Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> responded to What Happened To
Channel 1 on 18 Mar 2005 15:11:26 GMT>
> Another fellow I knew (Jim) was in Florence, SC. Jim was parked in
> front of a beauty salon waiting for his wife to come out. He was
> having a good, long conversation with another ham who was in
> Fayetteville, NC on his two meter set while he waited. A CBer pulled
> up behind him and parked. He saw Jim talking on his radio and he
> dialed through all the CB channels trying to pick him up. After a
> while, he got out of his car and walked up to Jim telling him 'Good
> buddy, your CB isn't modulating'. Jim responded by telling the ham in
> Fayetteville to about this CBer and asking him to tell the guy where
> he was located. He responded that he was in Fayetteville, NC. The
> CBer's eyes almost popped out when he heard that come over Jim's
> radio. He went back to his car, pulled his CB out, set it on the
> sidewalk, and took it apart to work on it. When Jim's wife returned
> to the car, Jim got out and spoke to the guy explaining that that CB
> would never pick up his signals. The guy insisted that his radio
> would pick up any CB. Jim informed him that his radio was not a CB
> then got in his car and drove off leaving the poor guy sitting on the
> sidewalk with his CB completely disassembled. While funny, I think it
> was also a little mean.
This may have been another reason the FCC dropped Channel 1: too much
interference. Back in the 50s, during the sunspot peak, there were a LOT of
instances of some Channel 2 in Texas wiping out Channel 2 in NY. It
happened, IIRC, mostly on Channel 2, and rarely on Channel 4. Channel 1
would have been worse.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And that was the main conflict with
> television 'channel one' I think. A conflict with other services in
> the 50-54 megs area.
Marcus Didius Falco (falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk)