Subj : Re: Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Brian Rogers Date : Mon Jun 07 2021 21:23:00 Hello Daryl; -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Brian Rogers <=- DS> Bob Newhart lives on Ham Radio. We have Larry, NN4H, as Net DS> Control... then Darrell, AC4YD...and then the other brother Daryl, DS> WX4QZ. Where does Stephanie fit into play? DS> Then, you have Furniture Disease, where your chest has fallen into DS> your drawers...and DickeyDoo Disease...where your belly hangs out more DS> than your dickie do. Yet, you need a shed for your tool. Furniture Disease? I can tell you don't have salt water beaches... here we call it Pirate's Disease - a sunken chest Also DickeyDoo's is more like Dunlap's Disease, where your belly dunlaps over your belt buckle. DS> Too bad I can't find the meme, but I'm sure it's on the internet. DS> PhotoShop can work with practically any photo. I used to use CompuPic, DS> but it wouldn't work with anything above Windows XP. Photodex, the DS> company that made it, has since gone out of business. I think at this point I have more memes than useful data :D They're good for the occasional laugh when you need em. DS> That's the only way you can get through to tell them that they hit DS> the spacebar (or clicked the mouse) to transmit...and to do it again. DS> On the frequency, if someone is keyed up, you can send something on DS> QSO-TV, but you can't transmit...so there's no such thing as DS> "doubling". It is a good idea to enable the PTT Lock, so you don't have DS> to hold down the space bar or mouse button to keep talking. Perhaps that feature should be disabled for the guys with more hot air than juice in their finals We have one net control here (a woman... ) who is quick to insure to inform you about timing out repeaters yet she's the biggest offender around. One of her own net controls only gives her -1- minute to talk and if she's not done he just drowns her out and moves on. Comical to hear in a way. She's a nice woman though and takes a night on my net. DS> For one, finances. That's probably the #1 reason. One thing I find very fascinating is how guys will spend hundreds on huge HF antennas, coax, thousands more on the rig, mic, external speaker, swr meters, antenna matchers, etc.. but will only spend $35 on a RPi to drive it all with! Be a man, get a -real- computer DS> After a car wreck earlier this year (I wasn't at DS> fault), and having to get a replacement pre-owned car (what I got from DS> the insurance company wasn't enough, and I had some money left from my DS> late Mom's death), but then repair costs on it (pre-owned cars are sold DS> AS IS, NO WARRANTY). But, it was costing me at least $40 a day on Uber, DS> and the insurance company of the guy at fault would only offer "the IRS DS> limit of 14 cents per mile" on it. I had to take Uber back and forth to DS> the chiropractor...the guy who was at fault, his insurance company had DS> to pay a $9100 chiropractor bill (30 days of treatment for me over 2 DS> months). Insurance companies are the worst to deal with. Why UBER? Didn't your mom ever tell you "Now Daryl, never get into a car with strangers" Even here, a used car has to come with a limited 30 day warrantee as part of our "lemon laws". I went through something similar almost 3 years ago when a woman was nose deep in her smartphone came flying up behind me who was stopped at a RED traffic light rammed me into a brand new Toyota Tundra while she was speeding doing 50 in a 35. My car was totalled. IDK about her car, but it was UNDER mine that's how fast she was going. The truck in front of me only suffered a few scratches on his bumper's corner. Most of his bumper was up to my windshield. I did try to go around him as I had a good car length between us. The woman was in the midst of a divorce she claimed and was up for over 36 straight hours (which here is viewed equivilent to a DUI without the harsh charges) She didn't admit to being on her phone... but I did notice the cops investigating her device anyway. I saw her coming up behind me fast and her head was looking down. Talk about feeling like a sitting duck. I did find an exact replacement to what I had... but cost me $1,500.00 additional than what the insurance gave me for mine. At least this one had 50K LESS miles on it. DS> Had I not taken the paltry settlement, I would likely have become DS> overdrawn, and risked arrest and jail time...as one of the local police DS> departments has a hot check division. I have overdraft protection on my DS> account, but I get dinged $35 for each time there's an overdraft. Not fun to have to deal with that's for sure! It's almost as if our system likes to hold the victim down. DS> I still may end up selling the car, as a device in one of the DS> original toilets (nearly 50 years old, installed when the house was DS> first built), failed 3 months ago, causing the tank to overflow, DS> flooding both bathrooms. I'm still trying to work out a rebuilding deal DS> with the contractor and insurance company. Praying for a lightning strike? Just insure you're not home if it happens. DS> I have no sinks or cabinets/vanity in either bathroom...the DS> "offending toilet" had the water shut off...stuff has been put into the DS> walk-in tub/shower area (so only birdbaths), I have to go out to the DS> kitchen to wash my hands...and at least still have 1 working toilet. DS> The floor tile was torn up, the doors were taken off (they're stacked DS> on each other in the living room), and the walls were removed, to DS> mitigate the water damage. At least I live alone...never mind "pooping DS> with the door open". :P May your next bathroom have a single moon crescent on the door Life won't be as chaotic for you then. DS> To make matters worse, earlier today...my sound card, headset mic, DS> ThumbDV, and BlueDV, that I was using for D-Star (since none of the DS> area repeaters are on the gateway), all crapped out...along with the DS> web browser. So, that knocked me off of a net earlier today...and it DS> may have me off the air permanently. That's what very large bullhorns are for!.. built in all-of-the-above hardware DS> The arthritis is so bad that I can't do things with antennas, and DS> electronics was never my forte'. I've been using cane in the house, DS> and a walker everywhere else...and a wheelchair may be soon in the DS> picture. I hear that! I have a nice clump of it in my C5 that pinches the nerves. The nerves that go through your C5 control your left hand side. Some days I can't even get out of bed. DS> With the deal with the plumbing, plus medical issues, getting the DS> ham radio stuff replaced and getting back on the air, is the least DS> of my worries right now. If you ran a packet node, folks would be all over you for not having it up. When I tried to get out of it last year the backlash I took made it vomit at the mentality of those within the mode. Now it's going to die a slow painful unmaintained death. My knowledge will go with me... that will be punishment for those who insisted on ridiculing me for my personal desicion for myself. DS> I'm sure there are idiots out there who would do it anyway. There's a DS> time and a place for everything, but you can't tell them that. It doesn't matter the mode/transport/etc, people will say and do whatever they want... and they will always feel justified in doing so. This is why I don't do any unsocial media. DS> I can't even afford those. When I barely get over $1000 a month on DS> disability, ham radio play toys are the least of my worries. Then, you DS> have folks at Medicaid saying "$1500 a month between 2 people is too DS> much money"...and the idiots in Congress are lamenting they can't DS> survive on $250,000+ a year...do NOT get me started on that. The late DS> Howard Hughes lies in his grave without even a wooden nickel in his DS> hand. Congress is a real piece, and so are those in other branches. DS> What gets me is that they're complaining about the $35 fee for a new, DS> renewed, or upgraded license, or callsign change...but these same hams DS> will drop $100 or more down for a brick of tickets at a hamfest for the DS> door prizes. When I only bought $20 worth of tickets, that put me at a DS> disadvantage. Hams aren't what they used to be. It's all about "what's in it for me" or "What have you done for me today?". Years ago it was "how can I help you further enjoy the hobby?" DS> As noted earlier, the hardware and software failures have knocked me DS> off the air. With trying to get the plumbing and transportation issues DS> worked out, the BBS has had to take a back seat. Consider it a vacation. DS> For some, they think packet is what you do to a used TNC to take it DS> to a local hamfest flea market. There hasn't been a hamfest in Little DS> Rock since 2016...even though there are at least 3 clubs. They all are DS> griping at each other, and no one wants to do the work involved. Three DS> hamfests in February, March, and April, all got canceled again this DS> year. The other 2 are in September and October...but both of them may DS> get canceled again as well. I don't get how guys can link on the internet and call it packet? It is NOT. It's internet! No need for a license to use the internet (although I've been quoted as saying something otherwise by AMSAT back in the 90s) I've called it the 11-meters of computing. Seems I wasn't that far off. DS> Every other organization is as well. The Life Membership for at least DS> 3 other organizations I'm part of is far less than what it is at ARRL. DS> For the record, besides an ARRL Life Member, I'm also one with the DS> Quarter Century Wireless Assocation, the Portage County Amateur Radio DS> Service, and Courage Kenny Handi-Hams...the rates are from "highest to DS> lowest". For the longest time, I was never assiciated with any club, organization, etc. Now I joined a couple clubs and my reward?.. constant spam mails. I can't wait for my license to expire. Not renewing and will enjoy the quiet. There's no rewards anymore, just criticisms and for that I need no part of in my life. I'm at the end of my term I came onto this rock quietly that's how I wish to go. DS> I got so sick of the mad rush pile-ups. Now, with my stuff not DS> working, I'm QRT. Storms are likely here through Wednesday, so I may DS> not get to do any net work until maybe Friday...if even then...as if DS> the stuff is still fried, then I'm QRT. Or as we say.. QRShutUp DS> These sound like folks who would sue The Good Lord for "wrongful DS> death" when you become a Silent Key. Probably... all because they choose to remain ignorant. I love how those in today's generation find fault in others for their own dimeanors. As Savage always says about liberalism... DS> There is a new acronym for N.A.V.Y. -- Never Again Volunteer DS> Yourself. Once you do, you're doing that until you die...and that's for DS> ANY hobby. Our SM is bigtime Coast Guard... close enough DS> All they have to do is look what happened after Katrina. FEMA is DS> Foolish Erroneous Management Association...a bunch of "Katrina DS> Trailers" (mobile homes) were at the Mena, Arkansas airport for quite DS> awhile. And, it was George W. Bush who originally wanted to defund the DS> hurricane hunters. I have a better take on it to paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman: Emergency? What emergency?? I'll just go about my business especially if they're CHARGING for a license to use free airwaves. Sorry I don't play both sides of the game like that. Let FEMA handle it... after all they've proven just how efficient government is.... DS> Net Controls would ask for emergency traffic (life and death urgency to DS> those involved), he'd key up, then start his diatribe with "today DS> was a nice day", then would turn his rig off...so, he likely never DS> heard the lecture he got from Net Control. The problem is the FCC doesn't care... unless the fines will make them a lot of money. .... She is the needle and we are the thread --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 þ Synchronet þ SBBS - Carnage! *73 de N1URO* bbs.n1uro.com:2300 .