[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96

[Ed Mersich]

Two rolls of U.S. dollar coins in a carry-on will drive the TSA X-ray
inspector crazy!  I know.  Ed  WA6RZW

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Atkinson [mailto:robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:44
To: jfor at quikus.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96

Yes A nursing home owner did that to get a cooler with two gallons of
hydrogen peroxide on board. It leaked and set fire to the luggage. The
aircraft got back OK but a couple of luggage handlers got chemical burns.
Security has some advantages. 

If you really want to get locked up, try wrapping a stick of cracker barrel
cheese with some electronics. I'm not joking, don't try it.

Robert G8RPI.



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 From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 16:13
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96
 
In the 'good old days', before deregulation and 9/11 you could get almost
anything onto a 'plane by giving a skycap $5.

I brought back USAF shipping crates full of wine, an OMEGA receiver, among
other things.

-John

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> Have to agree about what I have carried on parts. When I get to 
> california and shop in a few old haunts I end up with strange looking 
> parts. I through them in a clearer anti stat bag that I now bring 
> along and send them through the screening in clear site. Never have an 
> issue an occasional ?
> like what are those 3/4" catv cable connectors that look like a large 
> shell.
> Regards
> Paul.
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On 4/18/12 6:56 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:28:17 -0400
>>> Dan Kemppainen<dan at irtelemetrics.**com <dan at irtelemetrics.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Wouldn't get broken if you hand carried it. I've carried on similar
>>>> equipment when flying across the US. I'm guessing you may not have 
>>>> to check it for an internationl flight...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks to Home Land Security, the rules on what you may carry on a 
>>> plane got very much restricted, especially when flying from and to 
>>> the US. Basically anything unusual is prohibited.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Actually, it's not necessarily TSA/DHS that is the problem.. it's 
>>>that
>> other downstream consumers of the rules may have different 
>> interpretations.
>>
>> The guy standing at the gate or checkpoint gets to make an on the 
>> spot determination of what might be "dangerous"
>>
>> Example: The small roll of PVC electrical tape I had in my backpack 
>> being taken at secondary inspection (walking down the jetway) in 
>> Heathrow when getting on the plane home to Los Angeles. Am I going to 
>> argue with the guy from British Airways about specifically which rule 
>> he thinks my tape violates?  When the plane is leaving 3 hours late 
>> already? Nope..
>>
>> Example: the round pointed school scissors in my daughter's backpack 
>> getting on the plane in Rome? They were willing to let her take them, 
>> but we said, nope, just throw them away, because next stop is Zurich, 
>> and we KNOW that they won't make it past the inspection there. I got 
>> tagged in Zurich before for having my toothpaste tube in a gallon 
>> bag, instead of the required "no more than 1 liter" bag.
>>
>> So, carrying that oscilloscope on?  If the inspector's fiance(e) just 
>> ran off with a EE/CS major the night before, you're doomed.  However, 
>> in general, I've not had many problems with obvious commercially 
>> manufactured gear.  And oddly, not much problem with random piles of 
>> protoboards and boxes with wires and cables stuffed into a backpack, 
>> as long as there were no large "blobs" in the X-ray that weren't 
>> obviously batteries on visual inspection.  (Friends of mine say that 
>> trying to carry on a small lead acid battery that looks like a brick 
>> is often a challenge..especially if you've wrapped it in tape to hold 
>> it to the circuit board.
>>
>>
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