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Phaseout of 3G Network

I remember the good old day's when all you had to do is go buy a 5 dollar crystal from Radio Shack and plug it into your scanner ...

I had a digital trunking (receive only) scanner a long time ago, I was not smart enough to program it nor did I know the frequencies to program in.

A buddy who was a city fire department employee, kept it up to date for me, until he could not get the police freaks anymore ...

Now I use this but as stated, I can not hear the car transmissions in my city, nor does it track the laptop traffic.

Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

For a couple of decades, perhaps longer, my business partner and I had a storage unit rented to store the lesser used tools. Through the years the space has continued to be more expensive. Though it's full of stuff, we haven't a great need for space and had intended to clean it out last year and then my partner came down with cancer. Now that he is gone, it's time to clean it out and stop the monthly charge. He has stuff, I have stuff, and we have stuff in this 10x20 space. I hauled a truck load of my stuff to the dump this morning. There was likely some good along with the bad but I wasn't into a sorting mood. Next is our stuff and then my partner's kids can decide what they want to do with their dad's stuff.

Now for the rants. In the process of lifting and moving some of the heavy stuff I managed to strain my back. I ran into the corner of a table saw and frogged my thigh muscle. And my biggest rant.. Through all the years and many visits to the unit, I've never seen another person there. The units are all in one building back to back with a narrow drive that goes around the building. I had to move my truck twice to let someone else in. The place was like walmart on a Saturday where I feel like I'm in everyone's way.

Samsung Galaxy

After considering the new features of the S26 Ultra, our genuine need for them and how seldom we would use them, the Darling Bride and I decided that it's not worth the $700 (with trade-in) to get the new phone. I'll wait a few weeks and see what the Moto G Stylus (2026) will offer for a far lower price.

The "I'm so old" thread game

Becoming an adult in the 1980s meant being a little child in the mid-1960s, when women were obsessed with trying to hit the "perfect" measurement: 36-24-36. They would get together for "lunch" at Woolworth's and lunch would be a lettuce leaf with a slice of pineapple on it; a scoop of cottage cheese on that, with a cherry on top; and two slices of Melba toast. That was it... and either a Tab or Fresca to drink.
yeah my grandma had those in the cottage, her name was Melba hahhaa.

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