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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 25, 2014 17:54:07 GMT -5
I'd like to propose a special July 4th weekend CRR. On Sandbagger's web page he details all the fun we use to have with old school CB mods for extra channels; in particular the "A" channels. How about for July 4th weekend we have a Classic Radio Roundup on 27.145 (channel 15a). The catch is you have to use an old school 23 or 40 channel CB modded for the "A" channel. Extra crystal, expanded clarifier, PLL toggle switch, or VFO are all acceptable. It would also make for easier skip logins provided there is skip running at the designated time. Say....Saturday at 8:00 p.m EDT? I'm hoping for conditions between South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 26, 2014 5:59:30 GMT -5
I'd like to propose a special July 4th weekend CRR. On Sandbagger's web page he details all the fun we use to have with old school CB mods for extra channels; in particular the "A" channels. How about for July 4th weekend we have a Classic Radio Roundup on 27.145 (channel 15a). The catch is you have to use an old school 23 or 40 channel CB modded for the "A" channel. Extra crystal, expanded clarifier, PLL toggle switch, or VFO are all acceptable. It would also make for easier skip logins provided there is skip running at the designated time. Say....Saturday at 8:00 p.m EDT? I'm hoping for conditions between South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Night Ranger Well, Other than the fact that I don't do illegal channels anymore (although I do have a couple of previously modded radios which could cover it), the 4th is also the weekend that I will be vacationing up at the lake and I will be far away from any radios  |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 26, 2014 6:36:27 GMT -5
I'd like to propose a special July 4th weekend CRR. On Sandbagger's web page he details all the fun we use to have with old school CB mods for extra channels; in particular the "A" channels. How about for July 4th weekend we have a Classic Radio Roundup on 27.145 (channel 15a). The catch is you have to use an old school 23 or 40 channel CB modded for the "A" channel. Extra crystal, expanded clarifier, PLL toggle switch, or VFO are all acceptable. It would also make for easier skip logins provided there is skip running at the designated time. Say....Saturday at 8:00 p.m EDT? I'm hoping for conditions between South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Night Ranger Well, Other than the fact that I don't do illegal channels anymore (although I do have a couple of previously modded radios which could cover it), the 4th is also the weekend that I will be vacationing up at the lake and I will be far away from any radios Well for those 1970s/1980s teenagers that have done the unthinkable and turned in to their parents or turned in to one of those adults who chastised us for talking on extra channels (wink wink nudge nudge Sandbagger), we could always have the special edition of CRR on channel 22a. That was a popular mod back then, and it is a legal channel now (channel 24). You can be like one of the adults that rides the ferris wheel, because you're too old to ride the roller-coaster. ; ) For the record, I only partially made the transition to adulthood. Buried deep inside me is a seventeen year old that looks in the mirror and wonders who that old guy is. -Night Ranger |
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Post by cbrown on Jun 26, 2014 8:53:05 GMT -5
For the record, I only partially made the transition to adulthood. Buried deep inside me is a seventeen year old that looks in the mirror and wonders who that old guy is. You too, eh?  I won't be near a radio either that weekend. But then again I can't ever hear the CRR from my location. |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 26, 2014 14:14:52 GMT -5
Well, Other than the fact that I don't do illegal channels anymore (although I do have a couple of previously modded radios which could cover it), the 4th is also the weekend that I will be vacationing up at the lake and I will be far away from any radios Well for those 1970s/1980s teenagers that have done the unthinkable and turned in to their parents or turned in to one of those adults who chastised us for talking on extra channels (wink wink nudge nudge Sandbagger), we could always have the special edition of CRR on channel 22a. That was a popular mod back then, and it is a legal channel now (channel 24). You can be like one of the adults that rides the ferris wheel, because you're too old to ride the roller-coaster. ; ) For the record, I only partially made the transition to adulthood. Buried deep inside me is a seventeen year old that looks in the mirror and wonders who that old guy is. -Night Ranger Ouch! That hurts........ But you're right to some degree. I look in the mirror and wonder who this tired older guy is looking back. Surely it's only been a few years since we were whooping it up and terrorizing the CB channels. It's a strange feeling to be young and old at the same time. And I do miss those roller coasters. I still love them, but they jar my back to the point of pain now. And for the record, I'd never chastise anyone for talking out of band. I just need to keep a lid on my own antics because we have a good number of stuffed shirt hams, who like to snitch on other hams running illegally on CB. Coincidentally, our CRR has gotten a lot of exposure within the local ham circles for the nostalgic aspect and the warm tube audio (I overheard it being discussed on a local 2m repeater one day). So we have a lot of local sandbaggers (other than me), and I don't need any pink slips from OO's looking to make hay because of a little frequency indiscretion..... So I stay on the legal 40. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 26, 2014 17:32:00 GMT -5
]Ouch! That hurts........ But you're right to some degree. I look in the mirror and wonder who this tired older guy is looking back. Surely it's only been a few years since we were whooping it up and terrorizing the CB channels. It's a strange feeling to be young and old at the same time. And I do miss those roller coasters. I still love them, but they jar my back to the point of pain now. And for the record, I'd never chastise anyone for talking out of band. I just need to keep a lid on my own antics because we have a good number of stuffed shirt hams, who like to snitch on other hams running illegally on CB. Coincidentally, our CRR has gotten a lot of exposure within the local ham circles for the nostalgic aspect and the warm tube audio (I overheard it being discussed on a local 2m repeater one day). So we have a lot of local sandbaggers (other than me), and I don't need any pink slips from OO's looking to make hay because of a little frequency indiscretion..... So I stay on the legal 40. I understand the problem with the stuffed shirt hams. Three of my licensed ham/CB friends have had problems with the wanna-be ham cops giving them grief for continuing to run power on the CB band. I learned from their mistake, and I stayed off of 2 meters and away from the local ham club meetings. I'm sure the local hams have heard me on the air, but very few of them know who "Night Ranger" is. If push came to shove I'd choose CB over my ham license. I did have one ham on 10 meters chastise me for talking on my Drake TR7 on the CB band, but when I reminded him of the amplifier he use to run on the CB band he shut up. As far as extra channels, I was never that hot on using channels above or below the CB band, but dropping 5 kHz from channel 24 and talking on 27.230 MHz LSB was a regular occurrence around 1985. Usually we did it when the skip was running too hot to hear Butterfly out in the country, or to get away from a jammer or unwanted listener. Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 27, 2014 6:23:56 GMT -5
]Ouch! That hurts........ But you're right to some degree. I look in the mirror and wonder who this tired older guy is looking back. Surely it's only been a few years since we were whooping it up and terrorizing the CB channels. It's a strange feeling to be young and old at the same time. And I do miss those roller coasters. I still love them, but they jar my back to the point of pain now. And for the record, I'd never chastise anyone for talking out of band. I just need to keep a lid on my own antics because we have a good number of stuffed shirt hams, who like to snitch on other hams running illegally on CB. Coincidentally, our CRR has gotten a lot of exposure within the local ham circles for the nostalgic aspect and the warm tube audio (I overheard it being discussed on a local 2m repeater one day). So we have a lot of local sandbaggers (other than me), and I don't need any pink slips from OO's looking to make hay because of a little frequency indiscretion..... So I stay on the legal 40. I understand the problem with the stuffed shirt hams. Three of my licensed ham/CB friends have had problems with the wanna-be ham cops giving them grief for continuing to run power on the CB band. I learned from their mistake, and I stayed off of 2 meters and away from the local ham club meetings. I'm sure the local hams have heard me on the air, but very few of them know who "Night Ranger" is. If push came to shove I'd choose CB over my ham license. I did have one ham on 10 meters chastise me for talking on my Drake TR7 on the CB band, but when I reminded him of the amplifier he use to run on the CB band he shut up. As far as extra channels, I was never that hot on using channels above or below the CB band, but dropping 5 kHz from channel 24 and talking on 27.230 MHz LSB was a regular occurrence around 1985. Usually we did it when the skip was running too hot to hear Butterfly out in the country, or to get away from a jammer or unwanted listener. Night Ranger It's funny now to look back on it. We were so obsessed with hot rodding our radios and the techies among us were in competition with each other to see who could squeeze the most out of a particular chassis. As early as the late 70's, I've had radios that literally covered from 25.5 Mhz, all the way up well into 10 meters. Hundreds of channels at the ready, but we ended up actually using a very small percentage of them. Usually we only went out of band to get away from jammers, or when the skip was too high to hear the more distant locals. I used to like the "RC" channels. They were easy to get to (even from Xtal 23 channel SSB rigs), so they were early favorites. Yea, the stuffed shirts are a funny bunch. They lambast CB and CB operators, yet they seem to know all the local comings and goings on the channels, and who the various locals are, and who among them are also hams. For a bunch of guys who claim to hate CB, they sure spend enough time listening. I am fortunate to have a friend who is in with the OO's, the FCC, and the ARRL, and he keeps me informed on the local scuttlebutt that involves the locals in our area. There isn't much they can do to non-hams, but let a ham get a little too wild and crazy on the CB band, and they want to hang him up by the short hairs. Our old compadre Gene, had he not moved out of the area, was treading very close to an FCC action. Ironically, what probably saved him was budget issues within the FCC. He hadn't made the threshold where the FCC wanted to spend the resources to build a case against him. But his name (and callsign) was on their radar. Thanks in no small part to the continual whining of the local stuffed shirts. I've been a licensed ham for 33 years, out of the 44 years that I've been involved with CB. I don't know if it's the nostalgia talking, but I look back far more fondly at my time on CB. Ham radio is interesting, and it is far more reliable and far more capable. But in terms of sheer enjoyment, CB wins the contest (as long as the idiot factor is kept to a minimum). Perhaps that's why so many of the "born again" hams still listen to CB (but would never admit it in mixed company). They will publicly disavow all association with CB, but they can't escape their own nostalgic feelings. |
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I won't be near a radio either that weekend. But then again I can't ever hear the CRR from my location.