'Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a multivehicle wreck of a movie" and "slack stuff, missing as a sizzling love story, missing as the kind of funny anti-authoritarian statement the song was, arriving well past the peak of the CB phenomenon, making no statement one way or the other about trucks or truckers."'
I fail to see what this has to do with an AUDIO forum. Peckinpah's cameo as a sound man?
No disrespect can be taken because we all respect Maple weeds, and mostly respect the Canadian flag.
Much fun and smiling but if things escalate the guy in blue wearing the funny hat STILL has a loaded 9mm pistol hanging from his belt.
Ya, but it's a water gun too.STILL has a loaded 9mm pistol hanging from his belt.
And if you want a virgin that will cost you a McIntosh.For something like a small handheld AM 6 transistor radio, it is six wives with their children
For a full blown AM/FM/SW stereo radio it is one wife!
Slightly used maybe a Dynaco with the original iron. Tubes will be new production EH (From Russia with love).
WOW was a real station from before that cartoon until the 1980s. At first WOW was teken by a steamship, but it retired in 1926. Today it would be on the K side of the Mississippi but the line was more west when they started and they were allowed to keep the W for some decades.
https://archives.nebraska.edu/agents/corporate_entities/207https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXSP#History
WHAM is still on the air and strong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHAM_(AM)#History
The current KICK started in 1950. There may have been an earlier licensee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KICK_(AM)#History
Since 2014 we have had KRAP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRAP(more Watts in my yard-light than their nightime signal.) (Their Wikipedia page is krap too. Some bogus logos and links?)
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I used to listen to some of those radios (or their heirs) up to the 80´s from Argentina, at night, using a 30 meter long wire oriented E-W (so its lobe pointed N-S) into a WW2 Lancaster bomber radio.
Mind you, regular broadcast band AM, not shortwave !!!! .... which was nothing short of a miracle.
But I was in a rural town 100 miles West from Buenos Aires, so I was in a relatively interference free area, and my antenna deaf side pointed towards Buenos Aires so just by chance I avoided a lot of local pollution.
After the 80´s it became impossible to pick useful signal from background noise.
Oh well.
Still have an Eddystone marine Radio but I have not turned it on for decades.
Mind you, regular broadcast band AM, not shortwave !!!! .... which was nothing short of a miracle.
But I was in a rural town 100 miles West from Buenos Aires, so I was in a relatively interference free area, and my antenna deaf side pointed towards Buenos Aires so just by chance I avoided a lot of local pollution.
After the 80´s it became impossible to pick useful signal from background noise.
Oh well.
Still have an Eddystone marine Radio but I have not turned it on for decades.