From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 12:27:17 PDT
The chances of you getting all the HMV owners in your local group
to get a ticket are 0 and negative numbers. You will have a hard enough
time to get everyone to get a CB or FSR! Having one ham in the group for
emergencies (assuming cell phones won't work in the area) is a good
idea. The more communication frequencies and systems the better.
You have to come to the Hopkington NH flea market. There are
hundreds or possibly 1000's of hams there. Bring a non-ham,
especially a woman and when you get out of there, ask her about
what she thought of the 'people'.
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Caleb Pal, Network Operations" <sysop@spitfire.homelinux.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] MV COMM-NET
> Hello list,
>
> The technician class ham radio licence is easy to get. I took the a class
> then the test when I was 15. There are a lot of nice people using it, and
> you make a lot of friends. For a convoy, a FRS would work, but if you got
> seperated, someone went on for parts, etc, you have a much greater range.
> And as many have said, you can get a military radio that will transmit on
> the ham band, and will complement your vehicle. It is not hard to get, not
> that expensive, and a great thing to have. I am on the local Fire
> department, and I am registered as a emergency worker because I have the
> licence. I have heard of 9 year old kids taking the test and becoming a
ham,
> it isn't that hard. The CB radio channels are getting very busy, lots of
> talkover, noise. The requirement for a licence keeps most of the crazy
> people off. All of the Hams I have met are nice clean people. Steve Keith
> must have met a bad group. You can get into ham radio for cheap, just look
> on ebay for a radio, they go cheap.
>
> Thats my 2 cents
>
> Caleb
> KD7KAB
>
>
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