Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Give up CB for ham?
"clfe" wrote in message
... "Tom Ring" wrote in message .. . Tom Ring wrote: wrote: Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you thjink? You should go for your license. The additional privelages are quite worthwhile. I will warn you that there are still quite a few inbred hicks that got their ham tickets, unfortunately. The good thing is most of them seem to be extra class, and are mostly older and will be gone soon. It's a leftover effect of requiring Morse ability as opposed to operating knowledge. tom K0TAR Boy it's fun what a little trolling can do to my peers. I'm also an Extra, and licensed for 29 years. Code is worth what it can do, but has had less and less to do with the hobby for decades. It's a great hobby within the hobby on HF, and was the core of EME for years. It still is to some extent, but advances due to moving up in frequency as well as computer based modes as low as 6 and 2 meters are making it something used for EME as much for fun and stubborness as for usefullness. SSB is a very popular mode on EME now among the big guns. CW is dead as far as being needed. It's a great thing to have as a skill, but is now as needed as spark. The person who said they could key an HT to send CW was stretching it way beyond reality. Ain't gonna happen, any more than someone will make a spark transmitter by keying a big bunch of wire they wound in a coil when trapped in their basement by touching it to the hot side of the drop in their fusebox. tom K0TAR I'm not sure if you're referring to my post or someone else's who I didn't see. In "my" example - I was saying if a MIC was broken and they knew code, they could short out the tranmit pins - like making and breaking contact such as a key would do - to broadcast a coded message. It "can" be done. There is what is/was known as "Modulated CW". And, I've seen guys key an H.T. OR Mic and do code with an "Oscillator" with the other hand - thereby transmitting the code - from the Oscillator speaker through the mic of the H.T or radio. Maybe that is what "they" were referring to - I don't know. clfe Then too along with the above - they "could" have been referring to using the "key pad" to send code while the H.T. was keyed OR using the keypad on a mic while it was keyed......... If memory serves me correct - at the moment (slips at times) - THAT would be equivalent to MCW (Modulated CW). I've seen that done too. clfe |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|