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October 2nd 03, 09:05 PM

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(N2EY) writes:

"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"N2EY" wrote:

IMDB.com (Internet Movie Data Base) says that "Convoy"
and the first "Smokey and the Bandit" came out in 1977-78.

Just two examples, Jim (that's obviously why I said "and so on").

Of course.

But my point was that the TV shows and movies were a result of the cb
boom, and reflected its outlaw nature. They did not cause the boom,
nor the culture, which were solidly in place in the late 1960s.

What "outlaw" actions took place then, mighty sheriff?

Did you arrest any of those "outlaws?"

There
were a rash of movies and television shows featuring CB in the mid to late
70's

well *after* cb was a fad..

The "fad" continues, over two decades later. :-)

- BJ and the Bear,

premiered 1978

Dukes of Hazard,

premiered 1979

Moonshine,

premiered 1977

Knight Rider,

premiered 1982

and so on.
Even regular television shows

(Charley's Angels,

premiered 1976

Magnum PI,

premiered 1980

Love Boat,

premiered 1976

CHiPs,

premiered 1977

and so on) had episodes featuring CB.

"CHiPs" featured fake motorcycle and patrol car communications using
California Highway Patrol protocol and radio equipment dummies on
supposed CHP frequencies. Some of the audio of actual CHP radio
communications was recorded and "wild-tracked" into an episode as
needed.

It's "highway scenes" were shot on the Foothill Freeway under construction
in the Sunland-Tujunga-La-Crescenta area just to my residence's north.

I'm sure they did. Note that most of the above are TV shows, and their
dates are all fall premiere dates.

You have a dispute with the entertainment industry and television in
general? Take it up with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Their headquarters is in North Hollywood...very nice building. Nice
folks in there...but watch out on dissing them or you might wind up head-
first in one of the fountains in the courtyard.

cb and its culture were already well established long before the
movies and TV shows caught on.

"Outlaw culture?" :-)

"Desperados of the Wild West?" Are you imagining yourself as some
kind of "marshall" out to "avenge" things? :-)

The restrictive rules on "external and internal RF power amplifiers"
(also called "linyars") were enacted by FCC in 1978. That was long
after they were all over the place. Given typical bureaucratic delay,
that means amplifiers were a big problem at least two years earlier -
1976.

Okay, here it is 27 years later. Where are all the avenging marshalls
and sheriffs and fast-draw lawmen setting up law and order in the wild
EM west?

Things did not go bad because of the movies and TV shows. They went
bad because there was no way FCC could enforce the rules, and no
established culture or tradition of self-discipline, responsibility or
rule-following.

Yes, pity that...no one to "establish culture or tradition or
self-discipline"
like all the mighty macho morsemen did LONG before Sheriff Jimmie
was born. :-)

Sheriff Jimmie, hop up on your hearse and form up a posse to ride out
into the wild EM west and arrest those miscreants!

Make yourself look proud in the eyes of other macho morsemen!

SO, WHERE ARE ALL THE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS FEATURING
AMATEUR RADIO...AND ESPECIALLY MORSE CODE?

AMATEUR RADIO AND THE ARRL HAVE HAD LONGER THAN 27
YEARS TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE
ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA.

Got yer ears on? :-)

LHA

Art imitates life.

The song "Convoy" was a hit in 1976. "C.W. McCall" is/was a persona
created by one Bill Fries, starting out as a series of commercials.

True fact: The 'band' that backed up "McCall" (actually a rotating
bunch of studio musicians) was organized by Chip Davis, who is
probably better known for his involvement in the New Age "Mannheim
Steamroller" music.

To really get a handle (pun intended) on when the boom peaked, look up
when FCC gave up on licenses for cb.