Tim K8TEK submitted this find on the Hamsexy Forums…. and what a find… (click on image for larger) Tim writes:
I was at a sporting goods store, and parked next to this jem.The lightbar is A Code3 MX7000 with the center speaker section removed, and in its place is a amber strobe with a cigarette lighter cord running thru the passenger side door. The lenses of the poor MX7000 are painted yellow. As you can see from the pictures, the yellow paint is starting to melt off, exposing the red beneath.
Yet another net is in the history books. The topic for tonight’s net was: do you, or do you intend to, use the recently released Windows Vista operating system? Some people love it, others think it’s a steaming pile of rancid feces (the same, many argue, could be said of its predecessor).
Ten people made their opinions known:
N8FQ Joe (net control)
KD8CPP Tyler
VE3HBD Bryan
KE4NOY Matt
VE6PWT Robert
VA7BCR Dan
VE7WCC Andy
KD8EMM Ryan
KC8ZLK Daniel
VE7XPK Paul
VA7ANC Alex
A contact with Dufferin ARES (which is somewhere in Canada), sent us this message, which was sent to all members:
I received a call from the works department today enquiring if I knew of an amateur who owns a blue pickup with three antennas.
Apparently, on Monday of this week during the height of the storm one of the county’s snow ploughs was involved in an accident on Veterans Way located near the new site of Humber College.
The owner of the truck began erecting road closed signs along with cones.
The county is concerned that the only people authorized to erect road closed signs is the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police).
I am sure the owner of the pickup felt he was helping out but if he is an amateur, please remember that our only jurisdiction is in communications.
I advised the county that I did not think this person was an A.R.E.S. member but would ask the membership. If you can assist me, please advise.
Thanks to our anonymous submitter!!
Another meet in the great Capital Region of Washington DC. There was a good group of us from all over the Northeast together for some good food and good times at the Mongolian BBQ in Bethesda.
We also got to initiate one of the newer Hamsexuals into the club with a traditional Birthday Dessert as well. Welcome to hell James, K2JLX!!
Curt has resurfaced and he is doing fine, he was sick for the past couple of days.
Glad to hear you’re still with us man.
(edit by n3jfw 3:50am March 9th)
Like a set of chronic heart attacks all our OF friends have because of too many doughnuts while pretending to be cops, its time for the Hamsexy Net.
A great net net has come and gone as usual.
Topic was music. What you like or dislike.
Checkins include,
VE3HBD Bryan
K3BM Bob, Any music
N8FQ Joe, Classical
W8JUZ Laura, Classic Rock
KC8TCQ Keith, Musician, likes Jazz and progressive rock
KC8ZLK Daniel, Country and Bluegrass
KC0WFC Justin, Pink Floyd
KC7GQT Adam, 80s and 70s
VE6PWT Robert, Rock
KC0RBC Harlend, everything except Rap and Country
KD8EMM Ryan, Everything except rap
73s All, and we will see you next week!
The Hamsexy net will happen tonight at 9pm EST (6pm PST).All are welcome, come join us on IRLP node 9008, and Echolink conference *VAN-IRLP* (256919).
Net control will be VE3HBD, live from the Hamsexy Tower in Toronto on the Stolen Vehicle Police Recovery Network.
See ya then!
I saw this post on QRZ today by Paul K3FU – thought it was worth re-posting here:
(first part of the message (delimited by the > pointy things) is from http://www.big-8.org/
> RESULT
> rec.radio.amateur.moderated will be created
>
>The Last Call for Comments on 12 Feb 2007 initiated a five-day period for
>final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board
>has decided by consensus to create the newsgroup rec.radio.amateur.moderated.
>
>This group will be created on 22 Feb 2007.
>
>
>NEWSGROUPS LINE: rec.radio.amateur.moderated
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>rec.radio.amateur.moderated Amateur radio practices, rules, etc.(Moderated)(Read more at: RESULT: rec.radio.amateur.moderated will be created)
I’d like to thank our Usenet Groups Mentor, Tim Skirvin, and the rest of the Big-8 Board. I’d especially like to thank the readership of rec.radio.amateur.*, who followed up with many positive comments in support of this proposal. I certainly would not have been able to bring this proposal to Usenet without the assistance of the rest of our moderation team. The Request for Discussion (RFD) process has also yielded two additional, highly-qualified, volunteers to serve as moderators, and we look forward to working with them as well.
The administrators at Panix assure us that the newgroup control message will be honored immediately, and automatically, so we should be ready to take submissions for the new newsgroup very shortly after that.
We will work with the readers to assist them in getting the newsgroup created at sites that do not automatically honor newgroup control messages.
If you do not have local access to news, this new newsgroup should also be available shortly at Google:
We will also seek to submit our Posting Guidelines for cross-posting to the rec.radio.info, rec.answers, and news.answers newsgroups to help further publicize this new newsgroup.
I have relayed a pointer to this message to the other rec.radio.amateur.* newsgroups not cross-posted to in the original announcement. I have also passed pointers to the QRZ.com and eHam.net blogs. I am grateful for the support and responsiveness of the QRZ team in getting the RFD announcements promptly posted as news items on the front page of QRZ. Our contacts at the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) have also expressed tentative interest in adding an announcement for the new newsgroup as a “Stray” item in a future issue of QST Magazine.
We hope to earn your trust, and obtain your participation, in our new newsgroup.
While I don’t frequent rec.radio.* very often, It should be interesting to see what happens. Unless you’re into reading spam or downloading kiddie porn, Usenet isn’t really very useful for much these days (Those of you who frequented usenet in the ‘good ole days’ know what I’m talking about). Anything moderated on Usenet is a step in the right direction…. the amount of spam and stupidity that lurks on newsgroups these days saddens me beyond all possible limit (well, not really… but it’s concerning).
I wish those involved with this venture the best of luck!
