Ok John, most of my ham friends are in Southern CA, and some are mobile, so
it is a heck of a struggle to copy them at times on 40 m. It would be nice
to receive a good signal up here in Calgary. My antenna is just a low
dipole, with 1.5kW, and they all seem to hear me just fine. Guess you mean
Art Bell. Have not heard him (or Wayne Green -- is he in CA?) on 75, but
have heard his splatter on 40m.

Our sked is kind of tentative, and sometimes nobody shows up. I am usually
around from about 7PM Pacific time.

73,

Frank


"John Smith" wrote in message
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Sneaky Frank:

I often listen to "Bell's Bunch" on 3.840, once in a great while--bore
them with comment or two of mine (I make fun of AB and Wayne Greene--but
kinda like 'em both. grin) I just punched ~7168 into memory of the rig
and will take a peek...

I think you can tell, I am an easy mark, if the conversation is
provocative, interesting and civilized... maybe... that is hard to find
today, yanno, good conversation...

Thank you for the invitation, I am honored to be asked...

John

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:58:12 +0000, Frank wrote:

I hope-against-hope the good old days of radio will return, but, I would
like it to do so on new technology... some of us which remember the old
CB days (days when even, good, hams had cb rigs!--or, we made do with 10
meter equip. grin) are on ch. 38-39 LSB (27.385, 27.395) in the
central
valley of calif, we are a stagnant number, be nice to have the company.
Lot of mobiles so they escape the harassment of hams still waging the
"old war." If you mention your call, be prepared to take some
kidding...

If you ever get an opportunity--come join us! Real CB still lives in
isolated pockets!

John

You ever get on 40 m John? Often on Sunday evenings around 7168 +/-.

73,

Frank

PS I thought this was a Brit N.G.