brianearlspilner
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Although I own a Galaxy 959 now the Uniden 510 still has a place in my heart. Nothing beats the simplicity, size, and decent stock modulation for a radio of that class. Driving down I40 a couple times to northern Arizona the CB radio gets some great use. I had more fun using the CB in Arizona than I do in SoCal.
KC9ICE said:There is a fair amount of "normal" CB operation around my area. Of course, as already stated by other posters, channel 6 (and consequently 5&7) is a wasteland of AM splatter but some of the SSB (LSB usually) skip up on 35-40 can be an interesting counter-culture to the more proper ham radio HF bands. And, of course, you still can't beat channel 19 on the road (especially when paired with my GRE PSR500 and Valentine 1). But my town lies off the interstate by enough to usually separate us from the typical channel 19 chatter & there is occasional casual use. Many of the farmers have CBs & but when 19 really gets a workout is during a snow event. In my town (of about 11,000) both the city and township (rural) maintenance trucks share a commercial VHF frequency for official comms but they also all run CBs & keep most of their two-trucking chatter (like one plowing & another following winging it back) & general BSing on it. So it can be rather interesting to listen to & also if you're out & need to get ahold of one of the plows, its as simple as TXing "Hey, township-six on CB" or "Lincoln-fifteen, you gotta copy on CB?".
I'd say i started out, and have continued as what has been recognized as a "normal" CB operator. (As normal as any of us radio ops are, hi hi) I started out in CB in high school with a little Uniden pro510 (three-knobber to the CB aficionados) in my pickup, just talking around town with my buddies while we were out wasting gas and on occasional convoys to the under-21 dance club in Peoria or four-wheeling excursions into the Mackinaw river bottoms. When i started driving a semi i got a slightly "bigger" CB to make sure i could get over the audio-checkers when i needed to get or give directions or something. I subsequently have gotten my ham ticket & got into commercial (part 90) radios for use with EMA & on GMRS but as i have retired my "big" radio, I still run a little pro510 (now a different one as my first finally died) in my pickup for use on the interstate & around town. And although it may seem at times that the goof-balls have taken over, there are more "normal" folks like me still out here ready to assist with directions or other information. All it takes is a friendly "Break one-nine for some local".
Respectfully submitted
Chuck KC9ICE
Although I own a Galaxy 959 now the Uniden 510 still has a place in my heart. Nothing beats the simplicity, size, and decent stock modulation for a radio of that class. Driving down I40 a couple times to northern Arizona the CB radio gets some great use. I had more fun using the CB in Arizona than I do in SoCal.