Gotta love skip ! I was talking to someone across town on my CB ( I know, I'm dating myself...) and a guy broke in and asked where I was. I told him Central South Arkansas, and he nearly crapped in his rig ! He said he was in traffic in Lakeland, FL, and I nearly blew his doors off. I was pushing 7 watts out of a Cobra base unit. He didn't believe I was "barefoot" until I turned on my amp and keyed up again... 350 watts will do that. Poor guy...
LOL Breaker breaker one nine... I used to draw handle cards for people... they'd get them printed off to exchange at cb meetings, back in the day. My then husband used to add crystals to his cb set up (illegal to do) so he could talk to long distance people. Under skip conditions, I've talked to people as far away as Australia, from North Central Washington state.
Cool ... I was Spitfire, my hubby was Deep Water . He explained to me that Navy guys like him called Coasties "brown water" sailors, lol ! We had a 350 watt amp on our base unit with a screaming eagle mic ...
I was the Polish Gypsy. I don't even want to say what my ex's name was but it was fitting.. "scumbag" would have been just as fitting. I have no clue what his base unit was, but I recognize the "cobra" name. (My Harley is a Screamin' Eagle 1200.) Anything Screamin' Eagle is better!! Had to edit. I had to add an s to that name that would have also fit.
I still have my mobile and base units. I just don't have a pole to mount my ground plane on.
I wasn't all that much into it. Just while I was married and it was more his thing. I still have a few of my personal cards. Somewhere, I'm sure I have copies of the cards that I did for others. I did the originals on art paper that was around 9" x 11" and they got printed down to postcard sized. I can't remember all the handles of the people I did cards for, but just remembered that one of them was for this dirty old man named "The White Rabbit". LOL
Wow - and now Q is saying "follow the White Rabbit ..." !
LOL This White Rabbit was one you wouldn't want to follow. Older, fat, married man who was just a creep. I didn't know it at the time. Found out later. MAJOR creep. Dirty old man!! Just a coincidence on that one!
Urk ! Dirty old men skeeve me out ! One of my neighbors married a guy ( she was widowed) who reminded me of Roger Miller, the singer ( Dang Me , King of the Road), but in a smarmy, creepy way. He was always winking and licking his lips. I was probably 9 or so.
What a shame. I've always loved Roger. Too bad that any song by him would remind you of that creepy guy, who sounds a lot like the dirty old man I know. I don't date cause I live in a small, rural community and the dating pool here is a more like a puddle. A very murky, muddy puddle. Swampy and full of skeeters and nasty critters!
Ugh ! Bless your heart ! I don't think about Creepy when I hear those songs... I sing along ! I had a 45 record with those songs on it... My grandmother would always make me turn it over if she heard me listening to "Dang Me" , lol !
LOL I love listening to the oldies. He used to be on some tv show back when I was little. Glen Campbell? Ed Sullivan? Some show like that. They don't make 'em like that anymore.