POTA haters and purposeful interference.

[Mudfoot]

My dad volunteered for REACT. I remember tagging along to some of the "get together" meeting. My best memories were the CB Jamborees. They weren't small gatherings. Usually held at the County fairgrounds. I got a white helmet and a big 5 D cell flashlihght with red cone to direct traffic to park.

Plenty of entertainment and food. People wore their club jackets and shirts with their handles. They were always fun and family friendly. I remember driving to the Outer Banks with my girlfriend and mom. We stopped at a roadside rest on the way. We got a free cup of coffee and some cookies from a react booth. It was the mid 80's. I think that was the last one I ever saw.

When I worked EMS, we took our CB out of our Ambulance around 1982. We kept our base radio at the station. Our last radio was a Cobra 19. We usually listened to the locals talk on channel 10. I took it out around 2002.

 

[W4KVW]

My dad volunteered for REACT. I remember tagging along to some of the "get together" meeting. My best memories were the CB Jamborees. They weren't small gatherings. Usually held at the County fairgrounds. I got a white helmet and a big 5 D cell flashlihght with red cone to direct traffic to park.

Plenty of entertainment and food. People wore their club jackets and shirts with their handles. They were always fun and family friendly. I remember driving to the Outer Banks with my girlfriend and mom. We stopped at a roadside rest on the way. We got a free cup of coffee and some cookies from a react booth. It was the mid 80's. I think that was the last one I ever saw.

When I worked EMS, we took our CB out of our Ambulance around 1982. We kept our base radio at the station. Our last radio was a Cobra 19. We usually listened to the locals talk on channel 10. I took it out around 2002.

I still have my Club Vest from the ADF Operators from Channel 5. It was the Armadillo Operators. I was just a teen aged kid, so the vest no longer fits me but it's still in very good condition. I was ADF-1746 "SIX-SHOOTER". My dad was ADF-1748 "BOOTLEGGER". The vest has a Very Large Armadillo patch that covers most all of the back of the vest that is made of what looks like Bright Blue Crushed Velvet. Someone offered to buy it from me many years ago as a collectable, but they never came & picked it up? I'm pretty sure the group was formed in Texas originally. I'm in Northeast Florida & the group had members across the USA. I'm sure that most all are now deceased.

W4KVW

 

[BC Coyote]

I was involved with REACT on Vancouver Island in the mid to late 1990's. It was pretty much the last gasp of the organization in Canada at that time I think. I had the overnight monitor shift on certain days of the week and kept a radio on channel 9 in my bedroom. I did it for a few years and in all that time I never dealt with any kind of real emergency. Just directing lost motorists and the occasional request for a tow truck to be called.

Our director at the time was a fellow who went by "Little John" and he saved a guys life on channel 9...........it was late at night and he heard a call for help down in the static. He got back to the guy and it transpired he was thousands of miles away in the Northwest Territories and had broken down in the middle of nowhere at -30 F. It took responders almost two hours to reach the guy, but he survived with just a case of hypothermia and some frostbite. The NWT first responders were nice enough to call Little John the next morning and let him know he had likely saved the guys life. So that was at least one time that REACT & CB radio proved to be a worthwhile service!

 

[AudioShockwav]

I was involved with REACT on Vancouver Island in the mid to late 1990's. It was pretty much the last gasp of the organization in Canada at that time I think. I had the overnight monitor shift on certain days of the week and kept a radio on channel 9 in my bedroom. I did it for a few years and in all that time I never dealt with any kind of real emergency. Just directing lost motorists and the occasional request for a tow truck to be called.

Our director at the time was a fellow who went by "Little John" and he saved a guys life on channel 9...........it was late at night and he heard a call for help down in the static. He got back to the guy and it transpired he was thousands of miles away in the Northwest Territories and had broken down in the middle of nowhere at -30 F. It took responders almost two hours to reach the guy, but he survived with just a case of hypothermia and some frostbite. The NWT first responders were nice enough to call Little John the next morning and let him know he had likely saved the guys life. So that was at least one time that REACT & CB radio proved to be a worthwhile service!

I was listening to 9 one night around 9 pm, guy gets on calling for help,
He, his wife and two children were towing a fifth wheel up near Edison Camp, around Shaver lake and got caught in a nasty storm.
They had gotten stuck in deep snow earlier that day, no cell and were now about out of fuel.
I contacted Fresno county sheriff's, made the report and within 20 minutes they were in contact with him on channel 9.
Short story, it took SAR on snowmobiles to get them out, truck a trailer left until after the storm to be recovered.
Often it was something like wheeling in a off road area, broken drive line, mechanical issues, can you call a family member to help kind of thing.
Cellular changed all that.


73
Jeff