Posted: 2/21/2015 8:33:33 PM EDT
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A member of a neighboring town's ham club told us he just got two free, nearly new,
in the box, with manuals and all accessories, Yaesu FT-2900s. Seems some commercial fishermen were using them. The U. S. Coast Guard ordered them to get rid of them. Interesting. We have had problems with this before, with them directly on the repeater frequency. Every few years they start up again, and in the past the FCC has come in, seized gear from the boats, levied some fines. |
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I don't want one, but a guy I work with out of the blue came up to me today to ask if I could teach him about ham radio. He said he has been interested since he was a kid but had never done anything about it.
If there is one for him I am sure he would be super grateful. |
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65 miles to the east of Jupiter7200 is where I live. We had the same problem. A certain group of commercial fishermen were using amateur 2m rigs to communicate. Problem is that they were pinging our repeater. To help solve the issue we had to activate a PL tone. Years with no problems and a repeater with no tone then these dorks screw it up.
Don't need another 2m rig. Got two, new in the box, and another used one from a SK estate sale sitting around. |
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A member of a neighboring town's ham club told us he just got two free, nearly new, in the box, with manuals and all accessories, Yaesu FT-2900s. Seems some commercial fishermen were using them. The U. S. Coast Guard ordered them to get rid of them. Interesting. We have had problems with this before, with them directly on the repeater frequency. Every few years they start up again, and in the past the FCC has come in, seized gear from the boats, levied some fines. Need to have a talk with my nephew, who is CG reservist. If they need to remove any radios from service, I will be able to dispose of them legally. I was recently handed a baggie full of .38 to dispose of, so I should start to advertize my new disposal service. Bill |
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We should use a loan program for new hams. Someone lends a rig to them. They engrave thier call on it and use it till they out grow it. Send it back to ARFCOM to be sent on to the next new ham. Honestly I think this is an EXCELLENT idea. Neat idea, but the radio must be issued by team member to be returned back to same member upon upgrade to new radio. Bill |
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Local school bus company here was "up-grading" their complete radio system. One of our club members is a driver for them and they knew he was a ham. Asked him if he wanted the equipment for the club. HECK YES!! We now have 15 - total that were usable after we got done going thru them - commercial Kenwoods that are primarily 2 channel. We've had them reprogrammed to our 2 primary repeaters and will loan them out to new hams until they can get equipment. The up-grade also included their repeater so we got that too!! Pair of Motorolas - forget which model they are but way newer than the mobiles. We will reprogram them and use them if/when the current repeater dies OR set-up a new repeater!
We just LOVE free stuff!!! Sarge |
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65 miles to the east of Jupiter7200 is where I live. We had the same problem. A certain group of commercial fishermen were using amateur 2m rigs to communicate. Problem is that they were pinging our repeater. To help solve the issue we had to activate a PL tone. Years with no problems and a repeater with no tone then these dorks screw it up. Don't need another 2m rig. Got two, new in the box, and another used one from a SK estate sale sitting around. Yeah, for a while they were directly on our repeater frequency, then they were on two other nearby repeaters. Since all were close to the coastline they were using our repeaters to extend their range. To clarify, the USCG did not seize the radios. They told the fishermen their use was illegal and to remove them from the boats. The fishermen gave them to the nearby club. I don't know if that was suggested by the USCG or exactly how that came about. But they now have some new in box FT-2900Rs. They probably picked those models as they are inexpensive and are rated 75 watts. You and I know that 40 w, 50 w, or 75 w, makes little to no difference, but to the unfamiliar, they are impressed by bigger numbers like CBers are fascinated by the number of "pills" (transistors) in an illegal truck stop back room amplifier. |
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I was browsing QRZ this AM when I cam across this nearly identical story....
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?468712-New-radio-for-free!!!!! |
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I was browsing QRZ this AM when I cam across this nearly identical story.... http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?468712-New-radio-for-free!!!!! Yep. Same event. Reading down that thread you see this has been a constant problem across the Gulf Coast. |
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I was browsing QRZ this AM when I cam across this nearly identical story.... http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?468712-New-radio-for-free!!!!! I was reading this thinking about that thread. I'd be OK with getting a deal like that |