The Lagoaty man quickly exited the truck where he was brought to the ground by a police dog. According to motorists, monitoring the negotiations on a CB Radio, the man only wanted to talk with President Clinton, drop his truck load and get home for Thanksgiving. The trucker reportedly enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal courtesy of the Morgan County Sheriffs Department. According to the areas Society of Broadcast Engineers newsletter, the station is broadcasting techno and rap music with no talk. The transmitter appears to be somewhere in downtown Portland or close in on the east side.
Monitors say that it has enough power to be heard over most of the city on good receivers.
Yet another ham radio manufacturer has gone belly up. This time its 624 Kits of Spartanburg, South Carolina. The companys's owner Pat Bunn, N4LTA, is telling customers he is no longer able to furnish technical support and the company is pretty much history. Word of 624 Kits demise comes less than a week after Advanced Electronic Applications shut its doors and put out word that it needs to find a buyer very quickly. The Christmas Radio Shack flyer shows a closeout on their popular HTX-404 UHF handheld.