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6 and ten meters has been BOOMING in for the last 3 days!
I have 28 stations on 6 worked and 32 on 10 meters to include several Mexican and Bahama stations on 6 meters. Whats the deal with the sunspot cycle....I thought this was rock bottom??? Ralph |
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11m Booming in NW Connecticut, usa. Including lots of stations from
the south on channel 6 and a station as close as New Jersey heard while mobile in the afternoon 5-9-07 local. Heard it the other day also just to confirm original poster. |
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On May 13, 5:05 am, Janitor Boy Jr wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007 22:06:56 -0400, travis tossed this out for all to see: On Thu, 10 May 2007 09:25:03 -0400, IR wrote: 11m Booming in NW Connecticut, usa. Including lots of stations from the south on channel 6 and a station as close as New Jersey heard while mobile in the afternoon 5-9-07 local. Heard it the other day also just to confirm original poster. Who cares about your silly-assed CB crap? think of it as a beacon... ;-) -- ~Mike~ 45°7'58"N 89°9'5"W Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. ABOUT - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_band_radio http://radio.about.com/od/cbradio/CB...Band_Radio.htm http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/ind...ice_home&id=cb http://home.att.net/~wizardoz/cbmw/cbmw.html Citizens Band (CB) Radio Channel Frequency Table http://www.csgnetwork.com/cbradiofreq.html http://www.tech-faq.com/cb-citizens-band-radio.shtml http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/ind...erations&id=cb http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/ind...ations_1&id=cb How To "Make" Your Own Citizens' Band (CB) Radio Antenna http://home.att.net/~wizardoz/cbmw/antenna_fabri.html http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...ts/safecb.html The Ultimate Guide to 11 Meter Citizens' Band (CB) Radio Antenna http://www.signalengineering.com/ultimate/index.html -by- Signal Engineering Some Commerical Citizens' Band (CB) Radios NEW = http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/cb_radio.html OLD = http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/cbdisc.html More Citizens' Band (CB) Radio -INFO- http://www.ac6v.com/cb.htm http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/CB_Radio/References/ http://www.google.com/Top/Recreation.../Citizen_Band/ http://members.aol.com/IDX511/links.html http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Radio/Citizen_Band/ .. . . and by the way- Yes I am always Full-of-Hot-Air = http://hotair.com/ . . .. . |
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On May 14, 1:18 am, Bart Bailey wrote:
In ups.com posted on 13 May 2007 22:18:53 -0700, RHF wrote: Begin - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Seems CB acts as a broad spectrum cathartic, giving someone the opportunity to curse and demean any number of listeners at once, cell phones aren't as flexible for that. ...or is there some other use for CB? -- Bart Bart - Neither CB or a Celfone is needed : When there is the Full Moon all you have to do is just simply Look-Up and Howl ! - - - no batteries required ~ RHF |
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On May 13, 10:18 pm, RHF wrote:
Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Yeah, but the CB is 99.7% more fun! :-) Bruce |
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On May 9, 10:57 pm, "ralph" wrote:
6 and ten meters has been BOOMING in for the last 3 days! I have 28 stations on 6 worked and 32 on 10 meters to include several Mexican and Bahama stations on 6 meters. Whats the deal with the sunspot cycle....I thought this was rock bottom??? Ralph Wikipedia has a very good description of the history of CB radio. The section CB Radio Today describes accurately why CB is held in such low regard in the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_band_radio |
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Ya Buddy, CB is way more fun, less carcinogenic and infrastructure
reliant. And as the other guy said, after the collapse your cell phone infrastructure probably won't be repaired. The local party/emergency line will be CB, FRS, if there's power and time for that... a CB is a potential radio station... and you can hear lightning and skip, and what the truckers are doing and your engine...I guess most radio hobbyists have a CB somewhere in the mix...the comparison to Cellphones is idiotic. CB is point to point. Cellphones involve lotsa money and lotsa infrastructure and all you get out of it is a nice radiation tumor, which will be treated with yet more radiation... bpnjensen wrote: On May 13, 10:18 pm, RHF wrote: Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Yeah, but the CB is 99.7% more fun! :-) Bruce |
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On May 14, 7:05 am, bpnjensen wrote:
On May 13, 10:18 pm, RHF wrote: Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Yeah, but the CB is 99.7% more fun! :-) Bruce BpnJ - 10-4 Good Buddy ~ :o) ~ RHF breaker, Breaker. BREAKER ! can i get a radio check ? |
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On May 14, 6:06 am, David wrote:
On 13 May 2007 22:18:53 -0700, RHF wrote: Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Your cellular phone will be useless after the collapse. David - Sorry to hear of your 'feeling' of impending gloom and doom ~ RHF A True Collapse of American Society would result in : # 1 - Within 15 Days there will be NO Fuel # 2 - Within 30 Days there will be NO Electrical Power # 3 - Within 45 Days there will be NO Food # 3 - Within 60 Days all the Batteries will be gone # 4 - Within 90 Days most of the Ammo will be gone TBL = Within 120 Days Half the People will be gone |
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On May 16, 12:48 am, Whatever wrote:
IR wrote: Cellphones involve lotsa money and lotsa infrastructure and all you get out of it is a nice radiation tumor, which will be treated with yet more radiation... If it turns out that cell phone communications are the primary cause of the recent loss (disorientation) of honey bees, some hard decisions will have to be made. Do we want the convenience of mobile communications badly enough to trade it for food? It appears that the announcement of the cell-phone-honeybee connection may have been premature. Since that time, another researcher has discovered a probable link between the beehive die-offs and more conventional agent of bee destruction, a disease known as nosema, in this case a particularly virulent strain that has not routinely affected bees in developed nations. This is not firm yet, mind you, but this explanation makes more sense at this time. More as this line of research develops. Bruce Jensen |
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On May 16, 7:43 am, bpnjensen wrote:
On May 16, 12:48 am, Whatever wrote: IR wrote: Cellphones involve lotsa money and lotsa infrastructure and all you get out of it is a nice radiation tumor, which will be treated with yet more radiation... If it turns out that cell phone communications are the primary cause of the recent loss (disorientation) of honey bees, some hard decisions will have to be made. Do we want the convenience of mobile communications badly enough to trade it for food? It appears that the announcement of the cell-phone-honeybee connection may have been premature. Since that time, another researcher has discovered a probable link between the beehive die-offs and more conventional agent of bee destruction, a disease known as nosema, in this case a particularly virulent strain that has not routinely affected bees in developed nations. This is not firm yet, mind you, but this explanation makes more sense at this time. More as this line of research develops. Bruce Jensen A link here on the Nosema issue: http://tinyurl.com/26dz6v BJ |
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bpnjensen wrote:
On May 13, 10:18 pm, RHF wrote: Yes "CB" a Thousand Beacons of Blight ! ~ RHF - - - Don't get me wrong "CB" still has it's uses -but- a Celfone works better for the same uses 99.7% of the time in the real world. Yeah, but the CB is 99.7% more fun! :-) Bruce Several years ago, on a road trip through central Missouri and into Arkansas, I brought my 148GTL Sideband along, mostly to get road forecasts. And it paid off...a truck hitting a bridge abutment 45 miles ahead had closed the highway I was on. And at the particular location of the crash, the detour around it would have been more than 50 miles out of my way. I had been chatting with a trucker for about 35 minutes (everything from Music to Politics) when we heard the call, and he took me off the highway, through a rather scenic detour that only added a few miles and about 15 minutes to my trip, chatting and chewing all the way, he in his 18 wheeler and me following in my Caravan. We split at Hot Springs, but it was one of the most enjoyable conversations I'd had on the road (and on the radio) in some time. Later that week, I picked up another conversation that lasted for more than 100 miles. And several more 'head's up' notifications about traffic conditions and construction before me on the Arkansas roads. Now, not everyone gets the same kind of mileage out of a CB radio. Any decent HF radio will get you some pretty hefty crap, right now, if you care to try. But for a short range AM rig, I got quite a lot of useful information, sufficiently far enough out to divert around the problems, and far more entertainment than broadcast radio alone. Not all truckers are friendly out on the road. And they're not all Jerry Reed from 'Smoky and the Bandit.' But, by far the lion's share of them find more benefit in disseminating useful information and engaging in conversation, than not. Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. |
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On May 16, 4:35 pm, D Peter Maus wrote:
Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Yeah :-) Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. Peter, in your opinion, what would constitute a decent rig? I don't have on just now, but In the old days, I always used off-the-shelf Cobras and Pearce-Simpsons, usually with a (TUG8) D104 mike attached, even while I lusted after Trams and Brownings. They always worked well for me, but then what did I know? Base antennas were, variously, 1/4 wave GPs, a HyGain Penetrator (super antenna!) and a Wilson 6- element beam (amazing antenna). Mobile antennas were either 1/4-wave whips or HyGain "rabbit ears" on the gutters - also great antennas. Bruce Jensen |
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bpnjensen wrote:
On May 16, 4:35 pm, D Peter Maus wrote: Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Yeah :-) Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. Peter, in your opinion, what would constitute a decent rig? I don't have on just now, but In the old days, I always used off-the-shelf Cobras and Pearce-Simpsons, usually with a (TUG8) D104 mike attached, even while I lusted after Trams and Brownings. They always worked well for me, but then what did I know? Base antennas were, variously, 1/4 wave GPs, a HyGain Penetrator (super antenna!) and a Wilson 6- element beam (amazing antenna). Mobile antennas were either 1/4-wave whips or HyGain "rabbit ears" on the gutters - also great antennas. Bruce Jensen I don't have a base set. Mobiles and HT's, here. Mostly Unidens and Cobras. I have a 148GTL Sideband that I like. Lots of features, including a built in SWL meter for tweaking the antenna when I move it from car to car. This is the classic Cobra, and can be tweaked within an inch of its life, with the right technician's license. It came out before the FCC mandated redesign that precluded certain types of over power tweaks. Upper and lower sideband are good. The clarifier has a pretty narrow range, but if the far end rig is in compliance, it's never a problem. Sounds good, intelligiblity is quite good, and it works. Most of the rigs I've seen, today, have more features that don't matter than performance. So, it's kind of a crap shoot there. Nothing I've seen in a mobile is worth giving up my 148GTL for. Of the base stations I've seen recently, I've not seen much that strikes my fanny. A couple of Galaxy rigs are pretty tasty, if wholly illegal. Like most rigs, the real performance will be in the antenna. HyGains are excellent, as you've noted, a good beam will do wonders, but is overkill for the service. I had a buddy, decades ago in St Louis...this was junior high school before the huge CB boom... with a cubical quad that he let me load my Arvin 100mw ht into one afternoon. I wound up jawing with a trucker in North Carolina. The trucker admitted to working a 100w linear into a collinear pair, but I was only working 100mw into that cubical quad. Fun days. If I'd known what that kind of experience would have led to down the road, I would have burned that HT and started playing with my little brother's Barbie Dolls. |
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A few years ago,one night I heard an 18 wheeler truck driver on I-20 in
Jackson,Mississippi say on his CB Radio he had just got through talking to a CB Radio guy in New Zealand. cuhulin |
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On 17 May 2007 07:44:43 -0700, bpnjensen wrote:
On May 16, 4:35 pm, D Peter Maus wrote: Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Yeah :-) Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. Peter, in your opinion, what would constitute a decent rig? I don't have on just now, but In the old days, I always used off-the-shelf Cobras and Pearce-Simpsons, usually with a (TUG8) D104 mike attached, even while I lusted after Trams and Brownings. They always worked well for me, but then what did I know? Base antennas were, variously, 1/4 wave GPs, a HyGain Penetrator (super antenna!) and a Wilson 6- element beam (amazing antenna). Mobile antennas were either 1/4-wave whips or HyGain "rabbit ears" on the gutters - also great antennas. Bruce Jensen The 102'' whip is 5/8 wave. |
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On May 18, 5:57 am, David wrote:
On 17 May 2007 07:44:43 -0700, bpnjensen wrote: On May 16, 4:35 pm, D Peter Maus wrote: Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Yeah :-) Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. Peter, in your opinion, what would constitute a decent rig? I don't have on just now, but In the old days, I always used off-the-shelf Cobras and Pearce-Simpsons, usually with a (TUG8) D104 mike attached, even while I lusted after Trams and Brownings. They always worked well for me, but then what did I know? Base antennas were, variously, 1/4 wave GPs, a HyGain Penetrator (super antenna!) and a Wilson 6- element beam (amazing antenna). Mobile antennas were either 1/4-wave whips or HyGain "rabbit ears" on the gutters - also great antennas. Bruce Jensen The 102'' whip is 5/8 wave.- David - check your math. CB is 11 meters = ~ 433 inches. Take that whip, mount it on a 6" ball & spring, and you get 1/4 wavelength. (5/8 wave is up around 22' 4" - check out a typical 5/8 wave ground plane, like a Penetrator or one of the old Avanti Sigma 5/8 (another great antenna)). Now, what the vehicle, acting as a ground plane, gives you, is anyone's guess - but the radiator is 0.25 wave. I would not want a 22' whip swinging off my rear bumper! Bruce Jensen |
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On 18 May 2007 07:32:42 -0700, bpnjensen wrote:
I would not want a 22' whip swinging off my rear bumper! Bruce Jensen Just another weird incorrect fact from the back of my addled brain. Thanks. |
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On May 18, 7:32 am, bpnjensen wrote:
On May 18, 5:57 am, David wrote: On 17 May 2007 07:44:43 -0700, bpnjensen wrote: On May 16, 4:35 pm, D Peter Maus wrote: Get a decent converation going, and you'll be surprised at how many will participate. Yeah :-) Your mileage will vary, of course, but if you know how to apply it, a decent CB rig can indeed be a lot of fun. Peter, in your opinion, what would constitute a decent rig? I don't have on just now, but In the old days, I always used off-the-shelf Cobras and Pearce-Simpsons, usually with a (TUG8) D104 mike attached, even while I lusted after Trams and Brownings. They always worked well for me, but then what did I know? Base antennas were, variously, 1/4 wave GPs, a HyGain Penetrator (super antenna!) and a Wilson 6- element beam (amazing antenna). Mobile antennas were either 1/4-wave whips or HyGain "rabbit ears" on the gutters - also great antennas. Bruce Jensen The 102'' whip is 5/8 wave.- David - check your math. CB is 11 meters = ~ 433 inches. Take that whip, mount it on a 6" ball & spring, and you get 1/4 wavelength. (5/8 wave is up around 22' 4" - check out a typical 5/8 wave ground plane, like a Penetrator or one of the old Avanti Sigma 5/8 (another great antenna)). Now, what the vehicle, acting as a ground plane, gives you, is anyone's guess - but the radiator is 0.25 wave. I would not want a 22' whip swinging off my rear bumper! Bruce Jensen- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - BpnJ - "CB is 11 meters = ~ 433 inches. Take that whip, mount it on a 6" ball & spring, and you get 1/4 wavelength." Wow ! - Very Logical and Understandable ~ RHF -wrt- The 102'' CB Whip Antenna |
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