Very Important Day In History

[Trinity]

Correct in the US


Well the picture was suppose to be on a post in Coffee and Grub......whad' I do wrong now Trinity

Well, first I'd say you went wrong by allowing the cat to drive the mower.

[litl rooster]

Well, first I'd say you went wrong by allowing the cat to drive the mower.

de de de   give me the paper towels back.

[Trinity]

Here. 

[Ozark Tracker]

...1882...
Ice formed on the streets of Cheyenne WY during a rare summer freeze

[Four-Eyed Buck]

That must have been really weird, OT Ice in July?

[Lucky Irish Tom]

C'mon Buck, we're always lookin fer ice durin tha hot months! 

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Well, that's true enough.........

[Ozark Tracker]

I had to hunt this thread down so's I could post this,

on this day in History, the convoy started

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

[Silver Creek Slim]

Also, today is the 63rd Anniversary of D-Day.

Slim

[Delmonico]

I had to hunt this thread down so's I could post this,

on this day in History, the convoy started

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

Amazing the guy resonsible for that is also the guy behind the Manheim Steam Roller Christmas stuff.

Was a bunch of stuff on the 70's last week on The History Channel and they talked about the 55 mph and CB's.

[Ozark Tracker]

them CB's were all the rage in them days, sure was fun before they got so busy ya couldn't hear anything.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

I was in on that, OT. Base station , two mobiles. Side band radios, peaked( gamer radios? ) . Had beams up and a ground plane. Talked all over the world on upper frequencies( not exactly legal then). Susie worked security in the next county at that time and I was able to talk to her all the way to the parking lot( at night). Used mostly Cobra radios. The mobiles had 102" bumper mount stainless whips for antennas, boy those things could talk. Was heard as far north as Finland and as far east as Rhodesia. occassionally could get down to OZ if the skip was right.
Have one in my truck now, can't fool with them as good as you used to, chips won't let you. My SIL talks to me on my way home from the bus garage these days. Can't find the old set-ups for antennas, would love to get a 102" on this truck.............Buck

[Ozark Tracker]

I know what ya mean Buck, I had one of them  moon raker 4 antenna's where you could go horisontal or vertical,  I had one of them base CB's that had the upper and lower bands, we talked all over the place back then

a friend of mine built CB amplilfiers until the feds raided his shop and took everything.  he built under the brand name of Varmit lineral amplifiers, he had up to 2500 watt units for mobiles and up to 6,000 for bases
I had one for awhile that was 10,000 watts, it would blank out our TV when I keyed up but boy it would talk   he was in the process of starting to manufacture them when they got him. so he had to make it dissappear  

[Four-Eyed Buck]

My beams were PDL-II's. Same capability for horizontal and vertical as the Moonrakers. IIRC, they were made by the same company................Buck

[Ozark Tracker]

back in them days I could stay up all night talking on them and drive a tractor all day, it sure was fun,  used to get them post cards from all over the country.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Oh yeah, Contact Cards

[litl rooster]

   That cheap old Radio Shack one in the "dually", you got have the "Jimmy" hauling logs (or was that hogs) knocking on your back door to hear him.   Most them fellas got one of then fan dangled "Blue toof's" now a days.   However at the fuel stops they still sell CB's around $400 up.   I'd rather listen to the CD's.


That's all............Weeeeeeeeeeeee gone!

[Trinity]

I used to have a CB in my beetle.  It was fun to ride around and talk crap with all the other kids.  The cell phone just doesn't have the same appeal.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I still have a CB in my truck.  One foggy morning I was getting skipping from Miami. Not Ohio, but Florida. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

OK if I 'memeber my radio wave stuff well enough: "A 11 meter radio wave (CB range) that goes up and hits the ionsphere layer and is stopped from going on out into space because of conditions, bounces back to earth at around 500 miles or more from the source.  Somewhere above 6 meters and below 2 meters (I just don't remember where) the size of the wave allows the frequency to be modulated, preventing these kinds of problems (inerferance)     The higher waves of AM bounce very well, the reason the Short Wave bands were used in the past for International radio Stations and still are to some degree.  With directed beams and very high power they can be directed to what ever part of the globe you want most nights. 

I still have a good Heathkit SW reciver, one of the last "Kits" made, I bought it at a garage sale about 15 years ago to replace the lesser one I had.  Need to hook it up and string the aunt-anna out, haven't done that since I moved my loading room a little over a year ago.  Used to work 2nd shift and listened to the news when I got home on the other one during the first Gulf War.  Been Poed at the Dutch ever since, even worse than the French, or at least their Govt.  Radio Netherlands said then the US should mind it's own bizzness and not go helping countries just because they had been invaded, an additude not held by the Dutch in the 1940's.