But is there anyone out there listening anymore?
Back in the day long b4 cell phones many including but not limited to otr truckers had in the cab not as a novelty but necessity a cb.
Across our nation cb clubs became the in thing. From I-80 Control to Diesel Drivers International, to yes us at the then Hazzard County Knytes aka Knytes-of-Anarchy, had folks working in shifts monitoring both cb channel 19 and 9.
Old Smokey was tuned in on cb channel 9 monitoring for emergencies.
So the other night I was where the cell didn’t work, no FM two way signal, but needed to get in tune with home port. I was relieved to find, in all parts of the area, one monitoring station in Malta still tuned into channel 9. Then I got to wondering what if , there was a new wave of popularity started for and of ye ole cb.(there’s a country song by that name, done by Red Sovine) I can remember my years in tune on that box.
My first if ya’ll want to call it that, cb was a toy base station tuned to what was the kids channel of cb channel 14. I modified that things tuner, gave it a few more ponies, put on a bigger longer antenna and was talking to Australia over skip waves. That was a gas. When the skip would roll in, I could talk from coast to coast. Then got to chattin with otr truckers, fell in love with the profession and many of ya’ll know the rest.
It was 1974 the nation was still under the grips of a political oil embargo and Smokey used that to hammer truckers. Truckers got smart , cb was the wave of the just gotta have it thing in 18 wheels or 4. A whole new language came into being, movies were created out of the craze. From Smokey and the Bandit, to Breaker Breaker, starring of course Jan Vincent who you know also was the pilot on tv of Airwolf.
It was about this time a youth group called the JR 14 cb club created by older cb’ers of what was called the I-80 Control CB club, in Twin Falls Idaho, came about. This youth group was part of the founding members of what you know as the Knytes-of-Anarchy today.
That being said, I wondered, could a CB club be created today? If it was created would it go poop or really be a hammer down success? So as ya’ll might know, the KOA tonight at our monthly meeting came up with a experimental project. Create a Mini Cassia area CB Club. Can we have a big 10-4 on that?
But I’d like to know from some of ya’ll, would you join a working cb club? Would you support a cb club, and finally, if you call out on channel 9 is there anyone still listening?
Let me know, send comments to knytesofanarchy@yahoo.com
Until L8R Ya’ll I’m 10-10 on the side.
Good numbers to ya’ll,
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