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KB2VXA > CAR 23.09.12 16:54l 45 Lines 2139 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Pete and all,
I really don't know what GM made in Canada or how it stacked up against
"Detroit" but I'm confused why your Delco would lose reception in valleys
when there was no such thing as an FM car radio. AM car radios were built
for DX, that is to say sensitivity and selectivity were superb. My first
real AM DX receiver was a '56 Buick Sonomatic with an 8" speaker right in
it that sounded great. Hooked up to a 50' wire in the trees and powered
by the 6V winding of a TV power transformer with that annoying vibrator
bypassed I logged stations across North America including your sister
station in Boston WBZ. Unfortunately my rather large collection of MW and
SW QSLs got lost in a flood, oh well.
I had no idea Crysler had a cheapo 440, the ones I was thinking of were
used by the NJSP, New Yorkers with the Police Interceptor package that's
more than just a hemi engine. That's when they were battleships with
wheels in more ways than their size.
Oh so you can smell out cop cars, are you sure you're not smelling pigs
inside? (;->) The winkie is manditory BTW, don't want anybody thinking
I'm an anarchist. I have to laugh at the "under cover" ones that stand
out like sore thumbs, plain Jane until you spot the MG license plate.
Some cop shops actually employ brains, everyday production cars with
plates turned in to the DMV. Once in a while I get a chuckle out of a
registration check heard on the scanner, "comes back no record, not on
file".
I just love that messing with them on the radio bit, I can't do that
anymore since the SPNJ Marine Division left channel 17 for the 800MHz
statewide trunked system. Then too I miss the days before cell phones and
before the ship to shore stations went full auto, an HT hooked up to a
1/4 wave on the car roof was my mobile phone. Funny how the operator
never questioned the SS Lollipop, MV Defiant or even the USS Enterprise
which just happened to be in the Persian Gulf at the time.
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 14:30 on 2012-Sep-23 GMT
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