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Skriven 2012-06-18 09:40:05 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 29774 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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17 Jun 12 20:44, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 Roy>> I recall a TV station in the 50s that was either in Moline or Rock
 Roy>> Island, but don't recall the channel or affiliation.. Channel 4, I
 Roy>> think.

 RW> YEp, whbf iirc.

That wasn't its call back then...

 RW> <snip>

 RW>> Can relate to that.  IF I need cb I'll just jump on the
 RW>> kenwood.

 Roy>> Modified for 11 mtrs?

 RW> Opened up because of mars/shares etc.  Also of course for
 RW> 60m transmit.  IF we gotta do it to work ch 9 we'll get 'r
 RW> done and sweat the legalities later if it's an emergency.

Just wondering, as the TS520 has had a xtal change to cover 11m. That was
done when I was still a Novice back in the 70s. My 'elmer' did it, since
we were all 'HFers' back then.

 RW> Besides, old 23 channel cb stuff is cheap, I just haven't
 RW> needed to acquire one.

You can buy a 40ch cheaper than an old 23...people keep those 23ch radios
around, especially if they're xtal controlled.

 Roy>> The 'truckers' use channel 19 as they pass through here. Sometimes
 Roy>> fun to listen to them fight among themselves. The local hispanic
 Roy>> community uses that channel for general communication and for some
 Roy>> reason, yankee truckers cuss them out for doing so. They get put in
 Roy>> their place soon enough by local English speakers who also use it
 Roy>> for local communications.

 RW> I used to do one cb with dual watch capability in our
 RW> traveling show caravan, he'd listen to 19 or whatever the
 RW> standard road channel for the region is.  The other rode on
 RW> a side channel somewhere for intercommunication among us.

8^) we'd use VHF walkie-talkies for that. One of our gang was a mountain
top serviceman, so the equipment was always available.

 Roy>> I can relate to it all since it resembles Fidonet a lot.

 RW> YEah that it does.  I use it to exchange relevant traffic
 RW> and road conditions info or something like that, or to
 RW> acquire it if necessary when traveling.

Back in the day, I had a Browning Golden Eagle base station and kept a
Courier 23ch radio in the car. The Eagle could be tuned on the receiver
end and xmit on any given xtal channel. I swapped two xtals in the Courier
so that it received on one channel and xtransmitted on another. The wife
could tune to my xtmit channel and hear me over the local noise of traffic
on the way to work, while I listened for her on the quietest channel in
town. I lived on a 'mesa' with a 4 element beam pointed down a canyon with
I-5 going thru it (my route to work in downtown SD). When she came on the
air, I always turned the volume down, since she modulated that Eagle to
the limit.

 RW> oTherwise, I'm hanging out doing vhf or uhf ham, and maybe some other
 RW> general snooping.

My friend Monty lived at the base of Mt Soledad in his mother's garage. He
formed a VHF and then a UHF group that I joined later. Most of the other
kids around at the time were teenagers with lots of radio knowlege. Many
of them made a career out of radio and have their own VHF and UHF
repeaters, better known as the DR0NK radio group. Most of them are/were
partiers and drunks, so the DR0 call sign sort of works for them...


                R\%/itt



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