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Streaky
Intermediate Member
Username: Streaky
Post Number: 193
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 1:29 am: | 
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Just thought it might be interesting to find out if some people got their handle by accident/nicname or if they actually have a story behind their name
Mine comes from one of my dogs whose name is Streaky he can run circles around my other 2 dogs Mia and Bud and the name stuck when people were always trying to keep up 2 me they used to call me the streak until they learned of Streaky
Streaky
CEF#805
CVC#98
WorldRadio805
The Craziest Station in the Canadian Nation
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Kryptkeeper
Member
Username: Kryptkeeper
Post Number: 51
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 5:12 am: |
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I used to go to old graveyard and take pictures of the old head stones. I had some pictures that hung in my house of them. The guys in my.
CEF #1003
CVC #0179
CEFham #293
Glen Smith, KJ4ICB
Kryptkeeper
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Kqt5542
New member
Username: Kqt5542
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 7:04 am: |
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My given name is Roger and I like to laugh, and I attempt to make others laugh, sometimes with limited success. A few decades ago, KQT5542's sign-off spiel went something like:
"This is Jolly Roger, kay-cutie double nickle forty-two in a mo-bile, we're down..." |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 16317
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 9:04 am: |
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Handle: Catfish, Catfish638 or 808, because that is the ONLY fish that I go fishing for.
Catfish638 because one year Shirley / 808xyl (my better half) and I had 638lbs of Catfish Fillet's in our 2 freezer's :-)
808? Because ZEBCO 808 reel's are the ONLY fishing reels we use for Cat Fishing 
Lon~Tech808
CEF#0808/HAM#001/CVC#0002
Tech808@copperelectronics.com
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 2223
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 12:34 pm: |
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I have always been told to reach for the stars the possibility are endless and you can be whatever you put your mind to.
I always have my face looking to the stars
(Starface)
George
KI4NBE
CEF#Ø476
HAM#Ø181
CVC#ØØ14
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Moderator136
Moderator
Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 1:21 pm: |
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Well my original handle was Nightrider in 1971 because i bought a mobile 23 channel radio and was on the road on night shift talking on channel 3 going to work 30 miles away. In a town Ottumwa Ia , (30,000)Pop. Only a few cb operators then.
Then around 1976 or so skip was going real strong and was involved in SSB when it was good, and talk around the world and the locals around the state called me lowpowerhal only 10 watts out and talked to the world. I did have 3 element horizontal beam and a Regency 123 ssb. upgraded to a president madison and qsl'ed all that i could contact. (I had 3 shoe boxes full of qsl cards,) and lost them moveing} Thats a long long time ago, This will happen again when conditions get better and the cycle is just about to start. Be a little Patience it will happen again So thats whats it is and allways will be! Patience
Hal~Moderator136~KCØSVC
CEF#0136/CEF HAM#23 ~ CVC#0004
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 9:54 am: |
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And I thought you liked cold 808s (LOL)
Mine MG-141 was my club membership number for Newcastle MG Car Club. My original one of Echo-1 (from the days of illegal CB in OZ) was my grid reference on the city's street map. Not smart maybe, but PTB never worked it out.
Simon
Tech237
N7AUS
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Kosmic
Member
Username: Kosmic
Post Number: 54
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 9:18 am: |
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I was into Astronomy when I was in school so I went with Cosmic Kid in the mid 60's. Now I simply go by Kosmic, have been told I am alwasys looking for the cosmos to lead me
Kosmic
CEF801
KI4TRX
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 1338
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 9:51 am: |
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years ago:
when i was a young lad,my older nephew came to
visit and he called me a skillet licker,when i
got into cb i remembered that and thought it would be a good handle.
1516 comes from a membership # in a mud duck club that i was a member of.
i also used the handle # 1 due to an incident at
a factory that i worked at,the plant manager and my foreman brought a steam iron to me to fix one that they tore apart and could,nt get back together, so they started to call me # 1
they were a little suprised when i brought it back and working
moderator1516
cef#0139/cvc#0012
ham#0147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 2225
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 11:32 am: |
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While attending a wrestling match years ago, I accidently got hit in my mouth ( lost 1 tooth) by one of the road Warrior wrestlers. Thus, to this day when i look in the mirror at my mouth and see that empty space, it reminds me....LOL
CEF 375
Tyrone, Pa 16686 |
Mdiver
Advanced Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 612
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 7:53 pm: |
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Starface I think the last time I made contact with you I called you
STARMAN hehe
Mdiver-----no comment
CEF -252
Steve
Northern California |
Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 2226
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 9:13 pm: |
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I do come from a Galaxy Far Far away (wait) thats star wars, wrong story. hehe
George
KI4NBE
CEF#Ø476
HAM#Ø181
CVC#ØØ14
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Press_man
Junior Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 20
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 8:27 am: |
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When I first got started in CB I went by Big Wally (6'2" 235)I was in my 20's and drilled wells.
Later I went to work PT with a metal magician and then took the skills I learned from him and went to work in general aviation as a metal mechanic/template maker.
Part of the job required I work with Power Presses that ranged from 25 ton to 500,000 ton range.
Hey George, I stowed away on a space ship when Klatoo and Gort weren't looking and came to earth in the early 50s.
Wally
kc4zwm--try that one on Morse |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4881
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 10:09 am: |
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"I do come from a Galaxy Far Far away"
George .....
You know better than to give me a line that good to work with ...... LOL
On 6 since 66
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Streaky
Intermediate Member
Username: Streaky
Post Number: 208
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 9:12 pm: |
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No one else has any stories about their CB handles? I find that hard to believe ...
Streaky
CEF#805
CVC#98
WorldRadio805
The Craziest Station in the Canadian Nation
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808xyl
Senior Member
Username: 808xyl
Post Number: 1295
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 9:10 pm: |
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808xyl?
Because "I am" 808's better half!
1st Sargant?
Because 808 said I remind him of a 1st Sargant he had when he was in the Marine Corp. 
Shirley
808xyl/1st Sargant
CEF#0164
CVC#0003 
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Captian_radio
Intermediate Member
Username: Captian_radio
Post Number: 494
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 9:45 am: |
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Never ever had one, most of the ones around here sounded rather funny so I just could not bring myself to use one,I just go by Bob,everyone knows me.It could also have something to do with being a ham, never really saw the need to have one.
Handles were originally used back in the day to keep from using your call sign when shooting skip so it would make it harder for the FCC to track you down,after all years ago it was illegal to work skip on CB.
Just Bob
Robert L. Spicer The days of radio are just beginning!
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Znut
Advanced Member
Username: Znut
Post Number: 751
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 10:57 pm: |
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I like my handle okay, but I like Lon's especially because my family and I are fond of fishing, especially for catfish. Our favorites are the Big Blue cats!! We, however, use big open face spinning reels because the closed ones make me swear too much. Love Ya Lon!
My handle started as "Coupling Nut" because, well, me and my co-workers manufacture RF and Microwave cable assemblies. So, you have the end of the coax in your hand, stick it to the back of the radio and the last part of the "interface" is the thing you have to thread onto the jack on the equipment. This is called a "coupling nut". Well, I mistakenly thought that would make a cool handle. Turns out, it has too many syllables, according to all of my beloved radio friends. So they shortened it to "C-nut" in the beginning. The first part "C" became confused with "Z" so my handle evolved to become "Z-nut" and that is what stuck.
Merry Christmas!
Love,
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Coyote
Advanced Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 944
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 7:17 am: |
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I got mine because when I worked in a surplus warehouse I was always working on computers for teachers and kept our network up and running and managed a real quirky inventory program. One day my supervisor called me a Wile E. Coyote, the genius, which stuck like glue for many years. So, thats where I took my handle from.
CEF-0443
Middle TN Coyote
Mideast Net Control
2 OP 443 11m SSB
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Unit199
Advanced Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 644
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 11:51 am: |
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Way back when, my fellow club members gave me the handle of Iowa Intimidator because I tried to rule the airways. I gave it up and went to Unit199.
HARVE
UNIT199
CEF0210/CVC#018/HAM#010
Midwest 10 Meter Net Controller
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Golden_screw_driver
Member
Username: Golden_screw_driver
Post Number: 74
Registered: 2-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 2:32 pm: |
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Manville maniac, I grew up in a old mill village called manville. growing up i was a lil on the SICK side. i was the kid that would do anythng for any reason. Always loved to box and got the handle at a local gym from a trainer he said i was his "lil nut case the manville maniac" It stuck and till this day people from my child hood still call me that. Now golden screw driver came about when i meet my wife, she never talked on a radio or even see one(sheltered lol)about a year into our relation ship she wanted to get me a gag gift needless to say it was a gold plated philips screw driver for my "fixin bench". And that year we thew a new years eve party with all of our freinds from the radio and all it took was one look at the screwdriver and walla i became the Golden Screw Driver. It started as a drunkin joke that stuck.
421 GOLDEN SCREW DRIVER
CEF#0995
NORTH-EAST
CEF NET CONTROLLER
Channel 13 / 27.115 AM/LSB
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The_general
New member
Username: The_general
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:29 pm: |
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It was interesting to read how everyone got their handles. I started out when i was 12yrs old with "wooden nickel". I go by "The General" now because I'm a Civil War fanatic. CEF#1018 |
Nightlinks
New member
Username: Nightlinks
Post Number: 7
Registered: 1-2009
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2009 - 7:12 pm: |
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I remember i use to call myself travelfox after seeing a box of sneakers. After that someone gave me the unit number triple 0 then after that i gave myself the handle The Chosen One! Now that i am making my return to CB i was thinking of getting a new handle.
CEF#1021
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Milkman21218
Intermediate Member
Username: Milkman21218
Post Number: 366
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 1:46 am: |
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Milkman, Because I drink MILK. Nuff said! |
Barakuda318
Intermediate Member
Username: Barakuda318
Post Number: 174
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 2:39 pm: |
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Here goes a long story, lol My original Cb handle my dad gave me, he was into radio a little but not a fanatic like myself, his handle was red, so he called me little red, but after some growing I became bigger than dad lol so that handle didn't stick, In Highschool playing football the Sr's at that time, I was a sophmore started calling me AKA Starvakuda 454 (my real name is marvin) then it slowly started to break down, they found out I like to fish so it became Barkuda454, after changing the numbers to 318 (because 318 is my favorite dodge engine) I became Barakuda318, I use just barakuda for handle and 318 for dx'ing...
73's Barakuda318
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 1535
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 1:27 pm: |
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moderator is because i am a cef moderator and the 1516
is my old mud duck # from a previous club
moderator1516
moderator1516
cef#0139/cvc#0012
ham#0147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Flying_cloud
Junior Member
Username: Flying_cloud
Post Number: 12
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, May 02, 2009 - 3:18 am: |
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My grandpaws handle was flying cloud and when he died when i was about 2 or 3 no one else was intersted in cb but my uncle.then later in life he passed away. befor he passed away i started getting intersted in them and went by sod buster like in the song convoy. later i got my first base station it was my grandpaws a realstic navaho trc-57 with am and ssb it had his old license number scribed in the radio and it came with a civil defence pin where my grandpaw help start up the fire and rescue in my county but back then it was called the civil defence. and i also got my uncles sonar fs 2340 and it had his license number scribed in the back of it as well. so in memory of my papaw who i did not get a chance to know well before he died i took up his handle. i guess u could say it is so his memory could live on.but i just know me and him both loved to fish and i wish he was still around so me and him could talk on the cb together.  |
Ssr
New member
Username: Ssr
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, May 03, 2009 - 8:36 am: |
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SSR (stainless steel rat) givin to me from friends many years ago from my cave diving days and also tribute to one of my favorite authers who wrote books of the same title, or BeerSlayer, theres no imagination behind that one |
Brassmonkey
Junior Member
Username: Brassmonkey
Post Number: 29
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 4:25 pm: |
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When I was a kid, I went by Sneaky Snake. Through my teens I went by lowrider because I rode a motorcycle. My junior year of high school, my cb friends got together one night and decided to dub me "The Brass Monkey" and I have kept it ever since. That was about the time the Beastie Boys came out with the song.
James
The Brass Monkey
2SF999
PW589
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Ak3383
Member
Username: Ak3383
Post Number: 51
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 7:55 pm: |
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I took my AM handle from my Dad when he gave me his radios. My Dad and I are both electricians and he used the handle "Sparkie" starting sometime in the late sixties. |
Bullseye
Intermediate Member
Username: Bullseye
Post Number: 334
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 10:02 pm: |
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Marauding hordes of armadillos used to destroy my dads backyard. One pleasant evening we spent about 3 hours shooting them and dad and my brothers could'nt believe everyone i shot was in the head in marginal to bad light as they would let me shoot only when they were at the edge of the circle of light from dads shed.AND SO
Bullseye/CEF#110/Mem. Since 1/18/2002
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Southerntigerll
New member
Username: Southerntigerll
Post Number: 4
Registered: 6-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 8:23 pm: |
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I got my handle simply by catching "Nightcrawlers" for the local tackle shop way back in the day..31yrs back to be exact... hence the handle Nightcrawler... |
Yankeeboy323
New member
Username: Yankeeboy323
Post Number: 9
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 10:41 am: |
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Well my grandfather being the Mel Tillis fan he was, I drank coke alot back in the day and I was running around with a cowboy hat on so Coca Cola Cowboy was hung on me. Years later making the 35 mile drive to work every morning in Jacksonville FL, talking to the truck drivers, I was going by Rebel, trying to be a badass LOL well the truck drivers kept asking me "why Rebel? You sound more like a Yankeeboy" (I am actually from MI) three years of making that drive, it just stuck. Thinking about changing it to Gunsmoke though, in honor of an old old friend that has past away. |
Ironmike
Junior Member
Username: Ironmike
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 8:09 pm: |
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Mine came from my temper at work! |
Knight_watch
Member
Username: Knight_watch
Post Number: 54
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 6:49 am: |
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I got my handle from a buddy's ex-girlfriend she said it fit me to a tee, Mavrick. She also gave my buddy his handle, Ice Man, bacause he was so cold. There may be a connection to a movie that was popular at the time and just so happened to be her favorite movie. Any guesses??
Mavrick
Charlie-Echo-Foxtrot 856
(CEF-856)
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 854
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7:45 pm: |
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I had moved to Denver, CO and was new to CB radio as well. So that makes you a "Rookie". Went by that for a few years, but in meantime started going by Kangaroo. Still use that today. when people ask why Kangaroo, I tell them because I bounce around from town to town. And that is what I do in my business travels. 
Bounce around from town to town, from the Carolinas to Colorado.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Woodstock
New member
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 7:34 am: |
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When I was 15 years old,I was over a friends house and noticed a sticker of woodstock and snoopy on her mic.Woodstock was holding a rifle and under it it said,this radio is property of_____ and woodstock is guarding it.Plus at that time I had long blonde hair,like Woodstock.I have had that handle ever since,and I will be 50 this month. |
Weatherman49
Member
Username: Weatherman49
Post Number: 64
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009 - 9:04 pm: |
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when i was about 14 i got into radio cause my dad used 2 drive a truck. I took his handle of silver streak but some how it didnt feel right so i started looking 4 another. at the time there werent a lot of people on the air in my neck of the woods except an old couple who had a base setup that i would talk 2 every evening. I live in an area where severe weather is a part of life and i was constantly aware of the weather and would give the older couple daily weather reports that i had gotten from the radio tv and scanner. one night while talking I told them I was looking for my own handle and they suggested I go by weatherman because of my constant vigil on the weather. it stuck and until this day I havent heard anyone else use it. may they rest in peace. 73s Peaches and Nutbuster! |
Goat373
Intermediate Member
Username: Goat373
Post Number: 362
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 - 2:20 am: |
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well...goat rider...
<====Thats Why. lol
But I started in high school with Penguin. The local gave it to me and I have no clue why.
Brian
CEF#0574
KI4LXH
HAM#163
"Yes, My truck does have a lot of antenna on it...and?"
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