"Somebody check your mike on the radio, please..."

All of my vehicles at work are equipped with FM radios. One afternoon my
secretary had done something particularly annoying and I was complaining (to
put it mildly) about it to my assistant while we were driving down the road.
My cell phone rang and it was one of my other employees informing me that
the entire company could hear my rant. I told him that he was nuts because
I could hear others transmitting on the radio. In fact, this radio was
transmitting and receiving at the same time. Radio went into the shop and
the radio techs could not explain it. Radio went in the trash after that.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
If I hear this ONE more time on Unicom, I'm going to scream!

Is it *really* possible that one can be a certificated pilot, and *NOT*
know that it's impossible to receive AND transmit at the same time?

Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

Sadly, the answer is "yes". We hear it almost every time there's a
stuck-mike situation.

Truly scary...

I'll take a hundred guys saying "Any other traffic, please advise..."
over THIS kind of stupidity.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"