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    From Dave Drum@1:261/1381 to Richard Webb on Sat Jul 3 09:42:00 2010
    Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-

    Hmmmmmmm ... CB is at (I think, without looking it up) 27
    megacycles. I've got this nice President Jefferson and a one KW
    linear left over from my trailer-trucking days. Probably have to
    hook up an auxiliary battery and use some welder's whip lead for the
    power cables ... but, it might be worth a try. (evil grin)

    MIght work, don't know how effective 27 mhz is, but 21 mhz
    used to kick their posteriors.

    Better do a separate battery like they do in rv rigs if
    you're gonna run it much <grin>.

    Been there, done that. When I ran the KW kicker in the semi it sucked so much power that I had to put the fuel pump on "Manual" so that the power drain didn't drop out the solenoid and cause the engine to die. That's where I learned about extra batteries and welder's whip lead for (really fat) battery cables.

    When I was in a truck stop at night and talked using the extra power trailer marker lights around me for some distance would light up. Bv)= Sort of talk on Channel 19 (Sesame Street) and bleed into all channels. When I talked, everybody listened. I soon learned that did not make me popular among my fellow drivers and to kill the kicker when sitting in the lot.

    ENJOY!!!

    From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
    Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider



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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Dave Drum on Sat Jul 3 18:06:08 2010
    Hi Dave,

    On Sat 2038-Jul-03 09:42, Dave Drum (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:

    MIght work, don't know how effective 27 mhz is, but 21 mhz
    used to kick their posteriors.

    Better do a separate battery like they do in rv rigs if
    you're gonna run it much <grin>.

    Been there, done that. When I ran the KW kicker in the semi it
    sucked so much power that I had to put the fuel pump on "Manual" so
    that the power drain didn't drop out the solenoid and cause the
    engine to die. That's where I learned about extra batteries and
    welder's whip lead for (really fat) battery cables.

    When I was in a truck stop at night and talked using the extra power trailer marker lights around me for some distance would light up.
    Bv)= Sort of talk on Channel 19 (Sesame Street) and bleed into all channels. When I talked, everybody listened. I soon learned that did
    not make me popular among my fellow drivers and to kill the kicker
    when sitting in the lot.

    YEp, I thought about hanging some different colored
    fluorescent bulbs off my hf vertical back in the day.

    Remember back in the '70's working cb band with what should
    have been a full legal limit linear for the ham bands and a 5 element beam. Sunspots were ragin' then too.
    One night, midsummer, we had some guy stopped at a local
    terminal hanging out playing with somebody's pet raccoon.
    THe animal bit him, and results came back a day or two later the animal was rabies positive. so, we all got on the
    truckers' channel, then ch 10 in the midwest and broadcast
    the word for this guy to get his shots. THe band opened up
    good, and we had some of the biggest cb dx guns in the
    country shouting for this guy to get to a hospital er and
    get started with those shots.

    k
    Regards,
    Richard
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