Winter CB prep for snowbelt readers by the Blue Kazoo
The Blue Kazoo urges October CB readiness for snowbelt winters with a practical check list. Gather and test sets, prepare an emergency base, rig an attic or compact antenna, and ensure power by charging and battery backup. Readers may send general-interest CB experiences to Field Newspaper Syndicate in Chicago.
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U.S
Ma Bell
Blue Kazoo
The
c/o Field Newspaper Syndicate
N. Wabash Ave
Chicago
Ill
Solar cycle may halve CB range in rural areas
Government scientist Skip Berry reports a near term solar cycle peak could cut CB radio range by more than 50 percent in areas under 100,000 people, with metropolitan reception largely unaffected. The study for the Commerce Department notes ionospheric skip, long-distance skywave signals, disrupts local CB use, leading the FCC to ban skip on the 27 megahertz band.
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Washington
Skip
Leslie A. Berry
Berry
Commerce Department
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Boulder
Colo
Cber
The
Federal Communications Commission
Hawkeye REACT plans meeting at Police Academy
Hawkeye REACT members will meet at 6 30 p m today at the Police Academy building 1115 C St SW to discuss CB radio monitoring on emergency Channel 9 and how solar cycle activity may cut CB range. Rural and small town users could lose up to half their range for years while city ranges suffer less due to man made noise.
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Hawkeye React 3038
Police Academy
C St. SW
Hawkeye React
Johns-Manville Announces $9 Million Expansion Plan
Johns-Manville Corp. said Tuesday it will expand at six plants to lift polyvinyl chloride pipe output by 40 million pounds, about 17 percent. Plants are in Butner North Carolina Green Cove Springs Florida Jackson Tennessee Wilton Iowa Pueblo Colorado and McNary Oregon.
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UPI
Johns-Manville Corp
Butner
N.C
Green Cove Springs
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Jackson
Women Psychotherapist to Speak on Mental Health at Coe
Dr. Anne Wilson Schaef titled Women Mental Health will discuss the female system male system at Coe College Sinclair Auditorium Oct 23 at 7 30 p.m. Registration $2, students with ID $1, Coe College staff and faculty free with ID. Free lecture at McKinley Junior High School auditorium Oct 23 at 1 30 p.m discusses dual systems and social causes open to public.
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Sinclair
Coe College
Schaef
Women’s Institute of Alternative Psychotherapy
Boulder
Colo
Denver
Women's Movement
U.S
Canada
The
Mental Health Association of
Linn County
Dr. Schaef
McKinley Junior
Colombia coffee export records set in crop year end
The National Coffee Growers Federation said Colombia produced 10.7 million 60 kilo bags and exported 7.55 million bags in the crop year ending Sept 30, setting two records. Also note actress Jean Peters birth on this date in 1926.
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UPI
Colombia
National
Coffee Growers Federation
Jean Peters
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