Have you ever made trouble with your radio ??

[Windwalker]

One time when I was a kid I had a PA speaker. The horn type that was loud.
Well I saw a very large lady. ( she was really big ) and we were coming up behind her in a van.
I waited until we got real close and made the sound of a dog attacking. She jumped out of her skin and I laughed something fierce.
Those were the good ole days !!

WW1

[Stoneman]

Back in the day, I had a ole NY Trooper car, I had the cb in the car with the PA Horn, well we would hit the siren and have people pull over, talk **Censored** over the PA, they would get so **Censored** off..

Good thing you didnt get caught with that siren on pulling folks over.
Gotta love it

Yeah the drinking and driving wouldn't of helped either, we always had the big cooler in the backseat full of beverages, young and stupid...

[Windwalker]

Well we all do stupid stuff at some point in our lives.
Some learn better and some dont !!

[Stoneman]

You ain't kidding, remember the whole tear down antenna days..?? Not sure if they did that in you're neck of the woods, but back when I lived in New York in the 90's. It was going down if they didn't care for ya...

[Windwalker]

They used to put a few pins in your coax if they didnt like you.
From what I understand they still do that !!

WW1

[Stoneman]

Yes Sir, I remember those as well...Here in Virginia, it's pretty talk and yell at each other...

[Windwalker]

Back in the day I had an Antron 99 mounted on a 20 foot pole and tripod up on top of a 4 story apt building. The antenna was way up there and I could really talk and hear everything...
I was running a Galaxy dx88 and a 12 pack. ( not the sweet 16 like Jet has )
One evening someone drove real close to the building and keyed up some watts trying to blow my station. It never would have worked since my antenna was no where near the street and was just too high away. I did shut it down quickly anyway as it did set my relays to clicking.
A few minutes later I turned everything back on and keyed up on high power and made fun of the person and told them what they tried to do didnt work.
Back then a 12 pack was big power and I guess folks didnt like me stealing skip from them.

[Windwalker]

We also had a Guy here in Cleveland who was on the north side. He was a Ghost Talker and a trouble maker. One day I heard him talking skip but didnt hear the Texas station he was really talking too.
I asked him who he was ghost talking too and he was so proud of his Texas contact he proceeded to show me that he really was talking to Texas.
So the guy in Texas came back to him again and when he tried to go back to him I snatched his lips off his face.
The guy DJ down in Texas keyed back up and told me I didnt have to do CJ that way because I completely blacked him out.
CJ didnt learn his lesson from that unfortunately.
I caught him later talking to a guy on the South Side and suggested a shoot out. The South Side guy was the referee. The guy From the South Side told me before the shot that CJ was gonna whip me.
Well I beat the tar out of CJ and the referee didnt want to call the shot because he was wrong.
I had to tell him he was wearing the shirt with the black and white stripes and to call the shot and get out of there. He reluctantly did say I won...
Then I put the referee on probation for a year and told him if I catch him talking skip I was gonna take it from him.
He and CJ gave up and never messed with me again.

[Stoneman]

A lot of crazy things when you go back and remember the ole times, never had nothing like that, I did have people out riding trying to find where I was, but my antennas were all pretty much hidden from the street...

[Windwalker]

Then there was Deputy Dog...
He had a Suburban with all kinds of antennas. I beat him with a mobile Messenger 250.
He said he needed to change his antenna and try again. He was so mad he dropped his center load oil cooled antenna and broke the glass. I believe it was a Tram antenna.
When he dropped it I saw him do it and asked him if he was happy now and he got so mad he drove that big Suburban right up to my Chevy Nova. He was talking a lot of Sh..T and showed me a gun.
He didnt shoot me but 25 years later I heard him on the 11 meter band and he thought he was gonna get back at me. I told him he didnt want to mess with what I had and he kept his mouth shut.
Sad to say but he died and never got me back and always hated me for beating him and what I said.

[Stoneman]

A 250 Messenger, weren't they like a 23 channel??

[Windwalker]

A 250 Messenger, weren't they like a 23 channel??

No that Messenger was my very first linear.

[Stoneman]

My first amp was Seeker 250, nasty amp that was a huge splatter box...My neighbors hated it...

[Windwalker]

My first amp was Seeker 250, nasty amp that was a huge splatter box...My neighbors hated it...

Was that a tube type box ??

[Stoneman]

No tubes, it even had a power supply built in...

[Mentor3006]

So my best friend in high school had a Jeepster Commando for a while, we would sit at the end of his cul de sac block away from the houses (neighborhood not built out yet) smoking talking about girls and waiting for his a--hole neighbor to come home. This guy had an old Craftsman garage door opener. He would push the button, it would go up about halfway and my friend would key up his radio on Channel 23 I think it was, and the door reversed and went back down. Got to the point he got so mad at it he removed the automatic garage door opener and just used the thing manually... Never did figure out he was getting pranked.

[295 antenna]

Ah the good old days lol

[TNT1450]

So my best friend in high school had a Jeepster Commando for a while, we would sit at the end of his cul de sac block away from the houses (neighborhood not built out yet) smoking talking about girls and waiting for his a--hole neighbor to come home. This guy had an old Craftsman garage door opener. He would push the button, it would go up about halfway and my friend would key up his radio on Channel 23 I think it was, and the door reversed and went back down. Got to the point he got so mad at it he removed the automatic garage door opener and just used the thing manually... Never did figure out he was getting pranked.

I'm guessing garage doors operated on 27 MHZ back then, likely the 5 or 6 channels sandwiched in between CB channels. Nowadays I think they all operate on 300 MHZ.

[Mentor3006]

You could very well be right, honestly no idea what they operated on in the late 70s - 80s, I heard of more than a few being triggered even by 100% compliant setups. TV interference as well...

[Windwalker]

So my best friend in high school had a Jeepster Commando for a while, we would sit at the end of his cul de sac block away from the houses (neighborhood not built out yet) smoking talking about girls and waiting for his a--hole neighbor to come home. This guy had an old Craftsman garage door opener. He would push the button, it would go up about halfway and my friend would key up his radio on Channel 23 I think it was, and the door reversed and went back down. Got to the point he got so mad at it he removed the automatic garage door opener and just used the thing manually... Never did figure out he was getting pranked.

I'm guessing garage doors operated on 27 MHZ back then, likely the 5 or 6 channels sandwiched in between CB channels. Nowadays I think they all operate on 300 MHZ.

Garage door openers have a numerical code. If you look inside it has a series of small switches !! If they worked on 27 MHZ without the exact code you could open any garage door in the world.
Further if it worked on 27 mhz a Sweet 16 linear would open every garage door possibly in many states if not the whole country.
Just saying

WW1

[Mentor3006]

I am sure they do now. We also have strong data encryption now... Things change over time. Again not certain how they operated back then, just know he would key up and the door would reverse. He couldn't open it by keying up but he could get it to go down...

[n9viw]

One day we were in a convoy out to a spot, and some BMW jerkoff decided to cut one of us off in his hurry to get from here to there, wherever those were for him. So at the front door's call, we boxed him in and then slowed the whole damn house down, from front door to back and him in the rocking chair, to about 30mph. He was stuck as a mud duck until we got past the section we were in (guard rail against his side, all of us against the others), and he busted that pretty Beemer out onto the gravel shoulder and hauled **Censored**... just about lost it getting back onto the tarmac. We all laughed at him, I bet he was mad as a wet hen.

My buddy used to run some big old early FET rig, 600W I think it was. The girl I was dating at the time told him not to key it up when he got near her house... he used it to ask her if I was there, and to flash the porch light if I was. Thing is, she didn't have a rig in the house! He figured she'd hear him on the TV... nope! She could hear him THROUGH HER TOASTER, scared the hell out of her first time she heard it.

I never participated, but I remember stories about the 'cross-border wars' between Zion, IL and Kenosha, WI. Guys with big power rigs would park on their side and key down on the other side, trying to blow their radios. You'd see some crap-talking cheesehead jump out of his rig, whip his jacket off, and jump back in to use it to put the fire out. Ah, good times.

[Mentor3006]

Through the toaster? How they heck to you get enough power and proper harmonics for that?

[Windwalker]

One time I was headed NYC to Cleveland. I was in a Brand New 4 wheel pickup truck limited to 99 mph. I was doing 99 the whole way and really upset the truck drivers. I had a small walkie talkie with no external antenna and I heard many drivers say they were calling the NJ state troopers on my truck. The many calls did get a Trooper to come out and I heard the drivers saying where he was. They didnt see an antenna so they didnt know I had a radio. I looked in my rear view and 2 trucks had the road blocked and I was all alone coming up on a area with trees in the middle of the interstate. I allready heard the Troopers were hiding there so I slowed down to 62 MPH and floated right past the Trooper. The drivers saw that he didnt stop me and started jumping up and down something fierce. They were so mad I cant even describe their anger. I laughed and went about 25 more miles ramped it back up to 99 and came on back to the Buckeye State. When I got back home my passenger told the story of what happened for years to come...

[Windwalker]

Radar detectors are basically radio receivers. They dont play voice or music they just emit different tones and alerts when it detects radio signals within a given frequency range. When I was a kid about 19 or 20 yrs old I drove a passenger van 3rd shift. I had a radar detector so I would speed all the time. One run I had was to Strongsville Ohio. Just past the exit the Local Yocals would sit in the middle of the highway at night doing traffic. There was a bridge and as soon as you went under it the cops were there. Well I would speed in the fast lane right up to the exit. One night my radar detector screamed at me and I flipped on my turn signal changed lanes and got off the highway. This was my regular 3rd shift run so every night I would be waiting for the cops to clock me. I kept my hand on the turn signal and as soon as my detector went off I would signal, change lanes and get off. Turning on my signal at the same time the cop turned on the radar let him know I had a radar detector. I did this every night about 4 or 5 times in a row. Then I went to 2nd shift so no more. One night months later the new 3rd shift guy was sick so I had to fill in and make my old regular run. I didnt speed because I didnt know where the cops may have been hiding. When I got to the Strongsville exit I saw where they had construction going moving the spot where the cops sit from after the exit to before the exit. I laughed as it probably cost them 100,000 dollars to do that small construction job. The reason it is so expensive is because usually on the highway where there is a turn around in the middle with a no u turn sign there are drains so water wont build up causing a problem for cops turning there. When you see a turn around that is unmarked with no sign there is usually just gravel. So in short I cost the city a boat load of money and they never got me. I know that cop was smoking mad and I dont blame him as I was a speed demon back then. To this day they still sit there ( probably waiting for me ) Sadly from what I did they probably started writing lots of tickets to other people to pay for the construction. Probably people that normally would have just gotten a warning or not even stopped as they want big fish.