[guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] jim
- From: "James Liddell" <james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vanessa" <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>, "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:02:36 +0100
Vanessa;
The silver rod was always illegal....and the five eights wave one I used was
VERY illegal.
As for the good old thunderpole 2, I used that when I first started as a
breaker.
I had quite a collection of rigs;
my first was a Maxcom 30 with chat back talking channel changer. I moved up to
an Audioline, then the Cobra 148. My handset was a Realistic, with optional
external mike, and that set saw some travelling, I can tell you. Anywher I
went, it went. One of my best memories of that walkie talkie was standing on
the beach at Rhylle during a Boys' Brigade camp - I was an officer - and
catching the skip, talking to a Euro-trucker in Romania; with a QSL card back
to prove it! Some of my radio ham friends didn't talk to me for a month after I
showed them the card: the skip just didn't run on their bands.
I, on the other hand, walked about like Carol in a chocolate factory....
Sorry, Carol!
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From: vanessa - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 21/06/2012 09:36
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Subject: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] jim
i used to collect q s l cards too, some were quite exquisite, used to raise
money for charities and fund raising, was the silver rod made illegal or was it
another one, yes remember the skip and the shhhh shhh squelch noise, the winds
up to was amazing.
vanessa.
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From: James Liddell - Email Address: james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 20/06/2012 11:38
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Subject: In Reply To: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] c b
My twig was a silver rod.
It's about this time of year that I really miss the rig - I used to love
Q.S.L-ing when the skip was running, and getting cards back as confirmation.
The best contact I ever had with a totally legal rig was Surinam in Central
America. Using the other box, I was nattering with Stateside and Canadian
breakers almost daily, and we were always fed up when 'local' skip from France,
Holland, Germany and Spain broke it up!
When I moved house, I junked almost two thousand Q.S.L cards. My bedroom wall
was plastered with them.
OK, I couldn't read them, but I could boast about them.
We had a huge CB club at one time, with over two hundred members.
Not bad for a rural area of Ayrshire.
-----Original Message-----
From: vanessa - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 20/06/2012 09:58
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Subject: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] c b
Thats a 10 4 good buddy, echo power mikes the were best, had a firestick,
thunderpole, used to have tin foil all over those long child safety guards,
biscuit tin with hole in the bottom for the coax to go through.
vanessa.
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From: James Liddell - Email Address: james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 19/06/2012 22:48
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Subject: In Reply To: [guide.chat] lyric for ratchetjaw c b song
Ah, that brings back memories.
If we were on a legal ticket, we were only pushing four watts, and only allowed
to use forty channels - though that number was doubled later on.
Some of us ( cough cough cough ) had more than that....420 channels and
sidebands pushing five hundred watts maximum if we really needed to!
I remember Mafia One, a really deep voiced breaker, who used an echo power
mike, pushing a fair whack through his twig (Ariel)
One Sunday morning, in the local chapel, the priest was about to celebrate
mass, when, through the chapel speakers, the following came through...
"Breaker 19, breaker 19 for a lumpy jumper, come back..."
Talk about the second coming?
Does anyone wish a translation?
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From: vanessa - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 19/06/2012 22:09
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Subject: [guide.chat] lyric for ratchetjaw c b song
YEE-HAW! Merciful sakes alive! You wanna be one a' them CBers, you gonna learn
how to ratchetjaw! Pay attention now; I'm only gonna explain it to ya once.
You gotta go runnin' amuck in a pick-'em-up truck
With one a' those fancy sidebands?
Get four-on-the-floor and two on the door
Get a power mike in yer jaw-hand
Prepare to strike when ya key the mike
'Cause ya never know who's a-listenin'
Some clown insists on a 10-36
This here's what you give 'im:
"Four, good buddy, I made me a study
An' I figger it's the dark a' the moon, son
It's half-past spring an' a quarter ta fall
An' the big hand's a-settin' on noon, son
Now if the fish don't bite and the almanac's right
And the groundhog sees his shadow
A 10-36 goes tick-tock-tick."
And that's what I call ratchetjaw!
Gotta git ya a base, out there at yer place
With a forty-foot pole on the chimney
With a thousand watts in yer flowerpots
And a ree-mote line in the biffy
If ya feel a twitch when ya throw the switch
Ya gonna dim all the lights in Wichita
Gonna send out a wave ta make the government rave
And this here's whatcha tell 'em all:
"Yeah, four, good buddy, yer comin' in cruddy
But yer walkin' right through my wall, boy
Yer carrier's cool, you makin' me drool
You were definitely battin' my ball, boy
You hittin' me round about fifteen pound
You cut me up like a bandsaw
But what the heck, it's just a radio check."
And that there's how to ratchetjaw
[Woman's voice] Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker. We lookin' for that one
Buffalo Roy out there. Buffalo Roy, what's your twenty? Where are you anyway,
Buffalo Roy? Are you out there? Come on in there, Buffalo Roy. 10-4.
[Man's voice] Lissen, you. Shut up on all them breakers. One breaker's enough.
Goddum channel all the time. Can't hear a damn thing anybody's sayin'.
Buffalo Roy? That's a dumb handle.
Wanna feel some pain? Just turn up yer gain
Get a fearful earful a' garbage
Ta suppress a belch, just hit yer squelch
You can cut out all the carnage
You wanna have fun, you son-of-a-guns
Just get on the press-ta-talk switch
You gonna amuse 'em an' really confuse 'em
With a little ol' thing called ratchetjaw
Yeah, let them suckers think yer a trucker
Say stuff they can't understand, son
Just bounce up-an'-down while yer toolin' around
Gonna sound like a truck-drivin' man, son
Just tell yer beaver that you gonna leave 'er
You catch her on the bounce-around
If she comes back with a smart-off crack
Say "X-Y-L, it's show-an'-tell. We definitely got us to go now.
Keep yer pants on honey, hang onto the money
Yer X-Y-M's gotta blow now
Eighty-eight, thirds, and feed my bird
An' all them numbers upon ya all
If speed don't kill, then CB will."
And that's what I call ratchetjaw
[More CB conversations.]
Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, [repeated almost ad
infinitum, punctuated by bouts of laughter]
[Man's voice. Begins deep, slowly rising to Shirley and Squirrely squeakiness.]
Yeah, 10-4, we got ya, breaker. Come back on that? Say, what kind a'... s'not?
some kind a' cotton-pickin'... you puttin' me on, aren't cha? Yeah, you puttin'
me on, aren't cha?..............
from
Vanessa The Google Girl.
my skype name is rainbowstar123
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