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Hi Pete and all,
Broadcast, George Carlin didn't originate the seven dirty words, the FCC did.
I remember the seven second delay (coincidence?) in WBAI NY Master Control,
two side by side tape decks with tape running between them. Needless to say
it was a bugger to thread. I can imagine your aprehension without one and it
reminds me of the concert for Sandy victims at Madison Square Garden NY that
went on overtime and ended up a mini marathon. Between the punks and the
rappers lyrics often cross the line and sound was cut often a tad too late
and always too long. Eh, that "music" isn't to my liking anyway. Now that's
odd, if the station made tapes of your show why not a delay? I would imagine
an archived delay tape would serve a dual purpose, save your arse twice
because those recordings are legal evidence which is why they exist.
I don't know why the Canadian reciprocal CB license would tag on an XM suffix
when X denotes Mexico. OK on fewer channels, that's another thing I don't
remember. Hmmm, your callsigns were home made, unless I'm mistaken there are
a few countries where Amateur calls are likewise. Our calls for all services
are issued sequentially with the exception of the new vanity calls for the
Amateur service. Class D CB is shared with medical and industrial with a few
Class C radio control channels tossed in, back in the day it was common to
hear the diathermy and induction heating hum anywhere near a doctor or a
factory with heat treating equipment. I remember a plant with RF plastic
welding machines in a Faraday cage, don't know how effective it was. Being
free running power oscillators they wandered all over the place. Then a gas
pipeline nearby used channel 23 for telemetry and control, BEE BAA BOO
repeated endlessly made the channel useless.
Interesting, your Messenger 2 came from a business but it's not a business
radio, just the same the intent of CB was and is short range business and
personal communication. Pretty much from the start people used it as a hobby,
some got nailed for it too.
I don't know about a Nazi station in the US but I do know about the Homaag
Wireless station on Tucker's Island near Tuckerton at the southern end of the
county. I don't remember exactly but it was built around 1910 pumping out
200KW on 16.? KHz to span the ocean to Germany. Just before the war they
started sending machine Morse so fast nobody could copy it, the first
encryption. The Navy put a quick end to that by taking over and using the
station themselves. The Nazis were given some stiff competition by American
spy stations, WBAL in Baltimore was one. It sent secret info to our
operatives using very narrow FSK not unlike today's PSK32 on the carrier
completely undetected by any ordinary means. On the other hand Radio Havana
operates numbers stations during non broadcast time along with several other
shortwave stations like telling the world "up yours". (;->)
Oh no, your spam comment gave me an ear worm! Now I can't get Monty Python
out of my head, ARGH! Funny how "see you in 2013" sent the day before New
Year got to me on the 2nd, one day in transit and another crossing the Date
Line. (;->) I guess it is a happy, I'm recovering from multiple disasters of
the second half of 2012 when it all should have ended but didn't. Look at the
central figure of the Mayan calendar, he's mocking us.
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 15:58 on 2013-Jan-02 GMT
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