found cb shop....

[kb2vxa]

Now the poo pot is stirred I'll try to make sense of it. (;->)

Neat trick with the monitor and a neat amp too but I just happened to have fallen in love with the Collins 30S1, tuning is a snap, kicks butt and runs cool as the proverbial cucumber. Heh, neat sense of humor too.

In that case customer service reps must be CBers with marbles in the mouth. No, wait, they're Indians.

Now if memory serves I was talking about an old Bearcat scanner, not a cell phone... then maybe I'm a full fledged CBer having lost my marbles.

Oh I don't know why either when there are AM transmitters out there that have 11M on the band switch and put out 700-800W of carrier and they'll do CW too.

 

[n9emz]

WHY the hell would any one want a supposedly 120 watt p.e.p. a.m. cb radio to begin with? Much less want to spend hard earned cash for it??
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply buy a radio which is designed to produce that kind of rf output to begin with??
Not a cb radio! (ick!)
N9ZAS.

I'm curious about that too, John. Only rationale I can come up with is I don't know of any stock transceivers available designed for that output for, say....$140 or so, that you can glue beneath a dashboard. Annually, a growing number of the folks who run these outlaw CBs cop a ticket and join us on the HAM bands.

Another long standing curiosity is why anyone would spend upwards of $400 or more for a 5w (or less) radio that fits in a pocket and can't get from city limit to city limit without help from a repeater.

Radio Land is full of curiosities that I spend little time with....HF's my thing.

Regards.

 

[n9emz]

Now the poo pot is stirred I'll try to make sense of it. (;->)

Neat trick with the monitor and a neat amp too but I just happened to have fallen in love with the Collins 30S1, tuning is a snap, kicks butt and runs cool as the proverbial cucumber. Heh, neat sense of humor too.

In that case customer service reps must be CBers with marbles in the mouth. No, wait, they're Indians.

Now if memory serves I was talking about an old Bearcat scanner, not a cell phone... then maybe I'm a full fledged CBer having lost my marbles.

Oh I don't know why either when there are AM transmitters out there that have 11M on the band switch and put out 700-800W of carrier and they'll do CW too.

Thanks....I resized the pic with winblows photo editor and didn't take it down from the screen. Cost is the problem with all but the most serious 11M folks. The serious ones, like those on the "Bowl" (Ch 16) would love to get their hands on that 30S-1. It would eliminate the pre-driver stage for their 2 X 4CX5000A amps. Most of the "big guns" are into commercial Johnson AM transmitters. One's running a Johnson amped up to 20KW actual and 12 dB gain at the antenna. I forget the ERP/EIRP formulae but with reasonable losses he must be running at the equivalent of 150KW+.

How in hell do they stay on the air? BTW, the doctor that handled my delivery and slapped that first primal scream from me must have made me pitch my marbles. I'm a native Floridian and get razzed all the time on the nets.

Regards.

 

[N_Jay]

I want to see that 12 dB 27 MHz antenna.

 

[zz0468]

I want to see that 12 dB 27 MHz antenna.

It's really nothing special. It's measured in dog decibels.

 

[N_Jay]

Maybe 12 dB-DL (12 dB reference a Dummy Load)?

 

[n9emz]

I want to see that 12 dB 27 MHz antenna.

LOL....shoot low, sheriff....he's riding a shetland.

This one's all over the country on Channel 6 and it's kid stuff compared to the homebrews

There's a station down in TX where the op runs a homebuilt omni and states, "My ground plane is my beam." These clowns hold mobile "shoot-outs" and lock down Channel 6 nationwide, all day long, with the rigs in their cars and trucks. Picture 500+ horsepower on juice running at 5500 rpm driving 5 235A alternators pushing 60 to 100 2sc2879s feeding a wire beam strung out over the roof of a van.

What I don't understand is, why don't these people get licensed and put their money into a commercial broadcast station? They broadcast more than they QSO anyhow.

The mistake is thinking that these people lack communications electronics expertise or the personal wealth and drive to build a station. In their twisted genre, they're true professionals. I've met few AR ops that can compete at that level.

I like to make fun of them and I wish they'd go away, but where their skills and equipment are concerned, I grudgingly give them credit where it's due. Obviously, some of you have no idea what these guys are into. Check the following link out if you want to find out.

Recordings by "Prime Minister" aka "Sir Mix-a-Lot" WARNING! EXPLICIT LANGUAGE

 

[N_Jay]

I love it!

And 8 element yagi with these specs:
GAIN: 25 DB
FRONT TO BACK RATIO: 60 DB True (What does "True" mean?)
SIDE REJECTION: 70 DB True
BACK REJECTION: 60 DB True
POWER MULTIPLICATION: 150X (How do they figure? 150X is a gain of 21.7 dB)
AUDIO GAIN: 40 DB (What the heck is "Audio Gain"?)

It is quite obvious that the people who buy these things have more dollars than sense.

 

[gewecke]

happiness....

Is baring these idiots coax,connecting the center conductor to a 110v drop cord and plugging directly into their own outside outlet!
....presto! TVI begone!