Date:         Fri, 21 Jun 1996 08:18:35 -0700
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From:         Robert Crawford <robertc@snowcrest.net>
Subject:      Re: oil, ccc, cb channel

At 03:03 AM 6/21/96 -0500, Rick Gordon wrote:

>re CCC trip:
>How about stretching northwards just a little more. I think Redding is
>about a (long) day's drive from Seattle. Perhaps somewhere in that vicinity
>would enable an entire West Coast gathering!

Reddng would be great for me.
 
>
>re CB channels:
>on I-5, ch 19 is primary, ch 17 is supposed to be getting some traffic, and

I drive from California to Oregon and back nearly every day while at work on
I-5 and
find that nearly all trucks are on 17.  When I drove a truck in the
Sacramento valley
nearly everyone was on 17.  In Calif. the CHP monitors 17 (they usually will
not answer)
and assume that you are on 17 when they give instructions to a driver on the CB
(Instructions include such things as; slow down, move over, and WAKE UP!!).
I stopped
driving a truck in the late 80's but as I talk to other drivers while going
over the Siskiyou
Mts. it does not appear that much has changed.  

>them though. Since there are repeaters up and down the coast, there is a
>lot of 2M out there, but you have to pass a test to operate there.

2M has it's place and I don't want to seem to be knock it but, theres no
chat about
anything except radios and WWII.  There is also the problem that unless you know
someone to call for no on will answer (BTW: my scanner checks 146.520 every
couple of
seconds) I keep the radio on the local repeaters for the area that I am in
most of the day,
and seldom hear anything of interest.  When a interesting coversation does
start (as
defined by me of course, ie. books, computers(non-packet related), black powder
shooting, archery,  ect.) the people involved will be chased off the repeater.

Again, I don't want to knock Amateur radio, but, people need to remember that
everything has it's place.  If  I could only have one two-way radio in my
van it would
have to be the CB, and in California and Oregon it would be (is) on 17.

(but I can have more than one radio in my van so if you ever see a very beat
up diesel
antenna-wagon with licence plates that say KD6EVH give me a shout on
whatever you
got, theres a good chance that I'll hear you)

oh yeah, I mounted my radios on one of those triangular hump mount things
with the
flaps removed, I placed it right behind the gearshift, it is screwed to the
heater vent/floor.

Robert Crawford
KD6EVH    
>