Great story Don! I have some amusing stories for later about trying to run off CBers from the bottom end of ten CW in that era too!
-- Best regards - Brian Carling ---- "D. Chester" <k4...@charter.net> wrote: > > Reminds me of the night back in the late 1970's when the ARRL CD contest > > wandered onto 3895. The '95'ers started calling CQ CB and started giving > > CB calls and handles e.g."Moon Pie" as their exchange. The guys who were > > looking for other CD(SCM,etc.) stations were trying to explain what CD > > was, and that made it worse, so after 10 minutes or so, they scrammed off > > 95 or anywhere close by. > > Joe W4AAB > > > I recall locking horns with the 3895 slopbucket group back in the early > 70's. I had just had a run-in with one of their ringleaders and naturally I > was on the faeces list of the whole group. > > One night I heard them in QSO doing a CB spoof, using made-up callsigns with > the proper FCC format for CB calls when the commission used to issue them, > with my suffix as their prefix: > > "KYV2940 this is KYV1734, ten four?" > > I suppose they thought it was funny and that if I heard it I would be > highly offended. Actually, I found it hilarious and was practically rolling > in the floor with laughter. > > Don k4kyv > > _______________________________________________________________ > > This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. > > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ > http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
