On 10/20/09 22:23 , Bill Baka wrote:
wrote:
A few days ago, I turned on one of my CB radios, just to give a listen
for a little while.CB radio is Dead around here.Most of them have those
cell phones nowadays.
cuhulin
I don't know where you are but the waves around here are full of CB
chat. Some people have literally taken over a channel and have the base
station in the kitchen so they can do stuff and chat. Whole bunch of
yakking with no point of reference in sight. CB isn't dead, it just went
underground, so to speak. The other night I got S-meter readings from
about 1 (mostly noise) to pegged so hard I thought it might break. I
think it is a group that is slightly too far for free calls.
It was like a red neck conference call, a hoot.
Bill Baka
When I lived in St Louis, there were a couple of guys with base
stations, who pretty much signed on and parked on a channel,
chatting all night. Got to be a fairly common occurrence. ****ed off
a guy in St Charles, who had an old Collins he'd brought up to 11
Meters, and put a Yagi up on top of a huge tower out behind his
house. He had an EchoPlex in his audio chain, and apparently a mixer
with several mic and line level sources. He was moderately
entertaining for about 5 minutes, and then got very tiresome, very
quickly. It took about 2 years for someone to finally take him out.
And it wasn't FCC. They were clamping down elsewhere in the area. A
couple of local operators found his base, and took his tower down
for him. He was removed from the evironment shortly thereafter.
The bands were VERY quiet for the longest time. And then there
was a revival after 'Convoy' came out. Truckers running 500 watt
linears. The largest I heard of was one guy claiming a kilowatt.
Talk about your redneck conference call.
I sold my walkies shortly thereafter. And moved into other things.