Our club is looking for a spare transmitter board for our Motorola
MSR-2000 VHF repeater.
Please state price and condition.

Charlie (KC0EH) Club Call (WR0CV)

Please folks, do not reply to these posts which have nothing to do
with the purpose of this newsgroup.

If these clueless fools never get any replies, they will eventually
learn to post to the correct newsgroup.

Thanks,

Bill, W6WRT

Huh?

I've seen this exact reply to many posts on many ham newsgroups. If you
disagree with the post, aren't you providing a "reply" to these
"supposed" spammers? I think you're being a bit anal here. Most people
with repeaters (even commercially made ones) have to do a bit of
homebrewing to get them on the ham bands (controllers, id'ers, etc.).
It sounds like what you want is more specific newsgroups such as
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew.vhf.2M.repeaters.motoro la.msr2000.boards.replacement.PA.versionB

Lighten up. You don't HAVE to read these posts and this one had a very
clear subject right in the subject line.

Scott
N0EDV



Bill Turner wrote:

Please folks, do not reply to these posts which have nothing to do
with the purpose of this newsgroup.

If these clueless fools never get any replies, they will eventually
learn to post to the correct newsgroup.

Thanks,

Bill, W6WRT

As a side note, which amateur newsgroup do YOU think they should post
this to...rec.radio.amateur.swap ??? I haven't read that newsgroup in
many months (and I'm still subscribed to it) because there have been no
posts there. If I was looking for a replacement part, I'd want to post
somewhere where it had a good chance of being seen.

Scott
N0EDV

Bill Turner wrote:

Please folks, do not reply to these posts which have nothing to do
with the purpose of this newsgroup.

If these clueless fools never get any replies, they will eventually
learn to post to the correct newsgroup.

Thanks,

Bill, W6WRT

Scott ) writes:
As a side note, which amateur newsgroup do YOU think they should post
this to...rec.radio.amateur.swap ??? I haven't read that newsgroup in
many months (and I'm still subscribed to it) because there have been no
posts there. If I was looking for a replacement part, I'd want to post
somewhere where it had a good chance of being seen.

Scott
N0EDV

There is no "rec.radio.amateur.swap" It's rec.radio.swap

The original post went to:
alt.ham-radio.marketplace
rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
rec.radio.amateur.equipment
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
The first is the only one where it really belongs. Maybe .boatanchors,
since when they created it they allowed for ad, though the intent was
not a general buy and sell newsgroup and neither was it truly meant
as simply a buy and sell newsgroup for boatanchors. It was meant
as incidental to the discussion of boatanchors, so people having
discussion might post ads, as opposed to people who merely use
the newsgroup to buy things.

rec.radio.amateur.equipment is for the discussion of amateur radio
equipment, and was never intended as a buy and sell newsgroup. The
fact that bozos post their ads is not relevant to what the newsgroup
is about.

Same with rec.radio.amateur.homebrew If anything, ads are even
way further off topic, given this newsgroup is about building.

And you're notion that "If I was looking for a replacement part, I'd want
to post somewhere where it had a good chance of being seen." is precisely
why we see so much cross-posting. People who can't figure out where
their post belongs hits all kinds of newsgroups in the hopes
that someone will see it and they'll get a reply. It make no
difference whether someone is buying or selling something, or it's
those silly feud posts; they've all decided that what they want is
more important than what others want. That's the very notion of spam,
hitting lots of newsgroups (or email) in the hopes of getting a response.

People too often are misled by commercial advertising. We see it
on broadcast radio, in the newspapers, and on tv, so it becomes
acceptable. But what's missing is that advertisers in old media
pay for their bandwidth, that they help to deliver the content. That
is never the case when someone hits the newsgroups or email. All
they pay is for their internet access, and the newsgroups and email
would survive without them. So the acceptance of advertising in
old media is no excuse for advertising/spam where it doesn't belong
in the newsgroups.

Michael VE2BVW


Bill Turner wrote:
Please folks, do not reply to these posts which have nothing to do
with the purpose of this newsgroup.

If these clueless fools never get any replies, they will eventually
learn to post to the correct newsgroup.

Thanks,

Bill, W6WRT

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:21:10 +0000, Scott
wrote:

Most people
with repeaters (even commercially made ones) have to do a bit of
homebrewing to get them on the ham bands (controllers, id'ers, etc.).

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

Wanting to buy a spare circuit board has to do with repairing, not
homebrewing. Homebrewing means building a new piece of equipment
essentially from scratch.

Bill, W6WRT

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:25:54 +0000, Scott
wrote:

As a side note, which amateur newsgroup do YOU think they should post
this to...rec.radio.amateur.swap ??? I haven't read that newsgroup in
many months (and I'm still subscribed to it) because there have been no
posts there. If I was looking for a replacement part, I'd want to post
somewhere where it had a good chance of being seen.

Scott
N0EDV

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

Rec.radio.amateur.swap is very lightly used. I'd recommend
rec.radio.swap.

Bill, W6WRT

There is according to my newsreader. I am subscribed to it. Maybe
there really is no such group, but I am able to subscribe and
unsubscribe from it with my service provider.

Scott
N0EDV

Michael Black wrote:

Scott ) writes:




There is no "rec.radio.amateur.swap" It's rec.radio.swap

Bill Turner wrote:
SNIP

Wanting to buy a spare circuit board has to do with repairing, not
homebrewing. Homebrewing means building a new piece of equipment
essentially from scratch.

Bill, W6WRT

Oh come on, whatever your security problems, whatever your need to
be a pedant, get it sorted and find some real issues to deal with.

If I was looking for something a bit unusual then a group of
homebrewers is one the first places I would try. Your definition of
this group is far too narrow, surely it also includes fault
finding, problems and repairing. The common link is that these are
things we do ourselves rather ran to the nearest shop.

I just wish I had a spare board to offer



Charlie.

--
www.wymsey.co.uk

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:41:13 +0000, charlie
wrote:

Oh come on, whatever your security problems, whatever your need to
be a pedant, get it sorted and find some real issues to deal with.

If I was looking for something a bit unusual then a group of
homebrewers is one the first places I would try. Your definition of
this group is far too narrow, surely it also includes fault
finding, problems and repairing. The common link is that these are
things we do ourselves rather ran to the nearest shop.

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

Nonsense. Homebrewing is building things from scratch, period.
Crossposters and off-topic posters like yourself are the bane of the
newsgroups. If you want to purchase parts for repair, go to
rec.radio.swap. It's why different newsgroups exist in the first
place.

Bill, W6WRT