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On Oct 20, 11:08*pm, "D. Peter Maus"
wrote:
On 10/20/09 22:23 , Bill Baka wrote:



wrote:
A few days ago, I turned on one of my CB radios, just to give a listen
for a little while.CB radio is Dead around here.Most of them have those
cell phones nowadays.
cuhulin

I don't know where you are but the waves around here are full of CB
chat. Some people have literally taken over a channel and have the base
station in the kitchen so they can do stuff and chat. Whole bunch of
yakking with no point of reference in sight. CB isn't dead, it just went
underground, so to speak. The other night I got S-meter readings from
about 1 (mostly noise) to pegged so hard I thought it might break. I
think it is a group that is slightly too far for free calls.
It was like a red neck conference call, a hoot.

Bill Baka

* *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. ?

Hopefully not : Terminated with Extreme Prejudice !


* *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.

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dave wrote:
wrote:


Termorra mawnin, ahh yam going tu Arender Plumbin store (afer furst
stoppin off atz the Goodwill store, but of course! Yesterdey, ahh bought
a plastic doll over there, it stands about waist high to me.I lykes
dolls) on Highway 80 (abouts tu-tree miles East, behind doggy's couch
anna bought a propane heater (ober tree hunnert dollers) furr leetle
doggy anna meself.

Disturbing turn of events...



Not really. The propane heater produces carbon monoxide. I do feel empathy for
the dog, however.




mike

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RHF 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.

Heh,
Reminds me of they guy around here who had a kilowatt or more and got so
dead drunk he passed out with a face plant on his transmit key on his
base station power mike and fried it overnight.
Sometimes Karma does get you.

Bill Baka

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I know the Saint Louis area pretty well, from when I was in the Army at
Scott Air Force Base,Illinois and also SL 60 near Pacific,Missouri in
1963.I had a girl friend who lived in Kirkwood,Missouri, South side of
Saint Louis.
cuhulin

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RHF wrote:
On Oct 24, 4:17 pm, Bill Baka wrote:
RHF 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.
- Heh,
- Reminds me of they guy around here who had a kilowatt or more and
got so
- dead drunk he passed out with a face plant on his transmit key on
his
- base station power mike and fried it overnight.
- Sometimes Karma does get you.
-
- Bill Baka

He Fried his Face on a Power Mike :
Now that must have left a lasting imprint ;-}
.
It did when he had to repair it all. We had relative peace and quiet for
about 2 months then he came back on. His next move was to tell the feds
to get the hell offa his channel, which was about 26 MHz with the
VCO/slider setup he had. He went off the air permanently in about 2
days. They triangulated his house and the rest is history.

Bill Baka