One strange night, I was able to talk skip to someone calling break on
an FM frequency within the U.S., and within the CB Band. I believe we
were about 1,000 miles apart. It was fun......

Buther Boy


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:39:02 +0100, "The Magnum"
wrote:


"jim" wrote in message
...
The Magnum wrote:

Hey Scott, I'm not trying to be hard on you, but your misconceptions
are
woefully common amongst CBers as they make their transition to HAM,
someday you'll look back and laugh at yourself too.


and your misconception is that cbers want to make the transition to
amateur freqs. 11 meters is mostly a ssb mode though i've worked
montserrat on fm which is a rarity. cb is mostly am except for 36-39 and
in the old days 13 & 16 at least here on the island.
you sound like a typical imperial amateur. and i use the word 'amateur'
as the dictionary defines it.


A few CB'ers do want to make the transition to Amateur frequencies and
they
do move on to Amateur. Thats where a lot of your stock from the late
70's/80's/90's originated from. They had a dabble on CB, enjoyed it then
progressed further. Also CB is definately not just AM, CB is anything
using
the CB frequencies. Not necessarily legally used granted. CB in the UK
is
FM... that doesnt make it something other than CB..


enjoyed working some of the uk folks on 27.8625 whatever as i had to
slide to hear them. easiest was just doing the nickel and moving 10 kc's
either way. 26.285 was another pick up freq. home was .315 for many
years. cheers, 73 jim.

Never had the opportunity to skip talk to America on FM. I did it a couple
of times on SSB on the triple 5 but mainly on FM we just seem to get some
parts of Europe. There was some sporadic E a few months back where all parts
of the UK were coming in, it was amazing ands it was like talking to someone
down the road 30 plus both ways on only 4w. I live in Skegness which is on
the East cost of the UK and i was copying Swansea (bottom of Wales, west UK)
so your talking a good couple of hundred miles at least. I remember back in
81 when we were given the UK frequencies on FM and everyone thought it would
be crap and extremely short wave, basically cup and string jobs. How wrong
we all were. Id never go back to mid block AM because all we would hear
during the daytime would be 9 pound of Italians. Do you ever use the channel
19 USB on double low? The frequency escapes me but a few years back this was
one of the channels i used to listen to and you had more chance of a decent
copy as a lot couldnt get down there and it wasnt as packed as the triple 5.
Regards,
Graham


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