Davichko5650

A guy on one of the FB Groups for GMRS/FRS/MURS/CB posted: "I'm thinking off throwing out a call on my MURS Radio to see if anyone is around to talk, what do y'all think?" Besides the obvious reply about it being pretty much used for businesses for short distance comms. etc., my question back was, "what will you do for a callsign, given there are none for MURS; 'This is Cleanup on Aisle 9 monitoring, anyone around?' "

Streaming the YooToob on it. I can thumbs up/down things subscribe or save for later. All these things except comment. I'd have to add a keyboard but I use one at work most days so that's a non-starter. I rarely watch YT on either my phone (smarter than the TV) or on my home Laptop (it's normally trying to contact those random men out there)

I noted that on your last video on a Wouxun HT! I was on my smart TV and couldn't comment on the precise nature of your verbiage! Although, I'm betting that "Certain Individuals" did leave some good ones worth reading?

Nothing brings out a pile up on the amateur bands like a YL calling CQ. At a local meet up last Saturday, of of the guys was bitching about Contesters using a YL to call the CQ Contest, and when he answered, "some dude replied, I wanted to talk to the girl!!!" Like it was false adverstising or sumtin... But back to the topic. I only need to know one callsign, mine. I can't think of the callsigns any of the friends I talk to on Simplex; I know a couple of their numbers, but it's so we can tell the 3 Joes apart. We ID on time and and when we complete a conversation, and that's it. And no phonetics. A couple of the guys, we still use their CB "handles" when calling them! I don't ever recall anyone on GMRS asking me my callsign.

Used these at my previous employer with our Kenwood Nexedge radios. Rock solid, as you'd expect from both brands!

Could be, cw, the original digital mode, can have a certain rhythmic cadence to it, as do many of the digital modes. The other thing I find interesting is the number of amateur operators I run into with a SIGINT background similar to mine.

The Queen is never wrong. Once we thought (s)he was, but she was mistaken!

I'm really that way also, just threw LZ out there as a joke. I can't think of a genre of music that doesn't have something I don't like in it. Mine is the a/c in the shack, seems to warble a nice mark/space after those RTTY Contests go silent.

Personally, I've always liked Led Zeppelin as my favorite band. 20 m CW and Phone were my go to's for FD this year. Very limited Op time as usual due to annual Family do's that weekend. But managed contacts on the bands from 40-6m working a 1E station

When the first brick sized Cellphones came out, a buddy got one for work. He'd call us when he was down at the lake and ask us to call back in 5 minutes. He would walk by the sunbathing girls on the beach and take that call trying to impress them. Didn't really work...

Absolutely - Here in St Paul, we hear sirens, we rush outside to look for them!. But the guys I know are researchers not tour guides, so they like to keep other ears from getting their info and clogging up their spots!

Others have posted VG info already, won't add to that. I do know a couple "professional" storm chasers, they both have LMR licenses for their pursuits. Mostly so they can encrypt their radio traffic, so as to not have other chasers, especially those who take groups out to show off storms, their info.

Just the gift of Time to work 6 meters for the VHF Contest.

Wanna see Randolpho do that ala Molly Shannon!

Well, CANG and USMC do have CEWI BN's, right??? (although the nomenclature may differ)

Cue the "that's not real radio" SadHam comments!

An oldie but a goodie. That one's been hammered to death by the Hams, both Happy and Sad over the last couple of years. Yeah, with EchoLink or DMR/C4FM, etc., et al, I can talk thousands of miles on my handheld. But I prefer the old school nothing between me and the other guy than the ether...

Or.... Both kinds of Music, Country and Western.

E-1 pay in 74 was 397 per. ETS'd as an SP4 at the 505 per month. For those that care, my MOS was 98G2LAEK3/05H2LAEK3. But was also put on Temp as a 95B when I was guarding the SCIF as there weren't enough MP's with clearances to do the gig.

When you're making $505 a month defending democracy, you go cheap! Except for my golf clubs back then...

Well 49 years ago it was free, but required. But of all my army buddies who got CB's back then, I was the only one who sent in for the License!

KAUO6363, Sent in a form that was in the Kraco box to Uncle Charlie when I was at Ft. Campbell in '76.

As far as Ivy, still immune as of last weekend. I'll know about the Oak, sumac and stinging nettles this weekend after we visit the river land...

well, it's been 69 years so, I think I'm in the clear there?

ARRL has log books. I have a mini one for the occasional portable no cell service ops. Never have I ever logged a GMRS or CBRS contact, but the fields in a log book can be modified to suit any radio service I would think.