December 25, 2025Dec 25 Popular Post Hmm, not a happy Christmas for me..5 Lao police officers came to my house, arrested me and confiscated my computer. It is the same problem as a few years ago - they think I'm a spy or something because of my (legal) radio antenna. I have to go back to the police station tomorrow to try to get my computer and passport back...
December 25, 2025Dec 25 3 minutes ago, simon43 said: Hmm, not a happy Christmas for me..5 Lao police officers came to my house, arrested me and confiscated my computer. It is the same problem as a few years ago - they think I'm a spy or something because of my (legal) radio antenna. I have to go back to the police station tomorrow to try to get my computer and passport back... Exciting
December 25, 2025Dec 25 17 minutes ago, Harrisfan said: Exciting Annoying, and maybe as last time this happened, it will cost me $200 in bribes to get my passport back...
December 25, 2025Dec 25 1 minute ago, simon43 said: Annoying, and maybe as last time this happened, it will cost me $200 in bribes to get my passport back... Sell your radio gear
December 25, 2025Dec 25 Popular Post Some Christmas background music ... Religious carols and popular songs
December 25, 2025Dec 25 42 minutes ago, Harrisfan said: Sell your radio gear It's not even in Laos! It's in Bangkok...
December 25, 2025Dec 25 1 hour ago, simon43 said: they think I'm a spy or something because of my (legal) radio antenna. What are you using, 10m or 11m?
December 25, 2025Dec 25 49 minutes ago, novacova said: What are you using, 10m or 11m? Mostly use 10m ham band, as per my license. 11m is cb, not allowed. But these police are idiots because I don't even have a radio transmitter in Laos...
December 25, 2025Dec 25 2 hours ago, simon43 said: Hmm, not a happy Christmas for me..5 Lao police officers came to my house, arrested me and confiscated my computer. It is the same problem as a few years ago - they think I'm a spy or something because of my (legal) radio antenna. I have to go back to the police station tomorrow to try to get my computer and passport back... You need a stealth antenna.
December 26, 2025Dec 26 Hey Simon: You might enjoy "All the Light We cannot See" a novel by Anthony Doerr which is about a blind girl who encounters a German soldier in France during WWII. What might be of special interest to you is that the German soldier is involved in early efforts to use radio wave triangulation to detect clandestine radio transmitters. Book won a Pulitzer prize.
December 26, 2025Dec 26 1 hour ago, Gecko123 said: Hey Simon: You might enjoy "All the Light We cannot See" a novel by Anthony Doerr which is about a blind girl who encounters a German soldier in France during WWII. What might be of special interest to you is that the German soldier is involved in early efforts to use radio wave triangulation to detect clandestine radio transmitters. Book won a Pulitzer prize. Sounds good! I had a Mexican stand-off for 5 hours this morning at the police station. They told me to go home - I refused to leave the police station without my computer. What could they do? Physcially manhandle a rather disabled UK pensioner out of the station...? Finally, they admitted that there was nothing wrong at all with my radio antennas and equipment. I had a licence for everything. There was nothing 'bad' on my computer. They gave it back to me. But they kept my passport because they said my Lao stay permit was wrong and I will probably have to pay a fine early next wek. This is police-speak for "We fcuked up big time and lost face, so we need to recoup some $". In this exact same scenario about 3 years ago, the fine for some ficticious stay permit error was $200. Complete morons they are, but I had forgotten the Lao words for <deleted> morons, so settled for kop jai deeeerrrrrrr!! PS - To be completely honest, I have had more problems in Laos with my radio gear than I ever had in Myanmar. In Laos, the police assume I'm a spy. In Myanmar, the military guys wanted to see my antennas and transceiver and how everything works - just technical interest 🙂
December 26, 2025Dec 26 10 minutes ago, simon43 said: In Myanmar, the military guys wanted to see my antennas and transceiver and how everything works - just technical interest All my 10m rigs were expanded tx modified, grey area legal in the US, probably strictly illegal in this region.
December 27, 2025Dec 27 On 12/25/2025 at 9:47 AM, connda said: Merry Christmas - Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men You’ll be lucky
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Trump Wishes Merry Christmas to All, Even ‘Radical Left Scum’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/24/trump-wishes-merry-christmas-all-even-radical-left-scum/ This Christmas President Trump wishes everyone, even the left wing scum, a very Merry Christmas. This is great news for the left as they always try to destroy the meaning of Christmas.
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