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.

I sold my walkies shortly thereafter. And moved into other things.




Good choice.
Bill Baka