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Ha. My friend and I had the FCC van roving our neighborhood looking for us once, back in the late 70s. A guy with a CB base station dropped a dime on us, cause
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Ha. My friend and I had the FCC van roving our neighborhood looking for us once, back in the late 70s. A guy with a CB base station dropped a dime on us, cause we were playing with our 0.1 watt walkie talkies near his house. The guy that sold us the handhelds said “what channel crystal do you want, how about 9?” and we said sure; we didn’t know that 9 is the emergency CB channel and the law prevents its use for, for example, playing hide and seek as a 13 year old.
- dylan604 2y agoOf all of those hypothetical "if you could go back in time" situations, I'd want to go back and rat that guy out for selling kids that crystal. Just the other day in another thread there was the conversation about mischievous people doing things, and that pretty much sounds like what that guy was doing. He got the best of both worlds knowing he was going to cause some chaos but none of the repercussions of it.
- pmontra 2y agoI bet he had had that crystal on the shelf for a long time and he kept trying to sell it.
- gonzo 2y ago47 CFR 95.931(a)(2):"CBRS Channel 9 may be used only for emergency communications or traveler assistance. It must not be used for any other purpose." Since the goal of hide and seek is to get home (before found) I’d call that traveler assistance. <grin>