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$25,000 of Communications Gear In a $500 Car
In perhaps one of the finest displays of technological excess in automotive communications gear, one "enthusiast" has managed to cram over $25,000 worth of gear into a $500 car. The car is rigged for just about every conceivable communications band including FM, UHF, VHF, HF, and WTF. What other amazing displays of technological excess have others seen? "The equipment seems to cover an amazing array of technologies, many of which seem to be redundant. For instance, just how many handheld 144 MHz radios do you need? It seems like the owner of the Ham Car is capable of listening to every police/fire/ems/military channel in the world. Simultaneously. There's a laptop and we assume there's some form of cellular or satellite communication setup for that, too."
And the Icom IC-T81A stuck to the hub of the steering wheel has no antenna connected to it,
rendering it useless...
I have a double digit IQ you insensitive clod !
I assume that you used the proper type of sign, though.
Something along the lines of:
http://www.interfacebus.com/rf-radiation-hazard.jpg
or
http://www.celltowersafety.com/assets/images/RF.JPG
The symbol used on the "hamsexy" car is NOT appropriate, being intended for use with ionizing radiation sources.
http://frenchquarterradiationfree.com/img/dangerrads.jpg
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It is a car. A car is a tool for getting from one place to another. When it becomes part of your personality then something is going wrong.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
"25K?
You can get an ICOM R9500 which will give you everything between 5khz and 3.5GHZ with filtering and processing and a 40 channel per second scann rate for 12.5k"
I'll bet this guy's never had $12.5K at once. You see this in the ricer scene as well. When you see a riced out Honda Civic with $35K worth of junk bolted to it, you wonder why the guy didn't just buy something like a BMW M3 to start with. The thing is, all that crap was bolted on over a period of years--the guy never had all that money at any given time.