WQYC236 Posted March 5, 2017 Report Posted March 5, 2017 Speaking of the unlicensed, I'd like to expand that term to the "Don't Know, Don't Care Group" (DKDCG)! I spoke to one of these on Saturday while I was in a small town of about 30,000 people near me. I had the radio on scan when I heard that annoying warbling sound produced by somebody hitting the "Call Button" on a walkie talkie. If that wasn't annoying enough, the scanner was following him up through the channels, one, two, three, four, etc. After listening to him move through all the channels twice, I thought maybe someone was actually in trouble and trying to find help on any possible channel. I identified myself and asked if someone needed assistance. The response was "No, I'm just trying to see if this radio works". To make a long story short we talked for maybe 3 or 4 minutes while I explained to him (obviously an adult male) about licensing and the power and channel restrictions. I encouraged him to stay on the FRS only channels if he wasn't going to get a license and to especially avoid the Repeater channels, explaining that he could be interfering with legitimate communications. He responded with short, unintelligent answers. I finally signed off and went back to scanning mode, only to hear him back on the repeater channels warbling through every frequency, just as if nothing happened! The famous turn of the century evangelist Billy Sunday once said, "Anybody can get born again, but stupid is forever"! mainehazmt, Logan5 and chiefeis 3 Quote
mainehazmt Posted March 9, 2017 Report Posted March 9, 2017 Uhmmm maybe that would make a great call sign in DX... Logan5 and jmoylan69 2 Quote
WQYC236 Posted March 9, 2017 Author Report Posted March 9, 2017 Uhmmm maybe that would make a great call sign in DX... Ha! If I have another conversation with him I may tell him he made the big time on MYGMRS! mainehazmt 1 Quote
WQYC236 Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Posted March 26, 2017 This is an update on the DKDCG guy I wrote about earlier. I was back in the same town on Saturday and sure enough he was still there "warbling" through all 22 FRS/GMRS frequencies! I was actually trying to have a LEGAL conversation with my grandson on his new GMRS hand held radios about three miles away and finally had to sign off because of this idiot. His standard operating procedure is to "warble" twice on each channel and then move to the next until someone responds to the noise. If someone answers, he always says the same thing "I didn't know this radio was working", and then proceeds to move through the frequencies again. This went on for the entire two hours that I was there. Never underestimate the power of stupid people with time on their hands. He did mention the apartment complex he lives in so we may be getting closer to a lawful solution to what is becoming a bigger problem. mainehazmt 1 Quote
mainehazmt Posted March 27, 2017 Report Posted March 27, 2017 Ha! If I have another conversation with him I may tell him he made the big time on MYGMRS! yep I can see it this is delta kilo delta one Charlie gulf northern Maines don't know don't care station cq cq... Logan5 1 Quote
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