Yup, you have to have a gun for when the balloon goes up but shouldn't
you get an automatic?
If you live in a city it may be a mob coming for you instead of just
one person. It is not like hunting you know when you shoot at an animal
running away, when it happens it is a finality
you either get them or your wife gets the life insurance, in a way you
can't lose.and the other guy has to deal with what is left. Had a guy
come over one time and wanted to know why there was a light on my
tower, after I told him it was set up with a 28 day recorder which
wasn't in the house we never saw him again. It is imperitive that you
leave a record of the goings on around your home it only costs peanuts
and the number of deaths by violence is going up. You can't be to
carefull in America these days and besides we may have a revolution and
anybody with money gets Madame Guillotine. Isnt that the American way
when mayhem breaks out the first looter gets first choice
Art



Scott wrote:
Whoa! Just because YOU don't use the radio doesn't mean the rest of us
don't! What's the need to give these frequencies up for home security?
Ham licenses are a privilege, not a right...they CAN be taken away and
then they would be gone forever. Home security can better be effected
with a gun and owning a gun IS a right, which they can't take away
(although they ARE trying). I prefer Ruger, Remington and Smith &
Wesson home security systems.

Scott
N0EDV

PS...According to qrz.com, you're ham license is about to expire (and
you appear to be one of those "old guys" you mention. Are you about to
expire as well?


art wrote:

Ham radio has really lost out on its usefullness to the Country. There
are more CB radios in the country than radio sets and truck drivers are
sure a better resource than ham radio running around with walky
talkies.. We used to be on the cusp of radio but now we are in a throw
away economy and very few hams know how to use a soldering iron.
Wouldnt the frequencies be of better use to Home Security rather than
advertising to the World what americans will do to those who are
against us?
Listen to the radio now, nobody is using it and we are crying to the
FCC but for what ?
Ham radio died when the net was formed and hams moved to newsgroups
where they can argue better than they did on their own special
frequencies.. We sure as heck don't need a newsgroup for antennas until
the old guys die off and even then we have books with everything has
now been written down. Seems like we are going back to the old days
where the old timers couldn't accept
cbers as being upto par with respect to radio knoweledge. In ten years
all the old fogies will die off
and the World will move on without a mistep. Hams have over estimated
their abilitiues and worth
to the Country and it is time we let go

Art KB9MZ