What Do Your Usernames Mean?

[SaparotRob]

Recce1 for reconnaissance naviguesser team commander Boeing RC-135 series aircraft.

Nice to meet you from Long Island.

 

[Frog]

As a Frenchman, my username speaks for itself.

 

[pbehn]

As a Frenchman, my username speaks for itself.

Not on a modelling forum. Frog (models) - Wikipedia
Flies Right Off the Ground

 

[Snautzer01]

Not on a modelling forum. Frog (models) - Wikipedia
Flies Right Off the Ground

Indeed.

 

[CBSKY]

Initials, along with abbreviation of the state I was born in...so original and exciting

 

[GrauGeist]

Initials, along with abbreviation of the state I was born in...so original and exciting

It kinda works, though.

When I first saw it, I thought it meant "CB SKY" and had something to do with aviation

 

[vikingBerserker]

Yea, it made me think of Sky King

 

[CBSKY]

It kinda works, though.

When I first saw it, I thought it meant "CB SKY" and had something to do with aviation

Yeah, I actually like that meaning better than the actual meaning - let's go with it

 

[GrauGeist]

Yeah, I actually like that meaning better than the actual meaning - let's go with it

Ok!

 

[fubar57]

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[Thumpalumpacus]

Initials, along with abbreviation of the state I was born in...so original and exciting

Wait, what state is "SKY"? I've never seen that postal code.

ETA: Maybe Montana?

 

[MiTasol]

Kentucky - the S is silent and hidden like the P in swimming

 

[XBe02Drvr]

When I first saw it, I thought it meant "CB SKY" and had something to do with aviation

Nah, it's a reference to outlaw Citizens Band operators with high power transmitters and sky-skip antennas. A very 70s thing. "Breaker one-nine for the Rubber Duck." Working the skip to Oz.

 

[CBSKY]

Wait, what state is "SKY"? I've never seen that postal code.

ETA: Maybe Montana?

HaHa - my full initials CBS first middle and last name + KY for you guessed it - My Old Kentucky Home.

 

[GrauGeist]

Nah, it's a reference to outlaw Citizens Band operators with high power transmitters and sky-skip antennas. A very 70s thing. "Breaker one-nine for the Rubber Duck." Working the skip to Oz.

Had a nice base station back in day (in Southern California) that had a 4 element Moonraker on the business end, which had 11db gain with a 1-flat match in the low 27MHz range.

The base was tube-type junk made by Knight and covered 10 - 11 meters with upper and lower sideband.
Audio was via an Astatic D104 "lollipop" and there may or may not have been a "foot-warmer" helping the TX/RX.

I'd go 10-8 on 27.175 and get radio checks from Florida!

 

[SaparotRob]

When I lived in the Golden State cell phones were scarce and about the size of a refrigerator. CB was our mobile phone.

 

[bdefen]

Had a nice base station back in day (in Southern California) that had a 4 element Moonraker on the business end, which had 11db gain with a 1-flat match in the low 27MHz range.

The base was tube-type junk made by Knight and covered 10 - 11 meters with upper and lower sideband.
Audio was via an Astatic D104 "lollipop" and there may or may not have been a "foot-warmer" helping the TX/RX.

I'd go 10-8 on 27.175 and get radio checks from Florida!

Now THAT is jargon!!!! Reminds me of listening to and trying to understand my sister's Geordie boyfriend, Malcolm. Great guy, but "Please repeat that for me Malcolm, a bit slower this time......let's grab another beer."
I had a buddy in the seventh decade of the previous century. He had what he called a "linear" CB transmitter in in his Chevy Van. I guess it could really reach out and touch somebody. 10-4!!

In a previous life, I worked at a 50,000-watt, clear-channel AM radio station in Spokane, WA, KGA, 1510. It had a detuned 100,000-watt ex-military transmitter. You could walk inside it. The tubes were the size of turkey-frying kettles. On the wall, there was a framed letter from a U.S. serviceman who listened quite regularly from Helsinki, Finland. The skip was rolling.

 

[GrauGeist]

Talking on amateur was much more fun than years later, working on Public Safety two-way equipment.

Had to be professional and such, so a typical TX would be:
Me: "Radio service, testing one, two, three...radio service clear"
Dispatch: "Radio service, 10-2"
Me: "Shascom, 10-4, thank you. Radio service clear"

Boring stuff, really. "Shascom" is Shasta County's inter-agency dispatch for Fire, EMS and LEO, by the way.

 

[special ed]

As SaparotRob says, "The things one learns here."

 

[bdefen]

Talking on amateur was much more fun than years later, working on Public Safety two-way equipment.

Had to be professional and such, so a typical TX would be:
Me: "Radio service, testing one, two, three...radio service clear"
Dispatch: "Radio service, 10-2"
Me: "Shascom, 10-4, thank you. Radio service clear"

Boring stuff, really. "Shascom" is Shasta County's inter-agency dispatch for Fire, EMS and LEO, by the way.

I knew a couple guys from Redding in college at University of Idaho. Jim Bryant and Butch Jones. Jim passed away a few years ago.