Woops you are correct it's 10 hours not 12.
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Trucker700
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Montfort of Colorado had some real screamers a long time ago. But, if I remember correctly, one of their drivers was involved in a major accident. And like the company I worked for that had rock trucks ( oilfield) and bull wagons, got hit by lawsuits and insurance companies screaming at them, they turned down all their trucks.Get off IH-10 in AZ before dark!
Stay out of the Monfort Lane!
Remembering The Monfort Circus Wagons - Psyne Co.
The trucking community has always had its own language, or lingo. Some phrases, such as the 10-codes, are more universally used, but many other phrases werepsyne.co
Boss only paid speeding tickets if above 90-MPH (the legend, F the truth).
Same plant in Greeley, CO, I earlier noted, but it’s now JBS.
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Need to stay in the Schneider lane, boys.
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Lawfare against the working man.
Finance and more regulation.
Ban guns for millions because of one guy is the same thing.
Coming out of Greeley at 0230. Getting gears across that 15 to make it back the 100+ miles of two-lanes to IH-80 in Nebraska circa 1975. Fuel at Platte and a gallon of oil into that 3408.
Clear Channel WBAP with Bill Mack on, “The Open Road Show”, out of Fort Worth on AM-820:
“The Texas Playboys are on the air, live from Cowtown Hall!”
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Marmon built its last semi-tractor not too far from where this little girl from Garland grew up. Bill Mack wrote a song she recorded at the tail end of that era (1996):
Just a year or so before Cummins released the Signature 600
The music is gone, the roads are crowded, and owner-ops still ain’t walking away from that motor without serious help to their obsolete, now-extinct Cats.
Only now do we have the radio gear to keep up.
Here’s a man coming out of Beaver Dam, KY, can use an RR transceiver set-up with a glider kit-ty Cat:
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Had to go read the description to find out if he was loaded. Ain’t obvious till the road bumps make it so, ha!
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Just a year or so before Cummins released the Signature 600
The music is gone, the roads are crowded, and owner-ops still ain’t walking away from that motor without serious help to their obsolete, now-extinct Cats.
Only now do we have the radio gear to keep up.
Here’s a man coming out of Beaver Dam, KY, can use an RR transceiver set-up with a glider kit-ty Cat:
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Had to go read the description to find out if he was loaded. Ain’t obvious till the road bumps make it so, ha!
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I used to see several regulars up in PA. I’d imagine rust got many of them (steel body).
Only 3.8 miles...
It didn't happen exactly as planned, but close enough. I posted up at home while she was mobile and called out known landmarks. I heard her farther than she could hear me. (confirms the limited ears of the lil wil). I also heard her farther than I could make out exactly what she was saying.
Also, I had the 4 1/2ft skipshooter on and not the 7ft. Need to repeat with that to note the difference.
I'll do the bonding on my rig first. Then we'll repeat our test. Then I'll do the bonding on hers and see which makes the most difference. Then she can have my QT60 when I buy my President Washington
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That would be the Lil will antenna on the wife's truck... I've talked to a few using the Lil Wil they can hear me for 10 plus miles . But they can't generally transmit more than 4 miles
I don't get all the hate for the little wil. I've been using one as a base antenna slapped on a metal garage roof for years. Peak of the roof is 15 feet high. Nothing special. I've had no issue shooting skip or talking local. I have a buddy that lives 18 miles north of me and we can talk pretty easily on straight AM once skip dies down in the evenings.
I use to have an A99 on a 40 foot tower I bought new. That thing was deaf. Huge disappointment. Slapped the little will back on the roof and I could hear again. Sold the tower and A99 a few weeks later.
Now to clarify, I bought that little wil about 25ish years ago. Not sure if their quality has gone down hill like a lot of other name brands that use to be good or not, but I've never had an issue with it's performance.
I use to have an A99 on a 40 foot tower I bought new. That thing was deaf. Huge disappointment. Slapped the little will back on the roof and I could hear again. Sold the tower and A99 a few weeks later.
Now to clarify, I bought that little wil about 25ish years ago. Not sure if their quality has gone down hill like a lot of other name brands that use to be good or not, but I've never had an issue with it's performance.
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if it works for you, that's great!
4 miles is really pretty good for a short mobile antenna. so some people like them as they can get 3 to 4 miles range and not look like a big ugly monster antenna.... me personally I've had friends spend money on them and complain they can only get a little over 3 miles range... so they come over my house and I let them borrow my Tram 3500 or my K-40 Magnet mount .... using the same radio and car they had the Lil Wil on, they usually go over 10 miles range, so they now put the Lil Wil in the garage and buy something better... so for many people that I know, it's an awful waste of money.
you can't really compare your high metal house roof to a mobile install....
I do great with my Tram 3500 because it is on the roof of my F150 so a 5 foot antenna on top of a 6 foot truck roof lets my Tram 3500 sit at 11 feet to the tip... that's up there... most people put the Lil Wil on the trunk lid..... the trunk lid is 3 feet tall and the little wil is 3 feet tall so 6 feet to the tip.... pretty terrible for a CB antenna.... your 15 feet tall roof plus 3 foot tall Lil Wil is 18 feet to the tip.... you are going over trees and buildings and hills... so the short little antenna is doing good!
also the more metal you have under the antenna the better it is ... you can't compare a 2 foot X 3 foot trunk lid to your metal roof.... that metal roof will radiate quite well and do an awesome job for you..... but on a vehicle..... with a 4 watt radio....they generally get 3 miles range and most people aren't happy with that.
just my opinion... I know a couple people here have them and really like them... for me I never saw one do anything very impressive.
That's fair. I know my garage is a huge ground and it works to my advantage. Before it became a base antenna it was a mobile antenna for a few years before that. Not as good as my 102" whip, but darn close. Again, maybe the old ones were/are better. I liked the K40's back in the day also. I went through many mobile antennas over the years. K40's, Solarcons, Antron Golds, Fire sticks, Wilson 1000's, Diesels, rubber ducks, etc. In the late 80's - 90's thefts of radios and antennas was rampant sadly.
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I'm surprised you didn't stick with the Wilson 1000.... I talk to a lot of them on mobiles and they do really great.. I believe my Tram 3500 is just a cheap copy of the Wilson 1000 ( except they fixed the problem with water getting into the housing) ... but I've never talked to anyone that had the Wilson 1000 that replaced it with anything else... people always love them!
I would've, but it got stolen, as did many of the others i mentioned. Back in the day we had a local CB shop, but he was out of the 1000's, and i just needed a decent mag mount antenna quick. That's how i ended up with the little wil.
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I take it they cut the coax on the antenna????... not many thieves are going to spend time to undo all your routing of the coax?? but then what do they do? solder a new end on it... so now it might only be 6 feet long??? then what?? put a barrel connector and an extension coax on it and try to weatherproof it??
bet most of the stolen antenna's were never used again.... they break into cars in my state on a nightly basis... but they are just looking for change and lottery tickets maybe some I-pods or a phone... I doubt the meth or heroin addicts would know what a CB is never mind steal it..... sad world when they break your cars windows to steal two quarters and 3 pennies.
The NanoVNR is out for delivery. I should have time this evening to get it set up. My adapter fittings aren't due to show up until later this week or early next week so no testing before then. At least I'll have an idea what the SWR is on the wife's rig.
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Looking forward to it. Budget constraint stopped me in my tracks to finish a number of projects, an antenna analyzer among them.
RR as an aid to other men getting a good to very good radio rig in action is on the upswing re Citizen Band Radio using:
1). modern gear; and,
2). modern tools.
The third component — that of interpreting highway behaviors, or of what’s found on-air in general — is more difficult to condense into words on the page and can pass beyond forum boundaries as would be true with any forum dedicated to a specific interest.
Still,
“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”.
H.L. Mencken
What’s outside of, The Narrative.
Citizen Band Radio is men observing & confirming to work up possible solutions, far more than just warnings or advice while on the fly. Truth, or Fiction?
Hear, and Get Heard is a swirl of input transmuted to gnosis.
Clarity
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“Yeah, I’m just pulled over on the side of the highway. So you’re sayin’ my little radio is gettin’ out pretty good?
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“Yeah, I’m just pulled over on the side of the highway. So you’re sayin’ my little radio is gettin’ out pretty good?
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KANE4109
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I'll be interested to see your results on that antenna. Simply? Just because I love these NanaVNA's!!!!!!!!
