Extream noise over the airwaves.

[Token]

Wow. This thread sure deteriorated in a hurry.

What's missing is the OP describing just what the noise is. A recording would be better. In my experience, when that part of the spectrum opens up, signals are strong, and there isn't usually a lot of static. Lots of signals would translate to lots of heterodynes and lots of voices.

So, how about the OP give a better description of what's going on. And THEN we can bash CB operators vs. hams. :roll:

Got to agree here. Users, particularly newer users who may not have been through a Solar cycle upswing and peak before, might hear the crowded conditions of the 40 CB channels compare it to the quiet channels of 12 months ago, and assume it is noise of some kind, instead of the multiple transmissions all on top of each other that it often is.

Right now CB is very often unusable for local communications during the day for me, and it is strictly because of the very high noise floor caused by the enhanced skip conditions. Of course it can be fun, but it can also be a pain in the butt if your goal is daytime local comms.

Or, it might really be some kind of noise the OP is receiving, probably local.

A recording could go a long way to helping come up with the right explanation.

T!

 

[watergate528]

Hit the nail on the head!

You know, I hear a bunch of hams talking about 10m propagation like this. It's only good during certain times for a few years, then it cuts off and your screwed for another decade. I think it's just a way of removing themselves from the cb community. I guess folks are afraid of promoting a band so close to cb, because they're afraid of the cb rubbing off in some way. God forbid, you talk on that band too long, you might start talking with an accent and get an urge lounge around the house in your wifebeater watching wwe.

The reality is, I know this because I listen to the band, cb is open every day. Yes, the winter is better, but it's open every day. Ten meters starts to suck during the summer months. It's just a social thing. Hams don't like to admit that you can get good skip on cb, because after all, hams are so much better than those uncouth rogues.

You know I'd love to see a ham sporting a mullet and living in a trailer with a huntin dog and an old beat-up pick-up truck and a bumpersticker saying something about your honor student who works a blue collar job. I would just love it. I'm a ham, and the hobby's fun, but hams hate that stuff. They just think they're so much better.

Truth Spoken!!