8m used by police

[VE7NOT]

I was given a set of old Land Mobiles several years ago and they followed me through the years. Before i got my ham licence I used them in winter when the CB band, which we used for famlily communcation, was full of 'skip' going over s-9.

They were one channel on 37.3 MHz. I found them quite workable and with a little more power and fm were quite nice compared to 11m.

However I soon learned they were not without DX http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Even the transceiver I put in the car picked up a strange set of voices even though the car was running a 'Larson 34'

From the 'base station' on day I was copying base-mobiles all morning on day and decided to see what it was. I keyed up and very bluntly asked. "WHO ARE YOU?"

One of the mobile came back with "Who was that?"

A surprised dispatcher told me I was on a 'private police band' http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

They were located in a small town (can't remember the name) in Arkansas. Interesting. From then on they ignored my family communication 2000 miles away http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

Nowadays knowing the police force there use 37.3Mhz I leave on of the radios hooked up to an antenna waiting to see if the band is open. If it is i'll scoot up to 6m http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[N3ATS]

Ha!

Yeah, lot's of PS agencies still use lowband here in the states. The county just to the north of me uses 37 MHz for police.

You are licensed for that frequency correct?

Sounds like someone needs to use a PL...

[VE7NOT]

Not really licenced for it. i'm unofficialy licenced for it. I asked industry Canada if anyone in my area was using 37.3Mhz.

There response was that no on in the area used it and as long as no one does I could. The previous owner had asked the same.

a search today on Industry Canada bring up one listing I think is in British Columbia: 37.300000 37.300000 NOOTKA LADY TEAGUE FISHING CORP


Interesting. Judging by the name that's either way way up the coast towards the Alaska Panhandle or on the other side of this island which in either case woul make interferance unlikely.

[KD6NIG]

I know that the Highway Patrol in Ca uses 41-46MHZ or somewhere in that area. If they still are, I'm not sure as I have not used a scanner in a long time, but I do recall them being in that area when I scanned before.

[wb7dmx]

NOT

I think you should double check your rules and regs, if you transmit on any freq that you are not licensed for should bring a heavy fine , loss of equipment, and possible jail time and revocation of any liceness you do have, I don't know how the cadaians handle it, but it should be a direct violation of something, otherwise why have any rules at all.

I think I will do some research on this to find out.

[KG6YTZ]

California Highway Patrol uses most of the 42 MHz range, with pairs that are referred to by color - for instance, I think the "brown" pair might be 42.66 for mobiles and 42.88 for the base [a pair used locally here by the Baldwin Park office]. #There is no standard offset that I am aware of. #There are also inter-agency allocations - such as "CLEMARS," or California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System - in VHF.

Getting back to the 37's... #I'm sure we've got allocations for them around here, too. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif #{checks Police Call} Yeah, that's what I thought - a diverse mix of government, emergency, and public service stuff. #37.3 here is allocated to the AQMD - "Air Quality Management District," a.k.a. the Smog Police.

[wb7dmx]

Schedule I - Frequency Bands and Bandwidths for Use by Amateur Stations Operating in Canada and in Region 2
Column I #Column II #Column III #Column IV #
Item #Frequency Band #Maximum Bandwidth #Operating Provisions #Operator Qualifications #
1 #1.800 - 2.000 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
2 #3.500 - 4.000 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
3 #7.000 - 7.300 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
4 #10.100 - 10.150 MHz #1 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
5 #14.000 - 14.350 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
6 #18.068 - 18.168 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
7 #21.000 - 21.450 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
8 #24.890 - 24.990 MHz #6 kHz # # B and 5, B/H, B&A #
9 #28.000 - 29.700 MHz #20 kHz # #B and 5, B/H, B&A #
10 #50.000 - 54.000 MHz #30 kHz # #B #
11 #144.000 - 148.000 MHz #30 kHz # #B #
12 #220.000 - 225.000 MHz #100 kHz # # B #
13 #430.000 - 450.000 MHz #12 MHz #1 #B #
14 #902.000 - 928.000 MHz #12 MHz #1 #B #
15 #1.240 - 1.300 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
16 #2.300 - 2.450 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
17 #3.300 - 3.500 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
18 #5.650 - 5.925 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
19 #10.000 - 10.500 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
20 #24.000 - 24.050 GHz #Not specified # # B #
21 #24.050 - 24.250 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
22 #47.000 - 47.200 GHz #Not specified # # B #
23 #75.500 - 76.000 GHz #Not specified # # B #
24 #76.000 - 81.000 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
25 #142.000 - 144.000 GHz #Not specified # # B #
26 #144.000 - 149.000 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
27 #241.000 - 248.000 GHz #Not specified #1 #B #
28 #248.000 - 250.000 GHz #Not specified # # B #

Note
this is a list of the frequncys you are licensed to operate in.
any other operation other than the listed frequencys is a direct violation of the reg's,
expect to recive a notice to appear from your local IC

after reading all your post I have come to the conculsion that you are the type of operator that gives the hoby a bad name.
your admission of operating out of the bands and full intent of modifing you radios for illegal operation and then bragging about it here on a open forum,
I have printed out all your post and put them in a envlope addresed to your local office of the IC, they can do what ever they chose reguarding your intentions of operating on the ham frequency bands and all the other frequencys on the radio.

shame on you.

[VE7NOT]

Just know what i was told. The use of radio frequncies in this area is fairly laid back. IC only worries about interferance. As it is the local Taxis here use 49.320. They are not really licenced but have been on their for years. If interferance occurs usually IC will make note of it and inform you. It's only if your a fool and ignore their warning of interferance that you get fines.

There are many users of vhf that are not licenced in the area such as logging trucks using 173MHz. Most are not licenced but they are not interfering with anyone in the area so IC couldn't care less.

It is not confined to the country either. The City of Vancouver has POLICE using frequncies in between CB channels for back up. (ex. 27.400 instead of 27.405)

The guy I brought the radio from had used them for about 15 years for ship-shore use with his family when he was out fishing.

The guy at a local radio shop even used his ham tranceiver on 49Mhz for base-mobile http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[VE7NOT]

Hmm I just noticed my 900Mhz phone is transmitting in one of the ham bands. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[wb7dmx]

so with that your reasoning is if he can do it so can I ?
not a good train of thought

[VE7NOT]

I asked industry Canada if anyone in my area was using 37.3Mhz.

There response was that no on in the area used it and as long as no one does I could. The previous owner had asked the same.
>>>

That's my reason. Note in all this i never said i still use them on transmit. With Dx on 11m low it's usable for family communication again. (Although there have been a few good spikes recently. 10m was open yesterday morning http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif )

[kd7msc]

Topic: 8m used by police

Around here police use 9mm and some .40 S&W http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[VE7NOT]

Quote[/b] (kd7msc @ Nov. 10 2005,17:43)]Topic: 8m used by police

Around here police use 9mm and some .40 S&W http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[wb7dmx]

I like the 380 auto myself
and the 44 mag is nice too

[kd7msc]

Quote[/b] (wb7dmx @ Nov. 10 2005,17:46)]I like the 380 auto myself
I would never carry a 380 auto as a duty weapon. I don"t really care for 9mm either. I like 40 S&W, 45 auto, or 357 mag. All this talk about guns I may have to go shooting. I have not heard a shot fired in anger in weeks http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K9STH]

Until the early 1970s the City of Richardson (Texas) used the frequency of 37.140 MHz as did one of the burroughs of New York City. More than a "few" times during the "skip" months (like late April through early October) conditions would get so that neither department could communicate with their mobiles. However, the mobiles in New York City could copy the Richardson base station and the mobiles in Richardson could copy the New York City base station. The base stations could copy each other.

What would happen is that New York City would call Richardson and the Richardson dispatcher would write down the information and then relay it to the mobile in New York City. To get information to the Richardson mobiles Richardson dispatch would call New York City dispatch and then New York City would relay the information to Richardson.

In the early 1980s the Plano, Texas, animal control was on a frequency in the 47 MHz band and they were dispatched by the Plano Police Department. One day the Plano dispatcher called the "tactical unit number" of animal control and dispatched a certain address. The animal control officer confirmed the call. A few minutes later the animal control officer called and asked for directions to the particular address. The Plano dispatcher gave the directions. After a few more minutes the animal control officer came back on and asked for the "cross streets" that the address was between.

By this time the Plano dispatcher was starting to become agitated but she gave the cross streets. A few minutes later the animal control officer came back on and asked for further confirmation on the address. The Plano dispatcher got really "testy" and said that the address was on such and such side of the street and was between such and such cross streets. After a few more minutes the animal control officer said that he just could not find the address. Again the Plano dispatcher told him to look harder.

The animal control officer had just about all that he could take. He then radioed "look, there ain't no such address in Fort Lauderdale". The Plano dispatcher then had to explain that the "problem" was in Plano, Texas, and not Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The "tactical unit number" was the same, the radio frequency was the same, the street address was a possible address, and the cross streets were similar. I know that this "story" is true because I had a couple of technicians working in the dispatch office at the Plano Police Department and I was supervising and I heard it all.

About 2 AM the assistant chief of a Dallas suburban volunteer fire department was awakened by his monitor receiver sending two-tone sequential signals. He recognized them as being those that activated the city-wide severe weather sirens. However, the weather was perfectly clear. Fortunately, he lived just a few blocks from the fire station and he hurried there to send the signals to turn off the sirens that were blaring all over town. But, a number of the residents had been awakened and were flooding the police department with telephone calls wanting to know what was the problem.

After doing some investigating it was found that a department in New Hampshire had sent the tones. Now had this been lowband (30 MHz to 50 MHz) it would not have been that unusual. But, this was highband (in the 154 MHz range). Don't know if it was tropo or sporadic E. But the signal from New Hampshire was definitely "full quieting" in Allen, Texas.

Glen, K9STH

[kd7msc]

44 mag. Now you are talking wb7dmx! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[wb7dmx]

I have always wanted to fire the thomsom contender with a gvt 44/70 loaded in it, but never knew anyonr that had one

[ve2nsm]

Quote[/b] (wb7dmx @ Nov. 10 2005,20:17)]Schedule I - Frequency Bands and Bandwidths for Use by Amateur Stations Operating in Canada and in Region 2
Column I Column II Column III Column IV
Item Frequency Band Maximum Bandwidth Operating Provisions Operator Qualifications
1 1.800 - 2.000 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
2 3.500 - 4.000 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
3 7.000 - 7.300 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
4 10.100 - 10.150 MHz 1 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
5 14.000 - 14.350 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
6 18.068 - 18.168 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
7 21.000 - 21.450 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
8 24.890 - 24.990 MHz 6 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
9 28.000 - 29.700 MHz 20 kHz B and 5, B/H, B&A
10 50.000 - 54.000 MHz 30 kHz B
11 144.000 - 148.000 MHz 30 kHz B
12 220.000 - 225.000 MHz 100 kHz B
13 430.000 - 450.000 MHz 12 MHz 1 B
14 902.000 - 928.000 MHz 12 MHz 1 B
15 1.240 - 1.300 GHz Not specified 1 B
16 2.300 - 2.450 GHz Not specified 1 B
17 3.300 - 3.500 GHz Not specified 1 B
18 5.650 - 5.925 GHz Not specified 1 B
19 10.000 - 10.500 GHz Not specified 1 B
20 24.000 - 24.050 GHz Not specified B
21 24.050 - 24.250 GHz Not specified 1 B
22 47.000 - 47.200 GHz Not specified B
23 75.500 - 76.000 GHz Not specified B
24 76.000 - 81.000 GHz Not specified 1 B
25 142.000 - 144.000 GHz Not specified B
26 144.000 - 149.000 GHz Not specified 1 B
27 241.000 - 248.000 GHz Not specified 1 B
28 248.000 - 250.000 GHz Not specified B

Note
this is a list of the frequncys you are licensed to operate in.
any other operation other than the listed frequencys is a direct violation of the reg's,
expect to recive a notice to appear from your local IC

after reading all your post I have come to the conculsion that you are the type of operator that gives the hoby a bad name.
your admission of operating out of the bands and full intent of modifing you radios for illegal operation and then bragging about it here on a open forum,
I have printed out all your post and put them in a envlope addresed to your local office of the IC, they can do what ever they chose reguarding your intentions of operating on the ham frequency bands and all the other frequencys on the radio.

shame on you.
He never said it was a ham band. It's a commercial band. If you have the radios and the frequency is legit (he asked), go ahead and use it.

Police officers are not hams, they use radios, do they have a licence...no, they are just using the radios as a tool. Lots of people are using radios and talking on a lot of frequencies without even knowing what is happennig after the microphone. These are commercial operations. My neighbour's mom was talking on 5390KHz with 200W and a dipole all summer long because she was in a hunting camp in northern Quebec, and this was the frequency to join bell canada operator for phone patch. She was not a ham, she does'nt even know was "amateur radio" is. Heck, probably she does not even understand why people would talk on a radio as a hobby!

What is the problem with hams trying to police every radio operation?!

[wb7dmx]

I am well aware of what he was talking about, but he feels his ham ticket will allow him to operate on any freq he choses, and that is wrong the way I read the rules.
maybe you guys should down load them and read them, you can find it at the rac web sight.

but then maybe the canadaian hams have a differant set of rules to go by.

and what is wrong with keeping the ham bands policed, we have been doing it sence the beginning of ham radio.

have things degraded so far that we arn't allowed to do this anymore with out being put down for it ?

[KE7DFP]

The 8mm round is for possies and girliemen

[ve2nsm]

Quote[/b] (wb7dmx @ Nov. 10 2005,21:21)]and what is wrong with keeping the ham bands policed
Nothing, that exactly my point. He was NOT talking about an Amateur band.

[wb7dmx]

Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ Nov. 10 2005,20:41)]Quote[/b] (wb7dmx @ Nov. 10 2005,21:21)]and what is wrong with keeping the ham bands policed
Nothing, that exactly my point. He was NOT talking about an Amateur band.
but he was talking about useing his ham liceness to operate on a non ham frequency. read some of his other posts.

[KD7WHQ]

Read again. He consulted with IC, and IC told him that as long as there was no interference, it was ok.

This would be the same as the FCC giving you secondary status on a non-ham frequency, with authorisation to operate on that basis. Exactly the same.

Things do play differently in other countries, and when you get up into the "great white north," I suspect things get very loose..

[wb7dmx]

yes, you are correct, I was misinformed and mis understood things greatly
sorry for that.
I feel like a lid now, stupid
but I did learn a lot.
73's

[W9AFB]

Illinois State Police still uses frequencies in the 42-43 MHz range for dispatch and mobiles. With 300W and 200+ towers, those signals can sure carry in the vast expanse of nothing here in Illinois.

[KD6NIG]

Quote[/b] (KE7DLG @ Nov. 10 2005,23:34)]Quote[/b] (KD6NIG @ Nov. 10 2005,10:12)]I know that the Highway Patrol in Ca uses 41-46MHZ or somewhere in that area. #If they still are, I'm not sure as I have not used a scanner in a long time, but I do recall them being in that area when I scanned before.
I'm not sure about now as I have been out of there for close to 15 years at this point. As I remember one of their freqs was 42.520 or 46.520 (hmmm, memory is fading these days) #which it ends up was, at that time, also a freq used by North Carolina Highway Patrol or State Police (Whichever they designate themselves as out there) I could sit in the car in Tracy and pickup statewide broadcasts from North Carolina. I would not get routine traffic but when there was a statewide broadcast it was like they were next door. One time this was notification of and interstate chase in progress and one time a funeral announcement for an officer.

Also if they are still using the same system the better freqs to find if they are close are in the 154 or 155 area. As I remember the handhelds transmitted to the extender on the 154 or 155 freq and were retransmitted to base on the 42 or 46 freq. Usually if you could hear the higher freq they were pretty close by.

I used to know their whole system inside and out along with a lot of others in the old "scanners are my religion" days. CDF was always the best system to listen to during the summer and loved figuring out how they operated, a truly massive operation and very well organized.
I did a little looking around last night and they are still mostly there.

Interesting thing about the mobile extenders is that where my parents live (Plumas County) and the surrounding area, they use a different freq for those than down here. Don't know if maybe the altitude causes it to carry more and interfere with extenders in the valley, perhaps, but probably a logical reason.

One of the officers used to live right behind my parents house and came by to visit all of the time. He was a really nice guy, but he got promoted so hes no longer there. It was good to see him move up though-he was a really nice guy.

In thier area they only had usually 2 officers on duty covering a pretty wide area, so things could get interesting at times.

My mom to this day still listens to the scanner. We'll often hear the voluenteer fire department get paged, then moments later the fire horn will go off. Never figured out what the horn blasts meant, though.

[n0jaa]

Quote[/b] (KD6NIG @ Nov. 11 2005,11:37)]My mom to this day still listens to the scanner. #We'll often hear the voluenteer fire department get paged, then moments later the fire horn will go off. #Never figured out what the horn blasts meant, though.
In the past, many towns sounded the firehouse's siren to alert volunteer firefighters that there was a call and they needed to rush to the station, or find out what the incident was and go to it.

Some towns still sound the fire siren when the fire department receives a call. #Indian Harbor Beach in Florida still does this as some of their firefighters are volunteers. #It serves as a secondary "pager" system.

Paul, N0JAA.

[KD6NIG]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ Nov. 11 2005,13:21)]Quote[/b] (KD6NIG @ Nov. 11 2005,11:37)]My mom to this day still listens to the scanner. #We'll often hear the voluenteer fire department get paged, then moments later the fire horn will go off. #Never figured out what the horn blasts meant, though.
In the past, many towns sounded the firehouse's siren to alert volunteer firefighters that there was a call and they needed to rush to the station, or find out what the incident was and go to it.

Some towns still sound the fire siren when the fire department receives a call. #Indian Harbor Beach in Florida still does this as some of their firefighters are volunteers. #It serves as a secondary "pager" system.

Paul, N0JAA.
The one(s) near my parents house (one was about a mile away, one 3 miles away) would have different patterns-long and short blasts mixed. Almost like code, but the patterns repeated.

Our theory was either they were telling the volunteers what area the call was in, what type of call, or ? (who knows!)

I used to do traffic control for the closer VFD, but we just got paged, and I was never made privvy to the horn. If I heard it, I checked my pager, and if they needed traffic control I would get paged. Maybe 1 out of 10 calls we got sent out, usually on accidents that could not be immedietely cleared-all the roads up there were 2 lanes and curvy, so laying down flares to warn people was what I basically did.

As far as I know they still use the same system. The radio system for the Sheriff up there is the same also. Sometimes it doesn't work very well, but for the most part it does ok, I guess. They have a lot of county to cover up there, so it can be interesting if someone ever needs backup-sometimes it can be more than 20 minutes away, especially late at night.

But my parents wouldn't leave it, ever http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[VE7NOT]

The fire halls around here are all linked to a central dispatch.

I'm about half a mile outside a town of 2500 however i can hear the fire hall siren start up. Looking in my frequency list i find all fire halls here are on the linked frequency of 154.130

Since it's programmed into my scanner I know the procedure.

First a 911 call is made usually and the dispatcher immediatly locates the nearest fire hall. A special tone is emitted to the repeater. This instanly set off the fire hall's siren that has been paged. Right after the tone is sent an automated voice comes over the frequency ex.>> "Crofton Paged."

Next the dispatcher gets on the mike and always repeats the message twice to the hall ex>>

"Crofton Fire STation, report of chimmney Fire at 8272 Crofton Road."

The message is said twice then the dispatcher asks the Fire Hall if they copied. This is confirmed with a message from the Hall that repeats the message back.

Next thing you will hear after the confirmation is the Hall's siren shutting down.

Then the fire trucks come on. ex>>

"Truck #3. Five men aboard, leaving the hall."

If the fire is large other halls nearby will be paged to help.

Interesting though there have been the oddballs case where the dispatcher received a call about a certian address that was common to two towns in the area and made the mistake of paging the wrong hall.

Also recently this summer the siren went off for no reason and it wasn;t the dispatcher who paged it. Must be some tone sent on tropo.

[WA2ZDY]

The NJ State Police used to be on low band also. The central NJ road frequency was 44.620. In the summer we used to listen to the Arkansas State Police in Little Rock on the same frequency. It was rather interesting at times. Both agencies now have large trunked 800 MHz systems.

CHP will be staying on low band. The ultra modern technology will not work well enough in the rural/mountainous areas. Low band simplex works best in the environment that is most of California. The extenders, also known as vehicular or cross-band repeaters are more like mobile remote bases. They allow the officers away from the car to use a handheld and access the system.

For the last 12 years of my career I carried a Smith & Wesson 40 S&W pistol. Before that we had an assortment of 38 and 357 revolvers. I was able to purchase for my self one of the 357 revolvers - a S&W Model 66 - rollmarked "NJ Dept of Corrections." My 40S&W is mine also.

Now I'm retired. Yippee.

[KE5FRP]

Glen-
Is there anything you don't know/haven't done? You seem to have a solution to everything and a story to go with it!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Chris, KE5FRP

[KC9ECI]

NOT---

The FD at the North end of the County here has been 'victimized' by some other departments tones several times in recent months. They're on the same freq, and same subaudible tone as we are.

[wa9cwx]

I still find it fascinating that all you need to operate on a frequency is to see if anyone else is using it, and ask for permission from the Gov't. AND THEY GRANT IT !!!

I am trying to picture some other versions of that in the US....

Yo, US Treasury, say, I got me some extra paper an' ink, and #I'm just a bit shy of cash, can I print some $22.00 notes? You guys arn't using $22.00 bills, are you?

Oh sure, go ahead, and you can pay your taxes with those too.

Whole thing sounds strange to me. #

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif # # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[K9STH]

FRP:

I have never voted a straight Democrat ticket (although I have voted for Democrats when they were better than the Republican candidate).

I have never been off the North American continent (been to Mexico and Canada - especially Canada - a number of times).

I have never piloted an airplane with more than 2 engines and have never piloted a jet airplane. Did own a Cessna 150 (N5572E) for a while.

I have never run more than 1500 watts output on an amateur band (actually my main linear only puts out 1400 watts on 80 meters and my other linear only puts out 650 watts on 80 meters, both a little less on 10 meters).

I have never written an article for QST (have had a couple of letters to the editor published in the 1960s and 1970s) but have written for 73, Ham Radio, Electric Radio, Popular Electronics, CQ, and several other publications including Belo (owner of the Dallas Morning News). Have over 1000 articles published.

I have never taken the "top" place in any amateur radio contest, HF or VHF (have taken all of North America, the 5th call area, West Gulf Division, United States, and several other "divisions" but never the entire contest).

I have never been over 1000 feet up a tower (and that was with an elevator) and have never actually climbed a tower more than about 200 feet (climbing 100 feet is about like walking a mile in terms of energy expended).

I never met Kennedy or Ford (have met the rest of the Presidents since Eisenhower at least once).

I have never been appointed to the FCC (was nominated by Senator Phil Gramm when George H. W. Bush took office - made it through a couple of "cut offs" but not the final one).

I have never made a contact on the Class "D" Citizen's Radio Service (I did align some equipment for a local service station in 1962 because I had the necessary commercial operator's license, the owner was a friend of my father's, and he paid some "good" money).

I have never owned an Italian, Russian, Swedish, or Yugoslavian automobile (among others). Have owned American, Japanese, British, German, and French automobiles.

I have not, so far, portrayed a Confederate officer (or enlisted man) in any living history (although I do have a couple of Confederate uniforms). I have portrayed Union officers from captain through brigadier (and a sergeant-major).

I do have a "knack" for being in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time!

I have never been "shot at" (at least that I know of).

I have never shot anyone. In fact, I have not, at least so far, had to have held an firearm on any person.

I have not had any organ transplant (have had a few things removed or "switched around" but no transplants).

I have never been underwater in a submarine (been in a submarine a few times but always on top of the water).

I have never fired a naval gun (Army artillery, yes, Navy, no).

I have never been drunk (I don't like the taste of alcohol and never acquired a taste for beer). I can drink, just don't like it!

I have never driven a railroad engine (although I have ridden in them numerous times while working on the radio equipment while in college including inside the actual motor / generator compartment).

I have never been married more than once (still married to the same woman for over 40 years).

I have never run the mile in under 4 minutes (my best time in high school was 4 minutes 8.2 seconds).

I don't really speak any language except American English and "Texan" (although I can speak a few words in German, Japanese, and Romansche' - a variation of Latin that is still spoken in Switzerland).

I have never been a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (do have a few ancestoral uncles and cousins that did serve in the Confederate Army) but have been the Commander of the Department of the Southwest Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (and held 3 different national offices in that organization).

There are some other things that I haven't experienced or observed. However, I do admit that I have had a relatively "colorful" life. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Glen, K9STH

[W8EFA]

Quote[/b] (KE5FRP @ Nov. 11 2005,17:51)]Glen-
Is there anything you don't know/haven't done? You seem to have a solution to everything and a story to go with it!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Chris, KE5FRP
No, Glen is an expert on everything... just ask him.

[VE7NOT]

Quote[/b] (Virus @ Nov. 11 2005,22:49)]Quote[/b] (VE7NOT @ Nov. 11 2005,22:35)]really I don't care what you think of me. You have no ham licence anyway.

Just don't use langauge like that in the foum please. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
Wrong, idiot. I do have a ham license and operate legally and within the regulations, unlike morons like you.
Where is your callsign?

Note IC gave me permission. Read the whole thread. Also none of this is relevant since the radio is on receive nowadays

[kd7msc]

He has a license. I think he is a banned member. You may want to remove your quote. 73http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Quote[/b] (kd7msc @ Nov. 11 2005,22:56)]He has a license. I think he is a banned member. You may want to remove your quote. 73http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Thank You . I am sorry but my SS has run out for the month and I can't aford my medication


73 de KE7DZZ

[VE7NOT]

Quote[/b] (kd7msc @ Nov. 11 2005,22:56)]He has a license. I think he is a banned member. You may want to remove your quote. 73http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Fair enough removed

[kw7dsp]

Eric KE7DZZ was banned for obvious reasons. His Avitar was 'The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate'. He now has a vendetta against QRZ.Com. His current actions should make the FCC consider if he is fit to be a commission licensee. Banned here today, Banned from Radio tomorrow. I think his parting comment was 'I Will Bring QRZ.Com Down'.

[K9STH]

EFA:

I am definitely not an "expert" on women even though I have a wife and three daughters.

All I know is when a woman says "jump" you ask "how high on the way up and permission to come down". That seems to keep things on an even keel.

Now as for what an "expert" is:

Expert, "ex spurt"

Ex = former, something that has been before

Spurt = a small amount of liquid released under pressure

Therefore, "Expert" = "a has been drip under pressure"

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Glen, K9STH