Subj : Wannbe HAM
To : Mark Lewis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Sep 18 2016 10:01 pm
Yep Marc!
ml> 18 Sep 16 15:58, you wrote to Tony Langdon:
TL>> Here, the police are strict on road rules. Even
TL>> if one is on the way
TL>> to the station to handle a call, all road rules
TL>> must be obeyed. It's
TL>> only when we've got in one of the fire truchs or
TL>> support car that we
TL>> can put lights and sirens on and judiciously break some laws "if it
TL>> is safe and reasonable to do so". Even then,
TL>> both standing orders and
TL>> road law itself still set strong limits.
JD> Much the same here. The only vehicles that can
JD> legally go thru a stop
JD> sign, or Red light, is a funeral procession. Then again, that is
JD> usually accompanied by at least a police cruiser in front.
ml> check your laws closely... there may be a ""loop hole"" in that as long
ml> as you stop at a red light, does the law say that you
ml> *must* sit there until it turns red... most/all
ml> jurisdictions i've been in do not state that you
ml> *must* wait in the green... only that you must stop...
ml> i've beaten "red light tickets" with that argument
ml> several times in the past ;) ;) ;)
ml> on the flashing lights... i'm fixing to get a light
ml> bar fitted that gives me yellow and white flashing and
ml> alternating... can also get green in addition or as
ml> one or the other... this because of being on
ml> construction sites with heavy equipment running
ml> around... we already wear white hats and neon yellow
ml> safety vests ;)
ml> )\/(ark
ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
ml> ... American football: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
ml> ---
ml> * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)
Well, dating back to when I first got my Extra Class ham license in late 1972
here and moved from WN5WQN to W5WQN which I still have today, I am very
familiar with much of the CB vs. 'pig meat ham' radio all this has been talking
about, grin! I also legally worked CB back then and my CB cute name was "Empty
Hole" here in the Texas A&M University College Station and Bryan, Texas area
where I'm still today. The Empty Hole cute name came from the fact that I had
a small gas tank in the little truck I was driving and it got really low gas
mileage too. Which meant a lot of the time I was low on gasoline running all
over Texas and more!
Move on to the issue about running red lights and so on. For what I was
totally doing to carry all the world up even in the MARS top secret work I was
doing back then that I had no idea of what it really was all about,I even had a
top secret military clearance for the original monitoring of the Angels Do Not
Play On This HAARP project originally as well as lots more of stuff around the
world here. Plus even then was fixing all the local police, law enforcement
and state highway radios as well as the airplane stuff out at Easterwood
Airport here. Even when the DC power supplies were just motor generators in
the trunks of the cars! So I learned a lot about 'red lights'. I can't say
this was and has moved to the current law about this here in Texas. However,
if you actually have a medical emergency, are serving as a volunteer in fire
help, or things like that, what I have never actually used in all these years,
but I sort of think the cops will help with today locally is this.
If you desparately have to go through a red light here, turn on your as now
standard BLINKING BOTH RED AND FRONT LITTLE LIGHTS on your steering column and
CAREFULLY go through the red light. If a cop whops you and you tell them the
actually reason you must do this, they will actually take over ahead of you and
escort you to where you (and even they may) need to fastly be!
No, at 76 years of age I've never pressed to see if that is still the sort of
under the table viewpoint. But I'm still VERY close to all the local law
enforcement folks here who many of them know me still VERY well. From even
when there was no Internet and I was part of the original creation of FidoNet.
Mike Luther as W5WQN and N117C still from 1:117/100 here.
