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On Oct 21, 2:08*am, "D. Peter Maus"
wrote:

* *The bands were VERY quiet for the longest time. And then there
was a revival after 'Convoy' came out. Truckers running 500 watt
linears. The largest I heard of was one guy claiming a kilowatt.
Talk about your redneck conference call.

* *I sold my walkies shortly thereafter. And moved into other things.- Hide quoted text -


I'll turn mine on every now and then. CB is very
much alive and well all over the Cinti./N.Kentucky
area. We have a group known as the "Eastgate
Locals"....group of young adults and older fellas
that drive around the Eastgate area talking mobile
and then they may get together on the weekends
and go to Bob Evans or another restaurant in the
area.

During the winter months or when the snow or
freezing rain are pelting the area, I'll keep it on
channel nineteen and give the drivers a heads up
on the road conditions or give them a hand navigating some of these
country roads.

Once the winter months end, the base goes off.

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On 10/21/09 06:00 , Bill Baka wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:

When I lived in St Louis, there were a couple of guys with base
stations, who pretty much signed on and parked on a channel, chatting
all night. Got to be a fairly common occurrence. ****ed off a guy in
St Charles, who had an old Collins he'd brought up to 11 Meters, and
put a Yagi up on top of a huge tower out behind his house. He had an
EchoPlex in his audio chain, and apparently a mixer with several mic
and line level sources. He was moderately entertaining for about 5
minutes, and then got very tiresome, very quickly. It took about 2
years for someone to finally take him out. And it wasn't FCC. They
were clamping down elsewhere in the area. A couple of local operators
found his base, and took his tower down for him. He was removed from
the evironment shortly thereafter.

It sounds as if he were personally messing up the 10 meter band. Some
CBers had 'sliders' so they could go out of band. One screwed up, got
drunk, slid down to a government frequency and told them to get off his
channel. They found him within 24 hours and confiscated all his
electronic stuff.

The bands were VERY quiet for the longest time. And then there was a
revival after 'Convoy' came out. Truckers running 500 watt linears.
The largest I heard of was one guy claiming a kilowatt. Talk about
your redneck conference call.

Mostly they use them to alert other drivers of a cop in the bush waiting
to snag someone.
Some of the big rig drivers went 80 MPH. I don't know what a semi would
do for an actual top speed. Might even be over 100 MPH.

Some of the big Kenworths will do 120 without breathing hard.

I was on a trip through Missouri about 12 years ago, and I had my
Cobra with me. I heard a trucker with a big signal talking about a
crash involving a bridge and an 18 wheeler nearly 75 miles ahead of
me. Traffic was backed up for 30 miles and growing. I checked my
map, and made a detour. Added easily 25 miles to my trip, but saved
me a lot of grief. I saw on the news in Little Rock that night that
the bridge had been severely compromised, and both roads had been
closed by the authorities.

Were it not for that trucker I would have been stuck in that
traffic for half a day before I could have turned around.

Most of the time, yeah, they're watching for patrol cars.
Occasionally, they have important news.

Occasionally.

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There used to be some dudes in the Jackson area who used to run all over
the CB channels (except for that certain channel the 18 wheeler truck
drivers mostly use) all day long and half the night long up to about
10:00 PM with their nonsense crap.One time I dug out two of my old CB
radios I don't care all that much about.I turned them on and I raked the
antennas up and down agains't each other.I heard one of those dudes
holler, Yeooooooooooowwww,,,,,,,,,,
cuhulin

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I have a few very old bisque dolls.Do you know what they are?

Not many years ago, one night I was listening to an 18 wheeler truck
driver on his CB radio.He was heading West on I-20 between Jackson and
the suburb City of Clinton.He said he just got through talking to a guy
in New Zealand on his CB radio.
cuhulin

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"Bill Baka" wrote in message
...

It sounds as if he were personally messing up the 10 meter band. Some
CBers had 'sliders' so they could go out of band. One screwed up, got
drunk, slid down to a government frequency and told them to get off his
channel. They found him within 24 hours and confiscated all his electronic
stuff.

You're thinking about "funny" channels. A "slider" was a fairly narrow
(typically between 10 and 25 KHz) bandspread that allowed the CB to be tuned
between channels (as between channel 3 and channel 4, channel 7 and channel
8, etc.) and/or to "follow" a QSO in SSB mode, where the signal on the other
end was not spot on channel.

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Where can I buy a ''slider''? How would I hook it up?

Anyhoo, the very next day, a van with several antennas on it pulled up
in front of my house.A dude slowly stepped out of his van and he slowly
walked to my front door and he knocked on my door.I pretended I wasen't
at home.He slowly walked back to his van and he drove away.
cuhulin

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Teahhhhhhh,,,,, ah wants to build my own Ab Circle Pro gizmo, it wood
bee rude anna also crood, buts hit wood woik ok.Iffen ah eber sees wun
inna ah pawn shop, ah weel glomp on it.Leetle doggy anna ah kin work out
on its.Ah lykes tu watch them cutie pie wimmins onna teevee workin out.
http://abcircle.com/manual.html
cuhulin

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D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/21/09 06:00 , Bill Baka wrote:

Mostly they use them to alert other drivers of a cop in the bush waiting
to snag someone.
Some of the big rig drivers went 80 MPH. I don't know what a semi would
do for an actual top speed. Might even be over 100 MPH.

Some of the big Kenworths will do 120 without breathing hard.

No ****? That could give me nightmares of being rear ended at 100 by a
semi doing 120.

I was on a trip through Missouri about 12 years ago, and I had my
Cobra with me. I heard a trucker with a big signal talking about a crash
involving a bridge and an 18 wheeler nearly 75 miles ahead of me.
Traffic was backed up for 30 miles and growing. I checked my map, and
made a detour. Added easily 25 miles to my trip, but saved me a lot of
grief. I saw on the news in Little Rock that night that the bridge had
been severely compromised, and both roads had been closed by the
authorities.

Were it not for that trucker I would have been stuck in that traffic
for half a day before I could have turned around.

CB's still have their uses and that is a good one.

Most of the time, yeah, they're watching for patrol cars.
Occasionally, they have important news.

Occasionally.

Patrol cars are important news to truckers whose income depends on a
good driving record.
I got stuck about 15 years ago where there were no cell towers, pay
phones, or anything else. I got on my CB and asked for help and one guy
called a tow truck for me. These days no CB and a breakdown in the
middle of nowhere can be a real major pain. I can get CB signals without
towers, thank you.

Bill Baka

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On 10/21/09 18:53 , Bill Baka wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/21/09 06:00 , Bill Baka wrote:

Mostly they use them to alert other drivers of a cop in the bush waiting
to snag someone.
Some of the big rig drivers went 80 MPH. I don't know what a semi would
do for an actual top speed. Might even be over 100 MPH.

Some of the big Kenworths will do 120 without breathing hard.

No ****? That could give me nightmares of being rear ended at 100 by a
semi doing 120.


No ****. Yeah, that's wake you up. For a little while, anyway.



I was on a trip through Missouri about 12 years ago, and I had my
Cobra with me. I heard a trucker with a big signal talking about a
crash involving a bridge and an 18 wheeler nearly 75 miles ahead of
me. Traffic was backed up for 30 miles and growing. I checked my map,
and made a detour. Added easily 25 miles to my trip, but saved me a
lot of grief. I saw on the news in Little Rock that night that the
bridge had been severely compromised, and both roads had been closed
by the authorities.

Were it not for that trucker I would have been stuck in that traffic
for half a day before I could have turned around.

CB's still have their uses and that is a good one.


Except with the noise level on the band, it takes way too illegal a
power to be useful beyond a few blocks.



Most of the time, yeah, they're watching for patrol cars.
Occasionally, they have important news.

Occasionally.

Patrol cars are important news to truckers whose income depends on a
good driving record.
I got stuck about 15 years ago where there were no cell towers, pay
phones, or anything else. I got on my CB and asked for help and one guy
called a tow truck for me. These days no CB and a breakdown in the
middle of nowhere can be a real major pain. I can get CB signals without
towers, thank you.

Or a monthly fee.




Bill Baka