Posted on 03/11/2006 5:23:16 PM PST by Denver Ditdat
and then people on FR wonder why our dixie ancestors fought the north for southern LIBERTY????
free dixie,sw
BOTH are really good reasons to FIRE the chief of police AND anyone on the force who was DUMB enough to think that this was a REAL problem!!!!!
free dixie,sw
BUT in the case of the main-SLIME media, the INTENT is to DECEIVE! it's called telling a KNOWING LIE!
fwiw, i have a friend from Switzerland (a former BG of the army there) who asked me last year, "why are your broadcasters & mass media allowed to INTENTIONALLY deceive the public about policy matters, such that they cause GROUP HYSTERIA?" (i didn't have a GOOD answer for that one!)
free dixie,sw
while what you say is true in MUCH of the country, in rural counties EVERYBODY is capable of being on the same frequency. (37.260MHZ in the case of my "home county". even the sewer/water workers & the dogcatcher!)
73s & free dixie,sw
"Clueless non-ham for talking about static, clueless reporter for not knowing what squelch is. Yeah, receivers do emit a radio signal, but not on the receiving frequency and not powerful enough to interfere with anything beyond a few feet."
I had a neighbor accuse me of interfering with his TV by using my SWL reciever. I explained to him that it might be the guy down the street with the 1000w amp on his CB.
Yea my county uses low band for talk around. They did ues it for VFD page outs until they got a new system now just the deputies use it. There are VHF frequencies most agencies use like 155.205 also. My state uses it for mutual aid communications, paramedics, hospitals, etc.
Shhhh.... You wanna get in trouble?!? You're not supposed to post reasonable comments on a designated JBT thread!
Guess who's names on the FCC license? Newberry the Public Safety Director LOL. I bet if skip rolled in their department would likely go all to pieces. I heard a local PD close to me with a patrolman and dispatcher on duty accuse each other of playing pranks. It was low band in the 45 MHZ range one summer afternoon. I heard on the scanner " This is a national alert. Be on the lookout for a woman 32 years of age 5'1" 125 pounds with long black hair" and then silence. Then I heard them saying did you do that? No did you? Stop playing around. They kept trying to figure it out finally I called them and said it was skip. Then they wanted to know who Skip was LOL. I thought seriously about hanging up and letting them go find him.
the low band transmissions have (as i'm sure you're aware) MUCH better coverage into "rough country".
fwiw,(the last time i looked) there are SIX (6) dedicated frequencies on the "county central system".
four of the six, are "shared". everybody monitors 37.260 & "moves off" to another freq. to talk/chat.
the local ARES/RACES group is on 75 & 60 meters (NVIS)for the self-same reason.
btw, i hear that the FCC is about to "give us several more "channels" on 60M-upper SB, like the other 5! YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
free dixie,sw
Yup. The reporter is clueless, but it sounds like this moron was interfering on the PD Freq, and already trying to cop a plea that it was unintentional.
Maybe, but messing around out of band is dumb. If he'd modified his radios to work for is fire work, he should have shown more caution, prudence and judgement in going near the fire channels. It must have been nasty and ongoing to motivate the cops to track him down.
Maybe the kids go hold of the radio; hard to say.
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