^ lol.

 

I'm older than both of you

 

They're starting to have problems. I think it's mainly the crappy HID kits that they pre installed in them.


I like the first one Gary.


Hambone: I think everyone on here is alittle older than us.

 

Yea but I'm barely older then you. Probably less then a year.

 

Get off my LAWN!!!! TURN THAT BLASTED CRAP YOU CALL MUSIC DOWN!!!

 

LOL I was born in 1995 as well. My second best friend is exactly one day older than me. Ain't that funny... And he works for me too lol...

 

Shut it old man.

Haha so are you saying you have your own business at 18 years old?

 

Owned my computer development business since November 2011, it's finally starting to make some profit.

I owned my own mechanical repair shop, focusing mostly on small engines and ag equipment, from August 2011 to December 2013.

I really haven't had a childhood since I was about 10. Been homeschooled so it's allowed me enough flexibility to do these things. I've always been working some sort of job since I was 11... My family has been really messed up, so I haven't really had a dad to teach me "man things", just the sorta things guys teach guys, so I never learned them early on, and I've only started learning some of those things thanks to some other older guys who have sorta "taken me under their wings" and helped me out somewhat.

 

When it comes to music,...



I have some pretty eclectic tastes. I like techno, ambient house , dance trance, and gamalon music a lot.


Don't care for much of this “New Hit Country” and really don't like much of the old timey country either. I do like a lot of bluegrass but not all. I like a lot of rock but not all.


I discovered realplayer and youtube several years ago I can download almost any tune I want with the free realplayer software then converter it to mp3 and burn it to CD.


When napster was the rage I used that quite a bit and always worried that the copyright police would come get me anysecond now.


I stopped that long ago, got plenty other more important things to be paranoid about.







Citizens band radio also known as CB {11 meter band 26.965 to 27.405MHz} does not require a license. The license requirement went away in the late 70's. Darn near everyone and their left handed read headed uncle Jim had a CB and few bothered to get a license or call sign. Most that did have a license used a handle instead anyway. You can still legally make a call sign up by using the letter K your initials and the last four digits of your zip code, social security number or phone number, but you might as well use a handle like everyone else.

My first CB call sign was KID1134 but I let it expire. A few years later when I decided to open my shop I got a new license and was issued KAEE6623 as my last CB call sign just before they stopped having them. I can use that until such time as I die if I so desire.

When I had my shop I kept the license applications on hand. All anyone had to do was fill it out and send it and some money in and in a few weeks they would get a call sign that was good for up to 5 radios. Later you could still send in for the same license but there was no charge.

My amateur radio call sign will expire in 2023{if I'm still alive}. I have the option of renewing it {online for free} or letting it expire. If I do let it expire I still have the option of renewing it {for a fee} for two more years. If I die and one of my relatives wants my call they will have first shot at it {for a fee through the vanity call system} for the same two years after my death.

If no one wants it the FCC will toss it back into the call sign pool and some new ham will more than likely get it some day.

FRS used to require a license but I think the FCC gave up on trying to enforce that just like CB. GMRS radio does require you to be licensed but again the FCC is just to understaffed to enforce much on the band. With places like Bestbuy, Radio Shack and Walmart selling GMRS radios in blister packs for around $20.00 for two radios, there are just to many of them around being used illegally.

Not so long ago, locally, the FCC made a bust of a bunch of coyote hunters that were using marine band hand held radios to coordinate their coyote hunts.

Lately a lot of people who call themselves “Prepper's” have been buying the cheap Chinese Baofeng{and other brand} radios that will transmit in the ham bands and using them without licenses. Since I am licensed this bothers me a lot.

If TSHTF and the zombi acropolis thing happens I will be happy enough to talk to unlicensed folk I guess, but until then they really need to get a license, it ain't that hard.

While I was growing up listening to foreigner broadcast radio station late at night I would sometimes hear amateur radio operators sending code or sometimes using AM phone or even the 'newfangled' {at the time} unintelligible {without more circuitry than most home broadcast radios had} SBB phone and wonder about it all.

What I really wanted a broadcast band AM radio of my very own to use in my bedroom to listen to WLS and KAAY when I wanted to. This caused me to start reading about how to build a radio. I built several crystal sets but they were to limited in range. With the large family I was in {there were 11 counting mom and dad} money was usually pretty scarce so it wasn't like I could just go buy a new radio to listen to.

I ended up scavenging one from the town dump and rebuilding it. Later my neighbor who was the extra class ham sold me a general coverage Hammerlund receiver. My folks were a little ticked that he was charging me {a mere lad of 9 years old} $50.00 for the old radio. At the time the Hammerlund was barely 5 years old and worth a lot more than $50.00.

I mowed a lot of lawns shoveled a lot of snow and raked more than one garden and lawn to pay for that radio. Mom and dad relented a lot when I finally brought the radio home and built a good outdoor antenna for it and could tune in WSM even in the daylight.

My neighbor had wanted me to take the radio as soon as I started paying for it but I told him since he was taking payments over time I wanted him to keep a hold of the radio until it was paid for otherwise I might get tired of paying and have to return the radio.

My grandma sent me enough money to finally pay the radio off for my 10th birthday. I was a very happy lad that day.