RadioBanter - View Single Post - is an STA needed to transmit data on CB channel 40?

June 20th 06, 02:15 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

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Let's see, all you have to do is find a bunch of laptops with 12V
adapters,

12V power is standard power jack for laptops

Funny, the last laptop I bought doesn't include a 12V cable. As a
matter of fact, neither did the one before it. You had to ask for
it as an add-on.

a bunch of CB radios with documentation on the mic input,

The docs could be on the CD-ROM. Squad leader or designate
could read that using the laptop.

And just where do you get this CD-ROM in a deserted, destroyed building
after the catastrophe?

Oh yeah, you've got the schematics of every CB radio ever made on
CD-ROM already and you are taking it with you.

Right,

a soldering iron to make up a mic/laptop interface cable (assuming
you can use the existing mic cable connector).
Shouldn't be too hard.

Of course every squad made up of random troops from the motor pool and
the rifle squad has a portable soldering iron, knows how to solder
and has solder.

Or or all these troops going to come from the Signal School?

Oh, wait, they are going to commandeer the soldering irons and solder
from the destroyed businesses and plug the irons into the none-functioning
AC grid, and learn how to solder from a CD-ROM.

How could I have been so stupid with only 30 years in the Army?

Maybe from teaching soldering classes?

The only problem left is how to get the abandoned automobile to the
top of the 3 story office building (if any are left standing in this
disaster).
The feed could start at street level and connect to a dipole on the
rooftop.

So where do you get the custom power cable or antenna cable to go
up three stories?

Three stories worth of cable is going to weigh a lot more than most
radios these days.

Might as well bring the radios with built in antennas and battry packs.

--
Jim Pennino

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