Crow Tales

[thetank]

                                                              My Favorite Movies

The film I could watch every day is   The Fifth Element

Bruce Willis, Milla Jovochick, and Chris Tucker doing his Ruubbeeey red routine

Gary Oldman is ace as the baddy demonstrating the ultimate assault rifle

And Ian Holm as the quiet monk

Other movies I like are;

Batman Begins

Gladiator because of the music, and I knew all the Extras in it

And The Dark Knight, 

Dark City ,  with Jennifer Connelly

/post imo

and the pod race in The Phantom menace

/any respect I ever had for Crow

[The-Crow]

What pod race

[The-Crow]

found an old poker report from 2005

Trip Report in Poker magazine
Cavendish Classic 2005
Paul "Actionjack" Jackson
26 Apr 2005


A few faces were there including Julian Thew (is older than he looks), Tony Kendall (is as old as he looks) and Carlo Citrone (nice suntan). When we arrived at the club we see a satellite for the main event with 3 left including Julian Thew and his granddad Tony Kendall. Naturally it was assumed a certain amount of soft play might occur, on the basis that if Julian was too rough his granddad might not take him to the park to feed the ducks, but consistent with his normal straight playing when old granddad went all in Julian called him with J 3 off suit and knocked him out. Tony walked off looking for his pipe and slippers muttering J3 off suit to himself and something about ducks, or at least it sounded like ducks.

[The-Crow]

After seeing The Sicilians list of cars on Tighty's Thread . I went to visit my neighbor who collects cars

He has 5 now all Aston Martins  greedy sod

[bolt pp]

being an avid fan of vintage automobiles can you give me your address so i can inspect his collection in person, so as not to bother him best to do it when he's not about, when is that?

[The-Crow]

But heres one in the street that I cannot name

Anyone know what it is

It has very nice leather seats, dash board and radio

[bolt pp]

thats columbos car

[celtic]

But heres one in the street that I cannot name

Anyone know what it is

It has very nice leather seats, dash board and radio

nissan figaro i think crow. mainly imported from the far east.

[bolt pp]

But heres one in the street that I cannot name

Anyone know what it is

It has very nice leather seats, dash board and radio

nissan figaro i think crow. mainly imported from the far east.

bollox, columbo wouldnt drive an Asian car!

[Claw75]

being an avid fan of vintage automobiles can you give me your address so i can inspect his collection in person, so as not to bother him best to do it when he's not about, when is that?

 

[The-Crow]

                                   Well Done Nissan Figaro is the correct answer                    looked it up

[celtic]

                                   Well Done Nissan Figaro is the correct answer                    looked it up

do i win a prize?

[The-Crow]

                                     You have the joy and satisfaction of knowing you were right

[The-Crow]

                                                                     The Loss of C B Radio

Before the internet got going and there were no such things as E mails, the only way pals could chat was on the radio, or the telephone.

In the early 1980's the English CB band was 20 channels around 27.800 Mhz, from 27.600 up to nearly 28.000Mhz

Anyone over 18 could pay 15 pounds for a Licence to transmit and receive. About this time , hand held CB sets became available from

any good Radio shack ,like Tandy,even Argos sold them. Home Bases were much rarer, and a valued items.

Soon the channels were flooded with teenagers playing music all day, thinking they were a music radio station.

The calling channel was 19, where "Breakers" could make contact with a pal and "Take it "to a new channel for a quiet chat

Radio Clubs started and members met up once a month for a social Bash at their local Social Club

I was a member of Hotel Bravo in Bedfordshire, and we met at Marston Mortaine Social Club

There were many "Characters" on the air and friendships were soon made .

We all had nicknames , like blonde members do now,"Metal Micky, Lovely lady, Aquarius,Bass man Paul"

There was another set of channels called Mid-Block from 27.400 down to 26.800 Mhz

These picked up European CB and did not speak in English

In between these 2 Legal bands were The "sidebanders".

CB used a continuous carrier wave and the speech was added as modulation to the frequency (FM) or much earlier to the amplitude (AM)

Most of the power needed was in making a strong carrier wave.

Side band did not use a carrier wave , they only transmitted the speech part , using far less power

 so if you did not speak there was no signal.

This was and still is illegal in UK as the signal is so strong it can interfere with TV signals

The most popular sideband club was Alpha Tango, and every Sunday they would hold contests to get as many contacts as possible

they overlapped the English CB channels and often blanked out our local signals

CB transmitted at 0.5 or 2 watts maximum allowed, the sidebanders used 100 watt boosters

During certain conditions the CB signals would skip between cloud layers and you could pick up people from all over the country

It needed v hot high pressure weather systems, and only worked during the day to work on CB

Sideband however used the upper layers of air and signals would skip all the time.

I "borrowed "a friends sideband set once or twice and made contact with many countries

They sent me a card called a QSL card recording the chat and the signal strength, time and date of contact

I have cards from USA east coast, and from mid Russia in the Urals where the high mountains get out a good signal

Some people had cards from Canada, and even Australia the furthest of all

Every Club had a post office box number to give over the air to the other countries

The club sec picked up the cards once a week from the main Post office

The arrival of the internet killed most of this off

Chat rooms and YouTube have taken over

A PC also gives off a strong signal that blankets out CB signals

So if anyone remembers a CB breaker called "Crazy Tony" who spoke in a very dodgy Italian accent


Please drop me a line

[The-Crow]

Ok tonight was a chat with                                    Tikay and Norman Pace   playing the Open

THE-CROW> Hi Mr. Normski
THE-CROW> your doing better than Tikay
THE-CROW> he was down to 550
_Normski_> yeah I saw
THE-CROW> do you look at blondepoker Normski
_Normski_> once in awhile
THE-CROW> you must have played the Hendon Mob
THE-CROW> Any of them good pals with you
GREGHOGG> crow your everywhere
_Normski_> know 'em a bit
THE-CROW> Do play at Luton
_Normski_> now and again
THE-CROW> Are you better than Compo
_Normski_> everyone is better than compo
THE-CROW> lol
THE-CROW> Whats your Meta -Game
_Normski_> win

THE-CROW> when you play Tikay heads up who normally wins
_Normski_> we never play \heads up I'm afraid....to busy working
THE-CROW> Tikay never gets to heads up
THE-CROW> have you got a game plan
_Normski_> not really...when you are a bounty they all call your raises so have to wait for hands

THE-CROW> come on Normski
THE-CROW> get busy
_Normski_> lasting longer
_Normski_> i hope
THE-CROW> Do you still do stand up Normski
_Normski_> nah not without gareth
_Normski_> hard work on your own
THE-CROW> So where is he ?
_Normski_> filming in yorkshire
THE-CROW> oh v nice
_Normski_> I prefere feltham
THE-CROW> see him often ?
_Normski_> yeah...he lives around the corner from me

-Dino66-> new pensioner in summer wine

Normski goes out

THE-CROW> awwwwwwwww
THE-CROW> unlucky m8
THE-CROW> 39 minutes

Normski goes out 1 minute before Tikay