Oh I don't doubt you heard activity on that "channel". But I've never heard
of "the colonel" and I've been in and out of CB since 75!!

It might have been a local trying to mess with people. You said you "heard
him". What did he say? Did he threaten people? Correct people? Or did he
act like an ass like some of the "half-baked-hams" we have on this ng that I
have to re-killfile every 15 minutes?

What message was this "colonel" giving?

Don

"Stephen" wrote in message
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No, I meant THE COLONEL, as being seperate from Uncle Charlie. From
what I heard back in those days, THE COLONEL operated some activity on
those basement channels, and when people started going there, it
caused some friction. Thus, the fears and rumors about the COLONEL,
who for some reason was bent on getting anyone who operated on -20 (20
below 1). Midwest. Under the supervision of one of my older CB
friends, who got me started in CB, we got clever and found that by
switching the transmit and receive crystals in our walkie talkies, we
got a quiet and more private channel. Only problem was, according to
his freq counter, we were 20 below 1.

Again, nothing for certain, but it was all the talk of our area back
then...and YES, I did hear activity on that frequency.

-Stephen