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California on your profile I already knew that. :)

Cold and icky handshakes are OK if they're on the square and level. ;)

Do I get a "GMRS PATROL" badge with my H.A.M. call sign on it and an orange vest?

As long as you identify with callsign every 15 minutes, you're legal. "Hey Fred this is dad" is perfectly legal so long as you throw your callsign out there every 15 minutes. WRTS881/1 this is WRTS881/2 is too anal. Talk to your family like you normally would, just include a callsign every 15 minutes.

WHAT? That would cost postage! We have 235,385,823,556,235,765 illegals and 28 foreign countries to support with "foreign aid". No way you're getting the US Government to waste postage on YOU, taxpayer. Joey Biden doesn't do ANYTHING for the taxpaying American. BOHICA

I used two pieces of 10-foot iron pipe joined with a threaded coupler in the middle. But I didn't cement it directly in the concrete. I cemented two pieces of pipe iron and used two bolts. That way if I need to do maint. on the antenna or for hurricanes, I can take the top bolt out and lay the mast down. So far it's been up 3 years with no issues. On the top is a fan dipole I made, on a piece of PVC pipe at 26 feet.

I wouldn't bother. I heard on the 40 meter net he has a small jeep.

I'm Jewish. We don't get ham licenses. That's a sin.

I was just an amused reader here until you made the "weird art video" comment. I don't care who you are or what god you worship, the nanner duct taped to the American flag was funny as hell.

WOW! NOTARUBICON replied to one of my comments! It's like meeting Elvis and shaking his hand! Love all your videos on Rumble, Sir. BRB...I gotta print this page out so I can frame it and hang it on the wall of my shack!

I thought it was my Boofang user manual on the wall.

Give this man a cigar. Now the FCC's can be a lot faster and more streamlined at doing nothing. If the FCC's gave one fart about enforcement they would do something about the fishermen offshore using our ham repeater for their fishing fleets, and they'd do something about all the deer hunters driving around with Marine VHF radios in their trucks looking for their lost dogs all season long.

Some sad people get emotionally nuked when you do anything that doesn't conform strictly to what they've been taught and what they think they understand of the rules. Case in point. A few years ago some of my buddies and I were scuba diving about 40 miles off the NC Coast when a mayday came over the Marine VHF during our surface interval between dives. After the caller made repeated maydays with no response it was obvious no one could hear his mayday so I grabbed the Marine VHF and called USCG. Caller could hear USCG but USCG couldn't hear the caller. So when USCG would ask a question, he'd reply, then I'd relay his reply to USCG. USCG gave him a phone # to call but he said he had no cell service on his phone that far offshore. I acted as relay for about 20 minutes between him and USCG. Eventually USCG asked me to identify myself, and since there's 243,924,992 "Anthony Jones" in North Carolina, and since our boat was not USCG registered, I gave them my name and my ham call sign. My logic was, the USCG certainly has access to FCC records if they need to find me in the future, and since the call sign is linked to me by name, address, and SSN, it is a de facto positive identification. According to the guy, his boat was taking on water, his engine wouldn't start, and that was a valid emergency, not just a "we're out of gas" scenario. Eventually the USCG found the guys and rescued them. But when the sad people on a certain world largest ham radio forum heard I had used a ham call sign on Marine VHF...you guessed it...I was told I had committed a crime, told I was gonna get that 134,222,783,446,552 gazillion dollar fine from the FCC's, I was going to prison, the FCC's were going to confiscate my radio equipment, etc. The sad people on the worlds largest ham forum roasted me for days for being a "bad ham" who didn't deserve to own a radio. Apparently I ruined their lives by using a ham call sign on Marine VHF during a mayday call. When the commander at USCG Fort Macon called me a few days later to thank me for being a relay and to tell me they found the guy and he was safe, I mentioned it to him, just to make sure that I hadn't overlooked some important detail in my radio education so I wouldn't get the 134,222,783,446,552 gazillion dollar fine from the FCC's and spend 20 years in prison like the sad people said. When his letter arrived in the mail I took a photo and posted it to the three-letter sad people forum. The letter said what I and anyone with an IQ over 20 already knew... "When on ham radio you'd use your ham call sign. When on Marine VHF you'd use your vessel name. But in an emergency all of the rules are suspended and none of the rules matter." I got the largest orgasm of my life posting that letter on the three-letter sad people forum. So yeah, if sad people will whine about saving a life, they'll certainly whine over phonetics. Or anything else they can find to argue about. If you didn't know, you'd think the FCC's awarded medals or something for filing complaints over trivial BS.

Not a legal issue here in North Carolina. State law classifies such as either 1) Lost property, 2) Misplaced property, or 3) Abandoned property, and there are specific legal rights or responsibilities that go to the finder with each. The moral issue, on the other hand, is more vague. 99.99% of the time if you ask the cable guy if he lost a $300 roll of cable the answer is going to be "yes". The other 0.01% of the time the answer is going to be "hell yes".

I agree with nokones...everything. When I key my Boo-fang UV-5R to talk, the right click menu on my wireless Bluetooth mouse pops up on my computer screen.