Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 12596448)

:eek:

Thanks for painting that picture for me. I will no longer be using the remote without wiping it down first.

Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 12596474)

We are going to the one in NYC ;)

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12596417)

I feel the need to amend myself. I only hunt paper targets and stupid messageboard participants. There, I feel better.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12595584)

He was indeed. I know kingalien is a friend to our community as well, and we have all talked about setting something up.

Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12596395)

While at Papa John's, a younger guy was talking on his cell phone about getting a compact Glock and how it's a "big gun that you don't really feel or notice while carrying". I carry something the size of a standard Glock 22 ...

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12596417)

I feel the need to amend myself. I only hunt paper targets and stupid messageboard participants. There, I feel better.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12596637)

Just finished watching 7 pounds. As if I'm not depressed enough, I promised BL JR I would watch Marley and Me tonight. Deep breath. Sigh.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12596584)

Years and years and years ago I was the marketing manager for a hotel/motel chain that I would never stay at now (okay, I'll be honest, I never stayed at them period unless there was a corporate event and I HAD to, but those were usually the nicer ones) and I know first hand what housekeepers can do. Which is while I carry my clorox/lysol wipes wherever I go and wipe down anything I could touch (toilet, sink, remote, bedside tables, desk, etc. etc.). It's the ugly truth.

Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12596709)

I refuse to watch what I know will be depressing movies. The fact that there's a dog involved throws it off the charts for me.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12596637)

Just finished watching 7 pounds. As if I'm not depressed enough, I promised BL JR I would watch Marley and Me tonight. Deep breath. Sigh.

Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12596709)

I refuse to watch what I know will be depressing movies. The fact that there's a dog involved throws it off the charts for me.

Originally Posted by SuperG1955 (Post 12596219)

IMO.

-ATC 108 - 135.999 is AM and would not be heard on an FM receiver.
-Airline and ramp service companies use FM in the 420 - 490 MHz bands which are the 4th harmonic of high end (frequency not quality) commercial FM broadcast.
-420MHz is line of sight reception explaining cruisr only hearing airborne side of conversation. Service companies, particularly fuelers, service multiple airlines and would be heard talking to multiple carriers.
-The privacy tones mentioned by Mackieman are used to limit access into repeaters and to squelch unwanted reception at handhelds and mobile radios but would not affect a screwed up FM Broadcast band receiver.
- The things that could affect the receiver and cause it to act in this manner could be something like placement of a metal object nearby, placement of the power cord and many other seemingly unrelated things.
-FM reception is capture dependent - the strongest signal on a frequency at the receiver isthe only one you'd hear. A weaker broadcast FM could easily be overridden by a transmission from an overhead aircraft.
- for Mackieman Many years ago, I was trying to filter a VERY powerful 50MHz signal (2KW to a quad yagi array adding aout 16db effective radiated) from a neighbors TV by coiling the power cord around a ferrite rod and at one point choked 60 Hz and had the set turn off. I had three fellow hams over to verify the weird event and it was fully reproducible. I finally convinced the neighbor to get cable and a new color TV. ;) We were both happier. 73 de N2BYU.
- to the non EE's and hams, sorry for the tech stuff.

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 12596766)

baguettelady, you just reminded me of this thread:

Marley & Me

:(

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 12595840)

Sometimes I had to make three lefts instead of a single right turn. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12596336)

I can't decide between a LAS shooting Do or a BHM golf Do. I like the idea of both.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12596417)

I feel the need to amend myself. I only hunt paper targets and stupid messageboard participants. There, I feel better.

Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 12596474)

We are going to the one in NYC ;)