Posted: 3/16/2010 4:53:00 PM EDT
| I am flying to Phoenix tomorrow and I was going to bring an HT (vx3r) with me. I am traveling light and will be carrying on my pack. Will it be ok getting x-rayed? Thanx, Ed |
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I am flying to Phoenix tomorrow and I was going to bring an HT (vx3r) with me. I am traveling light and will be carrying on my pack. Will it be ok getting x-rayed? Thanx, Ed Not a stupid question 
For what it's worth, my Icom IC-V82 gets x-rayed at the airport all the time with no ill effects whatsoever My HT, along with a laptop and a very expensive router have all been dropped at different times however by TSA personnel-so be careful about that.
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a very expensive router have all been dropped what, you sprang for the $39.99 one which has "built-in whitehat-approved intrusion detection and countermeasures"? 
ar-jedi ps: (neo/ar-jedi)$ telnet gw-router Connected to gw-router.blankyblanked.com. Escape character is '^]'. User Access Verification Password: cisco3660-gw>en Password: cisco3660-gw#sh run Building configuration... big, heavy, stupid, but it works 24x7x365! 
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| I use to fly all the time with my VX-7 I never pulled it out of the bag but for some reason the bag always got a 2nd look, got into a talk with one TSA person about ham radio and it turned out he was testing for his ticket and is now a member at our club. I understand that the airport actually has a Ham station set up to be used in case of emergencies. At first I thought surely they were not going to use to emergency land planes with ham radio, but if you think about it in case of a big emergency that could be a central location where supplies come in into an area. So it is a pretty smart idea. |
No, it was a Cisco 2851-ISR with a street price of around $14k as configured  Normally, equipment like that is priority overnighted to my destination a day or two before my arrival. This time however there was an emergency (router flameout), so the trip was laid on in a big ass hurry. It took six hours from the time of the crash to the time I was plugging in the replacement. Not too shabby considering that the six hours included my travel time from NH to Tampa I had a team waiting for me at the airport and everything-I felt like Jason Bourne.
I certainly earned my pay that week. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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ar-jedi the 3660 is a good telco router, that was my core router for our ISP business for several years. rock solid on -48 VDC Good router, expensive in it's day. sorry to hijack but the original question had been answered. then you'll hate hearing this: we use most of it as an async terminal server for a hundred or so RS232 ports, which in turn are connected to the debug interfaces of a variety of telecom (optical), routing, and test instrumentation boxen. then there are another 20 or so private (RFC1918) NAT'd LANs in the lab, again mostly connected at 10/100 to dozens and dozens of various pieces of modest bitrate connections (web based GUI consoles, for example). and finally a connection to the building LAN. now for the really bad news: we have 6 or 7 set up like this!!! but those suckers run forever in this application, the HW is good and solid, and once you find the right stable image you are good for a couple of years. in contrast our building LAN (~4500 technical staff, each with GbE to the desktop) is served by an army of big iron Foundry switches (meh), and then the OC48's/GbE's to other locations and to the 'net is via Juniper M40's. ar-jedi |
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ar-jedi the 3660 is a good telco router, that was my core router for our ISP business for several years. rock solid on -48 VDC Good router, expensive in it's day. sorry to hijack but the original question had been answered. then you'll hate hearing this: we use most of it as an async terminal server for a hundred or so RS232 ports, which in turn are connected to the debug interfaces of a variety of telecom (optical), routing, and test instrumentation boxen. then there are another 20 or so private (RFC1918) NAT'd LANs in the lab, again mostly connected at 10/100 to dozens and dozens of various pieces of modest bitrate connections (web based GUI consoles, for example). and finally a connection to the building LAN. now for the really bad news: we have 6 or 7 set up like this!!! but those suckers run forever in this application, the HW is good and solid, and once you find the right stable image you are good for a couple of years. in contrast our building LAN (~4500 technical staff, each with GbE to the desktop) is served by an army of big iron Foundry switches (meh), and then the OC48's/GbE's to other locations and to the 'net is via Juniper M40's. ar-jedi Interesting application for them. We are now using Brocade (Foundry) switches as well and our core router is an MLX-8. While the Brocade equipment is cheaper and it does work pretty well there is not much technical information about them on the web. Most router / switching configs are Cisco. Concepts are the same but commands are slightly different. |