| |
KB2VXA > MOVIES 01.08.07 18:05l 76 Lines 4069 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 272_NJ2AR
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > A Rusty CB
Path: DB0FHN<DB0FOR<DB0MRW<OK0PPL<DB0RES<WA7V<KD4YAL<K2BJG<WB2SNN<KC2COJ<
NJ2AR
Sent: 070801/1354Z @:NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM #:272 [Lakehurst] $:272_NJ2AR
From: KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
To : MOVIES@WW
Hi Peter and all you bored readers,
So Master Control was a bunch of renegade hams! Like I said, I never
watched those dumb movies, hmmm. That sounds like The Lauging Policeman
http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/
if you want to read about a bunch of sickos. Just a brief history (I
don't know what veterans or 1947 have to do with it) originally Class A
CB was UHF but the FCC reassigned much of it to public service with what
remained becoming General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) which is licensed
and a bit of a cross between CB and han and Family Radio Service (FRS)
which is a very QRP "walkie talkie" sort of thing with a range of a few
blocks at best. In 1959 the 11M Amateur band shared with industrial,
medical and business became the 23 Class D CB channels. BRS went bye bye
when it was expanded to 40 channels while industrial and medical services
remain as well as the now quite abandoned radio control frequencies
scattered among the original 23 channels. BTW, those were the original
"freeband" channels plus "22A and 22B" which are now channels 24 abd 25.
BTW, KMD7606 operated in Canada briefly under a permit issued by the DOT
then in charge of licensing. Back then it was a Hallicrafters CD5A 5
channel rock bound in a 1957 Chevrolet Belaire 210 easily confused with
the Impala if you don't count the doors. Yup, the late 60s to early 70s
had some incredible skip conditions but the band was far less crowded and
workable, the next cycle was impossible but by that time I was gone, too
many idiots to cope with even without a gazillion more piling in from
that mythological country Skipland. Talk about illegal immigrants!
It's funny how even Joe Sixpack knows about CB even if he thinks of it as
something only truckers talk on and don't know anything about it besides
a microphone and some redneck calling everyone "good buddy". Ah, it's
some sort of radio but at least the reference doesn't bring about a blank
stare, say "ham" and they think of a chunk of meat covered in honey and
cloves. I can say I'm lucky having three in my old neighborhood and a few
more around the high school, then and now a big metal bird cage on the
roof grabs my attention and I'm not afraid to knock on the door. Hey, if
the old brown table radio picks up distant stations at night that big
metal thing might make it better, I'll just ask the guy and find out.
Kids are curious and I'm no exception, hams are a friendly lot and just
love talking radio with a curious kid having similar interests. BTW, the
HS ham station was dismantled by the time I got there (darn) and that was
when computers took up the whole floor of a building and made the devil's
own noise just to borrow a line from Lt. Sulu. Nope, at least that one
wasn't taken over by the Computer Science lab.
OOOooohhh, Rusty with a split pad, reminds me of the time I stepped on a
nail. You didn't say how that happened but in any case a boot on that paw
is the only thing that will help it. I suppose you know dog booties are a
good idea in winter when ice cuts happen and they don't have to run
around on a frozen lake after a hocky puck to get them. I can just
picture Rusty in the penalty box for fighting, typical hocky player. He's
probably better at it too, I'll bet he still has his front teeth. Like
Rodney says, I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Hey, if you want to sip tea and watch the world go by you should be here
watching the daily beach bunny parade. Hey, if Maria complains just tell
her to watch the hunks and keep her finger out of the tea, that's only
for sweetening it. (;->)
Hey, I'd better stop racking up the K count before David complains.
73 de Warren
KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
**************************************
Preserve the integrity of our network.
Stop Internet forwarding, use RADIO!
**************************************
Message timed by NIST: 14:23 on 2007-Aug-01 GMT
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
