Text 29774, 72 rader
Skriven 2012-06-17 20:44:47 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 29772 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Fidonews Vol 29 No 23 June 04, 2012 Page: 2
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Hi ROy,

On Sun 2012-Jun-17 05:59, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

 Roy>> i.e. WOC-TV was on channel 6 and located in Davenport, IA, about 60
 Roy>> air miles to the SW of where we lived.  Our TV antenna would have
 Roy>> been pointed across that HAM's property to get that station. The
 Roy>> strongest TV signal came from Rockford, IL, about 25 air miles due
 Roy>> east of us on channel 13. Not much interference to that channel was
 Roy>> experienced.

 RW> YEp, woc was our nbc affiliate in Burlington, Iowa where I
 RW> grew up, about 60-70 air miles I'd guess.  We didn't have an abc TV
 RW> affiliate far as I recall until 65 or so, but I might be wrong, maybe
 RW> 64 when MOline on channel 8 came on, then Ottumwa, Ia. on channel 3
 RW> came on about the same time.

Roy> I recall a TV station in the 50s that was either in Moline or Rock
Roy> Island, but don't recall the channel or affiliation.. Channel 4, I
Roy> think.

YEp, whbf iirc.  Always was if i"m remembering correct.  CBS affiliate. 
Davenport was owned by Palmer broadcasting, and
ch 4 by one of the other big midwestern broadcast owners,
can't recall which now.

<snip>
 RW> Can relate to that.  IF I need cb I'll just jump on the
 RW> kenwood.

Roy> Modified for 11 mtrs?

Opened up because of mars/shares etc.  Also of course for
60m transmit.  IF we gotta do it to work ch 9 we'll get 'r
done and sweat the legalities later if it's an emergency.
Besides, old 23 channel cb stuff is cheap, I just haven't
needed to acquire one.

 RW> I've got to hit a truck stop and get one of those mirror mounts that
 RW> I can mount on the spare tire rack on the rear of the van so I can
 RW> mount my 3-way hustler mount, I've got 40 and 20 meter resonators,
 RW> and if we have to make a flying trip north for funerals or something
 RW> I'd like to have 20 meters mobile.  I can always get an 11 meter
 RW> resonator for the third of that hustler mount if I think I really
 RW> need cb, but i"ll ahve 40 and 20m plus 2 meters so I shouldn't need
 RW> it.

Roy> The 'truckers' use channel 19 as they pass through here. Sometimes
Roy> fun to listen to them fight among themselves. The local hispanic
Roy> community uses that channel for general communication and for some
Roy> reason, yankee truckers cuss them out for doing so. They get put in
Roy> their place soon enough by local English speakers who also use it
Roy> for local communications.

I used to do one cb with dual watch capability in our
traveling show caravan, he'd listen to 19 or whatever the
standard road channel for the region is.  The other rode on
a side channel somewhere for intercommunication among us.

Roy> I can relate to it all since it resembles Fidonet a lot.

YEah that it does.  I use it to exchange relevant traffic
and road conditions info or something like that, or to
acquire it if necessary when traveling.  oTherwise, I'm
hanging out doing vhf or uhf ham, and maybe some other
general snooping.


kRegards,
           Richard
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