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Well if you were listening to me (WQBQ405) and Jim (WPUI491) on Saturday afternoon you would have heard us talking to an employee from Lone Oak Veterinary Clinic. Jim was mentioning that there must be a Vet in the area because from time to time he can hear a vet service talking on the radio doing type of checks. Me, Mr. Computer, jumped on the FCC ULS website (wireless.fcc.gov/uls) and did a search for 'vet' in the 'Visalia', 'CA' area and I saw Lone Oak Veterinary Clinic (KAB2919), it popped up in the list as an expired Business GMRS license.
I was telling Jim what I had found and then all the sudden we heard someone talking back to us, it appeared to be someone from Lone Oak Vet. The gentleman from "Lone Oak" was saying that they have been using this frequency for the past 25+ years and that they pay a company out of Bakersfield for the repeater use. Jim was talking to him as I was trying to get my radio to behave so that the guy would not be blocked by my PL decode. Within a few minutes we lost contact with "Lone Oak" and could not get ahold of him again.
So we looked up the company on the web, found they had a website and did get a hold of an e-mail address. We tried to call them to continue the conversation, but as you can imagine they were closed. However, Jim and I shot Lone Oak an e-mail letting them know that their license had expired and they may want to call the FCC and see if they could reinstate it. We'll see if they call us back or if they continue to use the license illegally, more to come...
Look below for the license information
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Because you can never have precise enough location data when traipsing around the woods with the fam, Garmin has upgraded its Rino 520 and 530 GPS receivers / two-way radios with the highly-accurate SiRFStar III chip: meet the 520HCx and 530HCx. Like their predecessors, both models feature a 14-mile range (in an open field, we assume), built in basemap of the Americas, FRS and GMRS capability for chatting or transmitting coordinates between devices, and the rather impressive ability to hang out one meter underwater for up to 30 minutes without any ill effects. You also get a miniSD slot for loading additional urban and topographical maps, and if you step up to the 530HCx, a seven-channel weather receiver, electronic compass, and barometric altimeter. Look for these units to hit stores sometime next month, with $450 and $500 pricetags -- both of which are lower than the initial MSRPs of the earlier, less-precise Rinos. |
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