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I guess channel 19 is dead??? what are the truck drivers doing now?
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Somewhere in the universe there is a planet with a star that is tuned exactly to 27.025 Mhz.
niceguy71
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good to know.... I hardly ever have time to play with my CB... but I had a couple hours to work out in the garage this afternoon.... I just hooked up the DX901 Slowmover recommended and wanted to hear it... my Radiodditty CS-47 also arrived from Amazon this afternoon... it tested fine to and from my handheld CB's but I couldn't get a radio check .... I adjusted the squelch up on Channel 37 LSB on the Quad 5 and just left it on.... after an hour I never heard anyone so I put it on 19 AM and left it till 5 PM ... shut everything off and came in the house for supper.... I was wondering why it was so dead.
True. I had the pro520xl i used for a base station back around 1995. Clipped the modulation limiter and tossed a silver eagle d-104 desk mic on it. That little bugger screamed. Talked all over the world on that thing barefoot.
I'm a over the road driver for Walmart. Yes cb 19 for truckers is dead. Yes some of us still listen with the squelch up but it's not like the old days before cell phones, XM radio, podcasts, and audio books. Hard to get a radio break on the interstate unless they are right next to you.
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I said this on March 08 2024 and for the two or three months before that I found 19 had a noise floor of S10 to S15 PLUS all day long....... and a guy in the desert, non stop playing recorded CB chatter all day with MEGA watts..... but lately it's not been too bad I see S 7 most of the day but I hear people talking and I'm able to get to them and vise versa... so I retract my statement... don't get me wrong... every channel has S 3 or S 4 of noise and when you turn on channel 19 it jumps up to S 7 to S 9..... not perfect.... but's useable... at least the last month or so... but back in Jan, Feb, and March it was nothing but noise! and one mega watt station that took over the channel all the way from Mexico to Canada!... the rest of the channels had 3 or 4 noise... but it was BAD for a while!
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