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VE3WBZ > CB 06.12.09 17:07l 127 Lines 5082 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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TO: CB @WW
FR: VE3WBZ@VA3BAL.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
DT:Sunday,December 6th.,2009 @ 0904hrs JPST
<< Quoting KB2VXA to QUERY @WW >>
> From : KB2VXA To : QUERY @WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 06-Dec 02:52
> Bid : 48164_VK6ZRT Message # : 33761
> Title : Re: VE3WBZ > CB daze
Hello fellow dazed CB'ers and those who aren't but secretly wished
but publicaly...oh no not me..I'm not a CB'er...<g>....
Warren and all, I changed the title to be CB from QUERY, as
posed by Ian and Rodge for obvious reasons, and that is to
discuss it serious and lighthearted....
> Yup, we had some fun experimenting being many of us were
> tech minded, some were just chatterboxes and of course
> there were the jokers who kept us entertained.
My friends Richard and Bill and Rodger fell into the tech
minded fields with stereo CB, and also their imfamous coke
can transmitters that ended up being treated as bombs by
the Toronto cops. Long story on that one....they were
fun, but we stopped when the cops got going on the bomb
therory.
I was a rachetjawing, babbling chatterbox, who loved pranks
and jokes and oh yeah they also pulled and tried to pull
a few on me. We also had long running pranks that went
for years, as well all night with many joining in...
radio shows..if you could define the nutty thing going
on. Mnay SWLs were also hams, who also in the 1950s
and 1960s had and were innvolved with some rather nice
pranks of their own, along with some of their on-air
hijinxs.
Entrertained....you bet. Even the authorities, wanted
at the time names and whatever to cite stations for
what was going on ....got that via one of our friends
at the DOC who was a CB'er as well as some of the
inspectors who were hams.
> There was one family, a husband and wife who come to
> mind, a couple of OTs with an ancient callsign.
> I had fun teasing Helen when she called out
> "Two queen 5468 base to mobile, copy Walt?" sounding
> like that parrot sitting on Long John Silver's shoulder.
Helen sounds like ...well she has a ..or had a clone in
Toronto called Annie, and well ...yes I could mimick her
and I did the demented parrot voice for many friends
in Toronto which reved old Annie up for the weekend.
The best had to be Annie, who had a CB store....on-air
at some cray hour at night...with 50 mobiles across
the street, and a poor policeman trying to figure it
all out, shaking his head as he listened in on someone's
set...hahahahaha ....aah those days.
I remember those ancient 2Q callsigns, from a card I
got from a chap in Buffalo. We were not allowed to
chat across the border....oops.
I am sure, if my friend saw this and he has packet he
would be adding to it, and ...mmmmm.... mmmm better
not go too far <g>...
> Then there was another who signed in Polish, and wouldn't
> you know it the name of the vocalist who wrote a song
> about it escapes me. Pardon the phoenetics,
> "moye drowa yasha kohem" or something like that.
With a bigger population warren, you guys must have had
more languages to cope with. We only had a few Frenchies.
The greatest thing, is despite all that went on, we were
loyal to each other.
> Stereo? That could be done in AM or FM but would require
> extensive modification to the transceivers and some
> fancy external circuits, in any case it was rather beyond
> our limited capabilities at the time. An interesting thought
> though, those having appropriate receiving equipment
> and headphones would get dizzy like listening to Led Zeppelin.
> Remember the early stereo recordings and how engineers loved
> to play with the pan pots? Come to think of it I might just
> have some fun with Adobe Audition one of these days,
> I've done just about everything BUT pan and scan.
The stereo was done with 2 SSB CBs. It required the receving
station to also have 2 SSB CBs...and you listened to both
and laaa laaa laaa .... stereo...on the cheap. CRAzzzzy.
One character, also had a FM CB ...legal here but a pest.
> Ah yes, the old cat on the radio trick. Mine never spent
> much time in the house and when he did he had enough sense
> to stay out of my room. A radio may make a warm spot for
> sleeping but with ME around he much preferred the forsythia
> in the far corner of the back yard.
>
> 73 de Warren
>
> [End of Message #33761 from KB2VXA]
My cat, spent many cold winter days, on top of the TRAM
or the SONAR. sometimes he lie on the receiver and his
trail curled around the whip antenna...hahahaha interesting
thoughts..of a cat alarm...or visions there of another friend
a ham keeping wild critters outa the garbage with a DX 40
wired to a can....hahahahaha...like they never came back.
Yestersday.... I get a few emails, and here low and behold
three ex-cb gone ham...have now returned to cb with mobile
sets. Nothing like what they had when I knew them....but
simple mobile CBs...so looks like Maria will have some
interesting contacts.
OK ... better... be off.... so 73 see ya...Tony gone
that-a-way.
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