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What do you guys do on the radios?

flashpan said:
We gossip.
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Quoted for truth
My FIL has been heavily into HAM stuff for decades and every night he gets on to what he calls the General Hospital Net with his buddies (they are all old guys in their mid to late 70’s that live in small towns in the sticks of AL) and they gossip about everything.
 
On this side of the mountain we mostly talk about all the crazy Las Vegas folks and how to keep them out of the Pahrump valley while still letting their money in.
We duzunt want their DNA cluttering up our one DNA gene pool over tuh here yuh seeze.
Might make our great great great grand chillins look nermal if'n wheeze was tuh allow the water'n down of our'n yu-neek DNA.
At least that's the way Coup and a few others here view we Pahrumpoids.
Soon as we get our starship repaired, we will depart this rock and you hoomons can continue in your quest to annihilate one another.

Beyond that, we mostly use 2meter, 70 CM and GMRS repeaters here in town to communicate when the phones are out, which is rather frequently due to drunk drivers and idiots with backhoes.

We also hold weekly training and disaster communication practice nets so we are ready when bad things happen.

Additionally, many of us also participate daily or weekly in HF nets for those same reasons , disaster preparedness.
 
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Beyond that, we mostly use 2meter, 70 CM and GMRS repeaters here in town to communicate when the phones are out, which is rather frequently due to drunk drivers and idiots with backhoes.[/QUOTE]

You don't have to worry about me, my specialty if finding un-marked water lines.......
 
NYECOGunsmith said:
On this side of the mountain we mostly talk about all the crazy Las Vegas folks and how to keep them out of the Pahrump valley while still letting their money in.
We duzunt want their DNA cluttering up our one DNA gene pool over tuh here yuh seeze.
Might make our great great great grand chillins look nermal if'n wheeze was tuh allow the water'n down of our'n yu-neek DNA.
At least that's the way Coup and a few others here view we Pahrumpoids.
Soon as we get our starship repaired, we will depart this rock and you hoomons can continue in your quest to annihilate one another.

Beyond that, we mostly use 2meter, 70 CM and GMRS repeaters here in town to communicate when the phones are out, which is rather frequently due to drunk drivers and idiots with backhoes.

We also hold weekly training and disaster communication practice nets so we are ready when bad things happen.

Additionally, many of us also participate daily or weekly in HF nets for those same reasons , disaster preparedness.
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Soon as a full time Amargosa Valley resident, we'll have to discuss how to keep those "crazies" in the Pahrump Valley out of the Amargosa Valley!! LOL
 
Gunhand said:
Soon as a full time Amargosa Valley resident, we'll have to discuss how to keep those "crazies" in the Pahrump Valley out of the Amargosa Valley!! LOL
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Oh, another Wit-Sec relocatee heard from! And he thinks we Pahrumpalopes are crazy!

Wait until he meets his Amarogsoid neighbors! We'll seem plenty nermal to him after that!

And I'll bet you think we are gonna let you come into our valley to shop, or for Drs., or to pass through to go to Vegas, don'tcha? Well, we will, after you pay the shopping and toll fees! :ROFLMAO:o_O

Be sure to get your Amateur radio license after you get settled over there, the phones tend to go out frequently, but there are a number of repeaters in Amargosa Valley and Pahrump that can be hit from either valley, and are generally monitored 24x7 if you need help and the phone is out.
 
Wait what? I love Pahrump. All those old retired military, police, CIA, FBI. Post Office, GSA, NSA, gubmint people out there. Nice folks.
Could use more sheriff's out there to control the crazy Vegas hooligans.
 
If you'd stop coming to Pahrump , Coup, we wouldn't need more deputies! You're the only Las Vegas Hooligan who keeps managing to get past our anti hooligan devices on the road here.
Maybe we need to up the amount of RDX in those things, see if that stops him! o_O:ROFLMAO:
 
We just lowered it to 12 MPH, and we have a zero tolerance here, anything slower or faster than 12 MPH and you go to jail.
 
Ogre said:
I've ran CB for years in trucks. Mainly for traffic, to pass the time and start Sh*t... no one really talk on the roads anymore for a variety of reasons....
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I really lament the passing of CB. I know lots of amateur radio operators hate CB, but it has/had its place.

Would be nice if the simplex VHF/UHF calling freqs were used more on the roads but in my experience, they are NOT used. On a recent trip from northern NV to IA and MI, then return the southern route to AZ and then back to northern NV, I had zero QSOs via the VHF/UHF simple calling freqs. And I've never heard of any simplex freqs dedicated to over-the-road use (kinda like how CBs were used).
 
Pahrump - God’s Waiting Room
 
Some places monitor the VHF and UHF simplex calling frequencies, several hams here in Pahrump do that, listening for travelers looking to talk.

The 6 and 10 meter bands in FM mode, see a lot more road traffic, as many truckers have gotten their licenses (Tech Class at a minimum) and now use these bands, as they offer greater range (legally) than CB, and greater audio clarity as well.
 
NYECOGunsmith said:
Some places monitor the VHF and UHF simplex calling frequencies, several hams here in Pahrump do that, listening for travelers looking to talk.

The 6 and 10 meter bands in FM mode, see a lot more road traffic, as many truckers have gotten their licenses (Tech Class at a minimum) and now use these bands, as they offer greater range (legally) than CB, and greater audio clarity as well.
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I've threatened to get a 10 meter transceiver. Might consider it again.

This is the first I've heard of it getting any use.
 
Why is it illegal, did it swim across the river and then walk over the border in the middle of the night?
If so, probably won't work.....otherwise, it's legal, how you use it might be illegal, I mean are you using it to traffic in illicit non GMO vegetables and to give orders to your henchmen in the vegetable smuggling ring with it?

Are you using it to provide intel to Ming the Merciless back on the planet Mongo to help him plan his invasion of this rock?

Don't tell me you are using it, gasp!!! to talk to people!! o_O:poop:
 
NYECOGunsmith said:
Or are YOU the illegal part of that equation, no license!
We can fix that for ya.
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Nope, no license, but l did convert it to run on CB bands .... Just a little overpowered
 
50 watts, or running a linear?
 
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