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 RR> Doesn't necessarily bother me, unless someone is waaaay out in
 RR> left field.  I know my ITU phonetics backwards and forwards,
 RR> and several other local public safety phonetics..

  I've noticed in the police chase videos, that they use a different
set of phonetics for the vehicle license plate.

 RR> Funny basic training story about that.   In the early days of
 RR> training, I was so stressed with everything being thrown at me,
 RR> I was relieved I was asked a question I could actually answer!

  Thank you for your service.

 RR> "What is the phonetic alphabet from A - some middle stopping
 RR> point.)...  However for some inexplicable reason my brain
 RR> settled on what the California Highway Patrol uses.. "Adam.
 RR> Baker. Charles.."  "WHAT THE HELL KIND OF GIRL SCOUT PHONETICS
 RR> IS THAT?!!!!...   GET DOWN!!!!"

  Reminds me of the old Adam-12 and Dragnet series years ago.

 RR> Yeah, that can get a little awkward, especially when someone
 RR> breaks in and directs something at YOU...   "Ummm.  I will pass
 RR> that back for NET CONTROL TO ANSWER..."

  There is one net where the station says "station 1 will pass it to
station 2, station 2 will pass it to station 3, etc.", and noting "the
last station will pass it back to me". The thing is, if you have a bad
connection, you have no idea where they are in that rotation. I don't
check into that net when that person is net control.

 RR> But.... My club IS the best!, because I'm in it! (My BBS is the
 RR> best too!)...

  I can understand being proud of your club, but it's not the only one
out there...the same for the BBS. I want folks to check into my nets,
or logon to my BBS because they WANT to, and NOT because they HAVE to.

 RR> "Funny..  Sounds like you are using phone to me."  I stop by
 RR> all the code key displays at conventions and sit there tapping
 RR> out "CW SUCKS...."

  LOL. For the OM and XYL, where he is Ham and she is radio, CW stands
for "continous whoopee" (hi hi). It's like anything else in the hobby...
you either love it, or you loathe it.

 RR> Yeah, people on the local repeater talking about using their
 RR> modified radios out of band comes to mind, especially to new
 RR> hams.  Them when you chime in and explain that while you can
 RR> modify a type accepted radio to transmit on amateur
 RR> frequencies, doing the reverse is illegal because our radios
 RR> are not type accepted, and you are told to pound sand.

  I was never into electronics (I guess I should've sweet talked to
Violet (hi hi)). However, I joke that my ham radio girl friend is
named "Annette", because "I do her every night" (hi hi).

 RR>  I was one of the early adopters of IRLP and ECHOLINK when they
 RR> first came out, at the time I was dating a girl in Thailand I
 RR> met on Yahoo Chat (Aged myself with both comments..).  I began
 RR> using the local repater that had an EchoLink node to meet the
 RR> local hams in Thailand.  Ended up having dinner with a group of
 RR> the RAST (Radio Amateur Society of Thailand) on a couple of
 RR> visits.  A group of angry hams in Thailand pushed the governing
 RR> body to suspend the use of VOIP on 2 meters there. (2 meters
 RR> 144 - 146) being the only freq. above 30Mhz they could use..).

  When the nearly EF-4 tornado blasted through central Arkansas on
March 31, 2023 (much of west Little Rock, North Little Rock, and
Jacksonville were hard hit), they were using whatever means they
could to relay the location of the tornado, damage, etc. Nearly
60 people were injured, but there was a fatality (heart attack)
not related to the tornado. 
 
  What got me was that so many people had no idea the tornado was 
coming. If they had purchased a Midland WR-120 NOAA Weather Radio, 
they would've had plenty of warning. 

 RR> Novice.....  Advanced?   What are those?

  One time US Amateur Radio License Classes. The FCC stopped issuing
them on April 15, 2000...the same day they dropped the 13 and 20 WPM
CW exams for US Amateur Radio Licenses. However, holders of these can
renew their licenses at the appropriate time, or ugprade to either
Technician or Amateur Extra. The only US Amateur Radio licenses now
are Technician, General, and Amateur Extra.

  On Feb. 23, 2007, the FCC removed the CW requirement entirely for US 
amateur radio licenses. Vibroplex, the company that makes a wide variety
of Morse Code keyers, had their phones "ringing off the wall" from early 
February through early March, as folks wanted CW keyers. Many folks
discovered that "CW is fun!!". Now, folks are learning CW because they
WANT to, and NOT because they HAVE to. 

  I knew one ham who studied CW long enough to upgrade his license to 
Advanced (he was fine with that). Once he passed the exam, he never messed 
with CW again. Tragically, he was killed in a motorcycle accident by a
driver who failed to yield on the freeway access road. With several of
those incidents, many service roads next to the freeways in central
Arkansas are "one way traffic"...and they've added things to make it
safer for traffic exiting the freeway to get onto the service road.

 RR> Again.. Thanks for the great response, and the opportunity to
 RR> throw more than my 2 cents in.

  It's a dollar 2 ninety eight with inflation (hi hi).

73,

Daryl, N5VLZ

... Celebacy isn't all it's palmed up to be.
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