Hi Dave,

On Sat 2038-Jul-03 09:42, Dave Drum (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> MIght work, don't know how effective 27 mhz is, but 21 mhz
 RW> used to kick their posteriors.

 RW> Better do a separate battery like they do in rv rigs if
 RW> you're gonna run it much .

DD> Been there, done that. When I ran the KW kicker in the semi it
DD> sucked so much power that I had to put the fuel pump on "Manual" so
DD> that the power drain didn't drop out the solenoid and cause the
DD> engine to die. That's where I learned about extra batteries and
DD> welder's whip lead for (really fat) battery cables.

DD> When I was in a truck stop at night and talked using the extra power
DD> trailer marker lights around me for some distance would light up. 
DD> Bv)=  Sort of talk on Channel 19 (Sesame Street) and bleed into all
DD> channels. When I talked, everybody listened. I soon learned that did
DD> not make me popular among my fellow drivers and to kill the kicker
DD> when sitting in the lot.

YEp, I thought about hanging some different colored
fluorescent bulbs off my hf vertical back in the day.

Remember back in the '70's working cb band with what should
have been a full legal limit linear  for the ham bands and a 5 element
beam.  Sunspots were ragin' then too.
One night, midsummer, we had some guy stopped at a local
terminal hanging out playing with somebody's pet raccoon.
THe animal bit him, and results came back a day or two later the animal was
rabies positive.  so, we all got on the
truckers' channel, then ch 10 in the midwest and  broadcast
the word for this guy to get his shots.  THe band opened up
good, and we had some of the biggest cb dx guns in the
country shouting for this guy to get to a hospital er and
get started with those shots.

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Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+