In my several trips to Latin America, my carrying my Sony ICF-2010 and a seperate ferrite loop antenna (an old 'Radio West' one) in my carry-on luggage never caused even a raised eyebrow until this past year. In November we took a family vacation to Guadalajara, Mexico. In going through security at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, they ran that bag through the X-ray machine several times, stopped it, and turned it around and around. But no one ever said a word to me about it. At the end they just put it with the rest of our carry-on luggage and said 'Thank You'. Of course, the fact that I was there with my wife and two kids (ages 10 and 11) made me look less threatening. It was a very early morning flight and there was actually no one behind us in line. At the time I wasn't sure if they were truly suspicious of me, or maybe using this unusual suitcase for a bit of spontaneous training with no one waiting. All the luggage checkers took a look at it in the X-Ray machine.
On the return at Guadalajara, the bag didn't raise an eyebrow - even though just an hour earlier that Dominican Republic plane had crashed in New York City and no one yet knew what had happened to it. (We had to sit in Guadalajara airport for four hours until O'Hare said our plane could leave.) Some might say the Mexicans aren't as careful. Frankly, I suspect the Mexican agents were just more intelligent, better at thinking for themselves, and perhaps a bit less paranoid. Although supposedly things are changing, those airport security jobs were low wage jobs here in the USA and attracted a lot of less-than-skilled people. In Mexico, they pay a decent wage (in terms of the local economy) and attract a better and more educated worker. ===== Don Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Radio: http://donmoore.tripod.com General & Family History : http://donmoore.tripod.com/mainmenu.htm ** Highly Recommended: http://www.commondreams.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Keep in mind EDXC Conference 2002 in mid-August - the biggest DX and SWL meeting in Europe! See http://www.sdxl.org/edxc/edxc2002.html, come to Pori, Finland and enjoy! ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
