The Place: The outskirts of Norristown Pa.
The Time: Jan 1976
The Channel: 10
Recorded With: A cassette recorder from a Courier Caravelle
The Characters:
Mitch (242): The first guy on the tape. Very over modulated, because his mike is wide open. Mitch runs an SBE Trinidad with a D-104.
Rose: Asks, "What in the hell is going on?" Rose is using an SBE Trinidad with a Turner +3 Desk mic
Dave: Shows off his technical prowess, as he slides off frequency to imitate the squatters. Dave's rig is a Lafayette Comstat 25 a D-104.
Pete: Person recording this tape. Asks Mitch, "How’s my Mod?" He runs a Courier Caravelle with a D-104.
Kitchen Maid: Asks about "FCC" vans, in town. She runs a Regency CR 142 Base with a D-104.
Uncle Albert: High pitched voiced kid, who offers up his thoughts on where the carriers are originating from. He runs a Midland 13-862b with a Turner mobile +2.
And a few comments from some of the "Squatters", are also heard in between the ruckus.
Background: The truckers had recently vacated channel 10, to move up to 19. Our local group had then moved from an increasingly more crowded channel (11), to the now mostly open channel 10. We adopted channel 10 as our new home, and as many groups were guilty of back then, we became somewhat territorial about it. Newcomers were certainly welcome to join our group, but we didn’t tolerate other groups trying to set up shop right over top of us, which is what the case was in this little excerpt. The signature element of this group of "squatters", was the old tube rig that the main guy ran, which was suffering from a bad case of crystal drift and generally weak modulation. A fact which we capitalized on during this (and subsequent) exchange(s).
No Squatters 5:49 minutes, mp3 format