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eHam Forums => Stolen Gear => Topic started by: KC3TEC on December 09, 2022, 12:56:18 PM
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I was demonstrating some 4sqrp kits ive built for interested people and i had a 40 meter cricket cw transceiver.
Ill be darned someone actually swiped it.
( i would have given it to them if they had asked)
It didnt cost much so im not out a lot of money.
Just damned annoyed about it.
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Some people just SUCK!
I'd like to believe there is some sort of payback karma.....but I've been alive too long to believe that's true.
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Be careful, there’s a lot of porch pirates out this time of year.
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I was demonstrating some 4sqrp kits ive built for interested people and i had a 40 meter cricket cw transceiver.
Ill be darned someone actually swiped it.
( i would have given it to them if they had asked)
It didnt cost much so im not out a lot of money.
Just damned annoyed about it.
Just exactly how did they steal your transceiver?
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I remember the first time I learned that hams are not beyond reproach. There was a power failure at the Dayton Hamvention one year, and people were grabbing radios from dealer tables and running with them. I was so disillusioned when I heard about that. So shameful.
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I was demonstrating some 4sqrp kits ive built for interested people and i had a 40 meter cricket cw transceiver.
Ill be darned someone actually swiped it.
( i would have given it to them if they had asked)
It didnt cost much so im not out a lot of money.
Just damned annoyed about it.
Just exactly how did they steal your transceiver?
The transciever is just a little larger than a big cell phone and just a simple kit.
About 3/4 watt output
Cost about $30
They are great for pota/sota adventures because of the light weight.
And like any sub watt qrp transciever it needs a well matched antenna for efficiency.
They are fun and easy to build and you get a certain satisfaction using a radio you put together yourself.
The 4sqrp group has their own cricketeer society dedicated to operations using the crickets
They come in 40 meters, 80 meters, 30 meters, and 20 meters,
The only drawback is they are monoband radios
Anyhow it had to have happened while i was demonstrating the code practice oscillators with some other kids.
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It must have been one of the kids parents, what a bunch of low life scum bags.
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I work in an Electronics department at a Walmart in a very nice area but.... every evening around closing we get meth-heads and con artists. They con me occasionally, and that after I think I've seen it all. They will con/steal to get an item worth under $10 when the penalty for theft is seriously more than that... one couple seemed like perfectly innocent elderly people in fatwagons, I trusted them and they got away with a fairly expensive item. We have a very extensive surveillance system and catch and prosecute large number of criminals every year, the truly stupid ones I'd say, yet the theft is ongoing. I'm thinking that a hamfest would be very easy pickings for some of these people
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I need to know what a "fatwagon" is..
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A Fatwagon is one of those little motorized drivable carts that people drive around the store on. Mostly used by handicapped people but a lot of fat people use them also.
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Thanks for supplying the definition of "fatwagon," I was about to ask the same question. Lots of those in use around here, too so I should have known...
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I need to know what a "fatwagon" is..
It's a close cousin to the Hamabout Scooter :o
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Going back to the original poster, did you have it on table giving a demo to a small crowd?
That story about the Hamvention is almost hard to believe, I hope those guys didn't have hats with call signs.
Thats just dirty, to grab and run, if you saw it happen would you put your foot out to tri[p them?
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A Fatwagon is one of those little motorized drivable carts that people drive around the store on. Mostly used by handicapped people but a lot of fat people use them also.
Aha. I learned something new today.
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A Fatwagon is one of those little motorized drivable carts that people drive around the store on. Mostly used by handicapped people but a lot of fat people use them also.
And a lot of the times even handicapped cant use them when they are grabbed up by the overweight people or kids just screwing around.
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Going back to the original poster, did you have it on table giving a demo to a small crowd?
That story about the Hamvention is almost hard to believe, I hope those guys didn't have hats with call signs.
Thats just dirty, to grab and run, if you saw it happen would you put your foot out to tri[p them?
There were people walking by all the time.
Whoever took it knew it was a transceiver.
The three pactice oscillator were not taken ( probably because they were being used at the time.)
Anyhow next year we will have more people demonstrating and watching things
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I was in a store with a cart full of items and at the end of a very narrow aisle when one of those carts came into the aisle. The woman in it demanded that I back up all the way to the other end of the aisle so she could get through. I replies that the cart has a reverse gear and could she please use it. She responded by bumping into my cart with her cart. I reached over the handlebar, turned the cart off, pulled out the key and through it into the next aisle. I then backed up with my cart and checked out. The whole while I heard screamed curses coming from her that would have embarrassed a sailor.
Karma baby!
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And a lot of the times even handicapped cant use them when they are grabbed up by the overweight people or kids just screwing around.
Yea, the XYL and I had that happen once. We were in a Burlington store looking at coats (go figure). At the time, the XYL required either crutches, wheel chair, or a scooter. So this time we were using the scooter. My XYL stopped it in a aisle to try on some coats and, with some help, we moved on to the next aisle, leaving the scooter in place. When we went back a few minutes later, the scooter was gone.
I found a 5 year old and his 2 year old sister flying around the store with it. When I found them I just kicked them off with no explanation. I didn't figure I needed one because their parents were right there, also looking for coats, but completely ignoring them. I guess if they got killed, they could make new ones. We never left the key in again.
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I was in a store with a cart full of items and at the end of a very narrow aisle when one of those carts came into the aisle. The woman in it demanded that I back up all the way to the other end of the aisle so she could get through. I replies that the cart has a reverse gear and could she please use it. She responded by bumping into my cart with her cart. I reached over the handlebar, turned the cart off, pulled out the key and through it into the next aisle. I then backed up with my cart and checked out. The whole while I heard screamed curses coming from her that would have embarrassed a sailor.
Karma baby!
For inconsiderate lard butts like that, I like to add items into their cart prior to check out, stuff that makes no sense at all, clogg cleaner, pack of pork chops, whatever I can get...payback baby...
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You guys are wild. Sticking stuff in handicapped people's baskets.
It's everywhere and it's calculated opportunism. I went to a mid-day archery tournament - couple of hundred people, families watching kids or parents compete, all their stuff on picnic tables back towards a tree line, a few people at the tables but most behind the archers watching. I saw a pretty normal looking guy hanging back and I realized he was looking the tables over while everyone was focused on the shooting. I caught him going for a cell phone on the edge of one of the tables and let him know I knew what he was up to. He left in a hurry.
I was out on a walk one Sunday afternoon in a nice neighborhood and as I approached the crest of a hill I came upon middle aged man in dress slacks and a cardigan loading a nice racing bicycle into the trunk of his car. We nodded and I walked on. About 30 seconds later, a guy came out of a house just on the other side of the crest of the hill dressed for the Tour de France and yelled at me, "Where's my bike!" Gone. I told him about the man and the car.
Don't get me started on thieves in the Navy - my fellow shipmates.
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Many radio amateurs are under the misguided impression that their "ham ticket" makes them part of a peer group, much the same way as a joining a society of engineers or of the Bar Association does. This assumption is woefully flawed. Membership in the "ham fraternity" is too easy to obtain, and does not include any requirements assuring the character or the reputation of its members, as the example peer groups do. If one understands this when joining the "ham fraternity", it becomes easier and more prudent to protect oneself. I've seen enough examples why this is necessary. This is just one more.
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You guys are wild. Sticking stuff in handicapped people's baskets.
It's everywhere and it's calculated opportunism. I went to a mid-day archery tournament - couple of hundred people, families watching kids or parents compete, all their stuff on picnic tables back towards a tree line, a few people at the tables but most behind the archers watching. I saw a pretty normal looking guy hanging back and I realized he was looking the tables over while everyone was focused on the shooting. I caught him going for a cell phone on the edge of one of the tables and let him know I knew what he was up to. He left in a hurry.
I was out on a walk one Sunday afternoon in a nice neighborhood and as I approached the crest of a hill I came upon middle aged man in dress slacks and a cardigan loading a nice racing bicycle into the trunk of his car. We nodded and I walked on. About 30 seconds later, a guy came out of a house just on the other side of the crest of the hill dressed for the Tour de France and yelled at me, "Where's my bike!" Gone. I told him about the man and the car.
Don't get me started on thieves in the Navy - my fellow shipmates.
I worked with a guy that was in the Navy during the Forrestal accident. He told me they caught guys that had pulled wedding rings and valuables off of the dead sailors after the explosion. Nothing really surprises me anymore.
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Many radio amateurs are under the misguided impression that their "ham ticket" makes them part of a peer group, much the same way as a joining a society of engineers or of the Bar Association does. This assumption is woefully flawed. Membership in the "ham fraternity" is too easy to obtain, and does not include any requirements assuring the character or the reputation of its members, as the example peer groups do. If one understands this when joining the "ham fraternity", it becomes easier and more prudent to protect oneself. I've seen enough examples why this is necessary. This is just one more.
That was me when I got my Tech a couple of years ago just for fun - retired CPA/CFE. I had some fuzzy idealistic expectations based on the notion that hams were all Eagle Scout types with an appreciation for science and technology with a need to communicate. We're just a reflection of the bell curve of the general population. That has been a let-down but, now that I know, I can live with the variety of characters it attracts - some great, some not so great.
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Fatwagon, I love it! The thief probably never ever goes on POTA or any other exercise because the Fatwagon gets stuck when it runs off the pavement.
I've actually seen this at a local park. Not a stolen scooter but one that got stuck on a walking trail because it wasn't an SUV scooter.
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I worked with a guy that was in the Navy during the Forrestal accident. He told me they caught guys that had pulled wedding rings and valuables off of the dead sailors after the explosion. Nothing really surprises me anymore.
I was an MP on a base in a foreign country (at the transition to the Master at Arms rating) and one of my fellow MPs had been kicked off of the presidential honor guard for drug use - he cuffed a guy we had to wrestle to the floor of a bar to a radiator and beat him badly; a couple of others who were supposed to be doing security checks on buildings at night broke into cold storage and stole a bunch of frozen food; and a couple more broke into the cooler at an enlisted club and stole a bunch of liquor - they had a side gig to clean the club after closing. These are the ones who got caught - and they were supposed to be the good guys. I had a JAG attorney tell me a lot of the people who went into the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army during the Vietnam war were bad news. I can attest to that.
I worked for a governmental audit agency and HR had to fire five new hires because they made counterfeit parking passes so they wouldn't have to pay for parking or walk a couple of blocks to the office. New college grads at their first professional job, making great money as entry level auditors who certainly had to take a class on ethics - crazy, just crazy. Probably would have made good auditors because they already thought like thieves looking to exploit any system weaknesses.
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I worked with a guy that was in the Navy during the Forrestal accident. He told me they caught guys that had pulled wedding rings and valuables off of the dead sailors after the explosion. Nothing really surprises me anymore.
I was an MP on a base in a foreign country (at the transition to the Master at Arms rating) and one of my fellow MPs had been kicked off of the presidential honor guard for drug use - he cuffed a guy we had to wrestle to the floor of a bar to a radiator and beat him badly; a couple of others who were supposed to be doing security checks on buildings at night broke into cold storage and stole a bunch of frozen food; and a couple more broke into the cooler at an enlisted club and stole a bunch of liquor - they had a side gig to clean the club after closing. These are the ones who got caught - and they were supposed to be the good guys. I had a JAG attorney tell me a lot of the people who went into the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army during the Vietnam war were bad news. I can attest to that.
I worked for a governmental audit agency and HR had to fire five new hires because they made counterfeit parking passes so they wouldn't have to pay for parking or walk a couple of blocks to the office. New college grads at their first professional job, making great money as entry level auditors who certainly had to take a class on ethics - crazy, just crazy. Probably would have made good auditors because they already thought like thieves looking to exploit any system weaknesses.
Yeah, that was kind of my thinking about the bad eggs during the Vietnam era. It was probably either the military or jail time for a lot folks, so they took the military route. Still thieves at heart.