CB Suggestions

[montecarlossfan]

Antenna Antenna Antenna and good coax,...It doesn't matter if you have a 50 dollar radio or a 5000 dollar radio, If your antenna sucks so will the performance of the radio.

 

[slowmover]

LMAO!!!! I have been involved with radios for almost 30 years, from CB to ham to commercial to aviation.

He does not need SSB. He does not need an illegal linear. Not needed. You can tell all the stories you want and think you have so much experience because you use a CB every day in your truck, but those things just are not needed. It is absolutely silly to say that they are.

Quantity isn’t Quality. You backed yourself into a corner. Your opinion of what’s needed shows ZERO relevant experience using them as other than a hobbyist.


A McKinley, KL-203 and WM DSP Speaker will all run off of a 15A circuit. So, no wiring or fuse difficulties. Performance greater than any expensive CB/Export (as all lack DSP filtration), and TX/RX isn’t otherwise improved enough to justify cost.

The goal is to Hear, and Get Heard.

The other guy may have your sub-standard system. To hear him, and for him to hear you is what matters with timely, actionable information takes a better radio rig.

Your ignorance has a cure, believe it or not.

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[K7MFC]

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[slowmover]

Slow ole buddy step back and take a breath, you're going to stoke out if you keep going.

I'll give you that what you say, aside from advocating for using illegal external amplifiers and non-approved equipment, has its place but it does not answer the op's question about a simple radio for talking across a construction site. In fact a simple radio with a short loaded antenna will probably serve him better than a high performance set up that can hear mouse fart signals from thousands of miles away. Something that can hear a strong signal from a hundred yards away that is not going to hear a couple good ole boys a hundred miles away yakking about the local lot lizards while he is trying to get the fuel truck to the backhoe is going to be better in his particular circumstances.

How about this, 72 Vega GT with a barefoot Royce 1-639 into phased Hustler center loaded antennas on the sides of the hatchback, sitting on a hilltop out side of Lawton Ok talking for hours on end to Oklahoma City (77 air miles give or take) even on days when the "enhanced propagation" was not there on upper 40? Or how about Germany to Florida on a fresh out of the box Craig 40 just bought from the Audio Club in Stuttgart, plugged in to the cigarette lighter on a 20" center loaded magmount for over an hour. (Damn propagation was hot in the late 70s) Skip ahead to the next solar cycle in the late 80's, barefoot SSB CB Amarillo Texas to San Paulo Brazil.

So tell us about performance CB installations. Some of us have been doing it for half a century. BUT one has to pick the right tool for the job. Running a full gallon won't do you a bit of good if you can't hear them coming back to you. And yes I have known more alligators over the years than I care to.

Truck drivers are as bad as you all. But they’re said to be kinda stupid.

You’ve not driven since 2007 or so, correct? Things change. The stupidity quotient is now off the charts. This isn’t any longer 1992 much less 1962.

Any of us could sit stationary at a well-chosen location to work Skip on AM and have some fun on Sideband. I think Sideband performance the test needed to call an installation “good”.

I don’t disagree in principle.

Does anyone advocate a rubber ducky antenna for a scanner while mobile? Dislike encryption? Have (any) belief in the First Amendment?

Bureaucrats don’t write laws.

2020 was one irritating year. And this one unlikely to be better. Any of you up for driving INTO a BLM highway march? Vandals dropping power lines or de-railing trains to screw up the roads (and who knows what else)?

I GET THE WARNING FAR AHEAD OF OTHERS. And can then consult with locals to verify alternative routing. And sometimes avoid the traffic-jammed alternates. Big trucks have limited options. Cars may have more, but timely ACCURATE information isn’t on a GPS.

So, prove it to yourself. CH-19 ain’t the only action. GMRS, FRS, etc is only good when others have it. Citizens Band is what EVERYONE has. A scanner won’t fill you in on how to do it. “Content” isn’t everything.

Get with other men at your church or other organization and see to it that Mobile Comms has a reasonable start. That’s with Citizen Band. The basis for any other installed systems. No different than stored food & water to want ownership of communications.

I hear that IH40 in Nashville is screwed up by a “protest” while I’m westbound towards Texas, I’ll divert up thru Kentucky to IH64. If Nashville is bad, Atlanta and Birmingham could be worse. I value getting back to friends and family. Bubble Boy knee-jerk ignorance won’t cut it. Not cross-country nor in a major metro region.

CB is a tool. You want ersatz or genuine?

The Internet has made it easier for Eleven Meter operators to find out what Ham operators do to cut noise, static, and improve the S/NR on those other bands. It’s a jump in performance some of you are making fools of yourselves in criticizing.

1978 was so long ago the majority of Americans weren’t even born. Those conditions, and that gear, doesn’t much matter today. Obsolete experience.

There’s a reasonable minimum of what works and why.

“A tiny amp is illegal”. So is blocking entrance to the passing lane on the Interstate. I’ll bet every one of you guilty of that. One pass by one vehicle at a time (is law). Of the two examples, only one can be shown to cause harm.

Leave the amp turned off. Until you need it. It WON’T shut down the channel. That takes serious wattage. 4W hasn’t worked well in forty years. Too much noise, now.

Without minimally-adequate power you won’t get heard. The day you need it, it will matter.

The DSP Speaker (or inline module) is the game-changer (after BEST installation).

There’s no shame in having been ignorant of what’s possible. The markers have moved.

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[K7MFC]

 

[alcahuete]

Quantity isn’t Quality. You backed yourself into a corner. Your opinion of what’s needed shows ZERO relevant experience using them as other than a hobbyist.

Right...being a truck driver makes you some sort of communications expert, apparently.

Again, he does not need SSB, he does not need an illegal linear. I'm done with this conversation. Bye!

 

[jhooten]

Slow ole buddy you still don't get it and probably never will. Your high and mighty pontificating is not going to convince anyone you are right, your arrogance is having the opposite effect in fact.

You think the noise on CB has been bad the past few years? You ain't seen nothing yet. Predicitions are this will be a very active solar cycle. All the power running idiots are just going to make it worse. Never mind the golden screw diver morons removing the modulation limiters causing the radios to splatter over six channels on either side of the one in use. You'll be hearing that crap from coast to coast strong enough to cover local signals. Don't matter how well you get out if you can't hear.

Then again you children are always convinced you are right and those who come before you and BTDT have no clue so you ignore the benefit of their experience. Your loss.

To quote my distinguished colleague above me "I'm done with this conversation. Bye!"

 

[138BG]

Some folks need to type just to see themselves type............