jaymatt1978
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Interesting YouTube video:
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Why CB is DEAD
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He has his volume up high - yes that will improve his transmit ability.
jhooten
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The secrets to longer range:
Clip the limiter.
Mic gain to the max.
Lips touching the grill.
Yell!
Clip the limiter.
Mic gain to the max.
Lips touching the grill.
Yell!
The over editing of this YouTube video is annoying. Really? A cut after almost every sentence? Ugh. Then he finally gets a contact that talks to him and it's "rad" and he freaks out and wants to start a "CB Movement".
slowmover
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That’s a terrible antenna choice for other than far rural areas. Coupled to a 4W radio no one hears him at any reasonable distance.
An Anytone 5555N v2 (NRC-equipped) (eBay)
And a SIRIO 5000 Performer (even on a PL-160 mag mount) (88 Radio)
$350 outlay versus $75. (See recent posts in several threads
And learning for his area of California if traffic is on 15 or 17 . . .
He’d be making more contacts.
SoCal is not CB Mecca. It’s not until you’re on 99 going north, or getting across Cajon Pass to leave the state that radio chatter among drivers picks up.
Not many Americans in that part of the country.
Credit for trying. But not for being half-assed.
Internet means one’s abilities are leveraged if willing to read and apply information. He didn’t.
There are some legendary base station operators in and around Death Valley. And mobile.
Further, with a Sideband radio, California can play the 38-LSB games on Eleven Meter.
If @ForestRunner98 shows up on this thread then you’ll have an ideal mobile rig and SSB platform.
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That’s a terrible antenna choice for other than far rural areas. Coupled to a 4W radio no one hears him at any reasonable distance.
An Anytone 5555N v2 (NRC-equipped) (eBay)
And a SIRIO 5000 Performer (even on a PL-160 mag mount) (88 Radio)
$350 outlay versus $75. (See recent posts in several threads
And learning for his area of California if traffic is on 15 or 17 . . .
He’d be making more contacts.
SoCal is not CB Mecca. It’s not until you’re on 99 going north, or getting across Cajon Pass to leave the state that radio chatter among drivers picks up.
Not many Americans in that part of the country.
Credit for trying. But not for being half-assed.
Internet means one’s abilities are leveraged if willing to read and apply information. He didn’t.
There are some legendary base station operators in and around Death Valley. And mobile.
Further, with a Sideband radio, California can play the 38-LSB games on Eleven Meter.
If @ForestRunner98 shows up on this thread then you’ll have an ideal mobile rig and SSB platform.
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slowmover
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Given that there are more radios turned on versus being used, it’s a common reaction.
One is the new kid from a different English-speaking country. (Takes awhile to get comfortable).
One’s more likely to get reactions if his radio rig is clearly heard at distance.
I've made it a habit to try to get 4-whlrs on-air when I see a CB antenna. Not many have them on or are not listening for someone to speak to them.
“Wha? You mean me?” (Yeah, dildo, your radio any good? Let’s find out as you get farther out ahead of me).
This little game brings others in as we report MM numbers.
Citizen Band is now for the few. Need to be able to Hear (DSP audio filter), and one needs to Get Heard (some wattage).
Most of all, need a no-compromise antenna.
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I get its a fun hobby but this is one reason I havent transmitted on 2m ham in probably 20 years. It's almost all "how's my signal", "just checking, I'm tuning a new antenna that I just made from a tunacan and pie plate b/c the internet and radio theory/specs says that this will work just as good as a $300 antenna". I'm not knocking those that do. Whatever is fun to them but there's so little info and conversations anymore. As for why its dying is simple. Cell phones and the internet erased the need for it. Now it seems to me that its only purpose is fun.
73s!
73s!
That is until cell phone towers & the internet go down.
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I love a good Pig Pile on 38 LSB. Which way is the mud slinging today west to Texas or East to England !
I left arond 1980 and Just got into 11 meters again.
Sure beats the weather net on 2 meters or the code plug argument on the DMR Link !
I left arond 1980 and Just got into 11 meters again.
Sure beats the weather net on 2 meters or the code plug argument on the DMR Link !
slowmover
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Let’s stretch that last point:
— How’s anyone going to tell the guy pulling a ski boat going past that he has a flat tire?
— Or that a wreck has just occurred in the opposing lanes of the Interstate?
Tough luck for them, right?
Internet is entertainment, not communication.
11-Meter is comms.
They aren’t the same.
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38 Lower side band was hopping yesterday afternoon. Talked to Puerto Rico with storm reports to San Fransisco lasted about 2 hours
Don't forget, you must have an 18' microphone cable.
fantasma25
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Really??
GadgetGeek
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Couple of hours ago many stations from California were booming into New Jersey on 27.385 LSB.
Dead? It is still active in Texas, big time.
dead around here locally (S Oklahoma), my other home away from home Lk Texoma dead.. channel 19 dead everywhere i go around here. But the skip seems to still be alive (somewhat) though only few hrs b4 sunset, sure it's that way most places, until the next cycle starts ramping up.. end of 23 in 24? hopefully! actually heard a couple stations on LSB Ch 38 today, real faint. and on Ch 5, one down from the Superbowl, heard a crap load of stations from Mexico! most of em cuttin' up, playing SFX etc. 
KD8DVR
Elitist Ham
Clipping the limiter it the WORST idea!
KD8DVR
Elitist Ham
CB is dead because of all the people running illegal amplifiers and talking long distance. They have made CB useless for local communications.
All the retards "shooting skip" on channel 19 have driven all the truck drivers away.
All the retards "shooting skip" on channel 19 have driven all the truck drivers away.
thumper7458
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Nothing worse that hearing 1600 watts of skip coming in stronger than local traffic
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