Let me tell you, there's nothing that smells as bad as a dead rat!!
I know as, years ago, we set out rat poison and some of them died under the
house and the smell drove us out of the house!!
Lowell W8QIY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: I smell a rat
> But what do rats really smell like anyway? Hope I never find out!
> hahehahehahehahehahehahe!
>
>
>
> On 6/6/2015 3:46 AM, Colin McDonald wrote:
>> well yeah, it's a cb radio, just one that has been made to put out high
>> power, well beyond the legal limit along with other options, that if
>> used,
>> on the alocated citizens band, would be illegal.
>> Glenn, you can find used HF rigs with 10M on board for less than a couple
>> hundred bucks at flea markets and on qth.com eham.net and ebay.
>> If you want to talk to your CB friends, simply use a cb radio to do so.
>> But using a cb radio that happens to have 10M 28/29.69MHZ capability is
>> not
>> ethical or really in the ham spirit if you will.
>> But, like steve says, it's a free country, do what you want...but asking
>> for
>> advice and help from this list on CB radios etc will get you strong
>> opinions
>> on the matter.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 12:19 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: I smell a rat
>>
>> Well when I read the reviews on this galaxy dx98, they are all using it
>> in
>> the 27-28 MHZ band, rather than in the 28-29 mhz band where the web
>> discribes its working frequency band.
>>
>> That means there is an unspoken agreement to make this radio work where
>> it
>> is intended to work. That is illeagally in the citizen's band.
>>
>> You understand when each and everyone of us deffends the dignity and
>> professionalism of our hobby, respects that we earned the right to use
>> our
>> privilledges, that we resent the damage done to the radio communications
>> hobby by CB operators. They need nothing but a radio, and often get us
>> blamed for their interferrence actions. You can't run more than 2.5
>> watts
>> of audio on 5 watts of carrier. The rest is distortion.
>>
>> Many of us got our start on CB, but we decided their has to be more.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can't become a code operator with this radio, there is no access for
>> didgital communications, and it runs a band that will be dead for 7
>> years.
>>
>> You won't talk to anybody and you won't hear anybody.
>>
>> That is at least in the 28-29 MHZ amateur radio band.
>>
>>
>>
>> With what you'll get out of that, you'd be better off with a tmv-71 and
>> stick to vhf-uhf.
>>
>> At least then you'll have somebody to talk to.
>>
>>
>>
>> Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
>>
>>
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