CB DX Culture

[radioboy75]

How did the whole CB DX/skip culture get started? I guess specifically I mean why do people yell, AAAAAUUUUUDDDDDIIIIIOOOOOO and all that bragging and long-winded monologue stuff? I mean, you never hear that on FRS or GMRS. I'm sure GMRS DXers exist, but for the most part they talk normally, don't brag about their station, and you wouldn't know them from another operator if they didn't say anything about DXing. But on CB, it's a whole other culture that makes casual CBers want to turn the radio off. And I often do, because it's just so annoying.

How do others feel about it?

 

[slowmover]

SKIP Problems in Noise Abatement.

The discourtesy of screwing up AM-19. The understood Truckers Channel. Got 39 to 119 other channels before we consider freeband. The thread is not to whine and moan, but to introduce others new to CB how to deal with Skip overwhelming local comms. The exigencies of the road. Your experience...

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[RFI-EMI-GUY]

How did the whole CB DX/skip culture get started? I guess specifically I mean why do people yell, AAAAAUUUUUDDDDDIIIIIOOOOOO and all that bragging and long-winded monologue stuff? I mean, you never hear that on FRS or GMRS. I'm sure GMRS DXers exist, but for the most part they talk normally, don't brag about their station, and you wouldn't know them from another operator if they didn't say anything about DXing. But on CB, it's a whole other culture that makes casual CBers want to turn the radio off. And I often do, because it's just so annoying.

How do others feel about it?

I only wish the roger beeps and echo boxes would go away. As far as skip, that is on mother nature, nothing anyone can do with that.

 

[Freemor]

As a long time skip chaser I wouldn't consider the people calling "aaauuudddiiiooo" as part of the DX culture. Calling "audio" gives me nothing. I don't know their QHT i don't know their call sign/handle. No-one has any way to let them know they are responding to them. That I think is something that comes from people watching other people that have no clue on youtube or something. and yes I agree with @RFI-EMI-GUY it would be nice if the folks with their noise makers found some other hobby.

 

[radioboy75]

I only wish the roger beeps and echo boxes would go away. As far as skip, that is on mother nature, nothing anyone can do with that.

It's not the skip that annoys me. In fact, it's kind of fun to hear someone talk to someone else six states away. But you seldom hear that on CB. You only hear the one side.

What annoys me is the braggadocio and ridiculous yelling of "AAAUUUUUUDDDDIIOO" and "HEELLLOOOOO" or "hellohellohellohello" and all that BS. What is the point of that? If it's to annoy people, it's working.

 

[ladn]

What annoys me is the braggadocio and ridiculous yelling of "AAAUUUUUUDDDDIIOO" and "HEELLLOOOOO" or "hellohellohellohello" and all that BS. What is the point of that? If it's to annoy people, it's working.

It annoys me as well.
Part of the HELOOOOO-AUDDDDIIIOOOOOOO nonsense comes from folks testing/tweaking their modulation for the most swing.
Another part is just for braggin' rights and having that BIG SIGNAL with the most SWING.

And then there's "Get off my law" you whippersnappers.

 

[Freemor]

As for how skip culture got started. The real skip culture that is. The folks on 37 LSB, 38 LSB, 39 LSB. who use their Q-codes and proper calling. Is that it gets quite addictive. When the conditions are right you get to talk to people whole oceans away. It's like fishing. But instead of biggest fish you can catch, it is what is the furthest contact you can work. My furthest so far just happened recently (thank you solar max) and was a quick QSO with someone in South Africa. which is (12.5K KM from me. Mostly over open water). That was a fun day!

 

[707ways2Sunday]

Audio and hello are just a tone generator for the observation of PEP on the meter!!! Just like a whistle.

 

[Freemor]

Audio and hello are just a tone generator for the observation of PEP on the meter!!! Just like a whistle.

Sadly that is not how many people are using it these days. I can not tell you the number of people I've heard on a calling channel calling either "audio" or "hello" and clearly expecting people to get beck to them.

 

[707ways2Sunday]

Sadly that is not how many people are using it these days. I can not tell you the number of people I've heard on a calling channel calling either "audio" or "hello" and clearly expecting people to get beck to them.

It’s funny the contrast between 27.555 usb calling channel and 27.385 LSB calling channel here in the states. For the most part operators on 27.555 adhere to the plan. 385 here, well it’s obvious a band plan went out the window long ago!!!

 

[Freemor]

It’s funny the contrast between 27.555 usb calling channel and 27.385 LSB calling channel here in the states. For the most part operators on 27.555 adhere to the plan. 385 here, well it’s obvious a band plan went out the window long ago!!!

I'm guessing 27.555 is quieter because it is illegal in a lot of countries to transmit there.

 

[radioboy75]

As for how skip culture got started. The real skip culture that is. The folks on 37 LSB, 38 LSB, 39 LSB. who use their Q-codes and proper calling. Is that it gets quite addictive. When the conditions are right you get to talk to people whole oceans away. It's like fishing. But instead of biggest fish you can catch, it is what is the furthest contact you can work. My furthest so far just happened recently (thank you solar max) and was a quick QSO with someone in South Africa. which is (12.5K KM from me. Mostly over open water). That was a fun day!

Yeah, I'd love to hear that over regular AM! If that's the way pedestrian AM CB was, I could really get into it. I just like to monitor the CB band in case there's something going on, but I get 100x more people "peaking their signal" than actual information. If the information were peppered with DXers trying to work Australia or Japan or France, I think I could stand that. But this other stuff, not so much.

 

[Freemor]

Yeah, I'd love to hear that over regular AM! If that's the way pedestrian AM CB was, I could really get into it. I just like to monitor the CB band in case there's something going on, but I get 100x more people "peaking their signal" than actual information. If the information were peppered with DXers trying to work Australia or Japan or France, I think I could stand that. But this other stuff, not so much.

I hear ya. I am not often on the AM side. On really slow days I'll set my rig to scan the bands just to see if there is any local channels. And although I'm not a fan of the "Super Bowlers" down on 6 they are good for letting you know your receive is good on those very quite days.

Had a day a while back where my rig got really quiet. At first i thought it was just the conditions but as it went on I tuned to channel 6 and was greeted with quiet and a low noise floor. I quick check outside revealed that my dipole support had snapped and it was laying on the ground. (that day I learned... Use polyester rope not nylon)

 

[707ways2Sunday]

I'm guessing 27.555 is quieter because it is illegal in a lot of countries to transmit there.

More organized and used as a calling channel. Operators identify and call for QSY to another frequency. Have their QSOs there. Works great

 

[slowmover]

SSB is the home of DX aficionados. That’s where it’s fun.

It’s the real test of one’s mobile system.

— The right amount of power to Hear, and Be Haerd as equivalent in distance . . and it’s good enough sometimes for SSB DX.

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[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Audio and hello are just a tone generator for the observation of PEP on the meter!!! Just like a whistle.

Making the Bird Swing, or is it Schwing?

 

[K6GBW]

What's needed is for someone to invent a time machine, send us back to the 1950's so we can find the guys that decided to use 27 MHz and strangle them! The whole idea was for a "short range" radio of about ten miles or so. We needed a higher frequency but the dimwits didn't think it through. Now, the whole 25-28 MHz area is basically lost and has become a radio version of Loard of the Flies.

 

[AB5ID]

Now, the whole 25-28 MHz area is basically lost and has become a radio version of Lord of the Flies.

And it's phreaking awesome! I once jammed the local 40 channels with sawtooth generator driving a VCO into a 100watt amp. It is the Devil's Playground.

 

[WSAC829]

Back in the 80s and 90s we had a guy with a nice base that if he got pissed off he would shut down the whole city by locking his key and putting an old "tick tock clock" in front of it for hours on end. Good times.

 

[slowmover]

Yeah, the ones looking to have their house go up in a mysterious NG water heater explosion.

Don’t F with men trying to get done their job and return safely to family.

I guarantee it that fatalities which wouldn’t have happened have happened as a result of AM-19 bad actors.

No one cares that sissy boy gets aggravated. He can man up and take it to the perpetrators.

About 118-channels exist for DX past AM-19 & AM-9. There aren’t excuses, only lies, which deny comms to others.

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