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KB2VXA > C15 06.03.08 03:09l 85 Lines 4778 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Peter and all,
Oh I like to play with names so for the non-truckies out there a
Peterbilt (I misspelt it the first time) is a poor man's Kenworth. How
'bout a Kenwood in a Kenworth, naturally Ken is the driver and you can
guess the FAQ. Now if you could put an OLD Kenwood in a KW you wouldn't
need an Audiovox but if you want today's volume you'd need a Crown. Have
I jogged anybody's memory out there or have I just confused you again?
Right, the air dam is a spoiler but that's just what the truckers (I
don't know about the truckies) call it. I guess that's because like water
flowing over a dam air flows over the air dam and is deflected over the
box rather than hitting it square on creating drag. Notice the tractors
are far mor aerodynamic that they ever were, just like cars reducing drag
increases fuel efficiency. Now what about a drag race? I'll have to ask
George Carlin, he's the linguistics expert.
Yeah, the very first antenna aside from my long wire for shortwave was
the Antenna Specialists Super Magnum half wave ground plane CB antenna.
Remember how those things were advertized as 5/8 wave? How can 18" on 11M
be 5/8 wave? CBers are dumb when it comes to radio but REALLY! The only
5/8 wave CB antenna ever made commercially was by Avanti and although I
forgot the name it was the biggest, clumsiest monstrosity of a J-Pole
I've ever seen. It worked GREAT but so did my J-Pole made from TV
twinlead and bell wire. Stupid CBers. (;->)
ASP sure made great antennas, with a couple of Motorola exceptions all of
my mobile antennas were ASP from HF through UHF. They only put the name
like so many others on that very same noise suppression kit I first saw
with Lafayette on it. Finally I remembered the details, that "alternator"
suppressor was just a re-badged generator kit, absolutely useless on an
alternator. Still they sold like hot cakes, still the only TRUELY good
way of killing the whine is with an active filter in the transceiver B+
line. Yes, I've seen a few CBs with LC B+ filters and they work just as
well as the one I built out of a speaker transformer and electrolytic for
my old marine radio. What if anything may be in today's CBs or ham rigs I
haven't a clue but by the whiming owners I'd say nothing. Funny how they
whine in stereo and the pitch goes up as the pedal goes down.
Car or truck about the only way I can think of to deal with RF hash
generated by the electronics is the old fashioned way of dealing with
RFI, sheilding and bonding with the usual common point ground rather than
grounding everything willy nilly. Funny how manufacturers are so very
fond of that and you end up reworking the whole vehicle before you're
through or give up and trade it in. Truckesr(ies) in NA are usually stuck
with whatever the dispatcher assigns them so just toss in the radio and
hope for the best. If there are any steel cowboys left in Ozland more
power to them, an independent's horse is his life so he makes darn sure
it works for him and won't nag, just like range riders of old. Oh, I
forgot the modern range riders (sorry boys) so what band are those HTs on
anyway. Oh, the other one is a 2M rig... GREAT!
Dinny ken? Conduit pipes? I may trip over some Ozzieisms but I thought
you spoke English up there in the great white north that stays white
longer than the Jersey Shore but I guess I was mistaken. Indy may be on
the road but I suppose Bob has nothing to say lately, on packet at least.
In a few I'll see what if anything he had to say about the railroads,
last time around it was comparing a roo bar to rhubarb. Funny how he gets
all upset and comes so close to shouting at me while actually agreeing
with me, typical Bob. Gotta love the guy, in one of my attempts to prove
him wrong (he was right all along but I'll never tell him that) I
discovered the owner of a previously unknown logo. My friend in Gawler
sent a few photos of G&W locos that looked AWFULLY familiar paint wise, I
have a half dozen twins from all over North America and Australia. Turns
out the G&W stands for Genesee and Western, does the name Genesee sound
familiar? Maybe the beer but for those outside NA it's an American short
line railroad based in Connecticut that owns half a dozen short lines
around the world and Peter, they own Quebec Gateneau too. So there you
have it, in his way Bob solved The Great Railroad Twins Mystery.
Speaking of auto shops putting things in cars "to kill anything" one of
these days I'll tell you the story of the Dodge Dart and da mice in da
hood... DIE SUCKAH!
73 de Warren
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