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Offline franksolich

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the cousin finds it a real pain
« on: May 22, 2014, 01:03:07 PM »
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10024983515

Oh my.

This was so stolen from my good friend SarasotaRepub.

I've never done this before, but in this case I had to swipe it.

http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/showthread.php?62070-This-is-a-stupid-nit-for-anybody-who-might-own-a-scanner

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nadinbrzezinski (133,987 posts)   Wed May 21, 2014, 07:20 PM

This is a stupid nit, for anybody who might own a scanner

we have been abusing ours. Somehow I pressed some function buttons in the wrong order, that basically left it like a real brick... no, would not do a thing. And with something that ran 500 buckaroos, that is kind of bothersome.
 
I was on my way to the shop where I got it, since we need this for work and was dreading to have to buy a new one. Traffic was something else. So turned around and came home, and went... well, when the DVR misbehaves we need to reset it right? Well I just reset the damn thing by reprograming it. It took all of five minutes, it is back in service.
 
There is a reason to a point I prefer the old gear. These new fangled digital radios I tell you kids, you need to give up your first, second and third born, and pray to the rain gods and hope it works if you try to program them manually. And not having the USB interface could be a problem. Yes, it holds far more frequencies than the old time radios... granted, they use that many more frequencies... remember when they gave the whole 900 band to law enforcement and fire? That is the reason.
 
At least it decided to misbehave (or rather me press the wrong buttons in the wrong order) AFTER the major fire. The reason why I say that, this is our actual physical scanner. At one point we were listening 16 hour days, to four freqs on the computer and had the actual sucker on scan.
 
And no, the manual is pretty much useless.

Oh and yes, usual day to day frequencies you will find on phone apps and online scanner feeds. Now the real meat, aka tactical bands, not so much.
 
It is just a little nit, mostly about modern day gear. At times... it is a real pain.

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madinmaryland (56,313 posts)    Wed May 21, 2014, 07:30 PM

1. Don't nits become lice?

Just asking.

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nadinbrzezinski (133,987 posts)    Wed May 21, 2014, 07:31 PM

2. It if helps, I managed to get ash into a camera body

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Brother Buzz (10,095 posts)    Wed May 21, 2014, 07:48 PM

3. Save it

Wood ash kills lice.

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GeorgeGist (12,303 posts)    Wed May 21, 2014, 09:20 PM

4. Facebook.

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nadinbrzezinski (133,987 posts)    Wed May 21, 2014, 10:05 PM

5. Yup and...

it is more a complaint of modern gear, including your DVR recorder.

I suggest, if you are not interested, in the ignore person, or trash subject. It works. I find myself doing it quite a bit.
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Re: the cousin finds it a real pain
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2014, 01:06:06 PM »
Don't let the cousin fool anybody, with her comment about having the scanner "for work."

She has the scanner simply and only because she's a yenta, a nosy snooping busybody who has to be the first to know, who has to know before anybody else does.

That's all it is, nothing more.
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Re: the cousin finds it a real pain
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 01:21:04 PM »
She has no job.

If she did, Crazy Miriam would be supplying the equipment.

And today's digital gadgetry is simpler to use, more user-friendly, and more reliable than any other tools since the invention of fire.

The only thing possibly simpler is a clamshell-type post hole digger.
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Re: the cousin finds it a real pain
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2014, 02:08:38 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on May 22, 2014, 01:21:04 PM
The only thing possibly simpler is a clamshell-type post hole digger.

Operating a PHD is beyond any of the Dummies and actually touching one is as close as they will ever get to holding a PHD.
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Re: the cousin finds it a real pain
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2014, 05:25:50 PM »
It's a wonder she can even operate the on switch.
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Re: the cousin finds it a real pain
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2014, 07:09:14 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on May 22, 2014, 05:25:50 PM
It's a wonder she can even operate the on switch.

I bought my scanner 20 years ago from radio shack for around $300.00.   A necessity as Our winters were brutal and I needed to know the road conditions for driving to work. Alone, taking side roads to cut out driving time on icey roads, we had no cell phones back then and going off road not plowed -----Well, I listened in on the plow drivers and their location and many a time followed a sanding truck to work.

I take it back to the Shack every 3 years or so and they reprogram it for me, so much has changed in two decades.  What do I know about double and triple trunk  so when the police change frenquencys I can follow and not miss a beat.

My mistake was buying a scanner that was not battery operated, in an ice storm and power went out it was as useless as tits on a boar. 

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