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Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 77
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 3:18 pm: | 
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my girl seems to be very jealous of my cb set up, not because its nice but because she says i spend to much time talking on it and buying new things for it then i do with her. when ever i try to work on my cb equipment she trys to find some why to pull me away and even has asked if i love her more then my radio lol. any one else have this kinda problem |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 2027
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 3:40 pm: |
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Nope not here!
The 1st Sargant enjoy's radio as much as I do and she has her own equipment.
She is alway's Polishing & Cleaning and keep's everything Spotless.
She even keep's a Large Ziplock Bag over her Silver Salute Desk Mic so that NO dust will get on it when not in use.
Guess I am very lucky to have a Wife that enjoy's everything that I enjoy.
Lon
Tech808 |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1384
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 4:09 pm: |
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They are mostly all the same in that manner, just give them fresh water a pet once in a while and it will work out. |
Boxcar
Intermediate Member
Username: Boxcar
Post Number: 263
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 4:44 pm: |
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Hey Pp1616, I went through the same thing at first but now that she's got a hobby like putting together scrapbooks and pic's and so fourth, I haven't been feeling so guilty lately. It's only when they kick us to the doghouse that we might have to chill out! LOL!!! Oh well, my dog loves me unconditional!! Ha!!!!
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Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 78
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 4:50 pm: |
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i forgot to turn the radio off one time when she was over and we where in bed and some one keyed up over the squelch "hey 1616 u there". omg she want off the wall lol i felt bad because i had just forogt it was on because it was so quite |
Sitm
Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 85
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 5:00 pm: |
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Mine wife encouraged me to get back into the radio hobby. So far it has been nice. She does't talk at all on them, but she will sit and listen to the rag chewing |
Mdiver
Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 71
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 6:50 pm: |
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Karatebutcher--Yep pets work the wife has 10 cats now.
Pp1616 --good luck..
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Rob5mike
Member
Username: Rob5mike
Post Number: 99
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 6:51 pm: |
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I don't have that problem either!My wife knows that I am always going to have a hobby and this is the best one I have ever had,at least I am around the home 20 more than I was when my hobby was DuneBuggies.Might be time to upgrade to a more radio friendly Girlfriend.  |
Boxcar
Intermediate Member
Username: Boxcar
Post Number: 264
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 11:05 pm: |
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That's very true rob5mike! At least it's spent at home. Not money wasted in bars or out doing whatever. It's not that bad sometimes. I guess it's a hobby that actually doesn't make much sense unless you know can understand it. I've pretty much put in terms as this. Imagine sticking an antenna on the house and putting a radio in the house and talking halfway around the world without paying for it whether it be internet, cell or regular phone useage. Hmm? I'd rather key a radio up than yack on the phone for hours! Ha!!!!
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Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 79
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 12:36 am: |
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i hate talking on the phone lol but love the radio |
Ozzie
Intermediate Member
Username: Ozzie
Post Number: 164
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 8:37 am: |
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Well as I have said before - I met my wife because of radio. She was here In Oregon and I was still living in Brisbane Australia. |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 315
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 1:16 pm: |
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My G/F doesnt say much.. LOL that is until i spend over 500.00 on radio stuff!!!! Then i hear about it!! |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 81
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 1:30 pm: |
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well i have a credit card i use only for radio equipment that she dont know about so she dont have to know how much i spend =) |
Ryan
Member
Username: Ryan
Post Number: 88
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 2:12 pm: |
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i tend to put the 11 meter equipment away if im not traveling or have no friends locally to chat with. right now a lot of people i know are getting them in their mobiles so thats that much less cellphone time wasted for them on the road. we are also getting into summer so CB hide and seek, or capture the radio flag games are happening a lot more now. just get some fun stuff like that going in your area and she might be a little more into it |
Lowpowerhal
Intermediate Member
Username: Lowpowerhal
Post Number: 180
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 2:21 pm: |
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Pp1616 Give her a kiss and a hug, Walk her to the radio and show her and let her talk . I met shy people that wouldnt talk in person but would talk your ears off on the radio. But at the same time you got do what she wants to do also. 2 way street my freind. Have fun |
Cbblackbeard
Junior Member
Username: Cbblackbeard
Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 1:43 pm: |
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Before I could tell that my girlfriend was a little jealous even tho she never said anything, but I put a radio in her car so she could talk to me and she likes it alot now. I think she likes the attention that she gets from the truckers around here. Everytime a female voice keys up, the truckers all line up to talk. |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 322
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 3:03 pm: |
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Oh man they go NUTSO!!!!! I used to date a girl a few years ago and she had a CB in her car and they would actually find the channel we were on (they would see her talking on the radio through the windows) and try to talk to her when she was talking to me!!! It was hilarious!!! LOL! |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 617
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 11:20 am: |
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Mrs 833 loves old antique tube type radios. Maybe even more than me. So, as long as my radios have tubes in them, Mrs. 833 likes them too. I don't talk on the radio, I like listening to SW mostly. Mrs. 833 doesn't even mind the 1937 Crosley SW radio on the bookcase headboard over our bed. As soon as I plopped a solid state radio there for some LF listening, she had a fit. Put a Hallicrafters there and she is fine- as long as it glows in the dark and smells like tubes anyway. I need to find a tube radio that goes down to 10 kHz...... |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1391
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 5:05 pm: |
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833 please e mail me , my wift erased your address, thanks KB |
Ozzie
Intermediate Member
Username: Ozzie
Post Number: 173
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 9:27 am: |
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So does Mrs Ozzie. IN fact I'd love to find her an old Siltronics like she used to own..
Tech 833 look for a MArconi Atalanta.Picked one up a few years back, refurbished it and ended up with a radio that was great. Running into a 15ft wire strung inside it would receive stations better than my IC-706 or FRG-7 running into external antennas.
Unfortunately too heavy to bring from Australia with me. Sigh... |
Gezus306
Junior Member
Username: Gezus306
Post Number: 46
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 6:56 pm: |
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Beeeeen there . . . done that !
Cost me a girl and one month before the
the big " I do",, she takes a walk and finds
the "other" man ! YEP ! Boys, it could happen to YOU ! Better get thing straight now before
it is tooooooo late ! |
Snowfire
Junior Member
Username: Snowfire
Post Number: 47
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 8:28 pm: |
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I have the same problem Pp1616, my g/f hate's my radio hobby. She said's I spend more time and money on my radio's than her(She might be right).
Cef294 |
Pp1616
Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 97
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 2:56 pm: |
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hey snow fire i got the bills to prove it lmao she was away on a trip for school and i picked up this guys whole set up.. voyage vr9000, d104 hand mic brand new,wilson 1000, and a old style power supply 25amp 27 surge with amp and volt meter with adjustable voltage for 205$. i was lucky she didnt realize i had a new radio because i used to keep my old ss3900 there and my buddy used to let me borrow the power supply hehehe.. mine dont hate it she just thinks i love my radio more then her lmao its not true i love her more it just i dont see her on sundays now becuase of the net so shes jealous |
Taz
Senior Member
Username: Taz
Post Number: 2658
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 4:19 pm: |
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No I havent had that problem and I hope I never do! |
Nlmadog
Junior Member
Username: Nlmadog
Post Number: 36
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 11:39 pm: |
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Hummmm,Had the wife 20 years and no radios,wife left and got some radios..I think I 'll keep the radios,they won't clean out the bank accounts,take all the furniture and stick me with 3 dogs that I do not like ! |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 332
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2004 - 12:45 am: |
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I dont worry about it.. If she goes bye bye oh well, ill just get another one!!! plenty of fish in da sea!!! |
Snowfire
Junior Member
Username: Snowfire
Post Number: 49
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 12:51 am: |
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Pp1616 you got all that equipment for $205. I think that was a pretty good deal. Well I say she hate's my radio hobbie, maybe she don't hate it, but she just really don't like it. But like Cm3885 said, If she goes bye bye oh well. She can be replaced.
Cef294 |
Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 197
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 9:31 pm: |
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Although I woundn't recommend this for everybody....get rid of the problem! lol Naaa...just teasin. But since my divorce, I have one of my rigs in the living room next to the easy chair and the rest in the radio room itself. Sometimes...divorce IS good! ;) And btw, my girlfriend doesn't mind! |
Cbblackbeard
Junior Member
Username: Cbblackbeard
Post Number: 46
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 6:22 pm: |
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Just to show you how cool my girlfriend is... she is letting me put a 2 pill and an 8 pill in her 1988 Chevy Caprice because I don't have the room for it in my Tacoma. Her car is going to be the "talking car". |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 365
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 2:35 am: |
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My g/f thinks my CB hobby is ridiculous because of the $$$ ive spent foolishly on things she claims i dont need.. Aww well.. LOL. |
Cuddlebear
Intermediate Member
Username: Cuddlebear
Post Number: 134
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 8:50 pm: |
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Had that problem myself once.
She gave me an altamadum.....
She's gone. The radio is still here, so you figure it out. NEVER tell me what to do. I take orders from one man, And thats me. Besides, the radio was worth more. |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 366
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 1:43 am: |
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LOL.. Women hate any competion that drives attention away from them. Face it guys, women are all very high maintenance... |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 647
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 3:42 pm: |
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If that is what you believe, I think you must be doing it wrong.
My QYL helps me with my stuff. Perhaps you simply are not marketing your hobby effectively? |
Cbblackbeard
Junior Member
Username: Cbblackbeard
Post Number: 49
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 11:30 am: |
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I think you have to find a way to include your significant other. I take my girlfriend to the
" O-Kay Corral " with me. That's where all the big CB boys and girls meet every Friday night here in Chicago. |
747
Member
Username: 747
Post Number: 64
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 11:24 pm: |
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If it's not radios then it's something else. Seems they always want to complain about you smothering them, and then when you start paying attention to something else to give them space then you are ignoring them.
It wasn't my radios that killed my marriage, it was my computer. What she never took into account was that the hobby that I had before we even got together would end up being a rather good money maker for me 2 years after we split (lack of money was another thing we always fought about).
Oh well,
Rule #1 - You can't please them.
Rule #2 - When in doubt, see rule #1. |
Waverider
New member
Username: Waverider
Post Number: 9
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 11:52 pm: |
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I have been playing in one band or another for many years. We usually played two weekends a month for a bunch of years. Even took my wife out on the road for a week two years ago so she could see what it really was all about. (hard work) I can assure you my wife would rather have me playing with my radios late at night in the basement then getting home between 3 & 4 AM after a gig. I still do the odd pick up gig and partys but that's it for now. I'm happy (and so is she) playing in the basement late nights with my radios! She is very understanding too. Although I have some new equipment I have a couple of "high maintenance bit****" (Brownings) that require a bit of $$ to be spent on "em from time to time. I just put my old 2950 in her truck and she is having fun with it. I feel very lucky to have her.
73's
CEF335 |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 390
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 1:19 am: |
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My G/F isnt bad shes just rathere high maintenace.. its ok though at least im here playing computers and radios and not out all night doing stupid stuff.... |
Dindin
Member
Username: Dindin
Post Number: 91
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 8:42 pm: |
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for now I'll just say I agree with 747's rules! |
Dan in WA (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 11:59 pm: |
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My wife hates radios and always makes sarcastic "radio widow" remarks. Fortunately, she is very tolerant. I have a lot of CB radios, Ham gear, and old broadcast radios from the 20s and 30s all over in the house and garage. She retaliates by purchasing old treddle sewing machines and pinball games. As space is becoming a premium, I guess we will have to agree to a truce.
Dan |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 180
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 2:49 pm: |
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my girlfriend is trained by me
she does what i say
guess she knows who wheres the pants
here hehe hope she dont read this
or im dead lol |
Dindin
Member
Username: Dindin
Post Number: 98
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 7:01 pm: |
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Jon666,reminds me of a joke i heard a couple days ago,hehehe |
Mdiver
Member
Username: Mdiver
Post Number: 87
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 8:57 pm: |
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How about calling DR.LAURA on her talk radio show !!
just let us no when you do..hehe |
Pp1616
Intermediate Member
Username: Pp1616
Post Number: 114
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 1:15 pm: |
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well guys lol im single so i guess i dont have to worry about it any more |
Bill in AR (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 12:57 am: |
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I met my wife by talking to her on the cb radio. I've recently gotten back into it and i'm enjoying it as much as the first time. My wife really does'nt care if i have a hobby like cb. I've talked on them since i was a young child. Anyway maybe we'll talk to each other someday... |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:04 am: |
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jon 666, do not worry about her reading your post, I called her, is it true she wears a SHOCk COLLAR, and has to go in the other room when company comes over??? |
Cm3885
Intermediate Member
Username: Cm3885
Post Number: 425
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 3:45 pm: |
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Pp1616 UR smart to be single..
Saves you sooo much stress and trouble..
Remember, BEING SINGLE IS NOT A BAD THING!!!! |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 208
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 7:21 pm: |
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thats right
she knows her role
barefoot and pregnent lol |
