Anyone Remember?

[DaSleeper]

Doing a long overdue clean-up in my workshop this morning, I came across this old gadget I had purchased in '75 I believe....


Haven't used it in at least 15 years


Anyone who is not a trucker remember this?

 

[Sal]

it looks kind of familiar but nope...it's eluding me.

 

[lone wolf]

Got a match yet?

 

[DaSleeper]

Got a match yet?

You were a trucker huh?

 

[lone wolf]

Yup ... and had the Shakes too

 

[DaSleeper]

If you ever trucked this way you must remember Giggles or Foxy lady..... and on the road the singing Frenchman :lol:

 

[eh1eh]

Never used one but never had much use for a cb.

 

[Locutus]

is it a phaser?

 

[DaSleeper]

Never used one but never had much use for a cb.

a trucker without a CB?
The first time I used it, was in Petrolia on the Pipeline on the ambulance in '75....I could receive everybody, but I had to be real close for anyone to receive me, except for the main office that had a tower...and I got fed up of having the office relay messages for me..so I bought that at a local radio shack ....after cutting a quarter inch off the whip I got from 3 to 1 reading to 2 to 1..
I stopped when I got real close to 1 to 1 and finally got the range I was looking for....
I kept the tool cause it would have cost the company more to bring in a radio man to fix it than the price of the tool..
I don't know what frequency they were running on but this works for all frequencies..

 

[eh1eh]

is it a phaser?

Yes.

a trucker without a CB?
The first time I used it, was in Petrolia on the Pipeline on the ambulance in '75....I could receive everybody, but I had to be real close for anyone to receive me, except for the main office that had a tower...and I got fed up of having the office relay messages for me..so I bought that at a local radio shack ....after cutting a quarter inch off the whip I got from 3 to 1 reading to 2 to 1..
I stopped when I got real close to 1 to 1 and finally got the range I was looking for....
I kept the tool cause it would have cost the company more to bring in a radio man to fix it than the price of the tool..
I don't know what frequency they were running on but this works for all frequencies..

Oh you don't really want a cb in Toronto.
I did have one for a time but it was mostly noise and arseholes in these parts.

 

[DaSleeper]

is it a phaser?

Old C B'ers know it as an S W R meter (Standing Wave Ratio)

 

[darkbeaver]

I was going to say that.

 

[SLM]

is it a phaser?

Obviously it's a Tricorder. Know how you can tell? No stun setting.

Man, I'm such a geek.

 

[eh1eh]

Obviously it's a Tricorder. Know how you can tell? No stun setting.

Man, I'm such a geek.

Coulda been a flux capacitor.

 

[Locutus]

I used to have a '71 LTD with a craig powerplay 8-track...I installed an extra heisenberg compensator from Radio Shack...one night we were camping up in Algonquin and had a bunch of O'Keefe's Extra Olde Stocks, popped in BTO's Not Fragile and blew up 3 fukkin' campsites. True story.

 

[Nuggler]

I used to have a '71 LTD with a craig powerplay 8-track...I installed an extra heisenberg compensator from Radio Shack...one night we were camping up in Algonquin and had a bunch of O'Keefe's Extra Olde Stocks, popped in BTO's Not Fragile and blew up 3 fukkin' campsites. True story.

Did they come over the next morning and throw granola on ya ?8O

 

[taxslave]

Did they come over the next morning and throw granola on ya ?8O

Wasn't a lot of granola munchers then. Around thst time we often had enough beer in a campground to make Octoberfest lok like afternoon tea.

 

[Locutus]

Wasn't a lot of granola munchers then. Around thst time we often had enough beer in a campground to make Octoberfest lok like afternoon tea.

I know eh. A couple of two-fours of warm Brador in the trunk and we were good for several hours.