What do you do for a living (just curious) - Page 12

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ORIGINAL: rhill20

In the military (particulary on USAF bases) they don't call them barracks anymore, they are know "bachelor's quaters" and "bachelorette quaters"

 
They called them BAQ and BOQ the entire time I was enlisted.... for the transients... they had us live in "Dorms"  2+2 and then we eventually went to 1+1 and then once I was overseas as a NCO I had my own bathroom.
 
CBPO changed (MPF), Chow Hall changed (Dining facility)
 
My favorite term was the "Backdoor Draft"... also known as stop-loss.

You know 3hummers, you're right I've just been busy looking for answers and found myself commenting on other posts that I just haven’t. I’ll do that here in a minute.

As for the barracks thing, that and billets are the only thing I’ve heard them called. Maybe “B’s” but that obviously stands for barracks. Most of the ones here are 2 per room, 4 per bathroom (2 showers 1 toilet). There are brand new ones that are more like a apartment. The 82nd has pretty much all of these. You walk into like a kitchen area, of to the side you have your bathroom area (the 82nd had full tubs, haven’t been in the ones here). Then there were 2 individual rooms with walk in closets. You stay in the barracks as an E-5 and can move out as an E-6. I’ve always been married while in the army, so I’ve always had my own apartment.

You gotta love stop-loss. This last deployment we had guys within days of their ETS (day they get out) when stop loss hit. Then we got extended!

Longstory

Maybe we need to have a Jargon thread....  let everyone else here know the joys of "BCG's" and "Bag Drags"...
 

Another NEWB to the forum.  I am in the Navy Reserve, but since there are not many oceans in Colorado, I also work as a defense contractor playing War Games with the WOPR.  Though, by desire I moonlight as a musician in a local rock band (www.lastband.com). 
 
All that usually leaves Sunday's open to run around in the mountains.  I am also trying to figure out how to get permission to run the H3 out with the Army Humvees and tanks at the Ft Carson training areas, that'd be a kick in the pants!

More army/marine guys wtf is this world coming to lol....

I take you all to war when the Hummer paintball even comes around.

I'am a appliance & air-condition technician . Work foy myself for the past 17 years . RKI

I am a Radio Frequency Engineer.  I did 8 years in the Air Force then worked for several major cell phone companies.  I moved from cell stuff and now work with Public Saftey radios systems.  So basically I am am a tech geek.
 
Lisa

no $hit!  i have pretty much the same history, but only 4 years in the USAF and only worked for one cell phone company up to now (although it changed names 3 times).  now i'm an RF engineer for a wireless broadband company.

then tell me why my wireless swich panel in my car won't work unless i hold it up to the headliner where my xm antenna is mounted. better yet...how do i fix it?! thing is pissin me off something terrible. I never thought i would reach a point in my life where i sit in the car yelling out loud at a switch...but i am at that point now 

switch panel for what?  does it have an antenna on it, or is it supposed to?  alot of devices that have internal antennas are using patch antennas, which are basically just laid out on a circuit board - and most suck.  could be that you have something interfering with it, like an fm modulator for an external sound source (disc changer, satellite radio, etc.) - or worse yet a cell phone jammer, which is really just a wideband transmitter putting out noise across a wide spectrum.  i've heard of some jagoffs using those on the road, although i don't know anyone personally that interferes with wireless networks regulated by the federal government.  one reason it may work better when put up against the headliner is the reflection from the steel roof back to whatever device it's supposed to connect to.  that, or a lesser possibility, its being rebroadcast by the xm antenna.  where's the receiver for the switch mounted?  if it's behind a bunch of wires or steel then they could be acting as a shield and not letting the signal through.  without some more details, i'm pretty much just pi$$in in the wind - but y'all know how much i love that . . . . .

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ORIGINAL: importkiller

then tell me why my wireless swich panel in my car won't work unless i hold it up to the headliner where my xm antenna is mounted. better yet...how do i fix it?! thing is pissin me off something terrible. I never thought i would reach a point in my life where i sit in the car yelling out loud at a switch...but i am at that point now 

 
Because it is broke.
 
Lisa

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ORIGINAL: shortbus

no $hit!  i have pretty much the same history, but only 4 years in the USAF and only worked for one cell phone company up to now (although it changed names 3 times).  now i'm an RF engineer for a wireless broadband company.

 
Well you must be an ok guy then...When were you in and where were you stationed?
 
Lisa

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ORIGINAL: LisaM

Because it is broke.

Lisa

 
I officially like Lisa....
 

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ORIGINAL: LisaM


Well you must be an ok guy then...When were you in and where were you stationed?

Lisa

 
i'm awesome, just ask anybody, and if they lie just ask me.
 
stationed on a mountaintop in Turkey (Sahintepe - now closed) and an abandoned runway in Britain (RAF Barford St John, TX site for RAF Croughton (Barford's now closed too)).  in from '80 to '84 - been in cellular/wireless since '88.  did some contract work for USAF with Boeing, on a mountaintop in Greece (Hortiatis - now closed).  had to get away from the air force, i seem to have the touch of death at every site i work at . . . .

Lisa sucks  I was talking to Shorty anyway...so THERE!!!!
 
Shorty...the antenna is internal. HTe control box it mounted in the glove compartment...dude I moved that SOB everywhere and couldn't get a location where it picked up the signal without moving the switch panel to the roof of the car....it's a switch panel built into a shift knob. I got it to control all teh lights on the car, and maybe to trigger a relay for my sub amps..not sure yet. here is a pic of it
 

 
it's a really nice unit....made from heavy metal and much more sturdy that I was expecting...is there anyway to get the signal to be actually picked up by the control box? what if I stick an xm antenna onto the control box itself? I'm lost.

Commercial Insurance Agent ! (Fulltime Rock Crawler...hehe)

I graduated high school in May of 2001 and worked at a video store.  Well 9/11 happened so I enlisted in the Marine Corps. as an Infantryman and ended up as a Machine gunner.  Did my stint in the Corps. with a Sand Box visit and returned to my homestate where I became a cop and have been for two and a half years.  Have also pondered working at UPS as a part time job since they get a good rep.  Would get me my Hummer that much faster with the second job so hopefully that parts works out.

but does she swallow?  
 
anyway, the antenna is inside a metal enclosure?  how the fukk is that supposed to work?  is there an antenna for the control box, maybe what you thought was a spare wire hanging out and ripped off the box?  does it matter where on the roof you hold the switch?  driver's side maybe not work so good as the passenger side?  is there an antenna connector on the control box?  i don't think putting an xm antenna near it, or on it, will help, and i doubt it's actually the xm antenna on the car that's doing any good.  did you try mounting the control box on the floor along the console, so it's underneath the shift/switch?  i've never been a big fan of wireless inside vehicles, too much opportunity for interference into and from the vehicle.  i'm kinda lost on what to try next.  
 
tell ya what, take the hummer next time you go bowling and if i have time i'll take a look at the car next time i'm there - although i doubt i'll have any spare time - you know how she is . . . . . .

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ORIGINAL: shortbus

but does she swallow?  

 
Shame on you, LOL.  I was in Turkey for 3 years at Incirlik.  What a dump. 
 
Importkiller - Since you weren't asking me  --  an XM antenna isn't going to do any good for you.  Your transmitter is on a different frequency than XM, and antennas are made for certain polarization and frequencies.  Unfortunately commercial transmitter/recievers on public frequencies must accept all interference.  I would contact the manufacturer if I were you and find out what is going on.  You need to make sure that you remote is very close to the box.  These aren't meant to transmit very far and Metal blocks RF frequencies. 
 
Lisa
 
 

Sassy, smart, big gun...Lisa is alright.

YUP!!! She fits RIGHT IN!!!!!

i own my own custom metal fabrication shop with my father and my brother, check it out
 
 
www.metal-crafters.com if you guys have an ideas for custom stuff email me, i can make anything

Hows the real estate market now?
 
I am in the Navy. 18 years.

Market is still hurting. Financing is not easy. Confidence is down. Hopefully it is close to the bottom ( within a year or so )