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    The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!

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    Image of wkiernan wkiernan
    03/08/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    Anybody remember when, in order to keep channel X from walking all over channel (X-1) and channel (X+1), FCC regs prohibited frequency synthesis, you were required to have a separate crystal tuned for each channel you wanted? Only the expensive high-end transceivers had crystal sockets for all 23 channels, but even those, the 23 crystals together cost more than the radio you plug them into.


    Remember those assholes who'd buy 250-watt or 1000-watt linear amplifiers, intended for the 10-meter Ham Radio band, and just stomp all over everybody? And the FCC CB cops had cars with directional antennas they'd drive around trying to hunt those bums down, so they could tear down their illegal over-20-feet-high antennas and seize their radios.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/08/09

    @wkiernan: I remember that, but I'm not going to admit it.
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    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    Gee, I need that in an avocado color. Too bad.

    23 channels, 40, who cares.

    You just need breaker 19.
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    My first thought when I saw "Van: Johnson" in the headline was that this was going to be about Van Johnson's CB.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @Triborough: "He was the well-mannered nice guy on screen you wanted your daughter to marry."


    Yeah, everyone's daughter needs some Van Johnson, right?


    Right?

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    Wow... This is awesome in a way few other things are.
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    I worked part-time for the Radio Shack in Ojai in Junior High in the mid-70s. Not much is more saddening than watching you boss fuss and moan when he has a store full of 23-channel CBs when they announced expanding the band to 40 channels. Instance unmarketable obsolescence...
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    03/08/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing:

    Ojai, California, home of Jaime Summers, the Bionic Woman... Take Hwy. 101 to Hwy. 33 from Ventura, then Hwy 150 to Ojai. The Radio Shack I was working for was last located on Matilija St., just West of Montgomery St. It was a Radio Shack franchise, known as Ojai Valley Electronics (OVE) back in the 1970s.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    At least it's not a Johnson Massager. You don't want a preowned one of those.
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    Image of Captain Liverspots Captain Liverspots
    03/07/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: I dunno, I think The Missus qualifies as a preowned Johnson Massager.


    Just not anytime soon if she reads this.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/07/09

    @Captain Liverspots ran when parked: Oh daaaaamn! At least you know she probably hasn't been with some really sleazy guy in his shag-carpeted conversion van...
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    You can hook up a PA to it! Awesome. Every pedovan needs a PA.


    "Heeere kiddy kiddy kiddy!"


    OK, I just scared myself.

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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    03/07/09

    @engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star: That honestly just sent a shiver down my spine.
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    03/07/09

    @Dhillaz: Me too! And I'm the one that wrote it!
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/07/09

    @engineerd thinks cannoli is deserving of a star: *Backs away slowly*
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/07/09

    In reply to The Ultimate CB Radio For Your Custom Van: Johnson Messenger 130A!
    On Jalopnik, I'm .357, but on the CB, I,m Mack Daddy.
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    03/07/09

    @.357:*I'm
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