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Brenda Ann wrote:
"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. I ran a TV shop in 1982 and had to refuse 'sliders' for the sake of my FCC license but some of them had rigs with VCO's in them so they could go up or down about 2 MHz. Never underestimate the creativity of a trucker. Bill Baka |
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D. Peter Maus wrote:
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. The last time skip was in hot and heavy I could still talk to my wife up to about 10 miles. 11 miles and I got the national BS. 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. That too. I refuse to buy a new car where I have to pay $10 a month just to listen to music via satellite. They also want to install 'black boxes' in cars to analyze crash data. Guess what, that little box can record how fast you drive and report to the police and you get a ticket in the mail. It could just be the black box reporting you driving 85 on the freeway or being in the vicinity of a crime. They can then establish where you were parked and for how long. Bill Baka Bill Baka |
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"Bill Baka" wrote in message ... wrote: 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 Dude, Just be glad they weren't in the neighborhood when you did your little stunt. I got a visit from the FBI in 1972 for making a portable ship to shore radio in a suitcase for somebody. He said it was for his office since he had a rental fleet and then the idiot yaks it up all over Santa Clara valley. He named me and I got the pink warning slip. The FBI guys were gorillas in $3,000 suits, and zero sense of humor. Bill Baka I got a visit from the local FCC field office (Portland, OR) in 1974. I had been running an FM pirate station for nearly a year. They asked politely if they could come in, and I let them. They looked at my broadcast studio, and asked "do you have a microphone?." I said yes, and they told me "open it, get on the air and tell your listeners you are leaving the air by order of the FCC." I did so, and they told me "Now, shut it off. AND LEAVE IT OFF!" Amazingly, they did not confiscate my transmitter, antenna, audio equipment, etc., nor even my FCC 3rd Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit with broadcast endorsement, which was pinned to the window sill above my turntables.. About 3 weeks later I got a nice letter from Gettysburg, PA telling me that if I got busted again I could get 2 years at Club Fed and/or a $20,000 fine. I stayed off the air (for a while... ) A few years later, I was running a 250 watte AM pirate right in the city of Portland. :) |
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Brenda Ann wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message ... wrote: 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 Dude, Just be glad they weren't in the neighborhood when you did your little stunt. I got a visit from the FBI in 1972 for making a portable ship to shore radio in a suitcase for somebody. He said it was for his office since he had a rental fleet and then the idiot yaks it up all over Santa Clara valley. He named me and I got the pink warning slip. The FBI guys were gorillas in $3,000 suits, and zero sense of humor. Bill Baka I got a visit from the local FCC field office (Portland, OR) in 1974. I had been running an FM pirate station for nearly a year. They asked politely if they could come in, and I let them. They looked at my broadcast studio, and asked "do you have a microphone?." I said yes, and they told me "open it, get on the air and tell your listeners you are leaving the air by order of the FCC." I did so, and they told me "Now, shut it off. AND LEAVE IT OFF!" Amazingly, they did not confiscate my transmitter, antenna, audio equipment, etc., nor even my FCC 3rd Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit with broadcast endorsement, which was pinned to the window sill above my turntables.. You were lucky. That guy who got drunk and told the government guys to get off 'his' channel had everything confiscated, right up to his thousand watt transmitter. He had about $5,000 worth of CB stuff and they searched his house and took it all. By all my dealings with them you should have been out of some gear. About 3 weeks later I got a nice letter from Gettysburg, PA telling me that if I got busted again I could get 2 years at Club Fed and/or a $20,000 fine. That *does* sound more typical for them. I stayed off the air (for a while... ) A few years later, I was running a 250 watte AM pirate right in the city of Portland. :) Brave! Not smart, but brave. AM is so easy to trace it is ridiculous. I found an arcing noise making telephone pole with my marine RDF in about 5 minutes so I could call the power company and have them fix it. Bill Baka |
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Brenda Ann wrote:
I got a visit from the local FCC field office (Portland, OR) in 1974. I had been running an FM pirate station for nearly a year. They asked politely if they could come in, and I let them. They looked at my broadcast studio, and asked "do you have a microphone?." I said yes, and they told me "open it, get on the air and tell your listeners you are leaving the air by order of the FCC." I did so, and they told me "Now, shut it off. AND LEAVE IT OFF!" Amazingly, they did not confiscate my transmitter, antenna, audio equipment, etc., nor even my FCC 3rd Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit with broadcast endorsement, which was pinned to the window sill above my turntables.. About 3 weeks later I got a nice letter from Gettysburg, PA telling me that if I got busted again I could get 2 years at Club Fed and/or a $20,000 fine. I stayed off the air (for a while... ) A few years later, I was running a 250 watte AM pirate right in the city of Portland. :) www.kdil.com |
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dave wrote:
Brenda Ann wrote: I got a visit from the local FCC field office (Portland, OR) in 1974. I had been running an FM pirate station for nearly a year. They asked politely if they could come in, and I let them. They looked at my broadcast studio, and asked "do you have a microphone?." I said yes, and they told me "open it, get on the air and tell your listeners you are leaving the air by order of the FCC." I did so, and they told me "Now, shut it off. AND LEAVE IT OFF!" Amazingly, they did not confiscate my transmitter, antenna, audio equipment, etc., nor even my FCC 3rd Class Radiotelephone Operator Permit with broadcast endorsement, which was pinned to the window sill above my turntables.. About 3 weeks later I got a nice letter from Gettysburg, PA telling me that if I got busted again I could get 2 years at Club Fed and/or a $20,000 fine. I stayed off the air (for a while... ) A few years later, I was running a 250 watte AM pirate right in the city of Portland. :) www.kdil.com I about fell out of my chair when I saw the arab singles on line. Now I feel better. Bill Baka |
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"Bill Baka" wrote in message ... That too. I refuse to buy a new car where I have to pay $10 a month just to listen to music via satellite. Satellite radio is an option in new cars, not mandatory. They all still have good old fashioned AM/FM radios in them (even when they do have satellite). |
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