), we tweaked our own radios to get the freqs we wanted or to hit our repeaters.
I had my own scanner back when I was about his age. When I was a kid, if I had the money, I would have probably wanted the exact same thing he is asking for - a radio that I could transmit on to talk to others in my group and be able to hear (RX) the police/fire, etc. I always dreamed of having a scanner and a radio all in one unit...then I bought my iCOM W2A that does just that (but it's a very delicate radio).
I wonder if any of you naysayers ever tinkered with a radio (when you were a kid or even now) and made it do things that weren't quite "conventional" or took apart things to see how they worked and tried out new things. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
I think some here belong to the group called the Cynics who follow the philosophy of Cynicism - Antisthenes would have loved you guys.
Landon, if I had the equipment, I would do what I could to help you out (within the law), but I don't...hope you find what you seek.
If you actually read what Landon has written (posted) in this thread, he is a scout (I am assuming a Boy Scout or maybe an Explorer Scout) and his troop uses GMRS (FRS) on camping trips; and for the RX, all he wants is FIRE (not police). He never once wrote that he wanted to TX on any unauthorized frequencies. As for the GMRS (lic req), I think he, as many other people do, is confusing it with FRS (no lic req) - or maybe he and/or his scout troop has a license.
When I was a Boy Scout on a camping trip, I would have liked to have been able to hear the fire dept or rangers. When I was an LAPD Explorer Scout, I wanted to hear the police frequencies (although, we had our own police radios).
When I was in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), we tweaked our own radios to get the freqs we wanted or to hit our repeaters.
I had my own scanner back when I was about his age. When I was a kid, if I had the money, I would have probably wanted the exact same thing he is asking for - a radio that I could transmit on to talk to others in my group and be able to hear (RX) the police/fire, etc. I always dreamed of having a scanner and a radio all in one unit...then I bought my iCOM W2A that does just that (but it's a very delicate radio).
I wonder if any of you naysayers ever tinkered with a radio (when you were a kid or even now) and made it do things that weren't quite "conventional" or took apart things to see how they worked and tried out new things. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
I think some here belong to the group called the Cynics who follow the philosophy of Cynicism - Antisthenes would have loved you guys.
Landon, if I had the equipment, I would do what I could to help you out (within the law), but I don't...hope you find what you seek.
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landonjensen
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Well since this post has been so long, if you can program for me, please reply after this post so i can figure out who is closet etc,
thanks
thanks
I'll do it for free as long as I have the software. I'm in Texas.
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Attn Rescue161
ATTENTION RESCUE161
The frequency list is in the document attached to this post.
ATTENTION RESCUE161
The frequency list is in the document attached to this post.
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Rayjk110
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Uh oh
Here comes the old farts out of the wood work to ***** and complain about it again.....I can almost smell them.
Here comes the old farts out of the wood work to ***** and complain about it again.....I can almost smell them.
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