Image gallery is back up!!

After pissing about for the past few months, we’ve finally put the Hamsexy Image Archives back online!!

Rather than fuss with some sort of local bullshit, we’ve swallowed our pride and decided to let the fine people at Flickr host them.

You can either follow the link on the sidebar, or click here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22843657@N00/

We’ll try to update them on a semi-regular basis…

Posted in Hamsexy Administration | 6 Comments

A followup to the “Fake Cop” Story…?

The following was posted to the comment section of this story we published earlier this month: http://www.hamsexy.com/cms/?p=624 – regarding the man Michael McKean (not David St. Hubbins) who was arrested for impersonation and drug possession:

Firt of all McKean was a Police Officer certified at the Connecticut State Police Academy through the years of April 1986 through 1992. He also served as a military Police Officer from 1982-1988 (1982-85 active 85-88 reserve). The Connecticut State Police badge in his possession was presented to him through legal means and was on his person as a momento not for any illegal activities (It was a bad decision but the sudden loss of his chosenn career has stuck with him). He has decided from this point forward is a new life and time to let go of the past…so this was a good eye opener. The Blue Light was leftover from his days as a police officer and a volunteer firefighter. It was not installed nor displayed. McKean provived valid prescription proof for medications at his initial hearing and the charges should be dropped as per FL Statutes 499.03 and 893.13 (which states that if the person in question has a legal prescription for the controlled substances and they are obtained through a legal physician these statutes DO NOT APPLY.) The problem was he was carrying these medications in one of those pill cases available at any pharmacy…so beware you MUST carry all prescriptions in their orginal bottles. The scanner in the car was legally installed in accordance with FCC and State Statute 843.65 which allows such equipment to be installed in a vehicle as long as the owner has a valid ham operators license. McKean also serves as a volunteer for disaster assistance so monitioring on time data is pertenant.The radar unit had been installed two days before this incident and was there because McKean was attempting to gather data for a petetion for speed bumps to be installed on his roadway due numerous speeders in a zone where there are several BUS stops and a city park. McKean does regret his actions on the date in question he was trying to obtain the linse plate number of a car traveling at 63 MPH in a 45 zone approaching a school cross walk so he could notify the appropriate authorities. Mckean only “overtook” the vehicle in question when traffic caused the Detectives car to slow down. Mckean pulled into left hand lane legally and did state “could you slow down”. Bad decision on his part and he takes full responsibility for his errors and extends his apologies to those who may have been affected by this incident. The truth will come out and let us not forget the same liberties provided to us to operate as ham radio operators also provides us with the rights of being innocent until proven guilty. Additionally what the press has released is not the whole truth. Please to those out there do not carry your medications outside of their bottles because the bail is hirer for that then dealing drugs. 73’s Michael

The message, aside from the spelling mistakes, is a little hard to follow. The message seems to be written in 3rd person until the end, where he signs it “Michael”. I don’t know what to make of it – but I thought it deserved to me mentioned somewhere else than in the bowels of a long-forgotten message.

Posted in Hamsexy Followup | 4 Comments

Funny REACTion

It seems Clyde’s article on Don Valley REACT didn’t go un-noticed, the least of which on members of the group themselves.

Visitors to the Don Valley REACT website are greeted with an old-school scrolling Marquee that reads:

Seasons’ Greetings – Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, all the best in 2007 – and a special welcome to all our hamsexy visitors, thanks to clyde mcphail PS: We apologize to Chief Molyneaux for the disrespectful treatment of his picture at the hands of clyde mcphail of hamsexy, we hereby publicly demand that mr clyde mcphail publicly apologize to Chief Molyneaux on the hamsexy web site for such childish, crude, boorish, unbecoming treatment of an honourable municipal Fire Chief with a long standing, distinguished career. PPS: We suspect and have reasons to believe that mr. mcphail actually pilfered the copyrighted original pictures from this web site and submitted his supposed “article” under the guise of an anonymous “submission”, yeah right!

I spoke to Clyde regarding this, and he assures me that the submission and the attached photos didn’t come from him – they came from someone claiming to be a member. Clyde lives in the US, and doesn’t know much about REACT groups up here in Canada. No one here at Hamsexy HQ knows anyone in Don Valley REACT, so we’ll have to take our submitter’s word for it. We’ve got other photos not posted on the website that we’ll post later if we feel it’s worth it.
They claim that “Cheif Molyneaux” was embarrassed by appearing on Hamsexy. I’m sure the crew of Don Valley REACT noticed that all faces were blurred out, and that Chief Molyneaux’s identity was well hidden until they decided to blow the whole deal and identify him. Nice move. To be honest, I didn’t really know who they were talking about until I looked REALLY close at one of the photos and saw that one of the indistinct figures with the blacked out face was wearing a slightly different hat and shoulder patch than the REACT team. I guess that was him, I dunno. I guess DVREACT was embarassed to see their photos on our site, and tried to accuse us of defaming some fire chief we’ve never heard of. I dunno.

Happy new year everyone!!

Posted in Op-Ed | 5 Comments

Saddam Execution Video

LINK #1 (Google Video): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521

LINK #2 (Liveleak): http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=539f376145

 Just in case you haven’t seen it yet and are curious like the rest of us morbid sheep.

 Nothing to do with Ham Radio per sey, just a footnote to history.

Posted in Hamsexyness! | 9 Comments

Some REACT photos

An anonymous submitter sent us these photos from a group he claims to belong to, DON VALLEY REACT from somewhere up in Canada. It seems they know how to whack it up there in the great, white north.Our submitter writes:

Hi there Hamsexy!! I’m an ‘associate member’ of DON VALLEY REACT north of Toronto. Our group contains a good mix of hams and wannabe hams – all of them seem to love their uniforms and pretend police cars more than the service they claim to offer. We are well known to local police, who regard them as pests and wannabees (although they pretend to like us, mainly because they like to use us for shit work. They do keep a close eye on us, though thanks to a few incidents I won’t get into here. Maybe if they kick me out or if I leave, I’ll fill you in….!!

I don’t think we want to get involved in that, but we’ll gladly post the photos!

Click on the images to see them full-size.

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Posted in Hamsexyness! | 26 Comments

Youtube Whacker

light.jpgYo… Dr. Whacker here…..

Thanks to the geeks on Radioreference, I have stumbled across this gem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE30PZPEx14

OMG what have you done? Earned yourself a place on the front page of Hamsexy, brother.

*That* is a classic case of light overkill. The guy claims to do “traffic control” in Texas… whatever the hell that is. The truck looks like an Italian roofing contractor’s truck, not any sort of emergency truck I’ve ever seen. Pathetic with a capital W.

Can you say whacker?

I knew you could.

Posted in Hamsexyness! | 3 Comments

Morse Code hits the news

It seems the Morse Code debate has hit the mainstream media.

Daily Democrat, Woodland, California

Minnesota Public Radio

PR Newswire

engaget.com

Reuters

New York Times

Washington Post

Daily India

Star News, Wilmington, DE

International Herald Tribune 

Slashdot

Detroit News, Detroit, Michigan

Technocrat.net
And those are ones that I was able to easily find.

… and have any of them taken a byline from Hamsexy.com? No!

Posted in Hamsexyness! | 9 Comments

Merry Christmas

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To our friends, enemies and hangers-on…. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

And, if you celebrate something other than Christmas, tough shit. Have fun today with all the stores closed, suckers!
From Bryan, Seth and all of the Hamsexy staff!!

Posted in Hamsexyness! | 20 Comments