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Hamsexy’s resident sports guru Escomm has organized a Hamsexy Fantasy Baseball pool. If you are interested in joining, click on this link for details (you must be a member of the Hamsexy forums (and be smart enough to figure out how to log in) in order to see this message.)

Tire kickers or people who join and never return will be booted from the league – please only join if you are serious about taking part! You don’t need to know anything about Fantasy Sports leagues to join – this is a fun league! It also costs nothing to take part.

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Happy Lunar New Year to all of our Asian readers and friends. I was in Taiwan for Chinese New Year last year – and it was a blast…. 8 days off right after Christmas… No wonder the Chinese were inventing paper and food while the rest of the world was…. well…. not inventing paper and food, I guess.
It’s especially important for us, seeing as though 2007 on the Chinese calender is the Year of the Pig.

All of us here at Hamsexy wish you and yours a very good Year of Ham! Gong xie fa coi!

Those of you in or near the west Michigan area might be interested in knowing that the Muskegon Area Amateur Radio Council is going to hold a midnight VE session at their clubhouse in North Muskegon to celebrate the end of the code requirement. The festivities will begin on the evening of Thursday the 22nd, with the test being held Friday morning at 12:01 AM Eastern Standard Time. We’ll have pizza and snacks, and of course the radios will be running. We’ll try to contact W1AW’s special event and get a few of those “first contact” certificates.

As mentioned before, this will be going on at the MAARC clubhouse on 2888 Scenic Drive in North Muskegon. To get there, take US-31 to Skyline Drive (US-31 Business exit), then get on M-120 and follow it north, where it becomes Whitehall Road just over the bridge by the power plant. Take Whitehall Road north to River Road, then turn west and follow River Road to Scenic Drive. Go north and you will soon find the sign by the road indicating the location of the clubhouse’s driveway. There will, of course, be a talk-in on the 146.94 repeater.

As I write this, I am left wondering why the “west MI bureau chief” Mark K8MHZ didn’t post this by now…

Update! The session was somewhat successful. We had about 3 people show up to upgrade, two of which did so: Shawn KB8UFI got a paper upgrade, and Don KC8SHZ passed the test. Unfortunately, the HF bands proved to be useless, only two contacts were made, neither of which involved the USA’s first two no-code Generals. But we tried.

The Hamsexy Net was held, and hosted by K3BM with the following demented people stopping in to say hi.

N8FQ – Joe
KE4NOY – Matt from WARP-RADIO.COM
KD4YYF – John
KD8CPP – Tyler
KI4SVM – Patrick
KI4SKN – Tim
VE6PWT – Robert
KC8ZLK – Daniel
KB3AWQ – John
KD8EMM – Ryan
KI4MLM – Al

No real topic tonight, so we talked about what projects are going on and it was good to hear a bunch of hammies thinking about the general license. Getting on the air is the only way to start making the OF’s either accept you or move on.

Catch you all next week !

You know, sometimes we come across things that justify other things. The website of the group you are about to read about is *exactly* why Hamsexy exists.

Today, we will be shedding light on N.E.A.R. – the “National Emergency Assistance Radio Team” (Shouldn’t that be N.E.A.R.T.?)

Boy oh boy. Where to start. Their logo is a bad rip-off of the REACT logo, and whoever designed their logo (and designed their website… and whoever writes messages on behalf of the group) has the English skills of a recent immigrant three year old retard with no arms. But I digress…..

Their website is pure comedic gold. It’s so bad I had a really hard time believing that it’s true. But… sadly… it seems to be. If retards like these are what is on the front lines of homeland security, we’re all doomed. Check out this gem from their EOC page… some sort of generic terror alert obviously written by someone’s young child:

The United State Home Land Security Has Issue a Threat Alert For The EastCoast of the United State A Threat Alert for the East Cost Of The U.SThat Inclueds New York Washtion DC The Threat Level has gon from Yellow Alert To a Ornge Alert Please be avised that Check points have ben setup in Bouth of these City and there Will be Street Near The White House and The Captel which will be closed allso Down Town New York Car are Being not aloud in the Wall Street The Public is being ask not to go in to The Wall Street becose of the Havey Security

The leader of this group (who calls himself the “Supreme Commander”) seems to be the one with the superior english skills. He’s posted a few times advertising this group, which can be found here and here. They also offer advice on how to start your very own CERT team.

The group (and the site) appears to have been dormant for some time, but when you read the press release announcing the formation of the group, it’s easy to understand why. Would you put your life in the hands of someone who specializes in “surch & rescut”?