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September 30th 03, 01:49 PM
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:03:07 GMT, Zoran Brlecic wrote:
wrote: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. Get a CB radio. - hmmm... that's cynical, isn't it? mike - get everyone licensed! study one day, then put the family in the car, go to the local VEC test, get 26 questions out of 35 multiple-choice questions correct, then go to Denny's and celebrate! a couple days later everyone's license will appear in the FCC's ULS and you can set up a base station and 2M comms in each car! doesn't have to cost a whole lot, either! Yeah, that's what ham radio needs: more people with no clue what ham radio is, no desire to use it for amateur, technological, dxing or emergency service purposes, and whose only motivation is to save on cellphones. There's already a band in place for such purpose and it's called CB. - but maybe, just maybe, someone who gets involved with ham radio just might, and this is just a supposition, just might want to be more involved, develop new skillsets, learn CW, and become a responsible radio operator? - of course, if i had run into you when i first started getting involved, i might, and i say just might, think that ham radio was populated with ignorant, cynical, sarcastic, unfriendly, non-elmering, un-educated losers? 73 (yea, right, like you mean it?) 73 ... WA7AA -- Anti-spam measu look me up on qrz.com if you need to reply directly |
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