wrote:
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

Now that is believable. Yakking on the CB is good for staying awake on a
long haul trip. If I am going to share the road with semi rigs I want
the drivers awake.

Bill Baka

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

wrote:
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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

*QUIT SCREWING AROUND!*

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

"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).