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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 21, 2015 11:47:29 GMT -5
Well, if superhawk is selling it, you know it has to be the real deal. He's been a Browning Deal since 823 BC... ...and if he is selling it you can bet it will be WAAAAAAAAYYYYY over priced. Night Ranger
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Post by BBB on Jul 21, 2015 16:51:08 GMT -5
I didn't comment on his listing because I thought we all already knew about that situation, but for any new members it bears repeating: If the item has yellow plexiglass underneath it, the price is always over inflated.
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Post by whitetail on Jul 22, 2015 20:34:36 GMT -5
Another Wednesday and no conditions! Tonight I could of heard a pin drop. I was just waiting for one of you guys to come blasting into my receive!!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 22, 2015 21:28:00 GMT -5
Another Wednesday and no conditions! Tonight I could of heard a pin drop. I was just waiting for one of you guys to come blasting into my receive!! It was unusually quiet tonight. But for some reason, the locals were few, and the more distant locals were not in there either. It was a shame really. I was hoping to make a few longer distance straight shots.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 23, 2015 12:00:32 GMT -5
Another Wednesday and no conditions! Tonight I could of heard a pin drop. I was just waiting for one of you guys to come blasting into my receive!! It was unusually quiet tonight. But for some reason, the locals were few, and the more distant locals were not in there either. It was a shame really. I was hoping to make a few longer distance straight shots. It was quiet on my end as well. I had the Krazy Kraco listening, but if the skip conditions kicked in I was going to break out one of my Royce radios. Night Ranger
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Post by BBB on Jul 24, 2015 10:16:06 GMT -5
Another Wednesday and no conditions! Tonight I could of heard a pin drop. I was just waiting for one of you guys to come blasting into my receive!! It was unusually quiet tonight. But for some reason, the locals were few, and the more distant locals were not in there either. It was a shame really. I was hoping to make a few longer distance straight shots. I thought that maybe there was a solar event that knocked down the DX and partially squelched some of the more distant locals. Last night a new operator made the channel 13 scene from Richlandtown, PA. He goes by Spot Light (202 or 209 I think). He seems to be re-discovering CB radio, so I filled him in on the goings-on Wednesday Nights. He said he got a Galaxy 959 and a Big Stick from "a guy" in Reading, PA. When I asked him if it was a Shakespeare antenna, he said it was a "2000" Galaxy. I think he meant to say Imax, but he wasn't sure. I could hear his 10 watt radio just fine but he had problems hearing me (on my Stryker 497HP into the X-F 2879 4 pill, Yikes!) so me thinks he has some work to do on the receive side and add something on the back side of the wire so the other operators in the area can hear him. I told Spot Light to join us on Grumpy's forum, so hopefully he'll chime in so we can help get that station Arbeit.
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Post by No Streak on Jul 27, 2015 8:27:13 GMT -5
I hope Roundup is better this week it was very light last week. Hopefully hear some of you guys if it is quite this Wednesday! Maybe we can have High Power Classic Roundup!
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Post by BBB on Jul 27, 2015 17:23:48 GMT -5
It was indeed a bit of a light turnout last week. There was an impromptu Kenwood CRR moment when Operator Ron keyed up his classic Kenwood 430S so Tim from North Wales and myself fired up ours. I had the 430S sounding pretty good on AM transmit, but had to swipe the RIT control a lot to receive properly without the AM filter installed.
I'm looking for that Kenwood/ Trio YK-88A AM filter if someone has one unused laying around. Ebay prices for those have been a bit salty for years.
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Post by whitetail on Jul 28, 2015 5:05:01 GMT -5
I turned my radio on last night around 7PM and it was Very Quiet! So quiet I thought my radio wasnt working! Seems like as of late June the skip/DX went by the wayside, When the conditions are good again you will hopefully hear me, pray for the best this wednesday! 73's
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 28, 2015 20:31:12 GMT -5
I turned my radio on last night around 7PM and it was Very Quiet! So quiet I thought my radio wasnt working! Seems like as of late June the skip/DX went by the wayside, When the conditions are good again you will hopefully hear me, pray for the best this wednesday! 73's You should have a decent chance at working Night Ranger in So Car, or Fixr in Indiana. But you are probably too close to hear the main crew in SE PA. Too close for skip and too far away for a direct shot.
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Post by whitetail on Jul 28, 2015 21:22:33 GMT -5
I turned my radio on last night around 7PM and it was Very Quiet! So quiet I thought my radio wasnt working! Seems like as of late June the skip/DX went by the wayside, When the conditions are good again you will hopefully hear me, pray for the best this wednesday! 73's You should have a decent chance at working Night Ranger in So Car, or Fixr in Indiana. But you are probably too close to hear the main crew in SE PA. Too close for skip and too far away for a direct shot. I figured its a long shot making it to SE PA, Reading area, Funny thing is that I used to live down there in Wagontown (Near Honey Brook) In a month Iam going on a road trip down there, and Wednesday will be when Iam there. I will for sure be on the air that night for the roundup!!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 29, 2015 6:23:47 GMT -5
You should have a decent chance at working Night Ranger in So Car, or Fixr in Indiana. But you are probably too close to hear the main crew in SE PA. Too close for skip and too far away for a direct shot. I figured its a long shot making it to SE PA, Reading area, Funny thing is that I used to live down there in Wagontown (Near Honey Brook) In a month Iam going on a road trip down there, and Wednesday will be when Iam there. I will for sure be on the air that night for the roundup!! Well, hopefully we'll all be in there. Summertime has the unfortunate effect of thinning the herd on the radio, and the last couple of CRR's have been a little thinner than normal. But if you end up near Honeybrook, you'd be within 10 miles of most of us, so unless you're running a barefoot radio into an 18" gutter mount, we should hear you.....
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Post by whitetail on Jul 29, 2015 21:12:25 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!!
Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 30, 2015 7:00:27 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!! Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA. Now that's interesting, and illustrates just how conditions can vary greatly even within the confines of a single state. We had conditions west to Indiana during CRR, with a few check-in's from One-way, Mr. Murphy, and a couple others from out around Nippleville. But we had nothing to the south, at least not during the roundup. The skip seemed to be ramping up by 10:30, when I hit the big "off" switch, so that may have changed.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 30, 2015 8:27:08 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!! Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA. The skip was very unstable from my South Carolina perspective as well. I heard Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ontario, Canada, and finally I heard Sparky fade in. I made contact with Sparky briefly, and then the skip moved back towards the Great Lakes area. I had a brand new in the box Kraco KCB-4010 hooked up. This is the 40 channel pll02a version of the "Krazy Kraco" radio. The radio arrived on my door step yesterday, and when I opened it up the radio was still sealed inside the plastic bag from the factory. It still had the unbroken heat seal on one side of the plastic bag containing the radio. When I slit the plastic open with my box cutter I took a whiff of that late 1970s air that rolled out. The radio still has that oily feel to the vinyl covering on the metal case, and the channel selector is still stiff to turn. It came on instantly, and the frequency counter showed 27.114.9 MHz on channel 13. Not bad for a 35 to 38 year old radio. On the bottom of the box the name of the original owner was written. The radio came from Marietta, Pennsylvania. I Google'd the person's name and found an obituary notice for an elderly woman who died back in February of this year in the same area as where the radio came from. My guess is the radio came from her estate. There was no sales slip with the radio, but I remember seeing that model radio in the car stereo display at my local K-Mart back in 1980. The adhesive price tag had been removed from the top of the box. I could see the left behind sticker glue. That suggest the radio was given as a gift as people often remove price tags from a gift before wrapping it. That may also explain why the former's owners name was written on the bottom of the box. Perhaps the person who purchased the radio took it to the "gift wrapping station" at the store where it was purchased, and the future owner's name was written on the botton of the box so the person wrapping the gift would know what name to put on the "To:xxxx From:xxxx" card on the outside of the wrapped present. The radio was then given to "Delores" as a Christmas present, and she never used it. I got it for $27.00 off Ebay plus $14.00 to ship it. As soon as I turned the radio on for the first time I heard Whitetail call for the CRR. He was my first contact. I don't think the radio had even been powered on two minutes before I spoke to him. The former owner "Delores" would have been proud of her little Kraco making a 700 mile contact two minutes after it was powered on for the first time. I'll post a picture of it when I get home. Night Ranger
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Post by BBB on Jul 30, 2015 8:29:19 GMT -5
Great turnout for CRR. A bunch of locals participated in the Barry White memorial segment. I even got to say hello to Night Ranger on my Realistic TRC 30-A base station, albeit for about 30 seconds Other DX check-ins included Little Brother and Crazy Lady from Tennessee. I hung in there 'til about 11:30 PM. It was the good kind of skip last night where I could interact with Americana.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 30, 2015 16:13:18 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!! Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA. The skip was very unstable from my South Carolina perspective as well. I heard Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ontario, Canada, and finally I heard Sparky fade in. I made contact with Sparky briefly, and then the skip moved back towards the Great Lakes area. I had a brand new in the box Kraco KCB-4010 hooked up. This is the 40 channel pll02a version of the "Krazy Kraco" radio. The radio arrived on my door step yesterday, and when I opened it up the radio was still sealed inside the plastic bag from the factory. It still had the unbroken heat seal on one side of the plastic bag containing the radio. When I slit the plastic open with my box cutter I took a whiff of that late 1970s air that rolled out. The radio still has that oily feel to the vinyl covering on the metal case, and the channel selector is still stiff to turn. It came on instantly, and the frequency counter showed 27.114.9 MHz on channel 13. Not bad for a 35 to 38 year old radio. On the bottom of the box the name of the original owner was written. The radio came from Marietta, Pennsylvania. I Google'd the person's name and found an obituary notice for an elderly woman who died back in February of this year in the same area as where the radio came from. My guess is the radio came from an estate sale. There was no sales slip with the radio, but I remember seeing that model radio in the car stereo display at my local K-Mart back in 1980. The adhesive price tag had been removed from the top of the box. I could see the left behind sticker glue. That suggest the radio was given as a gift as people often remove price tags from a gift before wrapping it. That may also explain why the former's owners name was written on the bottom of the box, so the person wrapping the gift would know what name to put on the "To:xxxx From:xxxx" card on the outside of the wrapped present. My guess is the radio was given to "Delores" as a gift, and she never used it. I got it for $27.00 off Ebay plus $14.00 to ship it. As soon as I turned the radio on for the first time I heard Whitetail call for the CRR. He was my first contact. I don't think the radio had even been powered on two minutes before I spoke to him. The former owner "Delores" would have been proud of her little Kraco making a 700 mile contact two minutes after it was powered on for the first time. I'll post a picture of it when I get home. Cool story. I am constantly amazed, although I'm also a little skeptical at the sheer amount of "brand new, never opened" radios that pop up on E-Bay. You've managed to get a couple that were obviously as stated, with factory seals still in place. But with unscrupulous sellers out there like "Superhawk", I tend to be skeptical of claims of "Brand new, never used". I'm glad yours turned out to be that way. I had to wonder what kind or person would buy something like a CB radio, and then never use it. But your "gift" explanation makes the most sense. Someone probably gave her the radio as part of the popular social fad that CB was back then. She never was really interested in it, and like a lot of people, could neither give it away again or throw it out, so it time warped into the 21st century where nostalgic old farts could finally give the radio the workout it deserves, albeit 37 years late. Bravo!
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 30, 2015 16:25:42 GMT -5
Great turnout for CRR. A bunch of locals participated in the Barry White memorial segment. I even got to say hello to Night Ranger on my Realistic TRC 30-A base station, albeit for about 30 seconds Other DX check-ins included Little Brother and Crazy Lady from Tennessee. I hung in there 'til about 11:30 PM. It was the good kind of skip last night where I could interact with Americana. That must have happened after I pulled the plug. Figures.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 30, 2015 21:34:28 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!! Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA. The skip was very unstable from my South Carolina perspective as well. I heard Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ontario, Canada, and finally I heard Sparky fade in. I made contact with Sparky briefly, and then the skip moved back towards the Great Lakes area. I had a brand new in the box Kraco KCB-4010 hooked up. This is the 40 channel pll02a version of the "Krazy Kraco" radio. The radio arrived on my door step yesterday, and when I opened it up the radio was still sealed inside the plastic bag from the factory. It still had the unbroken heat seal on one side of the plastic bag containing the radio. When I slit the plastic open with my box cutter I took a whiff of that late 1970s air that rolled out. The radio still has that oily feel to the vinyl covering on the metal case, and the channel selector is still stiff to turn. It came on instantly, and the frequency counter showed 27.114.9 MHz on channel 13. Not bad for a 35 to 38 year old radio. On the bottom of the box the name of the original owner was written. The radio came from Marietta, Pennsylvania. I Google'd the person's name and found an obituary notice for an elderly woman who died back in February of this year in the same area as where the radio came from. My guess is the radio came from an estate sale. There was no sales slip with the radio, but I remember seeing that model radio in the car stereo display at my local K-Mart back in 1980. The adhesive price tag had been removed from the top of the box. I could see the left behind sticker glue. That suggest the radio was given as a gift as people often remove price tags from a gift before wrapping it. That may also explain why the former's owners name was written on the bottom of the box, so the person wrapping the gift would know what name to put on the "To:xxxx From:xxxx" card on the outside of the wrapped present. My guess is the radio was given to "Delores" as a gift, and she never used it. I got it for $27.00 off Ebay plus $14.00 to ship it. As soon as I turned the radio on for the first time I heard Whitetail call for the CRR. He was my first contact. I don't think the radio had even been powered on two minutes before I spoke to him. The former owner "Delores" would have been proud of her little Kraco making a 700 mile contact two minutes after it was powered on for the first time. I'll post a picture of it when I get home. Night Ranger And here it is. New in box Kraco KCB-4010. Night Ranger
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Post by whitetail on Jul 31, 2015 5:33:56 GMT -5
NIGHT RANGER!! Tonight started off quiet, then the skip, rolled in slowly, but conditions were very unstable! Anyway I was able to make contact with Night Ranger, He started out at a steady +20db then the signal started to fade, This happened 3 or 4 times and then he was gone and never herd him again. Like I said conditions were unstable, here one minute and gone the next. Your New toy did the job! If the conditions held steady I would of had no problem keeping you in the receive! Cant wait till next week! 73's. Whitetail 958 NW PA. Now that's interesting, and illustrates just how conditions can vary greatly even within the confines of a single state. We had conditions west to Indiana during CRR, with a few check-in's from One-way, Mr. Murphy, and a couple others from out around Nippleville. But we had nothing to the south, at least not during the roundup. The skip seemed to be ramping up by 10:30, when I hit the big "off" switch, so that may have changed. Yes right there just shows you how conditions can change quickly, be on one end of the state one minute and gone the next. Thats funny I never heard Indiana, must of skipped right over top of me. Also interesting is I had contact with a Georgia station & Texas, while you guys had nothing to the south.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 31, 2015 6:02:19 GMT -5
The skip was very unstable from my South Carolina perspective as well. I heard Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Ontario, Canada, and finally I heard Sparky fade in. I made contact with Sparky briefly, and then the skip moved back towards the Great Lakes area. I had a brand new in the box Kraco KCB-4010 hooked up. This is the 40 channel pll02a version of the "Krazy Kraco" radio. The radio arrived on my door step yesterday, and when I opened it up the radio was still sealed inside the plastic bag from the factory. It still had the unbroken heat seal on one side of the plastic bag containing the radio. When I slit the plastic open with my box cutter I took a whiff of that late 1970s air that rolled out. The radio still has that oily feel to the vinyl covering on the metal case, and the channel selector is still stiff to turn. It came on instantly, and the frequency counter showed 27.114.9 MHz on channel 13. Not bad for a 35 to 38 year old radio. On the bottom of the box the name of the original owner was written. The radio came from Marietta, Pennsylvania. I Google'd the person's name and found an obituary notice for an elderly woman who died back in February of this year in the same area as where the radio came from. My guess is the radio came from an estate sale. There was no sales slip with the radio, but I remember seeing that model radio in the car stereo display at my local K-Mart back in 1980. The adhesive price tag had been removed from the top of the box. I could see the left behind sticker glue. That suggest the radio was given as a gift as people often remove price tags from a gift before wrapping it. That may also explain why the former's owners name was written on the bottom of the box, so the person wrapping the gift would know what name to put on the "To:xxxx From:xxxx" card on the outside of the wrapped present. My guess is the radio was given to "Delores" as a gift, and she never used it. I got it for $27.00 off Ebay plus $14.00 to ship it. As soon as I turned the radio on for the first time I heard Whitetail call for the CRR. He was my first contact. I don't think the radio had even been powered on two minutes before I spoke to him. The former owner "Delores" would have been proud of her little Kraco making a 700 mile contact two minutes after it was powered on for the first time. I'll post a picture of it when I get home. Night Ranger And here it is. New in box Kraco KCB-4010. Night Ranger I have that exact radio (albeit not "brand new") stuffed in my closet. I stripped out the audio amp, the final, and a couple of other parts that were needed elsewhere, and basically turned it into a digital PLL VFO for 37 Mhz crystal synth radios in order to get them above channel 23, back in the days when our home channel was 29.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jul 31, 2015 6:22:04 GMT -5
And here it is. New in box Kraco KCB-4010. Night Ranger I have that exact radio (albeit not "brand new") stuffed in my closet. I stripped out the audio amp, the final, and a couple of other parts that were needed elsewhere, and basically turned it into a digital PLL VFO for 37 Mhz crystal synth radios in order to get them above channel 23, back in the days when our home channel was 29. I've considered building an external PLL circuit for my 23 channel Midland 13-853 to do the same thing. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 6, 2015 6:17:25 GMT -5
Well the 8/5 edition of CRR was very subdued and indicative of competing summer activities. I was unable to make it at all, due to other commitments, Sparky and Night Train also seemed to be absent, and Pete ducked out early. Much of the lackluster interest was only amplified by the typical south of the border Spanish skip that serves no useful purpose, and only raises the noise level. Hopefully we'll have a few more nights where the E-layer skip shows up before that cycle hibernates until its next appearance in December-January. Hopefully things will be better next week.
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 6, 2015 11:20:40 GMT -5
Well the 8/5 edition of CRR was very subdued and indicative of competing summer activities. I was unable to make it at all, due to other commitments, Sparky and Night Train also seemed to be absent, and Pete ducked out early. Much of the lackluster interest was only amplified by the typical south of the border Spanish skip that serves no useful purpose, and only raises the noise level. Hopefully we'll have a few more nights where the E-layer skip shows up before that cycle hibernates until its next appearance in December-January. Hopefully things will be better next week. I had the Krazy Kraco listening, but all I heard was the usual Hispanic skip guys playing with their "Fisher Price Activity Center" noise toys. The only english speaking voice was when one of the locals heard me calling and checked in. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 6, 2015 11:38:27 GMT -5
Well the 8/5 edition of CRR was very subdued and indicative of competing summer activities. I was unable to make it at all, due to other commitments, Sparky and Night Train also seemed to be absent, and Pete ducked out early. Much of the lackluster interest was only amplified by the typical south of the border Spanish skip that serves no useful purpose, and only raises the noise level. Hopefully we'll have a few more nights where the E-layer skip shows up before that cycle hibernates until its next appearance in December-January. Hopefully things will be better next week. I had the Krazy Kraco listening, but all I heard was the usual Hispanic skip guys playing with their "Fisher Price Activity Center" noise toys. The only english speaking voice was when one of the locals heard me calling and checked in. Night Ranger So what's the story with the locals in your area? Do you have a bunch of "old timers" that would enjoy a CRR-type of activity? Or is it mostly members of the "all-knobs-to-the-right" club?
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 6, 2015 18:02:55 GMT -5
I had the Krazy Kraco listening, but all I heard was the usual Hispanic skip guys playing with their "Fisher Price Activity Center" noise toys. The only english speaking voice was when one of the locals heard me calling and checked in. Night Ranger So what's the story with the locals in your area? Do you have a bunch of "old timers" that would enjoy a CRR-type of activity? Or is it mostly members of the "all-knobs-to-the-right" club? Mostly all knobs to the right, low dead key - high swing distorted audio guys, and a few old timers. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 7, 2015 6:11:32 GMT -5
So what's the story with the locals in your area? Do you have a bunch of "old timers" that would enjoy a CRR-type of activity? Or is it mostly members of the "all-knobs-to-the-right" club? Mostly all knobs to the right, low dead key - high swing distorted audio guys, and a few old timers. Night Ranger Like the quote from the movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come". Most of the people in my general area were more in the "all knobs to the right" camp. When Pete and I gathered up a few like minded old timers and started the channel 13 group up, more and more people started popping up out of the woodwork to talk with our old school style CB operating practices. It would seem that there were a lot of people out there who really like(d) the CB radio hobby, but can't relate to those who's main objective is the acquisition of high power, super loud (and echo-y) audio, and like to see who can key over who. But get a group of people together, who play homage to the old days in CB, and it becomes more comfortable and more desirable to talk again, and our ranks have swelled as a result. You can probably do the same thing. All it takes is a few classic radio old timers, and those who might still be around from years past will start chiming in, and the next thing you know......... CRR in the Carolinas.......
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 7, 2015 12:37:45 GMT -5
Mostly all knobs to the right, low dead key - high swing distorted audio guys, and a few old timers. Night Ranger Like the quote from the movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come". Most of the people in my general area were more in the "all knobs to the right" camp. When Pete and I gathered up a few like minded old timers and started the channel 13 group up, more and more people started popping up out of the woodwork to talk with our old school style CB operating practices. It would seem that there were a lot of people out there who really like(d) the CB radio hobby, but can't relate to those who's main objective is the acquisition of high power, super loud (and echo-y) audio, and like to see who can key over who. But get a group of people together, who play homage to the old days in CB, and it becomes more comfortable and more desirable to talk again, and our ranks have swelled as a result. You can probably do the same thing. All it takes is a few classic radio old timers, and those who might still be around from years past will start chiming in, and the next thing you know......... CRR in the Carolinas....... I had that going on channel 13 in Rock Hill in 2004, but then I moved to Durham, N.C. to go to work for IBM. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 7, 2015 18:08:05 GMT -5
Like the quote from the movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come". Most of the people in my general area were more in the "all knobs to the right" camp. When Pete and I gathered up a few like minded old timers and started the channel 13 group up, more and more people started popping up out of the woodwork to talk with our old school style CB operating practices. It would seem that there were a lot of people out there who really like(d) the CB radio hobby, but can't relate to those who's main objective is the acquisition of high power, super loud (and echo-y) audio, and like to see who can key over who. But get a group of people together, who play homage to the old days in CB, and it becomes more comfortable and more desirable to talk again, and our ranks have swelled as a result. You can probably do the same thing. All it takes is a few classic radio old timers, and those who might still be around from years past will start chiming in, and the next thing you know......... CRR in the Carolinas....... I had that going on channel 13 in Rock Hill in 2004, but then I moved to Durham, N.C. to go to work for IBM. Night Ranger Time to start it up again...
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