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VE3WBZ > CB 03.04.11 23:38l 87 Lines 3664 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Sunday, April 3rd.,2011 @ 1534hrs EST
Hello Warren, and everyone ....
Have to agree with you, on the valuable people who left CB
for ham radio. One thing I notice, and more so when mobile
is the way some station really try to make out the very weak
stations, and then after getting to know them....well yes
they gained it in the CB <GRS> service.
I had...but when I moved here...the opposite of what I
had in the city...a prime location. WE are in one of those
RF holes you mentioned..hahahaa.... and really I don't mind.
Yep...experimented with this and that, and as for skyhooks
well mum, more then once ran the lawnmower over the latest
creation.
As for the magazines, and well their later daft articles, I
too dropped them. Just like Ham ones, where it seemed all they
seemed to do was give each other medals, and well..I am no
longer a clubby-type person. BTW...while MAster Control
was attracting the FCC, and others, we had only one incident
so I agree with you, and I am glad their example was never
followed....and well they did get a mention in that CB movie
which is for some reason under two names. I used to laugh
everytime I watched it.
Crystalls....Gee I rememeber apart from sailing with a Daystrom 348
and crystalls rolling all over the deck, that one time, seeing
at a friends, his big bronw thing you unscrewed...and either rubbed
it to take it donw..or added graphite or something to take it up
frequency.
Remember hilltopping, and oh yeah we had our simplex repeater
put there by someone with good intention, then he took it down.
What a nuisance. As I only have the 2m...I am spared the other
nonsense, and well if ham has hit a low of Master Control...again
then I am glad to be now able to move along...to other things
as I did when the HF was down.
Ok on the first skip ... mine 1965... and then a ham on the air
warned us of future happenings where it would be worse.
We had a AS Scanner M119 too. Also had a few hams over, and we
got great 10m contacts, but then the relay got intermitent as a
result of 100w going thru it. I really like the Scanner.
On SELCAL ... the Johonny 2 had it, as well this mint SONAR fs23
I found for my ham friend, having his senior flashback days to
CB. Works wonderfully...but I don't know the reed tone, and I'
had somewhere my plug in SELCAL for the Johnny2.
Yeah lots of memorys comeback now with my activities just before
I left for here, and finished lobby activites at the Capital
for the benefit of CB or GRS in CANADA. I wrote articles
in the "Canadian Transeiver" <1972> on CB and Ham Radio, and
unfortunately most of it has come so true.
In lobbying, and making proposals, I can not ignore the "professionals"
and businesses that opposed both CB and Ham. They were started
by the pioneers of Amatuer Radio, and now doing all they could to
kill them and anyone else. In their grab for frequencys, well
they have them. They placed the CB and Ham communities, in
the same basket....and used the term CB = "Children's Bands".
It was a very bitter pill to swallow then, and see now. I wish
sometimes, I had just not bother with radio, but well TV and radio
broadcasting came, and I enjoyed that... and oh well Ham radio
came via the techs, and ...I guess I was destined to meet new
terrific friends, as well my mother and my wife, and also old
friends too ... which BTW I enjoy. So as a fellow DINO now
I guess I go extinct with everyone of my friends and that is
fitting...
We are all truely in this togther...
73 Peter VE3WBZ
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