Posted on 10/05/2014 10:09:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Initially I had a 23 channel but by ‘78 I got a 40 channel with sideband that a friend had tweeked and added a power mike. I was traveling about 60,000 miles a year in construction and was always on the road. The single sideband let me contact bases at home from a 40 mile radius with dependable results.
Across Kansas and Missouri I knew hundreds of handles of guys in the trucking business or traveling for work. I knew about a dozen troopers in various areas that would shout-out to me when they saw me as I had helped in a number of accident situations and road closures.
The best example of why I had a free pass from many troopers is a wreck where two women went off a rural bridge approach into a 75’ ravine. I used the CB to (a) get the guy behind me to cross a median and stop an ambulance on a blood run that had just gone by me, (b) get the troopers, (c) get the Fire Dispatcher to send the local fire crew and (d) got three other vehicles to stop and go into the hidden ravine to get the women out with the ambulance crew.
That radio allowed us to have these two elderly women transported within 10 minutes of their running off the road. They both survived.
I used "Highway Star" after the Deep Purple Song.
That’s great—and I wonder if CB might get better results than a cellphone in some areas. Cell may not get reception (for emerg call to police etc) but maybe CB would work...
The good old days when you could still ride around with a beer in your hand. In Fla you could drink and drive as long as you were not drunk. LOL!
I imagine with the low sun spot activity, they have had a good 15 mile reach at night without going to single sideband transmissions.
Five to Fifteen miles was about normal range for most road talk on CBs. I could talk twenty or better, but receiving a reply was patchy.
In those days I was a skinny tall guy so my handle was “Bird Legs”.
A bit of trivia about Chip: when he graduated college, he said there were 2 things he never wanted to do...live in the Midwest, and write country songs.
Well...we know that ‘Convoy’ made the top of the country charts. The success of ‘Convoy’ allowed Chip to work on that other musical idea he had...which we now know as Mannheim Steamroller.
Oh, and as to where he lives....he has lived for many, many years...in Omaha, Nebraska. About as Midwest as you can get!
I agree.
Obama is definitely a “good buddy.”
Yes, good old liberal Chris Davis, who was merely doing what sold well while laughing at his customers all the way to the bank, and is now ensconced in Omaha, Neb.!
His follow up version of a convoy across Europe was pretty funny.
Before he was C.W. McCall, the performer was a copywriter for a Chicago ad agency. One of the agency's accounts was Old Home bread, out of Sioux City, Iowa (I believe it was).
He actually wrote the "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep on A-Truckin' Café" as a jingle for the bread company. But he retained the commercial rights to the song...
The rest is history.
He did the same for Kerns Bread in Knoxville, Tennessee. I heard the commercial version long before I heard the album version.
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