TriSquare TSX300 Review FINAL Update as of 9/14/2007 FCC ID:O9GTSX300 Power output: 1 Watt ERP License Requirements: No license required Frequency/Mode: 900 Mhz ISM band, Digital Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum
——
Introduction and features: These radios introduce the general public to the latest generation of two-way radios.
(PopWireless: This review was written for Two Way Radio Forum by PopularWireless Moderator, John Wilkerson. John is a well known web expert on the Family Radio Service and GMRS. He is considered a co-founder and one of the first directors of the Personal Radio Assn. John reviewed this new 900 MHz license-free two-way radio with very interesting and new privacy capabilities not available to GMRS and FRS. Business and personal use! Click read more to read John’s review of this unique radio. Join the discussion on John’s review.)
(PopularWireless – Huntingtown, MD) We link to content at other sites. The Internet has always been a place to do that. Niche communities like this one have a way to direct readers to other web sites when the content at those other places is cool enough to link to. Our blog roll is built on the same premise.
Our own content is also posted on these pages. Using the blog format to create content is so much easier than developing a website using the formats we all grew fond of in the 90′s. More articles have appeared here than in the past because of the switch to blogging. PopularWireless began as GMRSWEB.COM in 1997. We may look new but we are ten years old. Blogging brought our community up to date. Maybe we should call it magazine-ing?
It did not take long to discover that the new blog format attracted what lurked beneath the pond-scum of the Internet – spammers and sploggers. We have had our content swiped and linked back to us by splog sites. Over one-hundred comment and track back spams have been attempted but blocked. Thankfully, comment spam and track back spam is easier to control because of Akismet. None of it has gotten through to perplex, insult, and annoy our readers.
The whole situation has made us think whether or not linking to content not our own is even a good idea anymore. Why not just let our readers find their own interesting stuff? The site would seem a much lonelier place and finding interesting content would be dependent upon reader participation in social networking sites and using the search engines. No independent thought would go into building a list of interesting stuff for our readers.
We are looking for an honest way to remain an informative site during a time when the sleaze drive what we do and how we do it more so than perhaps our readers do. What we have done with many of our shared posts from other sources is identify the post as being from another valued source and to encourage our readers to visit the site where the original content lives. Many of our referrals come from DIGG so we bold the “read more” link and italicize our own comments beneath the shared content used to tease the reader into clicking “read more.”
We’re open to other suggestions, because as a serious site we want visitors to keep coming back and we certainly do not want to offend.
(PopularWireless – Huntingtown, MD) Mom’s and dads should always remember that GMRS and FRS can be monitored by others on their cruise ship and on shore when close enough. Tonight the Grandeur of the Seas went by. A mom was telling the kid the night’s schedule and then what mommy and daddy were planning for the next hour – a long shower. Anyone listening would have known where the kids are, what they were doing, how long mom and dad were going to be and perhaps how attentive they might be during the shower. The magazine has written before on the do’s and do nots of using family oriented two-way radio. We cannot over emphasize the utility two-way radio provides but we also have to remind everyone to use good common sense. In this family’s case it might have been better to sit down with the kids before they left the state room and share the night’s organizational details. Tonight the humor was in the details. Happy sailing!
CBS Networks offers free wifi access in Manhattan. And my office is right in the midst. Thanks CBS!
(PopWireless: CBS in partnership with MTA. Click read more for the details.)
Rail operators are scrambling to cash in on their early adoption of Wi-Fi and steal passengers from the air. David Binning reports.
An announcement from Britain’s favourite security pundit, Graham Cluley of Sophos, “reveals” that “Over 50% of people polled admit they have stolen WiFi internet access.” But, no doubt, they didn’t inhale.
(PopWireless: In Britain they arrest and prosecute people stealing wifi. Go to DIGG.COM and search using the words “steal wifi.” A couple of articles appear about a London resident sitting on a garden wall using his neighbor’s wifi. A $1000 fine and what amounts to twelve months probation.)
People who text message, e-mail, and download files on mobile phones spend $14 a month more than people who don’t, says J.D. Power and Associates.
(PopWireless: This is where cellular companies are making their money now. New activations are way down compared to a few years ago. Everyone that needs a cellular telephone has one. Companies are focusing on encouraging consumers to move to their service from another and on selling add-on services like text messaging. )
© 2009-2012 PopularWireless.com All Rights Reserved -- Copyright notice by Blog Copyright
This site employs the Wavatars plugin by Shamus Young.