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|    Jimmy Anderson to Mike Powell    |
|    Re: 2m discussion and tra    |
|    23 Apr 19 11:41:00    |
      TID: PX/Win v7.0 PX28-1176M       MSGID: 1:116/17 69c7a1a2       TZUTC: -0500       -=> Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-               > My brothers and I had a pair and come to find out they weren't very        > powerful, but if you were close to the truck you could hear them        > on Channel 17 on the CB. :-)               MP> I got my pair for christmas one year. One was larger than the other        MP> and also had an AM radio. I got more use out of that than anything.        MP> :) We tested them and it seemed like we were able to get somewhere        MP> between 1/4 and 1/2 mile away from each other before they quit picking        MP> anything up.              Yeah - we couldn't use them over the hills very well, but if one of       us was ON a hill we could really reach out! :-)               MP> I used them more for spying on my sisters & their friends than I did to        MP> actually communicate with anyone else. They were not near as        MP> interesting as I imagined them to be. :)              LOL - such is the case with 'child technology,' eh? :-)              Remember the little morse code generators? Well, a button that would       generate a tone and the morse code alphabet was listed on a sticker       on the unit most of the time.              Never had one with an AM radio, but I did have a little AM radio       'backpack' for my Six Million Dollar Man action figure! That was       cool!                                          ... Armadillo: A mouse built to government specs.       --- MultiMail/Darwin v0.49        * Origin: Lean Angle BBS * Southaven MS * winserver.org (1:116/17)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 2 16/0 18/200 19/36 34/999 90/1 104/57 106/201       SEEN-BY: 116/17 18 120/302 331 544 123/130 131 140 1970 128/2 142/926       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 201/0 203/0 2 124 412 211/37 218/50 700 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 360 222/2 226/16 17 229/107 200 312 354 426 728 1014       SEEN-BY: 230/0 150 152 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 400 250/1 261/38       SEEN-BY: 261/100 266/512 267/155 275/100 280/5003 282/1031 1056 291/1       SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 8125 301/520 317/3 320/119 219 322/0 757       SEEN-BY: 335/364 340/400 342/13 200 393/68 396/45 423/81 712/848 801/161       SEEN-BY: 801/189 2320/105 3634/12 5020/1042       PATH: 116/17 18 261/38 320/219 203/0 221/1 292/854 229/426           |
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