The Toilet?

[PeterMacQuarrie]

Howdy,
Have you ever dropped your handheld radio in the toilet? Is there a Q code for such a thing? And did your radio stop working afterwards?
Thanks!
Peter MacQuarrie.

 

[mmckenna]

<insert Baofeng joke here>

 

[PeterMacQuarrie]

Greetings mmckenna,
Thank you for the answer.
Sincerely,
Peter MacQuarrie.

 

[a417]

I thought this was a new name for channel 6.

 

[GlobalNorth]

I jumped completely into a swimming pool to rescue a drowning victim. There was no time to remove my Mother M HT1000 w/remote mic or my gun belt.

The radio survived perfectly.

 

[BinaryMode]

Code Brown?

 

[MTS2000des]

But the real question is, did you flush?

 

[WA8ZTZ]

Well, let's see... there is 10-100, so maybe 10-101?
Anyway, did you flush?

 

[belvdr]

Was this a dream about dropping it there? I have to say your topics are interesting.

 

[chrismol1]

That is why I buy submersible radios. I can't say I've dropped anything in the toilet but I have had clumsy accidents resulting in spilled drinks and gently run under water. I now have rules, nothing near to be spilled.Ive replaced 2 laptop keyboard in a year. Radios must remain on bathroom sink untouched until hands washed. Rules must be followed. I have a desk queen radio I promised never to take anywhere, of course the time I broke that rule, it got scuffed

 

[prcguy]

I jumped completely into a swimming pool to rescue a drowning victim. There was no time to remove my Mother M HT1000 w/remote mic or my gun belt.

The radio survived perfectly.

How bout the drowning person???

 

[eaf1956]

I don't talk on the radio on the toilet...

 

[AK9R]

Remember the old Daytimer personal organizers? I know a guy who dropped his in a porta-john. It wasn't pleasant.

 

[mikewazowski]

Remember the old Daytimer personal organizers? I know a guy who dropped his in a porta-john. It wasn't pleasant.

I still use a Daytimer. I've dropped it at least once where the pages have all flown out but I've never taken mine into a portapotty (yet).

 

[WA8ZTZ]

Went to use the pit toilet at the launch site to take a leak before heading out on the water.
Noticed that there was no toilet paper available (not surprising) but in my case not a problem.
However, when looking down into the pit, noticed that there was a torn off long shirt sleeve floating at the bottom.
Apparently a previous occupant had to improvise for lack of toilet paper.

 

[KB0VWG]

If you radio did survive do you second guess yourself when you put your lips close to the mic Did I really sanitize if enough?? Yuck lol
kb0vwg
wrpu444

 

[consys]

In the electrical/electronics department at a Naval Shipyard, we routinely cleaned all manor of equipment that had taken a dip. The base PD & FD often brought us radios that went for a swim, some having fallen overboard into the Napa river and recovered by divers. For cleaning non-ionic soap and distilled water were used, with isoproply alcohol for final rinse & dry in low temp ovens. The radios, big bricks (30 years ago) from Big M were not water tight. The ones from thirty or so feet under in the river didn’t always come back to life. Probably about a 50% or less success rate there. Zero % for the nicad battery packs that went that deep.

 

[ladn]

<insert Baofeng joke here>

Toilet would reject the Baofeng

 

[ecps92]

Remember the old Daytimer personal organizers? I know a guy who dropped his in a porta-john. It wasn't pleasant.

Hard to drop my Desktop version of Daytimer in the toilet, as it won't fit
still running after all these years

 

[AB4BF]

Hard to drop my Desktop version of Daytimer in the toilet, as it won't fit
still running after all these years

The toilet or the Daytimer??