And if you have a radio:
TAG (TN / AL / GA) Multimode Net - Wednesdays on the Southeast Link at 7:30pm eastern.
For more info on how to join go to:
https://www.LMARC.net
There is an online streaming (no radio needed to listen) ham radio net on the air now (started 1930EST).
TAG Multimode Net
(Tennessee / Alabama / Georgia)
The topic is:
“Listening outside the HAM bands. What do you like? Cops, firefighters, planes, trains, boats, trucks, CB, FRS, shortwave broadcasts, AM band DX (Long Distance / foreign stations).”
I’ll post a link with the ways to connect with a radio and get into the net in the comments.
Listen online here:
Find your “Dopeys” and your “Cha-Ka’s” now, because sooner than we all think, the “Grumpy’s” and the “Sleestaks” might be running amok outside your cave. That analogy might apply to more of us than anyone reading this post believes.
And maybe I’m completely full of shit and my concerns are baseless. I hope so.
Because at the end of the day, what is actually better - in reality - for 95% of you - is probably also better for me. Except that I already disagree with much of the means to whatever end is in store.
The thing that worries me most is that I don’t believe that anybody truly knows what we are in for. We’re like the family on that raft in The Land of the Lost - heading towards that waterfall. I can hear the intro music playing in my head.
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I simply don’t believe that a “little pain” equates to a relatively short timeframe of economic discomfort and political rearranging that winds up (or down) with things in a better place for those of us in my portion of the federal tax bracket.
Honestly, I fear for the direction things are heading - for all of us. You may laugh it off and think that you understand what we are in for; more power to you… I hope that you’re right…
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I know that Donald Trump won the presidential election, unequivocally and undeniably.
AND… there is an awful lot that concerns me right now for the future safety of my friends on all sides of every issue that we could bring up. And I’m not just talking about my more liberal, left-leaning friends.
I’m not into debating whether what’s happening will ultimately be for the greater good or disasterous…
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I’ve tried to hold onto my friends from both sides of the political divide, because part of me has hoped to be part of a discussion rather than just seeming closed-mindedly self-righteous. I’m not sure the discussion route isn’t just a pipe-dream; but in any case, I posted this on my FB page yesterday:
“I’m not the smartest person in the room. I have often disagreed with what those in power - on both sides of the political spectrum in this country - are doing with that power…
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