BH> I only wished I could speak French...

French isn't a language, it's a sound.
But I do speek German.

  >> What is ATM?
 BH>  Automatic Teller Mach.. gives you cash.. I forgot I was in Canada.

OK. Here in Europe I can insert my credit card in a Bankomat and get
cash wherever I am.

 BH> Truckers here use CB 19 or 27.1850 in the West or SW CH. 19 or 17. When I
 BH> talked down to Missippi I was on a Duster Maco 600 Watt Tube type linear.

I haven't seen a truck here with a 27 MHz antenna for ages. They all have
company-radio on about 75 MHz or mobile phone.
600 W Tube, wow. Do you really need 600 W? Can you put out that effect on a
usual 1/4 wawe GP or do you use a beam?
Is 600 W leagal? In my time 5 W was leagal.

 BH> The lake was frozen over in the dead of winter sitting in a closed rest
 BH> area with a flatbed load of Artic Cat's.

Sorry. This I don't understand.

 BH> Yeah they make shampoo bottles on the east coast here and fill them on the
 BH> west coast.

See. You are as crazy as we are.

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