[BC] Obama blowing up ham gear

[Xmitters at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2009 3:58:14 PM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

> 
> I think it is a disgrace that Obama is now going after ham radio operators.
> Oh, well.  We voted for "change," right?  Who will be next?
> Text-messengers?
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Broadcast List USER
> <Broadcast at fetrow.org>wrote:
> 
> > Just sue the gubbernment and let us know how that goes.
> >
> > It is nearly impossible.
> >
> > After all, THEY write the rules.
> >
> 
> 
> 

What ???

Where in this pathetic story were the facts leaked out about Obama blowing up 
ham stuff?  The police organizations have had these nonsensical 
rules/policies about erring on the side of safety, long before Obama's time. 

There are good arguments for both sides of this attitude.

It is crossing the line when we have to make sure our radio communications 
equipmentcannot look like an kind of a bomb to a cop with a single igit IQ.

I remember the BTA-50 H had these big, honking fixed vacuum caps that looked 
like a copper pipe inside of a fish bowl. In today's chickenshit police 
environment, it would be confiscated or destroyed because to an idiot, it probably 
does look like a bomb.

Can't et that 50 kW transmitter back onthe air because you were pulled over 
for speeding and the cop saw that big capacitor and thought you were in a hurry 
to blow something up, rather than fixing your transmitter. 

Clearly there has to be some middle ground here. If they are going to be that 
paranoid about stuff they don't understand (if they don't know what it is, 
then it's a bomb), then attend some ham clubs or hamfests to discover that there 
is more to the world than just the police station. Hell, the flat-footers 
might actually learn something.

I am sure the safe than sorry detonation of the ham antenna probably scared 
the living stuffings out ofsome of the nearby people, and for what?  That's 
serving and protecting, is it?

Jeff Glass
Dell 2650 Win2000 AOL 7.0

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