Bleed Over From AM17 to AM19

[EAFrizzle]

That's great....but remember people can't talk to people they cannot hear. a 100mw walkie talkie hidden "somewhere" near them, and will stay live for days, was pretty effective too... (or so I read in a book one time).

Oh, they can talk just fine they just can't hear anything at all when i would lock down that 150W for seven or eight hours. A walkie talkie wasn't going to squash any of the brothers in Houston. Heck, we had folks try that on us, we just walked on top of it.

When I say that amp was continuous duty, I mean true 24/7 operation, and I dang well paid enough to get that. Never had a problem at all with that amp, but I toasted two 2950s hammering that box.

We had one guy that wouldn't make noise, he'd lecture. And lecture. A vocalized stream of consciousness that would make your eyes cross after five minutes. It should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

And then we had the Bull Rider. And he was exactly as throwed-off as a bull rider should be. He wasn't into the psyops that we were, he was a member of the Direct Action Branch. He decided that pinning the coax was too temporary a solution, so he went straight to destruction. He pulled down two towers, then tried on one that was properly installed. He didn't get that one down, but he twisted it and shook the beam and antron off the top.

Dang, maybe @slowmover is right, and Houston IS crazy! 🤣

 

[slowmover]

Dang, maybe @slowmover is right, and Houston IS crazy! 🤣

Not part of Texas, as I’ve said. It’s Western Lousy-ana with too much swamp gas.

Them boys in Baytown or Beaumont need to be known as, Mercaptan Mic.

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[MikeinDestin]

Anyone near Newark, NJ has probably heard the "Midnight Cowboy " on channel 19. He usually didn't talk to anyone, just kept saying over and over "They call me the Midnight, midnight, midnight Cowboy. " Used to run serious power too from his big rig. It's a mental illness.

 

[kc2asb]

That's my neck of the woods. Is he is still on the air? I seem to remember hearing someone like that but years and years ago (90's) when I was very active on CB.

Anyone near Newark, NJ has probably heard the "Midnight Cowboy " on channel 19. He usually didn't talk to anyone, just kept saying over and over "They call me the Midnight, midnight, midnight Cowboy. " Used to run serious power too from his big rig. It's a mental illness.

 

[MikeinDestin]

Back in the early 2000's was when I heard him, up to about 2010 when I stopped driving a truck. There used to be another clown near the Tappan Zee Bridge who would say " Baba bouie" (supposedly from Howard Stern Show) all day long. Someone shut him down, or cut his coax.

 

[mark40]

Back in the 70s our group home was channel 8. There was a guy who must have been affiliated with React who would try and chase us off 8, saying we bled over on 9.

 

[kc2asb]

Back in the early 2000's was when I heard him, up to about 2010 when I stopped driving a truck. There used to be another clown near the Tappan Zee Bridge who would say " Baba bouie" (supposedly from Howard Stern Show) all day long. Someone shut him down, or cut his coax.

Both of these guys ring familiar for some reason. I was not on the air much during those years, but I would put the radio on and listen occasionally. Hearing a station from up by the Tappan Zee is a bit of a stretch, though, from my location near Newark.

Our group was on Ch. 32 in the early 90's, but it was pretty much over by the mid 90's. Great group, a mix of ages (myself and about 3 or 4 other guys were the youngest in our late teens) and it seemed there was always someone on to talk to.

 

[niceguy71]

It will all blow over by about 2030.

I got back into CB 2023 and everyone was telling me I better enjoy DX as much as possible as it was going away any day now..... 2 years later and nothing has changed.... anyone know when this 12 year cycle is really supposed to end

 

[slowmover]

I got back into CB 2023 and everyone was telling me I better enjoy DX as much as possible as it was going away any day now..... 2 years later and nothing has changed.... anyone know when this 12 year cycle is really supposed to end

I’ve been grateful my last few errands trips of 35-100/miles that Skip hasn't played much part of negotiating traffic re AM-19.

An hour or so per day was kinda fun. More than that it’s just wearing.

 

[WSAC829]

anyone know when this 12 year cycle is really supposed to end

Helio4Cast
Roughly 2030 - 2031. We are about at its peak right now.

 

[slowmover]

The saving grace of dealing with the problem is that as one improves his mobile radio rig against Skip the better off he is in its lessened condition as well.

NRC radio + best antenna system (5-7’ tall) is like a reserve of quality with which to parse quantity.

Example is: does a hi-fi external speaker matter? Yes, as vocal details despite noise still present is what was always wanted for rapid establishment of rapport.

An approach long understood, but until the advent of integrated DSP (NRC) for CB mobile it was without best effect (results).



Bleedover is more obvious. Less irritating.

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[jcrmadden]

What is this mo'sheen

 

[slowmover]

What is this mo'sheen

Hallicrafters Model SX-88 Communications Receiver (1954)

HALLICRAFTERS SX-88 Shortwave Receiver

“It’s a lot of money for a receiver for certain, but it is a fantastic shortwave receiver as the audio that comes out of it is amazing.

It has 10 watts of audio and into a big speaker–it is second to none. The fidelity is amazing and it is the king of its kind. [For those who like] tube rigs, it is the best of its kind.

Harry Truman kept a top rig in the Oval Office, 1945-1952, thus:


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[slowmover]

As the top mobile “communications grade” speaker for what’s wanted ahead of an NRC radio:

DX901 Premium Speaker

driverextreme.com

Still the closest to what I experience in big truck re all-day monitoring in this video:

Put the audio of this across a TV soundbar or better. Given that it’s mainly Skip on AM the clarity reveals the NRC revolution.


Bleedover is irritatin’, but what it is you know immediately.

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[kc2asb]

Hallicrafters Model SX-88 Communications Receiver (1954)

HALLICRAFTERS SX-88 Shortwave Receive
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The SX-88 was about $600 (1954 dollars) when new and was only made for a couple of years. Supposedly, only around 100 are known to exist. The radio used by Pres Truman looks like a Hallicrafters SX-28

You can lose a few hours on that site.