I could mention a person I heard a few days ago on C19 CB to the west of me I heard talking about his amp that was putting out about 1800 to 2000W, but that isn't the point of my post...
More notable to me is what I ran across while heading down south the other day.
The radio started picking up a person talking on FRS ch12. As I kept driving, it kept getting stronger and clearer. Finally I got close enough to hear some of the other people he was talking to. They were having a round table about the rainy weather they had been having. I had already traveled several miles and they kept getting stronger.
I grabbed my moto talk about and did a pl scan. They were running without a pl tone. So I tried getting their attention. They couldn't hear me. Another mile, and one of them finally heard me. I ask them what equipment they was running because it was blasting me out of the car.
The “big one” said he was running a Syntor 110W mobile into a 15db gain yagi up about 46 feet on a hill top. It was pointed in the direction of the small town near by. A couple of the others said they was running 40W/50W modified ham rigs into a ground plane or diskcone scanner antenna. One 25w moto radius. One other was on a relm 25W mobile in his car. There was a couple others on channel that were evidently running FRS/GMRS radios but I could just barely hear some of them. There was a few that were strong that didn't want to say what they was running.
On of the others kind of blabbed on them by saying the reason they didn't want to disclose what they were running is they were hams and didn't want to “advertise” aka “stick their neck out”. But there was a possibility that one of the hams was running something more powerful than the “big one”
They said some of them was also on CB, and VHF MURS if I wanted to get a hold of them that way.
I drove about another 18 miles in the rolling hills before their signals started to drop off. The “big one” dropped out first as I drove out of the direction his antenna was pointing.
All in all, non of them appeared to be running any “noise toys” the only roger beeps I heard was on the FRS radios that were on frequency.
More notable to me is what I ran across while heading down south the other day.
The radio started picking up a person talking on FRS ch12. As I kept driving, it kept getting stronger and clearer. Finally I got close enough to hear some of the other people he was talking to. They were having a round table about the rainy weather they had been having. I had already traveled several miles and they kept getting stronger.
I grabbed my moto talk about and did a pl scan. They were running without a pl tone. So I tried getting their attention. They couldn't hear me. Another mile, and one of them finally heard me. I ask them what equipment they was running because it was blasting me out of the car.
The “big one” said he was running a Syntor 110W mobile into a 15db gain yagi up about 46 feet on a hill top. It was pointed in the direction of the small town near by. A couple of the others said they was running 40W/50W modified ham rigs into a ground plane or diskcone scanner antenna. One 25w moto radius. One other was on a relm 25W mobile in his car. There was a couple others on channel that were evidently running FRS/GMRS radios but I could just barely hear some of them. There was a few that were strong that didn't want to say what they was running.
On of the others kind of blabbed on them by saying the reason they didn't want to disclose what they were running is they were hams and didn't want to “advertise” aka “stick their neck out”. But there was a possibility that one of the hams was running something more powerful than the “big one”
They said some of them was also on CB, and VHF MURS if I wanted to get a hold of them that way.
I drove about another 18 miles in the rolling hills before their signals started to drop off. The “big one” dropped out first as I drove out of the direction his antenna was pointing.
All in all, non of them appeared to be running any “noise toys” the only roger beeps I heard was on the FRS radios that were on frequency.
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