"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
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"William Wallace" wrote in
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unistas (TRA1N) wrote in
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Yes, Icom does make some nice CB radios. My CB
is an Icom 746
My Drake TR7 CB is nice and all but it drifts
a little. My Kenwood 440
SAT, I was told when I bought it the 40 in 440
is for 40 channels.
Train
Boy you assclowns really want to be hams, so
much so you buy ham radios as
well.
Want to bet they slip in to the Ham 10m Ham band
from time to time using a bootleg call sign. Tim
Nebo used a mod'ed Yeasu FT-840 to do the same
thing. Boy did he get hot with the denials when I
brought up the subject that he was using the rig
on something other than 11m, like bootlegging on
the Ham HF bands. He even publicly asked about
using the so called "Charlie" frequencies, used by
airliners over the ocean for long distance
communication, on this very news group.
Now that the sun spots are on the wan the only DX
these freebanders are going to see "regularly"
will be on the lower Ham HF bands. Since they
don't have any morals about ignoring Part 95 rules
I'm sure that some of them can't resist the urge
to spin that VFO dial down to a Ham band. All it
takes is a simple dipole and some coax to get on
the band for them.
I'll be great sport to see how many bootleggers
can be ID'ed and busted. Maybe even suggest it as
a new form of contesting to the ARRL!
--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
ARRL Member
NCI Member
Charter member of the
Lawrence Technological University
Wireless Society W8LTU
What are you using to LISTEN there, Leland?
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Name: LELAND C SCOTT
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