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Re: [Amps] Good engineering...More Car Computer Horror Stories

To: WA3GIN <wa3gin@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Good engineering...More Car Computer Horror Stories
From: n8de@thepoint.net
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:19:44 -0400
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My story has nothing to do with RF.

When my truck odometer rolled over from 89999.9 miles .. it went to  
99000.0 miles ... and I lost 9,000 miles on the truck's value.

Even the truck engineers couldn't explain that one.

73
Don
N8DE



Quoting WA3GIN <wa3gin@comcast.net>:

> Most Car OBComputers I've seen are completely sealed in metal cases...some
> of the accessory boards are not...when I owned an Izusu Rodeo I could open
> up the automatic door locks running 50 watts on 40m SSB.  In fact for grins
> one night we went to the dealership and with 500 watts unlocked all the
> trucks in the lot...what a hoot. But that was 10-15yrs ago.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Clements" <philc@texascellnet.com>
> To: "'mikea'" <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>; <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:53 PM
> Subject: [Amps] Good engineering...More Car Computer Horror Stories
>
>
>>
>>> > If that's the case, I wonder how many incidents are caused when joe
>>> > trucker pulls up alongside with his 400-watt solid state CB "linear"
>>> > while chatting with his pals.
>>>
>>> > "Ten-fourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr good buddy"
>
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