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Wow! Just can’t tear myself away from Hampedia… Nice work guys!!

StrikeTeam, head of our Hamsexy bureau in Scotland, sends us these photos of some pure UK Hamsexy. We’re talking Raynet, man – and there’s no stopping us!! I’ll let StrikeTeam take it from here. Go for it, mate:

Fife Raynet in all their Hamsexy glory, note the Hamsexy light on the bonnet of the van

If anyone still doubts that Raynet are playing at being an emergency service , then asy yourself why do they need an ambulance?

And then there’s this – the Raynet Hovercraft. That engine must be lifted from an F1 racer if they expect it generate enough lift to carry not one but TWO RAYNET officers on their next whacker jaunt. I hope they bring a couple of Mae Wests, in case the air cushion collapses.

For more info on this whacktackular wonder from the Playnet newsletter here

Alright –

I just got off the phone with Trevor KG6MDW and Jason W6SN, owners of http://www.hamwiki.info. We had a great discussion, and feel that we’ve made some definite inroads in resolving this issue. Henry Kissinger would be proud.

Several topics were discussed, including the unfortunate defacement of http://www.hamwiki.info supposedly in our name. I told him that such actions are disgusting and are certainly not endorsed by myself or anyone involved with the operation of Hamsexy (which is the truth). Such actions go against the very spirit of Ham radio, and do nothing to support anyone’s cause.

We’ve called a truce, and we’re currently in talks to work out an amicable solution that favours both myself and W6SE. Both of us consider this matter closed, and would urge anyone who is continuing to harass http://www.hamwiki.info to cut it out. Needless to say we both see eye-to-eye, and the issue has been put behind us.

I’ll post more ont his issue as it develops. Thakns to everyone who was concerned enough to make their views known.

ClassicRadio99 sent us this letter about what happens when a Railroader goes too far into the world of whack:

I thought you’d find these two articles from the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune to be of great interest.

This whole situation is just way too disturbing on many levels… Maybe you guys can figure it all out, I sure can’t..

Here’s the call list from the most recent Hamsexy Net:

VE3HBD Bryan from Toronto, Ontario (Net Control)
KE4NOY Matt from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
VE2PWA Pawel from Montreal, Quebec
WV9MJS Mitchell from Deplains, Illinois
WB4BSD Rusty from ye olde Charles Town, SC
KB9YCO Brett from Antioch, Illinois
W9JOL Chris from Antioch, Illinois
N9MYR Jerome from Antioch, Illinois
KA9VZD Ricky from Antioch, Illinois
K9JAC Jack from Hubertis, Wisconsin
W9ORN Barb from Hubertis, Wisconsin
K8TEK Timmy from Ottawa, Ohio
VA4SZ ???? from somewhere Manitoba, Canada
VK2QQ Brad from New South Wales, Australia
KC4ZYC Howard from Indialantic, Florida
VA7IP Dave from Vancouver, British Columbia
KC9ECI Tom from Galesville, Wisconsin
WA3RDM Bob from Laporte, Penisylvania
AB9JV Lenny from Orland Park, Illinois
KB9JMK Clark from West Bend, Wisconsin
VK2GRN Jeff from New South Wales, Australia
VE3UDP Justin from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
KD7LVX Steven from Las Vegas, Nevada
KB9CFV John from Antioch, Illinois
VA7BDE ??? from somewhere in British Columbia, Canada

There must not be much to do in Antioch, Illinois – it seems like every adult male in the town checked into the net tonight. Do us a favour, guys …. take a group photo of yourself and let us see what you hot dudes look like. I mean it!!

You can’t run… you can’t hide… why? Because you’re a ham and you weigh 600 lbs. That’s right, the HAMSEXY NET is back on the air tonight.

There are two ways you can get on the net:

IRLP: Node 9008
Echolink: *VAN-IRLP* (remember the asterisks!!)

For all you non-ham guys who don’t have anything else better to do on a Wednesday night, you can listen to Terry VE3NSV‘s love stream of the net. It’s at http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/hamsexy.m3u. That is, if Terry can tear himself away from his sexual thoughts of me long enough to set it up.

The net goes live at 0100 GMT (6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern) tonight!!

Net Control tonight will be Yours Truly (Bryan VE3HBD). The theme for tonight will be announced later, because I can’t think of anything right now.

See you tonight!

Someone on the Hamsexy Forums posted this disgraceful attempt at profiteering on the backs of tragedy.

eBay user URICRETE, according to the item description, found a police duty belt while he was supposedly working with relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Instead of returning the belt to it’s rightful owners or somehow using it, he decides to try and make a fast buck on eBay by selling it, radio and all. Here is the description from the auction listing:

Hi and thanks for looking. Up for auction today is an actual police issue police belt with radio found in the wake of hurricane Katrina. I was down in Kenner, La (about 10 miles from New Orleans) and while helping to restore power I came across several abandoned items in a cardboard box that appear to have belonged to a former police officer or deputy sheriff in New Orleans. It’s my suspicion that these items belonged to one of the cops that left as the city started to fall apart. An important note is these items were not found in a flood zone or an area that had been flooded. In this auction I am including what I found (see picture below): the standard issue police belt, a Motorola Police Radio, a set of handcuffs made by the American Handcuff co, all accessories attached to the belt including the holster for the gun (I’m guessing a .357), two (2) speed loader round holders, a mace holder, handcuff holder, a radio holder, a baton holder and also a dress holster for the same size gun as the one with the belt. This stuff looks really impressive and I can only imagine the stories if these items could talk! To anyone that collects police memorabilia these items are very unique in their own right and should go down as part of history. I accept money order, personal check and paypal. Shipping will be $20. To the winning bidder upon request I will provide proof that I was a member of the Entergy Emergency Response Team in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please let me know if you have questions and good luck!

A few posters on the Hamsexy Forums brought up a few interesting points about this auction:

– Raeburn reports: “Exeter NH eh? I think that Exeter NH just a new radio system installed, or atleast I had heard they went to a new system… It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a ploy by this jagoff to make some money off some old equipment. I know for a fact that a “local” dealer uses blue and silver stickers… quite similar to that one.”

– Seth N3JFW reports: “They [New Orleans Police] don’t carry revolvers … Or use mtx classics. It’s a scam”

– Robert KG6EAQ reports: “He was getting paid to be down there. No one that went down there for Entergy was “volunteering.”

– Mr. Syntrx reports: “Ain’t New Orleans on 800 EDACS?”

So the verdict isn’t in yet…. is it a scam? Is this a real “duty belt”? Either way, URICRETE feels pretty confident in himself to try and make a few bucks off of Hurricane Katrina and her victims. I’m sure he sleeps quite well at night.

UPDATE: eBay has removed the auction, most likely because a bunch of Hamsexy Forums members who are police officers requested that eBya remove the auction through their official channels. I put a mirror of the site up – for as long as it lasts…

Surprisingly, we get relativley little hate mail. When we do, though – it’s usually from people who have more balls behind the keyboard than in real life. This letter came to us from someone who felt pissed off enough to write us, but didn’t feel he needed to leave us his name or callsign. Here’s his message – nothing too serious, yet another person who lets the idea of Hamsexy go about 10 feet over their heads.

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Hamsexy,

I have to say that I am very disappointed in the content of your site. [Uh oh… This letter isn’t starting off well] While I agree that hams tend to be old, fat, beer bellied guys and that in general the image of hams need to be cleaned up, I also see why the ARRL does not promote your site as well as other ham organizations. [We never expected or wanted the ARRL to promote us… Where did you get that idea?]

Comments in poor taste, porn pictures in the posts, and this is from the sysops of the site as well? Come on. What is that about? [You are either an old man, or 15 years old. I think the latter. Either way, I’m betting you’ve never been popular] If I want to see that kind of crap I can go to plenty of other sites. [Then do it!] You guys live in a denial if you think that anyone that would run a site such as yours, [But we do run a site such as this.. oh wait, there’s more] thinks that you somehow have a better image than some of the other hams you poke fun at. If you guys want to improve the image of hams then clean up the site and make a solid image of hams for people to see but as it stands now [If you’re still reading at this point, this sure is one FUCKING long sentence] I won’t be re-visiting your site again and I agree also and will be an active participant in siding with the ARRL’s view that your site is anti-ham [I think you should get rid of that Yugoslavian keyboard… you know, the one without any punctuation keys…] and does nothing for hams but give us more of a bad rep in the public’s view. ,b>[WOW! That was a long one! Whew!] If you want to change something for the better you need to be part of the solution – NOT be part of the problem. [Some of our site’s biggest supporters come from the ARRL – we got lots of ARRL officials visiting our booth at Dayton, telling us that they love the site. And I’m not sure what you’re talking about… the ARRL has never even MENTIONED our site in any official publications, much less expressed an opinion about it. I guess you’re assuming that the collective ARRL are as big of a prude as you are.]

Thanks for putting another blotch on hams for us to over come in thepublic’s viewpoint. [You’re welcome!] I sincerely hope that the Hamsexy site changes for the better in the future. [So do we, just not in any way that you’d agree with] You can poke fun at our ham weirdness, clean up the ham image, and have fun with out questionable content and just all out poor taste. [Thanks for the permission] Your site does have a lot of potential to make the Ham Radio image
better. [No it doesn’t] I sincerely wish all you guys at Hamsexy the best and hope that I will be able to support you in the future. [Trust me, we will never see eye to eye]