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ralph May 10th 07 03:57 AM

DX!
 
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



IR May 10th 07 02:25 PM

DX!
 
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.

RHF May 14th 07 06:18 AM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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/
.
.
.. .


RHF May 14th 07 09:53 AM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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

bpnjensen May 14th 07 03:05 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


Roadie May 14th 07 03:54 PM

DX!
 
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



IR May 14th 07 10:19 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


RHF May 15th 07 05:31 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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 ?

RHF May 15th 07 05:47 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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

bpnjensen May 16th 07 03:43 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


bpnjensen May 16th 07 04:25 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


D Peter Maus May 17th 07 12:35 AM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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.




bpnjensen May 17th 07 03:44 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


D Peter Maus May 17th 07 04:22 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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.




[email protected] May 17th 07 04:47 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


David May 18th 07 01:57 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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.

bpnjensen May 18th 07 03:32 PM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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


David May 19th 07 03:11 AM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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.



RHF May 20th 07 12:03 AM

About - Citizens' Band (CB) Radio
 
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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