24 May
2012
24 May
'12
3:08 a.m.
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Rik Bos wrote:
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The HP 9855A is a hoax made up by the HP Computer Museum, but there seem to
be people who take them self very serious including the hoax.
So they placed it in the ultimate 'IT database', completely build from
copied items from the various collector sites.
I stumbled across something vaguely similar in the ham radio community.
One locale in Florida is plagued with nitpicky rule-enforcers, jammers,
and generally unpleasant operators. One of the clubs started talking
about some amazing 900MHz equipment. One particular thing is a photo of
what appears to be a mobile radio designed for ham use tuned to somewhere
in the 900MHz band. I emailed and asked where they got this mysterious
radio because I could find no reference to the model number with Google.
I was then told it was part of a hoax to mess with the troublemakers.
None of the equipment described actually exists.
The reason this radio was so enticing is that currently the only radios
available to hams for the 900MHz band are converted commercial units and a
solitary handheld ham radio from Alinco. Commercial units aren't terribly
friendly with ham use because you can't go twiddling about on a
variable-frequency-oscillator like with most radios intended for ham use.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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