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12-03-2025 - 6:00 AM - I saw an ad for "HAMNET, appearing in theaters everywhere." Finally, a Ham Radio movie! Of course not. It's a fictional story about Shakespeare's life, including the loss of his son, Hamnet. I'm going to pass on this one and wait for a real Ham Radio movie. My coffee is ready.
--- 4:30 PM - I heard a trucker on Channel 19 trying to get another trucker's attention to notify him about a problem with his load. After mentioning the exit number the target truck had just passed, the driver answered, was told of the problem, and thanked the reporting driver. There used to be a lot more of this type of interaction, back in the day.
--- 7:00 PM - Some local guys were chatting on CB Radio Channel 30 when, in the distance, you could hear a wide-load heading this way. The "rag chewers" politely moved to another channel for the duration of the move.
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12-02-2025 - 5:30 AM - We have a craft store in town with a skeleton sitting in a chair. Every time I see it, I think I'm looking at a guy who held the field strength meter one too many times at a CB Radio keydown.
--- 7:00 AM - I'm trying to track down two guys on 151.940 MHz, a frequency in the license-free, Multi-Use Radio Service. They're running some sort of sales business, but seem to be in different buildings or areas because one guy is always stronger than the other. It sounds like they’re using handheld radios, so they can’t be too far apart or too far from me. I’ll figure it out.
+++ A visitor to Las Vegas received the cook's tour - he was baked in the sun, stewed at the bar, and burned at the craps table.
--- 6:00 PM - Quoting a line from Williams-Grand Canyon News: “On October 13, 1984, Williams was officially the last Route 66 town to be bypassed by Interstate 40, and Route 66 was decommissioned the following year.” I made several trips through Williams in the 1970s when the mail highway went through town. Westbound was on Railroad Ave, and Eastbound was a block to the south. On my first trip, on the way from Texas to California in 1975, I stopped for gas and asked about a McDonald's. The attendant - yes, they had attendants back then - told me there were no McDonald’s in Williams. He said, “We only allow the good places.” IN 2010, on a trip to the Grand Canyon, I dined at a McDonald’s in Williams. CB Radio Channel 19 was much more alive back in the 70s, of course.
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12-01-2025 - 5:30 AM - There isn't much going on locally on my radios at this hour. The CB Radio is still asleep. The nearby prison is active. Walmart will be waking up soon. There have been a few peeps of Air Route Traffic Control traffic from our nearby RCAG (Remote Communications Air/Ground) site. There's no traffic at our local airports to monitor, yet. Trucking radio traffic has been zero since I woke up. I've got Morse code on the 40-meter Amateur (ham) Radio running in the background. I'll put some coffee on, and see what develops.
--- 6:30 AM - The band started to come alive with a few bursts of voices on Channel 6, the "superbowl" of CB Radio. Let's see what the day brings. Right now, my Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
+++ Economists say we must devalue the dollar. What do they think Congress has been doing the last 20 years?
--- 11:00 AM - On the Amateur (ham) Radio, there were nets out the wazoo over the weekend, as there are every weekend. Heck, many weekdays, too. Someone on CB Radio Channel 6 sounds like he's at the bottom of a barrel, and he's splattering across two channels up and down. Come on, guys, get with the program. Channel 38 is wall-to-wall signals right now.
--- 3:30 PM - I'm listening to our local city transit bus drivers. On evenings and weekends, they get into the "CB Radio" mode, I presume due to the lack of adult supervision. I don't know which is more entertaining, the city transit buses or our local school buses. Both have their "radio" moments.