Subj : Re: Various Things To : Brian Rogers From : Daryl Stout Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 14:40:00 Brian... 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. BR> Where does Stephanie fit into play? I don't know. I didn't watch the show all that much, and just stumbled on it one evening. BR> Furniture Disease? I can tell you don't have salt water beaches... here BR> we call it Pirate's Disease - a sunken chest Also DickeyDoo's is BR> more like Dunlap's Disease, where your belly dunlaps over your belt BR> buckle. That too. BR> I think at this point I have more memes than useful data :D They're BR> good for the occasional laugh when you need em. And, I could use a good one. Over the weekend, the browser, soundcard, ThumbDV, BlueDV program, and the headset mic, all bit the dust. I was able to get the browser working again, but with severe weather and flash flooding (numerous tornado warnings to my southwest yesterday), and flash flood emergencies across central and south Arkansas today), I've had little time to worry about the BBS. And, I just discovered an unexpected bill...so, I likely will take my car to the dealership next week, and sell it. BR> Perhaps that feature should be disabled for the guys with more hot air BR> than juice in their finals We have one net control here (a woman... BR> ) who is quick to insure to inform you about timing out repeaters yet BR> she's the biggest offender around. One of her own net controls only BR> gives her -1- minute to talk and if she's not done he just drowns her BR> out and moves on. Comical to hear in a way. She's a nice woman though BR> and takes a night on my net. Some just have "the gift of gab". :P DS> For one, finances. BR> That's probably the #1 reason. One thing I find very fascinating is how BR> guys will spend hundreds on huge HF antennas, coax, thousands more on BR> the rig, mic, external speaker, swr meters, antenna matchers, etc.. but BR> will only spend $35 on a RPi to drive it all with! Be a man, get a BR> -real- computer Hams are frugal cheapskates...and I use the term loosely. BR> Insurance companies are the worst to deal with. Why UBER? Didn't your BR> mom ever tell you "Now Daryl, never get into a car with strangers" I've never had a problem with UBER. Once in taking a taxi, the driver was driving like he was on the Indy 500 race course. BR> Even here, a used car has to come with a limited 30 day warrantee as BR> part of our "lemon laws". I went through something similar almost 3 BR> years ago when a woman was nose deep in her smartphone came flying up BR> behind me who was stopped at a RED traffic light rammed me into a brand BR> new Toyota Tundra while she was speeding doing 50 in a 35. My car was BR> totalled. IDK about her car, but it was UNDER mine that's how fast she BR> was going. The truck in front of me only suffered a few scratches on BR> his bumper's corner. Most of his bumper was up to my windshield. I did BR> try to go around him as I had a good car length between us. I used to joke that if my wife was following too close behind me, and I stopped suddenly, I was the victim of a rear end collusion. . Another ham, whose ex-wife did colonoscopies, quipped that "If she's behind me at home, I don't dare bend over". BR> Not fun to have to deal with that's for sure! It's almost as if our BR> system likes to hold the victim down. And, the banks, Wall Street, and Big Pharma, and making out with Big Bucks, while the Whammies get the rest of us. Along that line, my favorite was the Whammy breakdancing. BR> Praying for a lightning strike? Just insure you're not home if it BR> happens. I've been on the air with several close hits. But, as noted above, with failure of the soundcard, headset mic, ThumbDV, and BlueDV program, I'm now QRT, net wise. With the storms and flooding, I've had very little time to do computer, BBS, or net work. BR> May your next bathroom have a single moon crescent on the door Life BR> won't be as chaotic for you then. There was a meme on hamdata.com with an antenna on the side of the outhouse...and another one where it appears "he fell into the hole". :P BR> That's what very large bullhorns are for!.. built in all-of-the-above BR> hardware I don't need a mic at the square dance (another hobby), to make needed announcements as an officer of the Arkansas State Square Dance Federation. The problem is getting folks to be quiet so I can tell them what's going on. Many of them come to me later, and say they didn't hear what I said... to which, I replied "I saw you talking back there while I was talking"... busted. BR> I hear that! I have a nice clump of it in my C5 that pinches the BR> nerves. The nerves that go through your C5 control your left hand side. BR> Some days I can't even get out of bed. I could barely turn in it this morning. The pressure changes from the weather and making things hurt even worse. BR> If you ran a packet node, folks would be all over you for not having it BR> up. When I tried to get out of it last year the backlash I took made it BR> vomit at the mentality of those within the mode. Now it's going to die BR> a slow painful unmaintained death. My knowledge will go with me... BR> that will be punishment for those who insisted on ridiculing me for my BR> personal desicion for myself. Everyone wants the glory and benefits, but not the gall and the work. And, they think all these things are like manna from Heaven...that they'll magically happen (i.e. workers at a hamfest). BR> It doesn't matter the mode/transport/etc, people will say and do BR> whatever they want... and they will always feel justified in doing so. BR> This is why I don't do any unsocial media. The mentality today is *I*, *ME*, and *THE HELL WITH THE REST OF YOU*. In short, selfish. BR> Congress is a real piece, and so are those in other branches. A piece of excrement to be blunt. They're giving themselves raises, have the top health coverage, travel luxury on our nickel, and get paid when they're not in session. Before the election, they give us "the thumbs up"; after they're in, they give us "the bird". BR> Hams aren't what they used to be. It's all about "what's in it for me" BR> or "What have you done for me today?". Years ago it was "how can I help BR> you further enjoy the hobby?" Exactly. BR> Consider it a vacation. Just like when I had to spend 2 weeks at a hotel, because a severe thunderstorm had uprooted a tree up the street, which caused it to fall on the power line on the road in front of the house, and ripped the electric meter off of the wall. There was still running water, and no other damage, but it was over 100 degrees apparent temperature in here. People die in conditions like that every day. They only reimbursed me for the food I lost in the freezer, but not for the hotel or other meals. If Allstate screws me again on this plumbing deal, I will go elsewhere...but if I sell the car (which appears likely), I may not be able to just get house insurance. BR> I don't get how guys can link on the internet and call it packet? It is BR> NOT. It's internet! No need for a license to use the internet (although BR> I've been quoted as saying something otherwise by AMSAT back in the BR> 90s) I've called it the 11-meters of computing. Seems I wasn't that far BR> off. The Arkansas Packet Network is just a shell from what it once was. For a time, there wasn't even a packet node in the state to connect to (you connected on 2 meters, and the backbone was on 6 meters). While I still have an MFJ 1270C TNC, I don't have a rig or cables for it. BR> For the longest time, I was never assiciated with any club, BR> organization, etc. Now I joined a couple clubs and my reward?.. BR> constant spam mails. I can't wait for my license to expire. Not BR> renewing and will enjoy the quiet. There's no rewards anymore, just BR> criticisms and for that I need no part of in my life. I'm at the end of BR> my term I came onto this rock quietly that's how I wish to go. There are times I feel the same way...no one will miss me. BR> Or as we say.. QRShutUp It's a good time to catch up on sleep. BR> Probably... all because they choose to remain ignorant. I love how BR> those in today's generation find fault in others for their own BR> dimeanors. As Savage always says about liberalism... But, they don't want to admit their guilt. I served on jury duty in the Little Rock area 25 years ago. Now, if I had said the following at the initial briefing, or during the voir dire phase of the trial, they would've excused me. 1) I took a Criminal Justice Course in college 40 years ago. In one of the trials, they were addressing the concept of "accomplice liability" (as in a bank robbery)...with the guy with the gun, the driver of the getaway car, and the guy who planned it. When I said the planner had his hand in the pie like the rest of them (I remembered this from the course), the defense attorney yelled out "Objection!! We would like to have Mister Stout excused". I thanked them, and when I got outside the courtroom, I laughed my butt off (guess I shouldn't have been so cheeky in my behavior) . 2) "Only The Good Lord and the defendant know their guilt or innocence. If they are in fact, guilty...yet are acquitted by a jury of their peers...unless they repent, they will fare far worse on Judgment Day, where there'll be no question of guilt before The Lord. In short, they might as well save us all the trouble, and confess now." Some have said "I can spot a guilty [insert race here] halfway across a room". To me...we pee the same yellow, poop the same brown, bleed the same red...what is the problem?? They can be plaid, for all I care. Yet, I go back to point #2 I made above. BR> Our SM is bigtime Coast Guard... close enough My late father served in the US Submarine Service during World War II, and was a Master Chief Quartermaster E-9 when he retired 20 years before his death. BR> I have a better take on it to paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman: BR> Emergency? What emergency?? I'll just go about my business especially BR> if they're CHARGING for a license to use free airwaves. Sorry I don't BR> play both sides of the game like that. Let FEMA handle it... after all BR> they've proven just how efficient government is.... One of the hams who checks into the QCWA CQ100 Net has a picture of him (or whoever the character was for Mad Magazine) when he checks in via QSO-TV. He's the RF Net Manager for the Quarter Century Wireless Association. BR> The problem is the FCC doesn't care... unless the fines will make them BR> a lot of money. I've often wonder how much of that monetary forfeiture money is ever collected. Daryl, WX4QZ .... We should back the Metric System every inch of the way. --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas .