Brenda Ann wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message
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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