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To: Kartographer

3 posted on 09/25/2014 3:49:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

whatcher20, comeback?


5 posted on 09/25/2014 4:04:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still have a couple of CB SSB units around here somewhere.


9 posted on 09/25/2014 4:19:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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I was an air traffic controller for 8 years, using line of sight VHF and UHF radios every day, but I did not understand radio wave propagation until I got caught up in the CB craze back in the 70s. I could not figure out why I heard people 3,000 miles away, but couldn’t talk to someone three miles away. CB is on the wrong frequency band, and is not reliable for short distance communications, during high sunspot activity. So, after two years of CB, I got into Ham radio. It was a lot more fun.


13 posted on 09/25/2014 5:00:06 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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