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I guess channel 19 is dead??? what are the truck drivers doing now?

Varmonter

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Antenna works great....
my RF gain is at max so maybe I should turn that down....
]the ANL/NB is on .....
no noise reduction circuit in my 35 year old radio...
but on channel 18 and 20 my cb is perfectly fine.... the problem is people constantly on channel 19 with 10,000 watts pegging my needle trying to talk skip all over the county or just talking about window lickers and back to the bench... 19 now seems to be controlled by a 100 or so people that are on it all day long with powerful stations that make it impossible for anyone else to use that station..... so how do the truck drivers deal with that??? other than turn off the radio
As you've asked this question several times I'll try to give you my take..My wife and I travel fulltime in an rv. I've noticed the truckers don't chime in unless there is a reason..short distance notifications to each other if there is an accident or a traffic jam due to construction..Being these incidences are short distance transmissions and generally will step on most of the skip but only in the immediate area..Alot of tru kers have big radios..So this works for them..Truck to truck comms have always been very short distance..local smokey reports accidents,idiots in the road etc etc.
 
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