Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Good morning.

Think I may have stepped on a sleeping sparrow.

[Rick V]

Morning Y'all
Wayne make the shop that muffed it up pay to send all of the lump to me and I'll build it for you, I will make sure to have a decent labor bill attached and you can keep that

[RKDinOKC]

Breaker breaker, Ten-4, come on back.

10/4 is National Trucker's Day and National CB Radio Day, over.

[Rick V]

How boutcha apple sauce, be the suicide we lookin'

[RKDinOKC]

The Stick here, got your ears on.

My Dad was really into CB when I were very young. Remember in Kindergarten the teacher ask me my phone number and I didn't know it, but I did know my Dad's CB call letters and handle, KEH-4697 the Rubber Duck. Which was really a better way to get ahold of him in a real emergency because everyone he know would respond. And that was way before the movie Convoy.

Back then when we traveled when we stopped for gas or food we would always meet up with some CBers at some cafe. We had a drawer full of cards they traded that had their call letters, handle and address on them. It was a lot more social than just watching out for speed traps.

We had a 66 Chrysler 300 and my Dad had some kind of amp thing hooked to the regular car antenna that made it work as his CB antenna. The other CB guys with the big whip antennas all over their cars and trucks were always impressed with it. Later he had a Plymouth Grand Fury with air shocks jacking it up in the back and a trunk antenna like the crazy guy with the trunk full of rabbits in the movie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. When he got his next car. a 76 Plymouth station wagon, it wasn't worth putting a CB in it.

We also had a really nice base station with a directional beam antenna on a tower. There was a controller to be able to point the beam in a any direction. It was a Browning Golden Eagle. When you hit the button to talk it would send a ping carrier that was supposed to clear the frequency and make your transmission clearer. I remember we could talk to my brother that had a big whip antenna on a Jeep CJ in Tulsa with it.

This was when there were rules and a license was required for CB radio and it was policed by the FCC. If you bumped up you transmission power over the limit they would come pull down your tower and take your radio equipment. Later they dropped the max transmission watts and opened all the channels so no license was required. That's when CB went to heck and the really serious guys went HAM.

When I got my 77 Cutlass it had a CB built into the factory dash car stereo. Too bad that by then CB radio had lost it's usability.

The last time I drove by our old house the Antenna was still there.

[Jim Richards]

I seemed to have brought the east coast's rain with me to SoCal. I finally did something useful around here.

[Rick V]

My other coffee cup. Is anybody sensing that I am not really a morning person?

[Rick V]

My other coffee cup. Is anybody sensing that I am not really a morning person?

[GH85Carrera]

Good work Jim!

I got into CB back in 1971. My call sign was YHB 7864 I have no idea why my memory keeps that yet forgets lots of useful information. I had it in my 1960 VW bug and moved it to my 73 VW and then my 74 914 2.0. I still have that 23 channel CB up in the attic simply because it is easier than throwing it away.

We had a fun autocross today. The weather was great, virtually perfect. A guy with a 2015 911 GT3 showed up and took FTD. That sucker sounds great and is a very fast car. As if you did not know. I actually had an air cooled 911 as competition. Most of the time we have cars that are 2000 and newer. I usually have the oldest car there. I beat my competition by 3 seconds. I was 14 seconds slower than the GT3. My best time was 99.4. We used a lot of the track, almost all of it. I really don't care about my time. I use it only to see how I do run to run. It is always interesting to see the real time when I thing a run was was faster that the other ones. I would have sworn my 7th run was way faster. I was a second slower.

[RKDinOKC]

I've found SOUNDING very chipper, upbeat, cheerful and almost excited in the mornings pisses people off so they go away a leave me alone.

[pete3799]

Just back from leading our PCA fall foliage tour.

Our dog, Macy, was waiting down at the garage when I got home, like she always does when we're gone, but she has passed on. Guess she knew she wouldn't make it through another long cold winter.
Buried her under the apple tree next to the garage.
RIP ol' girl.

[Rick V]

I'm sorry Pete
Gods speed Macy

[HHI944]

Damn man, that sucks.

[pete3799]

Thanks Rick.
She was almost blind, couldn't hear very good and her hips were giving out. We didn't think she'd make it through last winter but she somehow kept going.

[Oh Haha]

Sorry Pete.

As I type that our 14 year old dog is licking his butt. yay

[Oh Haha]

I hope that made you chuckle a little Pete.



Ours is 14 and having vision and hip issues as well. We got him at the same time we bought our house and got married. My wife calls him our first kid.

[Rick V]

I had an old tomcat that was my close buddy. He had gotten down in a very bad way and ran off for close to a week. he came home late one morning and was in bad shape. he laid down in the bathroom and passed away while I was taking a shower.
It's strange how they will do things like that

[HHI944]

****, I've got to go halfway around the state to get home because I95 is shut down from exit 160 to 86

[Noah930]

Sorry, Pete.

[porsche4life]

Rick, found you a new carry spoon.