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Kc2oaa Been a HAM for 5 years now. Got my ticket when I was 13. I run a TH-F6A that I modded to use on the public service frequencies. I also have an Icom (cant think of the model) mobile rig that I have set up on my desk running a J-pole. I am on the local repeaters occasionally and I do...

Qm I have had good results with stuff from Quarter Master Uniforms. http://www.qmuniforms.com

I got an email from OMES in about 4 weeks and my card in the mail about a week and a half later.

I found this photo gallery on the SAM Medical Products website. Hope it helps. http://sammedical.com/gallery/main.php

1991 for me... the crew I work with could be my parents...

I got my Eagle in June and I'm still active as a JASM in my troop.

I used to not wear gloves on the "routine" medical calls, never had a second thought about it until I had one pt who had some incontinence issues that we didn't know about.I reached under her to help move her onto a stair chair and ended up covered in urine. I learned my lesson and now I always...

Congrats ENJOYNZ

I'm going to northern New Mexico this summer backpacking with a group of 12 people. (Philmont Scout Ranch for anyone with a scouting background.) I am responsible for the group first aid kit because I am the only EMT in the group. I was looking for suggestions as to what to include in it. Help...

I guess I'm kind of a trauma junkie. I don't mind medicals but the thing is as a basic there isn't a whole lot that we can do for them, with a trauma its a different story though.

Belt: -Pager -Sometimes Cell phone -Radio if I grab it Pockets: -Pens and lots of them -Pen light -Trauma shears -Vitals pad -Gloves -Stethoscope -Keys, wallet, etc ...And all that other stuff that seems to end up in your pockets at the end of a shift

We have - 1 M 1 D in the first in bag 1 D in the airway bag 2 Spare Ds on the rig

16 ... I'm surprised how many of us there are under 20 on here.

I was reading something about a program that some communities are trying to start. Basically they are asking people to create a contact in their cell phone called ICE (In Case of Emergency) and listing emergency contacts there so that responders can get information on them if they are not...

I usually call it a rig. Sometimes I will refer to them by their numbers. There is this one guy that I know who if retired FDNY EMS and he always refers to them as buses so I think your right who ever said that they thought that bus was a FDNY thing.