A Fox Called Kay ([info]kayfox) wrote,
@ 2007-03-21 21:09:00
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Things that have annoyed me lately:

  1. Overly complicated or broken radio programming software

    • The GE Orion software in particular.
    • Motorola not letting their older radios join the 21st century by making Windows based software for them.
    • Limitations in a radio that are not really limitations of the radio but of the programming software.

  2. Hard to use radios.

    • Lack of adequate memories, theres no reason a mobile radio should have less memories than a handheld from the same company.
    • theres no reason a mobile radio should have less space for alphanumeric tags than a handheld.
    • Complex menu system but only 99 memories?
    • I keep managing to write other memories to slot 1 on my VX-7R, its kinda annoying.

  3. Application uninstallers that reboot your machine without warning.

    • Especially for silly reasons, an application that has no device drivers or shell hooks should never need to reboot to uninstall.

  4. eBay scammers.

    • So, some guy is selling iPhones on eBay, need I say more?
    • Those asshats that sell something then send the buyer a picture of it.
    • Those who dont realize how legally binding stuff like eBay is.
    • Nigerian Scammers.

  5. Those older ham operators that cant get over morse code going away.

    • Those who think the General and Extra exams are easy.
    • Those who pay no respect to new operators.
    • Those who piss and moan but dont do anything about it.

  6. VE7KFM

    • Those who help him out and such.
    • Those who jam him.
    • Whoever the hell gave him his license.

  7. Homeowners associations that excercise excessive control over their members.

    • The ones that freak out over hams, period.
    • The ones that freak out over antennas, period.
    • The ones that use excessive surveilence to freak aout over the aformentioned hams and antennas.
    • The ones that prohibit otherwise legal stuff like guns or smoking.
    • The ones that make the neighborhood really pretty but cause so much backstabbing its practically unlivable.




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[info]mazack
2007-03-22 05:15 pm UTC (link)
VA7KFM?

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[info]kayfox
2007-03-23 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, VE7KFM... is a radio amateur in Victoria, BC that has some serious problems being nice...

He hates the Polish, Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays, the United States, Industry Canada... and pretty much makes those views known...

But sitting there talking to himself for hours at a time.

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[info]kayfox
2007-03-23 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Two sites not put up by him:

http://www.ve7kfm.com/
http://ve7kfm.blogspot.com/

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ye olde orion
[info]vxo
2008-01-18 01:39 am UTC (link)
Hey, I just randomly found this post while looking around in Google...

Just how broken/obnoxious is the Orion s/w?

I'm thinking of getting a couple of Orion bricks and a head unit to do the nifty dual radio/single head setup in my car... if the software's like pulling teeth though, I may wanna look elsewhere.

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