<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6782"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6851">Three things - don't leave out Jimmy the Jerk's energy policy. He sold more radar detectors and CB's than Clinton and Bozama have sold guns.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6783"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6784" class="signature">de Charlie, N5EXY, Grid EM10fl, <br>South Suburban Greater Hutto<br>I'm lost - where am I? http://www.aprs.fi/n5exy-9 <br><br><em id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395279062014_123809"></em></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6803" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6802" style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6801" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6800" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6852" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6805" size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6838"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6837" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "ka8vit@ka8vit.com" <ka8vit@ka8vit.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org>; David chesser <dchesser55@comcast.net> <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6816"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6815" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 13, 2015 11:52 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6836"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6835" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] Radio Shack demise - Lets take back 11 meters!<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423849889267_6807" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7937360081">
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The CB craze of the 70's was the result of two things coinciding:
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The availability of of cheap, CB radios... and good HF propagation.
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73 - Bill KA8VIT
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<br>> On February 13, 2015 at 12:23 PM David chesser <dchesser55@comcast.net> wrote:
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<br>> Most truck stops still sell CB radios, I think the general public isn’t interested in them anymore and since the CB radio
<br>> craze of the 70’s, wen’t away with the Movie (Smokey and the Bandit) and all the other dumb things like Pet Rocks.
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<br>> David
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<br>Bill Chaikin, KA8VIT
<br>USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
<br>WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)
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<br>ka8vit@ka8vit.com
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<br>http://www.usscod.org
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