CB DX is a blast!

[CDX951]

The problem in DX is those that use AM-19:
The Travellers Channel.

More than three-dozen other channels exist.

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Yes the "Skip Goobers" on 19 are an annoyance, especially the "Sand Jawa"! The noise level would still be very high when skip is rolling due to all the other drivers talking on the channel. Their signals are traveling long distances due to the propagation and adding to the noise level. Their isn't much that can be done about it, unfortunately. One of the tools I use to help forewarn me of disasters ahead is I constantly run Google Maps. The real time traffic has saved my butt more than a few times! The radio is still on, though, but heavily squelched.
Adapt and overcome!

JD

 

[slowmover]

There’s a balance between SQ & RF Gain that, the majority of daylight hours, works well on AM-19. Take down the bleeding edges to something duller.

The exception is weekdays after 1600 Eastern till dusk. Those doing the Devils work are out in force.

The weekends are the the sounds of the Damned filtering up from Hell on 19. There not any excuse viable to be doing DX on 19.

Assuming DSP use (and other filters) even 19 can be used where first class attention has been paid to power & antenna systems.

I don’t get on SSB much, but it’s my contention that the step from having just a CB to an Eleven Meter Radio is Sideband Performance: One can hear, and get heard from a mobile.

That path covers the topics needed:

Mobile Install Bible

Papa talking on Sideband to his little Momma back home — on his way home, and from a great deal farther than on standard AM or FM — is the desired state.

I can bounce over to 17, 20 or 28 and hear guys on Skip who are familiar or even of my acquaintance in Texas and Oklahoma while sitting this morning in Idaho. Sure it’s a blast!

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[sunwave]

Speaking of DX, three months ago on 27.375 lower side band two chaps from North Ireland and U.K. chimed in on my C.Crane Skywave SSB. Antenna 9 foot wire attached to it's rod antenna taped to the wall vertical. Another 9 foot wire attached to radio's common ground with most of it flopped out the window just dangles there with no other connection.
My location is somewhere in Oklahoma, USA.

 

[slowmover]

Skip intensity today was unreal. Sitting all day in Colorado with AM-19 on and clearly hearing foreign stations. Would usually only hear on SSB.

 

[VA3WEX]

Skip intensity today was unreal. Sitting all day in Colorado with AM-19 on and clearly hearing foreign stations. Would usually only hear on SSB.

Indeed, AM was behaving like SSB, and SSB was amazing! I was loving it. Every channel was so busy it was hard to get a word in edgewise, but I got two Florida contacts and one Jamaican on CB. Over on 10m I heard Alaska, Cuba, Guadalupe, Dominican Republic, and even Japan coming in faintly! Each operator had such a pileup chasing him that I could not break through any of them. Then a little after sunset the magic propagation switch flipped off, and I couldn't even hear the Superbowl. It was fun while it lasted, though!

 

[slowmover]

Indeed, AM was behaving like SSB, and SSB was amazing! I was loving it. Every channel was so busy it was hard to get a word in edgewise, but I got two Florida contacts and one Jamaican on CB. Over on 10m I heard Alaska, Cuba, Guadalupe, Dominican Republic, and even Japan coming in faintly! Each operator had such a pileup chasing him that I could not break through any of them. Then a little after sunset the magic propagation switch flipped off, and I couldn't even hear the Superbowl. It was fun while it lasted, though!

DSP sure makes it better, eh?

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[VA3WEX]

DSP sure makes it better, eh?

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Indeed it does! Tried unplugging the speaker just to check and the difference was night and day.