Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Don't raise funds. Steal them.

Anyone ever seen a $22,000 conventional analog 450 MHz repeater ? How about buying nine of them.

That's a repeater, duplexer, antenna, power supply, battery, coax... all on an existing tower... or water tank.

Or four $1000 computers to program radios ? Computers that can be used as Blu Ray home theaters are $550 at Dell. Wait until they find they need a serial port too.

How about $12,000 to pay $70 to each person learning how to key a mic they use every day for two hours of "learning" ? Turn on radio. Key radio. Turn off radio. Go eat pizza donated by local restaurant sucker "patriot".

Do you think over 170 people need pagers at $400 each ?

Then there's nine, is it, $700 base radios ? Base radios ? Say, when does a mobile turn into a base radio ? When you stick a $500 mobile into a matching power supply and tack on $200 each.

Merry Christmas. Other places that are far, far more important use hams. Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, and Orleans are afraid of them because they don't want to be watched as they watch others and might be reported.

For something.

SPQR

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