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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.

After years in the military after having NATO beat into my skull...Alpha Bravo, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Then I left the military and went into law enforcement where NATO was "frowned upon" and APCO required .. Adam Boy, William Tom Frank. Now I get beat up by "some sad people" for often inadvertently mixing the two ... Alpha Boy I mean Bravo, William I mean Whiskey Tango Frank, I mean Foxtrot. Just what I need. Another phonetic alphabet.

whoa whoa whoa there guy. Don't spoil it for those of us who like to hear about some random strangers prostate exam results on the air.

My apologies. I missed the part in the TOS where freedom of speech was conveyed only after a certain period of time on the forum. And my turkey cost the same as it did the last 20 years....one round of Winchester Longbeard XR 3-inch, 1¾-ounce, No. 5. Don't tell me you actually buy turkeys, city boy. ? PS: Thank you for your service. You were worth it, Brother.

The difference in your comparison is if I have "4-5 digits" in ham gear then I have something worth 3-4 digits to show for my money. All ARRL has given me for their annual fee was email spam. Oh, and a magazine that I can't even give away. I have 5 LARGE boxes of ARRL QST magazine spanning about 10 years stacked up in the garage that I've taken to every club meeting and still can't unload on anyone. It's like trying to give away the Flu. I even offered to tote them to the truck for them if they'll take them for free. My new plan is to buy a roll of wrapping paper and wrap bundles of 5 QST mags and hand them out as Christmas gifts next month at the club Christmas party. I hear such comments all the time about various organizations, such as the NRA. The gun toters all claimed the NRA has saved the world and we'd all be defenseless loyal slave subjects if the NRA didn't exist. But it seems to me the other 270-something countries on the planet ham ham radio...with a few exceptions like North Korea...but they don't have ARRL. So either believe what you hear or have a higher standard and believe what you see. It's up to you. Whats the CEO of the ARRL pulling down now? $285,853 according to their IRS records. Lucky guy. Most hams don't earn 200G a year plus perks. Yet I'm expected to send in a portion of my VA disability check (that keeps me just below the poverty level as it is) so the suit can fly to the conventions and stay at the Carolton Ritz and have an unlimited expense budget. All for a rag I can't give away. Oh and that poor ARRL Treasurer....$50,000 per year and the poor guy works an average of 5 hours per week according to IRS form 990. What was the last month you took home a $4,100 paycheck for working 20 hours? That is all. Except for that adage about a fool and his money.

Hello Gentlemen, I'm a brand new GMRS user introducing myself from the Inner Banks of North Carolina. Also a Ham operator and just realized there is a GMRS repeater right here in town, so I decided to get my GMRS ticket as well. WRTS213 ~ Waterfront Radio Tranmitting Station 213 (The only way I can remember a 7-character call sign) Thanks for having me in your community. Anthony www.kd3y.com