{"id":604,"date":"2006-12-02T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T01:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=604"},"modified":"2006-12-02T21:03:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T01:03:54","slug":"scanner-folk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Scanner folk&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" hspace=\"8\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" id=\"image603\" alt=\"scanner.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/scanner.jpg\" \/>I often scoff at the rather superior stance that Hams seem to think they have in the radio community &#8211; especially against CB-types and Scanner folk. I&#8217;ve been a ham for pushing 30 years now, and I&#8217;ve seen my share of absolute cretin hams. Hams seem to think that, because they must pass a test, they are somehow superior humans. Trust me, that isn&#8217;t always the case! There are cretins in all levels of society&#8230;. just because someone went to school long enough to become a doctor or a lawyer doesn&#8217;t mean they can&#8217;t be despicable human beings. But I digress&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Scanner folk usually get a bad rap&#8230;. all one has to do is to read scanner-themed websites to see why. I own scanners and constantly listen to my state and county police. It&#8217;s good shit. But man, sometimes things happen that make you go &#8220;whoooshit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue161 on the Hamsexy Forums brought this to light. Someone on RadioReference (normally a great site&#8230; Lindsay Blanton is a good friend of Hamsexy and visits us often) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioreference.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=29014\">started a thread<\/a> about good looking girls in uniform. It all went well, with the usual images of hot chicks nicely filling out uniforms. Then user hotdjdave (actually a ham, callsign K9DJW) totally kills the thread by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioreference.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=29014&#038;page=12\">posting an image of a little girl<\/a> in some sort of park ranger uniform, and adds the really creepy line: &#8220;beauty has no age limit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What shocked all of us was the totally blas\u00e9 attitude people had towards his comment. Not only did many people on the thread call Rescue161 out on it (including some e-mailing him privately about it), a board moderator actually <em>went through the thread and <strong>summarily deleted messages<\/strong> asking K9DJW to explain himself!!<\/em> What kind of a message does *that* send about scanner people? Posting an image of a little girl in a hot chicks in uniform thread, and tossing out a creepy message like &#8220;beauty has no age limit&#8221;&#8230;.? And then RadioReference staff deleting messages that might have painted the original poster in a bad light? No warnings, no edited messages&#8230; just erasing them from the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to go against my own ethos here, but scanner folk creep me the fuck OUT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often scoff at the rather superior stance that Hams seem to think they have in the radio community &#8211; especially against CB-types and Scanner folk. I&#8217;ve been a ham for pushing 30 years now, and I&#8217;ve seen my share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexy-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}