I commented to Jon Johnson at the time that i thought this hoax was a very bad idea. He responded by making it very clear it was a hoax (look at the alst few lineso f the description). Anyone who reads the description can't fail to notice it's a hoax, surely... But I gess a web bot wouldn't... -tony

On Wed, 23 May 2012, Rik Bos wrote: 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 A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?