Ham Radio Badge Poll

[K1NSS]

Do you wear your ham radio badge on the street?

I've been taking an informal poll on Facebook and wanted to get a more seasoned sample.

I don't generally wear mine out of the shack, but when I'm on the air, I'd feel under-dressed without it.

Our corporate partner Deluxe Luxury Laboratories is rolling out the next generation of ham radio badge, now previewed at www.dashtoons.com.

Traditionalists may find useful our review of the previous generation of ham radio badge:  

http://www.dashtoons.com/adgeB.html

[W1FVB]

Haha 
Fantastic! .. but I rather get my badge tattooed across my chest, never go without it.. just saying

[K1NSS]

Haha 
Fantastic! .. but I rather get my badge tattooed across my chest, never go without it.. just saying

Tnx!  Yes, a skin art ham radio badge is always an option, but if your vanity call application comes throuugh...OUCH!

[KB5MD]

I would order a couple, but I'm saving up for the tinfoil hat to keep the aliens away!   Maybe the badge would work for the same thing.

[KL7OF]

we don't need no stinkin badges......!

[W1RKW]

go to hamsexy. This is a respectable place.

[W1RC]

I never wear a call sign badge. In fact I don't even own one nowadays.  I do have a NEAR-Fest golf shirt that we used to wear in the beginning but don't wear it anymore.

73,

Mister Mike

[K1NSS]

go to hamsexy. This is a respectable place.

So that's a no? 

[K1NSS]

I would order a couple, but I'm saving up for the tinfoil hat to keep the aliens away!  Maybe the badge would work for the same thing.

I think the badge is a broad spectrum repellent.  

[K1NSS]

I never wear a call sign badge. In fact I son't even own one nowadays.  I do have a NEAR-Fest golf shirt that we used to wear in the beginning but don't wear it anymore.

73,

Mister Mike

When attending hobby events, I usually forget to wear any and all ham bling. Never was much into jewelry since my Hartford Insurance Junior Fire Marshall ring turned my finger green.

[KL7OF]

Does that badge suit come in a 52 xtra-tall?
I'd want all brass plated and bullet proof of course

[K1NSS]

Re: Sizing/etc

Have to refer you to DLL's Bespoke Dept.

They're considering custom options like zip-out Kevlar liners and ExoSkeletal active foul weather membranes featuring retro animated ham GIF patterns for stylish storm chasing.

[KB2WIG]

I think you need to put the word "Official" on yer badge. It just don't seem right.

And no lightbar for sale? What kinda place you got?


klc

[K1NSS]

RR! Lack of OFFICIAL would be a glaring omission, if it's not somewhere on there already, obscured by the, um, glare.

The missing lightbar is another kettle of lumens.  First of all, thanks for supplying me the term of art, "lightbar," which I now seem to recall seeing somewhere but the memory of such floated off to where the synapses don't run anymore.  I'll pass that suggestion on to the boffins at Deluxe Luxury Labs.  Might be part of a larger ensemble, integrated with the Ham Radio Helmet, they've already created for Non-Contact RadioSports.

[KE7NL - Jack]

There is a lot more utility in buying an ISOTRON.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Be sure when you use the word Official you spell it Offical, too. It's a bit of a tradition here. 

I was going to ask if it came with a matching Hamsexy flashing amber light and HT but Bob beat me to it. 

[K1NSS]

There is a lot more utility in buying an ISOTRON.

Is that the Mystery Antenna or this year's Little Purple Pill?  Better ask my doctor.

[K1NSS]

Be sure when you use the word Official you spell it Offical, too. It's a bit of a tradition here. 

I was going to ask if it came with a matching Hamsexy flashing amber light and HT but Bob beat me to it. 

OFFICAL, noted.

No promises on how long it will take to rework the dies at Deluxe Luxury Labs' Gstaad factory.  All reworks require ECC autorization from Brussels and the entire Charlemagne building is on strike until after Christmas 2015. I'll submit an expedite.

[Opcom]

no badges, call sign or otherwise.
no logos. I am not being paid to advertise.

[N0WEK]

Here is the concealed carry and mall ninja equivalent badge for the "tacticool" folks in the gun community.

Tacticool is the equivalent of Hamsexy!

Real cops don't think much of the wannabes and the carry badges are a bad idea in my opinion.

We do have fun razzing the carry badge folks.

[K1NSS]

It's my guess pretend police badges go back to the beginning of time, or at least police.

 I wonder if the same goes for ham radio badges?

I ask this question, not to keep flogging the joke, but rather to elevate the discourse, hamthropologically speaking.

Who wore the first ham radio badge? Did Hiram Percy Maxim cobble one together from gutta-percha, isinglass, German Silver and beeswax? Did Marconi flash his ham radio badge to intimidate his Saville Row tailors?  Did, and who doesn't know the answer virtually before the question is posed, Nikola Tesla invent the ham radio badge decades before them all, and never receive credit?

[W3RSW]

The missing lightbar is another kettle of lumens.  First of all, thanks for supplying me the term of art, "lightbar," which I now seem to recall seeing somewhere but the memory of such floated off to where the synapses don't run anymore.

Flashing bubblegum machine on top of police cars, sold by wannabe accoutrement stores everywhere.
 
Now-a-days it is a LED sparkler in just about every desired color, thinner and streamlined compared to the old fashioned 'largebar' and 'domeball.'

[Steve - K4HX]

What is the connection between amateur radio and a police badge or police in general?

Why anyone would have a HAM badge other than for a joke is beyond me.

[K1JJ]

Why anyone would have a HAM badge other than for a joke is beyond me.

Ah yes, the official "CASH HEAT" badge.  We sure worked over some "officals" when wearing this one...  

T

[K1NSS]

What is the connection between amateur radio and a police badge or police in general?

Why anyone would have a HAM badge other than for a joke is beyond me.

On the face of it, the connection is mysterious.  I've given it some more, uh, "thought."

Here's an extension of my earlier speculation,  quoted from another forum.

"It strikes me that ham radio itself might a flavor of Whacker, with a twist. What's the twist? Instead of Wannabe Dick Tracys, I propose that we're Wannabe Wizards of Wardenclyffe.

I hasten to add that, like Good Cop and Bad Cop, the distinction between the likes of Nikola Tesla and Lex Luthor is moot. Do we not wanna be THAT GUY - with the basement lab full of giant sparks, glowing dials and buttons that when pushed, make waves around the world? Whether it's saving the day, making life miserable for miscreant freebanders, or, tee-hee, spinning some stax of hot wax just above 40 meter phone?

Look at your shack. It's a flat out pagan altar. Dials glowing like idols' eyes. Radios arranged triptych style. If ya got the bucks your bunker's got Temple of Doom racks of amplifiers below towering aluminum arrays more intimidating than all the megalithic heads on Easter Island.

Ham shack? Ham...shack? Sorry Buster Brown. You got your own private Bohemian Grove, you and all the rest of us silly lot."


All right, my take might be a bit hyperbolic.  But deep within the Crocodile Brain could there not be an atavistic Sweet Spot, a convergence of Gangbusters and Mad Science?