John Smith wrote:
Jim:

In my area, 250 watts is the norm on CB, probably about ~25% of all other stations are 400 watts and better. A lot of the truckers have kilowatt+ rigs in their trucks... there are a handful of 5-50 watt stations out there.

gee making feel odd am I the only fellow that run a CB at 4 watt am 12
ssb level allowed by rule?


Omnidirectional antenna rule the airways, but there are beams, yagis, quads, and other CB specific directional antennas about (the scanner is one example, ancient antenna made by antenna specialists and lots still around.)

Freebanders and pirate stations abound.

It is possible to reach out 50+ miles here on the valley floor if the channels are quite with a 100 watt linear in your mobile (2-6 am in the morning) otherwise 10-30 miles is about it.

Channel 17 is the truckers chan though the central valley here, most of calif I think.

John

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message ...
Hello, John

With a reliable daytime communications range of perhaps 5 miles in this city
(up to 20 miles at 3 am in the morning when most folks are asleep), if you
multiply reliable communications range by the number of folks, cb will fall
short. Even shorter if you need a good reliable 100 or 200 mile range 24/7.


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA



"John Smith" wrote in message
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Naaa, CB has just absorbed amateur radio. Heck, what could we expect,
they out number hams a few times over!

John

"Bruce" wrote in message
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WHO CARES, Ham radio is dead CB is King