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To: Cyber Liberty
A-hole has his rig boosted up big, huh?

No, the A-hole is using a ham rig, likely purchased at a hamfest or estate sale, sold by an unscrupulous ham who wanted the money and didn't give a crap who he sold his rig to.

Imagine dealing with that at a commercial radio station, big trucks blaring Channel 19 right next to your studio...

If their signal got into your studio, it's your fault. Sure they can blast hundreds or thousands of watts out of CB mobiles these days but studio grade equipment and wiring properly installed should keep interference out.

Long before I ever got into ham radio, I worked at a drive-in theatre. When closing time came for the concession stand, we'd announce over the drive-in speakers that the concession stand was closing in 15 minutes.

The device that we made the announcement over eventually broke, so I'd pull my car next to the movie house, key up my over-powered, over-modulated CB and make the announcement from it. Funny, it sounded better "bleeding over" from my CB than the announcement device ever did.

Spent an entire summer working at that drive in, making that announcement night after night from my car's cb.

That was back in ....... 1979/1980. The good old days.

94 posted on 04/18/2014 7:12:38 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
If their signal got into your studio, it's your fault. Sure they can blast hundreds or thousands of watts out of CB mobiles these days but studio grade equipment and wiring properly installed should keep interference out.

Then it was my fault. That was in the 1979-80 good times, so I guess I deserved it. Of course that wouldn't happen now, we lacked the technology back then. Those were, however, good old days. They're good because they're old. :^)

97 posted on 04/18/2014 7:23:14 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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