-=> MARK LEWIS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> The older ARRL manuals wer great for that sort of thing.
 WC> Both easily understood technical explainations
 WC> and modification tips.
 WC> I was very nearly tempted to modify a 200 and 1000 Watt
 WC> linear intended for hams onto the CB band for truckers
 WC> that wanted that added _punch_.

 ML> there are guys in my area that have that in their vehicles (!!)... a
 ML> friend was telling me about driving his buddy's equiped vehicle and the
 ML> guy forgot to tell my friend to rev the engine before he keyed the
 ML> mic... the engine died immediately right in the middle of town while
 ML> turning in an intersection... took a minute or two for them to get it
 ML> restarted and moved off the road...

I picked up one dude  that regularly called Puerto Rico from
Maine. I routinely get splatter from modified rigs on the local
interstate on the T.V. and occassionally my computer
sound card!

 WC> Only my aversion to larceny and breaking federal law
 WC> prevented me. Two designes in the book I had at the time
 WC> could be modified in mere minutes to run on CB

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 ML> some of the things i've seen have definitely been custom made... and,
 ML> IIRC, several are more than 1000 watts... i know that they talk about
 ML> talking to folks in other states and this location is not very high
 ML> up... in fact, the smokies are bewteen us and several of those other
 ML> states mentioned...

Oddly I was in Johnson City Tennessee when I entertained the notion
of modifying these ham band rigs.,
 
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