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I got a walkie talkie set as a Christmas present when I was 8. Which was kind of an evil thing to do given I had no siblings or friends to play with. One day I
by tedggh 1y ago
I got a walkie talkie set as a Christmas present when I was 8. Which was kind of an evil thing to do given I had no siblings or friends to play with. One day I turned one set on and listened for a while and I thought I heard someone talking behind all the static noise. So I said something and was shocked to hear the voice talking back to me. Fast forward a few decades, next week is my wedding and that voice on the other side of the radio is my best man.
- thenobsta 1y agoI got chills reading this. Congrats!
- fullstop 1y agoThis is awesome, and future congratulations on your wedding!
- brulard 1y agoI expected the voice on the other side being your soon-to-be wife. But good story nevertheless. Congrats!
- waltbosz 1y agoI thought the same thing. But it does happen, my neighbors started dating and eventually married after meeting over ham radio.
- bigfishrunning 1y agoJust think about all of the weather and doctors appointments they can talk about now!
- luxpir 1y agoThis guy hams. 73.
- mtlynch 1y agoCongrats! That's such a cool story! >Fast forward a few decades, next week is my wedding and that voice on the other side of the radio is... I think I've seen too many rom-coms because I was sure this sentence going to end with "my fiance." : )
- ikari_pl 1y agoTen years ago I proposed to my best friend. She said no.
- 0xf8 1y agoPlot Twist AF… you could be a writer
- brokenmachine 1y agoAre you still friends?
- lukan 1y agoDoes a hollywood movie with that plot exist?
- mindcrime 1y agoSorry to hear that. Are you willing to say what happened afterwards?
- behnamoh 1y agoThis is awesome, and congratulations!
- parpfish 1y agomy family had a little portable TV (GE 7-7150B, link below) that we'd usually only use down in the basement during severe weather. one day I learned that you could tune in all sorts of non-TV frequencies. In particular, you could tune into any phone calls my neighbors were making on their wireless phones. i loved that little tv and used it up until the conversion to digital OTA tranmissions. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qYPLd8owc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qYPLd8owc
- lwhi 1y agoI had a black and white solid state Sony TV in my bedroom when I was growing up. Aside from dialing into late night TV programmes my parents prohibited, there were two buttons that switched between VHF and UHF. Toggling the UHF button allowed me to tune into police radio. Being able to capture this via that TV felt close to magic, and I think probably went a long way to forming my associations between technology, mystery and discovery.
- euroderf 1y agoAn article in TV Guide back in the 70s said you could tune in to tornados too. You'd dial it down below channel 2 (IIRC) and you could pick up EM static generated by a tornado within range.
- ghurtado 1y agodamn, that's awesome.. I feel like I just watched the opening scene of a nice "stand by me" type movie.
- pugworthy 1y agoMy dad was a HAM (W7AAI) and as a kid I found the frequencies for walkie talkies on his receiver in the shack. After Christmas I would tune in and hear local kids doing the "I can hear you, can you hear me?" thing with the new presents.
- noman-land 1y agoAwesome story and well told
- MomsAVoxell 1y agoI brought a family-pack of walkie-talkies for my wife and my two teenage boys to use while we were hiking around various Austrian mountains, one summer vacation. We rarely used them much, since we were often walking in a family unit, so during one of our breaks I took one out, turned it on, and blasted off into the ether "hello hello, anyone out there wanna chat?" .. did this off and on for the afternoon, when suddenly, a voice answered back "yes! who is this?" .. A family waaaaay the hell down the mountain rage, deep in the valley, had by chance heard my call .. so the boys spent the afternoon getting to know all of the 5 kids in that family that were all drawn to the conversation. It was awesome, for the rest of the week, our kids and theirs just chatted away .. what had started out to be, a little bit of a mundane trip for the kids, turned out to be a hilarious social experience. We call for them every time we're out that way - never met them, but for the past 3 years, the conversations have continued and it has been a great alternative to the mobile phones we have been troubled with up in the cabin, at times.