LTLAnonymous
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Actually, I attended Bob's College of Basket Weaving. Graduated with a 2.1 GPA.Sonofagun! I, too,...have a DeeGree in Brain Surgeree. We must've enrolled in the same correspondence course from WassaMatta U.
Actually, I attended Bob's College of Basket Weaving. Graduated with a 2.1 GPA.Sonofagun! I, too,...have a DeeGree in Brain Surgeree. We must've enrolled in the same correspondence course from WassaMatta U.
I worked linehaul for Gateway at the time (1977). Somewhere around here, I have a company flier that told guys not to use CB radios in the tractors as they were getting reports of CB radio "interference" with the 121 system...
Imagine! Not use a CB radio back in 1977? Yeah, Right! They were just covering their fat Liability butts in case of an accident......
CB in the wreck? Driver's Fault!
Sonofagun! I, too,...have a DeeGree in Brain Surgeree. We must've enrolled in the same correspondence course from WassaMatta U.
I thought you went to Hard Knocks.Sonofagun! I, too,...have a DeeGree in Brain Surgeree. We must've enrolled in the same correspondence course from WassaMatta U.
I thought you went to Hard Knocks.
I do know it is best not to key the mic on your CB while in a thunderstorm. The antennae will create a magnetic field that will attract lightning. I have worked on several tractors that lightning ran in on the CB antennae while the driver was talking on the radio. The driver was not hurt but his radio was destroyed as well as on board computers & usually dash gauges & speedometer. Most tractors have several electronic modules that control the engine, emission equipment, ABS etc.& it usually takes out any sensitive electronic equipment. The antennae was fried so it was obvious where the lightning came in. The drivers said they were talking when the lightning struck.
I think the fiberglass antennaes have a wire coil in them also. I doubt fiberglass alone would transmit a signal. As I remember these were fiberglass antennas that the lightning ran in on. I remember one was still on the mirror arms when I went to haul in the tractor. The antenna was toasted as was the coax. I didn't see the radios. We had two in one year in the shop. One happened in Oklahoma near the Arkansas River bridge that was knocked down by the tug/barge years ago. Both of these were Mack tractors. We had a few Detroit series 60 engines that had an ECM problem controlling the engine fan that Detroit blamed on lightning strikes. That wasn't the cause but manufacturers want to blame a defect on something other than their product.Hah!
I hoped they played the lottery right after the lightening strike!
They must have had something dangling under the truck just close enough to ground out.......
I’ve heard a story about that happening years ago. I was told it was a metal whip antenna. Wonder if a fiberglass whip would be as likely to attract lightening?
There's a couple of tractors I've driven over the years where I had to run a separate ground wire for my CB antenna due to rubber grommets on the mirror brackets. I never ran a linear.
Remember the old trick of taping a small flourescent tube light to your aerial, so that when you keyed up, the light would light up?
I always thought that as long as the tractor sat on rubber tires,...and there was nothing metal dangling close to the ground,...that lightning would avoid tractors in favor of a nearby more direct route to the ground.
Remember the piece of chain that used to dangle off of gasoline tankers to prevent static electricity from building up and causing sparks?
I drove for Werner-Continental just as Hall’s was taking them over. Hall’s White tractors were positive ground.
Much confusion and ruined radios..
Yeah, I remember Jerry Clower. Very funny man........Every once in a while , Big John Trimble on WRBA out of Richmond Va. would play a clip of Clower on his overnight truck show....."
I'll bet you also listened to WWVA Wheeling Va, "Lee Moore, The old Coffe Drinking Nighthawk"
I could get a WWVA signal when I was in Northern Maine. WBAP also had a strong signal but I don't think it carried very far north. I could sometimes get a signal strong enough to listen at night when I was in Southern Nevada. I don't know the exact mileage from Vegas to Dallas but the signal from that station was strong. I think they advertised 50K watts of power. Bill Mack had an audience that wasn't just truckers even though he was regarded as the trucker's DJ.
Yep, remember Bill, also WWL New Orleans Ralph Emery, Charlie Douglas, Dave Nemo, WSM Nashville
ALL those guys helped make the miles easier
Hope I can remember things when I get old like you guys.
Bet you don't remember "Kurt Webster's Midnight Dancing Party," WBT Charlotte?
No I don't remember Kurt Webster. I know I picked up some pretty obscure channels while scanning the AM dial around 3:00 in the morning.
I might've caught him without knowing...
I listened to Art Bell nationwide. von.No I don't remember Kurt Webster. I know I picked up some pretty obscure channels while scanning the AM dial around 3:00 in the morning.
I might've caught him without knowing...
Anybody remember Bob Dearborn on ‘Nighttime America’? This would’ve been early 80’s.No I don't remember Kurt Webster. I know I picked up some pretty obscure channels while scanning the AM dial around 3:00 in the morning.
I might've caught him without knowing...