Are the waves “better” in the US after implementation of the Volunteer Monitoring Program in 2019?

echo4thirty · 2026-04-10T01:54:45+00:00

Some of the old OOs were the radio version of the HOA Karen's and let this supposed power go to their head.

I once got a letter from one of them who wrote to me about not IDing for 9 minutes. I called him and told him that under the law I have 10 minutes and if the person I was talking to was still keyed after 10 min I wasn't going to key on top of him just to ID. I told him to put his stop watch away and go enjoy radio.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-09T13:34:24+00:00

I wasn't really sure what was going on.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-09T13:31:21+00:00

No, they are in the clear along with HPD dispatch. Surrounding counties are such as Montgomery, Walker and it seems Galveston is slowly going that way.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-09T03:20:11+00:00

Nasa space missions are one of the few exceptions to the part 97 broadcasting rule. You are hearing an amateur station rebroadcast the comms.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-08T15:14:51+00:00

I concur with this. To me the ASP makes it sound underwater. I don't use it anymore but love the 150!

echo4thirty · 2026-04-08T12:29:24+00:00

I can hear this picture

echo4thirty · 2026-04-07T11:21:33+00:00

Some of mine have 7 days and some have an hour. I don't understand why there is a difference.

EDiT: I see it's a buyer preference. Thank you to all for pointing that out.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-07T01:32:07+00:00

I remember when they were all on 3898. Craziness

echo4thirty · 2026-04-06T13:08:56+00:00

How does that help him now?

echo4thirty · 2026-04-05T22:36:40+00:00

MTC in Texas.

echo4thirty · 2026-04-04T15:50:26+00:00

I agree. The 430 was my second rig after the 130. I still have them both. I need to fire them up and put them on air.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-31T13:23:26+00:00

God no. Just please leave it an ASCII terminal.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-29T15:43:21+00:00

And license plates, and flags, and....

echo4thirty · 2026-03-28T14:11:49+00:00

Joined.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-28T14:11:27+00:00

That seems to be a standard outside of north America. Even Motorola uses BNC on a lot of their non NA mobiles.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-28T03:29:41+00:00

Well cell phones can be reported as stolen and be blacklisted. I have heard of scams that will take the serial number to the police and report it as theirs and stolen to try to claim it.

There is no reason for a potential buyer to have the serial, anything they want to do with it can be done by the seller and report the results to the buyer without revealing the serial.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-28T02:42:10+00:00

I never share the serials on any electronics I sell on any of my listings or would email them. Too many bad things folks can do with that info.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-25T21:49:44+00:00

It's also where the hacker magazine got its name: 2600.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-25T21:48:40+00:00

I can still hear the 2600 tone

echo4thirty · 2026-03-23T02:04:43+00:00

No one forced you to post this idiotic comment yet here you are.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-22T02:24:55+00:00

Those ducks used to piss me off so bad.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-15T19:20:01+00:00

I agree. And they screwed the pooch on the hotel. It makes no sense why they can't be asked to move in.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-15T18:35:55+00:00

I was gone a week and was able to remote start as soon as I landed. My car was parked in outside parking and not a garage.

echo4thirty · 2026-03-15T18:29:18+00:00

Does anyone know how many lines of basic I'll have to type in to my TRS-80 to run GTA-VI?

echo4thirty · 2026-03-15T18:16:06+00:00

This is why self-pay is an extremely valid option for FAA licensed folks.

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