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Radiodude
Intermediate Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 403
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 8:30 am: | 
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I have a friend that has cancer and is going to pass on, He talks CB a lot now since he is bed ridden. He wants me to place his Cobra 1000 in his coffin with him. I told him that I could do that for him. He wants it powered up and on Ch 4( the local chat channel) so he can hear the chat. I can (I think) put a power plug on the outside of the coffin to plug in but it has me stummped on how to get an antenna hookup. A base antenna is not allowed( to big). Does anyone have any ideas how to do this. Thanks |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1199
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 10:38 am: |
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Radiodude...
I doubt they will allow you to tamper with a coffin..... here they also require a concreat vault both are sealed.....
Intresting thought i wonder if i can take my HT? |
Taz
Senior Member
Username: Taz
Post Number: 2669
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 11:11 am: |
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Yep,
Make a little dipole, and see if it can be run up and around his gravestone.
Taz |
Radiodude
Intermediate Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 404
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 7:25 am: |
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I forgot to say that it is an above ground family vault |
Roadrunner1
New member
Username: Roadrunner1
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 7:40 am: |
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You can get yourself if they still sell them the hotdog antenna, there is on coax cable and plugs right into your radio and will work inside buildings I had one many years ago...Good Luck |
Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 131
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:18 am: |
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How about telling him that you are going to do it, and then not, because its strange. |
Intruder
Junior Member
Username: Intruder
Post Number: 13
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:43 am: |
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Why not have him give it to some kid just starting out in radio. This way his memory will live on. |
Buck
Advanced Member
Username: Buck
Post Number: 880
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 2:05 pm: |
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Would you do that to your friend Sitm????? I didnt think so. If thats his dying wish then I would do everything in my power to do it for him
Buck |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 2265
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 4:20 pm: |
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Sitm, We agree with you 100%. 
I am a Life Member of Courage Handi Ham and in our Will ALL Radio Equipment goes to Courage Handi Ham to help those who are disabled to enjoy the Radio World.
We have over 30 Ham's in our Local Radio Club who also have it in there Will's that ALL Radio Equipment is to be Donated to Courage Handi Ham.
Shirley and I have had a lot of fun and great times & enjoyment from Radio's and this allow's us to share it with other's after we are gone.
We also donate HT's to the Veteran's Home's and Nursing Home's for those Ham,s who have lost there home's and are unable to afford equipment.
You cannot imagine the Look's of Happiness on there faces when they can again Join there Friends on the Repeater Net's every Tuesday and realize that they are Still Remembered by there friend's.
Someone who is New to the Hobby or someone who has been it all their life can alway's Use/Enjoy the Radio Equipment.
Just Our Personal thought's.
Lon
Tech808
Shirley
1st Sargant |
Barracuda
Intermediate Member
Username: Barracuda
Post Number: 238
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 4:57 pm: |
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Lon,
I agree with you that that is a good way to pass on (no pun intended) your radio gear when you pass on. That is your choice and an admirable one at that. But RadioDude's friend wants something different. Like Buck, I would respect that if at all possible. |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1435
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 7:24 pm: |
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Ok Buck my dieing wish is for you to prop me up in the front seat of your family car so I can ride shotgun. |
Radiodude
Intermediate Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 406
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 7:59 pm: |
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OH he IS giving all the rest of his very large collection on equipment to the local Boy Scouts and they are going to give to others. He just wants to have one with him. It is in his will and I think he should have it |
Barefoot
Intermediate Member
Username: Barefoot
Post Number: 382
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:33 pm: |
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Just talk to the funeral director and he can put it in the casket. |
Cuddlebear
Intermediate Member
Username: Cuddlebear
Post Number: 141
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:13 am: |
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I'll tell you what,
If someone made me a promise to honor my last wishes, then didn't do it, I'd be haunting that persons nightmares. But that's just me. Even a condemned man was allowed a last request of a smoke etc, before being shot etc. I see nothing wrong with it at all. Let him have his last wish if you can do it. He's been dealt a crappy hand in life, Let him have his dignity in death. |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 660
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 10:28 pm: |
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Who wants all my mint condition tube radios when I pass on? Interviews will begin soon. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 2319
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 8:44 am: |
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833,
Well my friend, I sure hope you are not planning on leaving us too soon.
I would sure hate to think of not being able to talk to you with both of us using your New Antenna anymore. 
Lon
Tech808 |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 667
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 10:02 am: |
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Thanks Lon.
With my line of work, I maintain a will. You just never know...
Remember when that little twit didn't wet the sponge for the cajun guy who got the chair? It would be a lot like that. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1212
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 10:05 am: |
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hummmmmmmmmm
Im only taking my Dick Tracy radio and my Winkie Dink decoder screen. I leave my ham radios to my brothers...... |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1215
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 10:42 am: |
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833
Here in Florida you must sterilize the needle for the leathal injection.... |
Cuddlebear
Intermediate Member
Username: Cuddlebear
Post Number: 146
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 9:02 pm: |
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Now see? thats what I don't get at all.
What? are they afraid the person getting the lethal injection is going to get an infection??? I mean really. What's the point?
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Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 135
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 3:20 pm: |
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I would hope that maybe someone, would think that this is not rational. He is .........dead.
Silent key, I don't think that he will be keying up anytime soon. If I had a friend that wanted his radio put in his cofin, I would talk to him about his medication level. I have friends in radio, but I strongly doubt that any of them would want their rig placed in their grave, let alone running with an antenna. Holy molly guys. Sell it, give it to a relative, donate it to a radio club, launch it into space.
If you want to judge me because I wouldn't bury a radio in a grave with a battery source and antenna for a friend that has that as his last request. Go ahead and judge me, but don't be upset if I laugh while you do. |
Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 136
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 3:35 pm: |
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Hey, how about a beam and rotor, so he won't bleed over on the people that had televisions buried in their cofin.. And a tvi filter and maybe a amp fot those days skip is kicking butt.
I hear twilight zone music. |
Taz
Senior Member
Username: Taz
Post Number: 2674
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 5:18 pm: |
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Good point Cuddlebear |
Fusebreaker
Junior Member
Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 12
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 12:53 am: |
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LOL this is a knee slapper!!!! |
S2art
Junior Member
Username: S2art
Post Number: 10
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 5:09 pm: |
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Make sure to set the volume level so it can barley be heard outside the vault. Imagine the poor unsuspecting individual who happens to stroll by and hears voices coming from within. |
