The first echo box....
 

The first "echo box" I remember hearing on the CB was in early 1977.
A guy calling himself "Wicker Bill" in Englewood, California came
booming in via skip to the East Coast. He was using an analog tape
loop. It sounded ten times better than the cheap reverbs of today.
The second echo box I heard was when my 14 year old friend came on
the air later in 1977 with tons of reverb type echo. I asked him what
he was doing, and he said to come over and he would show me. When I
arrived he had a tin metal trash can over top of his head, and he was
holding his Realistic desk power mic up inside the trashcan with his
head. It was hysterical to see. His entire head was enveloped by the
trash can. I fell over laughing.

Hochee Chunaka wrote:
The first "echo box" I remember hearing on the CB was in early 1977.
A guy calling himself "Wicker Bill" in Englewood, California came
booming in via skip to the East Coast. He was using an analog tape
loop. It sounded ten times better than the cheap reverbs of today.
The second echo box I heard was when my 14 year old friend came on
the air later in 1977 with tons of reverb type echo. I asked him what
he was doing, and he said to come over and he would show me. When I
arrived he had a tin metal trash can over top of his head, and he was
holding his Realistic desk power mic up inside the trashcan with his
head. It was hysterical to see. His entire head was enveloped by the
trash can. I fell over laughing.

Oh man, that's a funny visual! Could you understand him on the radio?

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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:37:50 GMT, Hochee Chunaka
wrote:

+
+ The first "echo box" I remember hearing on the CB was in early 1977.
+A guy calling himself "Wicker Bill" in Englewood, California came
+booming in via skip to the East Coast. He was using an analog tape
+loop. It sounded ten times better than the cheap reverbs of today.
+ The second echo box I heard was when my 14 year old friend came on
+the air later in 1977 with tons of reverb type echo. I asked him what
+he was doing, and he said to come over and he would show me. When I
+arrived he had a tin metal trash can over top of his head, and he was
+holding his Realistic desk power mic up inside the trashcan with his
+head. It was hysterical to see. His entire head was enveloped by the
+trash can. I fell over laughing.
+
******

The first time I heard someone using a reverb or "echo box" was a guy
by the handle of Igor the Terrible from Fort Lonesome, Fl back around
1971.

He came on the air one Saturday night about midnight and boy did that
wake you up.

james

a funnier visual is when the cleanup man at the truckstop polices your
emptied stall...condoms, KY packages, your torn panties...now that's a
funny visual.

Sorry folks, but I simply had to cross-post this gem of
a posting from rec.radio.cb to the ham radio groups.
I can easily imagine some of the goofballs and kooks
I saw at a certain hamfest last week trying this on 75M
after reading this. *If you do guys, remember that a
good ole traditional METAL garbage can, like a trusty
galvanized Wheeling Mfgr Corp model, available at any
home depot for modest cost, would work FAR BETTER
than any of the Rubbermaid plastic model(s)* Also remember
that when you fart inside of a said can with the same propped
over your head down to your lower torso, the sounds produced
will be AMPLIFIED by a factor of twenty or so and you can
get a breath of 'fresh air' while you're at it.

GO FER IT BOYS !!!!!!!!!


"Hochee Chunaka" wrote in message
...

The first "echo box" I remember hearing on the CB was in early 1977.
A guy calling himself "Wicker Bill" in Englewood, California came
booming in via skip to the East Coast. He was using an analog tape
loop. It sounded ten times better than the cheap reverbs of today.
The second echo box I heard was when my 14 year old friend came on
the air later in 1977 with tons of reverb type echo. I asked him what
he was doing, and he said to come over and he would show me. When I
arrived he had a tin metal trash can over top of his head, and he was
holding his Realistic desk power mic up inside the trashcan with his
head. It was hysterical to see. His entire head was enveloped by the
trash can. I fell over laughing.

Hambone the Magnificent wrote:
Sorry folks, but I simply had to cross-post this gem of
a posting from rec.radio.cb to the ham radio groups.

So you've just proved without a doubt that you are nothing but a troll.

.:\:/:.
+-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
| PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
| FEED THE TROLLS! | :=.' - - '.=:
| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| rec.radio.cb NG | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / TROLL \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
@x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
\||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
\||/ | | | (______Y______) jgs
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

"Scott in Baltimore" wrote in message
...
Hambone the Magnificent wrote:
Sorry folks, but I simply had to cross-post this gem of
a posting from rec.radio.cb to the ham radio groups.

So you've just proved without a doubt that you are nothing but a troll.

.....and you've proven that you don't have any sense of humor.

So now we're even - have a nifty day ! : )

"The lack of a sense of humor is a sure sign of impotence and/or insanity"
- Hunter S. Thompson

Scott:

Don't worry about it, and have a nice day...

John

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:36:23 -0400, Scott in Baltimore wrote:

Hambone the Magnificent wrote:
Sorry folks, but I simply had to cross-post this gem of
a posting from rec.radio.cb to the ham radio groups.

So you've just proved without a doubt that you are nothing but a troll.

.:\:/:.
+-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
| PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
| FEED THE TROLLS! | :=.' - - '.=:
| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| rec.radio.cb NG | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / TROLL \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
@x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
\||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
\||/ | | | (______Y______) jgs
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

"AKC owns this NG" wrote:
a funnier visual is when the cleanup man at the truckstop polices your
emptied stall...condoms, KY packages, your torn panties...now that's a
funny visual.

Wanna see real life funny? Look how ****ed up this antenna install is.

http://img190.imageshack.us/my.php?i...iehouse9xp.jpg

What kind of dumbass does that with his super skyhook!!??

Oh wait...that is your antenna, fugly dogie.

http://n8wwm.4t.com

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Allot of truckers and CBers do not need any echo box, their head is empty so
it comes naturally.


"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Scott:

Don't worry about it, and have a nice day...

John

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:36:23 -0400, Scott in Baltimore wrote:

Hambone the Magnificent wrote:
Sorry folks, but I simply had to cross-post this gem of
a posting from rec.radio.cb to the ham radio groups.

So you've just proved without a doubt that you are nothing but a troll.

.:\:/:.
+-------------------+ .:\:\:/:/:.
| PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
| FEED THE TROLLS! | :=.' - - '.=:
| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| rec.radio.cb NG | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / TROLL \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
@x@@x@ | | |/ WW( ( ) )WW
\||||/ | | \| __\,,\ /,,/__
\||/ | | | (______Y______) jgs
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\