[CQ-Contest] Airport security and ham gear - yesterday

[Jeff Maass]

Scott:

The TSA folks know that they have no liability for 
damaged items whatsoever, and so have no incentive 
to treat your valuables with care. 

Probably the best defense is to make the packaging 
easily seen-through, or easily openable for
inspection without having to take the item out and 
then re-closable (maybe with velcro).

73,

  Jeff Maass  K8ND

  Caribbean Contesting Consortium - PJ2T
        http://www.pj2t.org
http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/Radio/PJ2T_Aerial.htm
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Scott R.
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Airport security and ham gear - yesterday
> 
> 
> OK - 
> 
> How about an update from....last night.
> 
> While most of you were watching the Super Bowl, I was flying US Airways
> from Hartford-Charlotte-Knoxville, arriving home at 11 pm.
> I did not take a carry-on bag on the plane.
> 
> In one checked bag - clothes and related travel stuff.  
> 
> In checked bag #2 (med. size Tourister duffle) - a Ten-Tec #963 25 amp
> switching power supply wrapped in bubble wrap, Bencher paddle wrapped
> in a heavy T-shirt, clock radio wrapped in a heavy long sleeve shirt, a
> small cardboard box containing my headphones, transceiver power cable,
> several computer-to-rig CW keying cables, cables with RCA-style phonos,
> my SO2R headphone switch box, 2 floppy discs.
> 
> #1 was not inspected, I think.  On inspection when I returned home, all
> items in bag #2 were unwrapped/unpacked and thrown back into the
> Tourister bag randomly, bubble wrap and T-shirts stuffed into top of
> the suitcase with nothing in them.  TSA inspection card present. 
> Nothing damaged, but could have been....very easily.
> 
> "Flyer beware..."
> 
> Scott W4PA
> 
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