Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : mark lewis
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Tue Sep 20 2016 12:14 pm

  Re: Wannbe HAM
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Mon Sep 19 2016 21:22:52

 ML> i really don't care if it is on top or not as long as the heavy machinery
 ML> doesn't crush my vehicle and if they do i have plenty of fwarning that
 ML> they should have seen ;)

 JD>>>> Police have both blue and red, while Ambulance and Fire Trucks
 JD>>>> have simply red

 ML>>> that's why i have to go with green, and/or yellow with white... the
 ML>>> main thing is to be seen when on the side of the road or on a busy
 ML>>> construction site with big loaders, haulers and diggers running
 ML>>> around...

 JD>> Blue is used here by snow removal crews, and yes, being visible is
 JD>> good 


 ML> absolutely... blue is only used by gendarmes here in the lower 48 ;)


Snow removal has ONLY blue, while gendarmes have both blue and red.  (Used to
be red only but the started copying the US style about 10 years ago I think it
was)  In Europe it has been blue forever, and a very distinctive siren <G>
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