UH OH! They DO..........!

I know, but I have seen it done. I was kicked back in a TS and heard some ham guy complaining about over powered radios and he was going at it with a driver on the air. Something about he could easily find him and will fix the problem. A little while later a van comes rolling in and is rolling slowly through the stop. I heard the radio still going then the van came to a stop just down the line. Guy got out of the van with a bolt cutter and clipped both of the drivers antennas right at the base. No he did not clip the coax as both antennas fell to the ground.

I have also read on a ham forum were some hams are running around pinning coax on any station they hear that is putting out more then legal power. It had something to do witht he FCC not doign their job so they were going to take matters into their own hands.

 

Nothing better than some bone headed ham doing stuff like this to people who talk on the CB when most of those amps used by hams will do WAAAAAAAY more than legal limit!

 

Did you actually ask this question seriously?

Yeah....I'm pretty sure that the guy on the base station is following me around the country and as soon as I pass through his area he loads all his stuff in the car and hauls ### to the next town and sets it back up and starts doing it again....Just so I'll have a reason to turn the volume down on my radio.

I don't do sideband because I use my radio for truckng related stuff only, so I pretty much stay on 19.
Every now and then I'll have a conversation with someone that's intelligent enough to be interesting but as we all know...Intelligent people are getting harder and harder to find in trucks these days.

It happens....I've carried on conversations on the radio and sometimes on 19 for miles and never had anyone complain about it but it's not idiotic babble...It's a conversation.

My radio is off at truckstops unless I'm talking to someone when I get there and then when we get parked the radio is off.
There are plenty of stupid people sitting in truckstops talking #### on the radio and trying to act like they're some kind of tough guy...It's pathetic!

It's even more pathetic because the radio tough guy is usually some 900 pound idiot that thinks he's impressing someone or a 120 pound punk that's mad because he's only 5'6" and his little sister is tougher than he is.

It's obvious to anyone that has a decent ear which stations are bases and which are not...And once again If I hear the same guy running his neck in the same town every time I'm there...It's a moron on a base.

 

With the driver sittin' right there?

I doubt it!

 

Yea sounds like more truck driver BS!

 

I mean seriously....Some guy comes up to my truck and starts doing something like that, I'm gonna get out and wreck him!

 

Yes I just asked you this. You were a bit unclear, though I thought you meant it as you go thru a certain town, you hear the same guy on his radio.

Though when skip is going it sends signals hundreds of miles away.

Interesting, I've never been able to tell a base from a mobile by sound. In fact all the bases I've ever heard sound like mobiles.

I can tell skip though from locals by sound.

 

You must have a tin ear....

 

Nope. Nothing wrong with my ears.

 

I'd sure be introducing someone that started messing with my truck to my tire thumper.