How not to, and how TO

[W7DJM]

Hope it's ok to post this here, found this over at batlabs # #Hope none of YOU ever do anything like this:

how not

how to


If you browse around the above link, there's also some other great pics:

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another how not

[K9STH]

No problem with putting the links on QRZ.com from this site. Don't know about batlabs.

I have run into similar situations even before the FCC did away with the regulations that one had to hold either a first or second class (were combined into the General Radio Operator's License) commercial phone license to work on equipment. But, they became much more prevalent after deregulation.

Glen, K9STH

[VE2NSM]

Man!
And I thought we had crappy installations down here

[WA9CWX]

Blows my mind on what passes for "PRO" installs.
Here in SW WI we had a local WELL known jobber set up a nearby county police dept. on an UNLICENSED freq.
Also, had the local Hospital pager unlicensed on an off band freq. I'll bet the wiring job looked about the same as these gems.

[w8cbc]

The first time I walked into a station I did I.T. for, in Rutland VT, I found the rack room - processing, STLs, and automation for two stations - all running off an orange extension cord that ran out the door, into an air studio, and plugged into a regular domestic 120V wall plate.

I had to ask. Yes, the plug got kicked out every now and then.

[WA2ZDY]

Quote[/b] (wa9cwx @ Sep. 08 2005,18:55)]Blows my mind on what passes for "PRO" installs.
Here in SW WI we had a local WELL known jobber set up a nearby county police dept. on an UNLICENSED freq.
Also, had the local Hospital pager unlicensed on an off band freq. I'll bet the wiring job looked about the same as these gems.

The Nevada Highway Patrol had a massive statewide trunking system installed at great expense to the taxpayers. Turned out few of the frequencies were licensed, with some of them even being railroad nad marine radio service bands.

Go figure.

Yes, FCC made them take the system off the air.

[AI4EP]

sounds like even I am wiser than some of these people ...

[W5ALT]

I always wondered what happen to my orange extension cord ...

[w8cbc]

I think it's still in Rutland. Last I saw it (we got the rack room on to its own circuit - it was the second project I was involved in there), it was supplying a salesmangler's office. She had an attitude with engineering and IT. Engineering and IT didn't go out of our way for her.

Ask Pamal Broadcasting for it back.

[K0RGR]

Gosh, and that Motorola rep had the audacity to make wisecracks about ham radio being "next to nothing" in that Wall Street Journal article!

I believe in the motto "crude but effective" but none of these 'not to' pictures qualify...