Why run all that power

[Gadfly]

Let's us just suppose for a minute, for some reason, the company you work for OR FCC PREVENTED everybody from running the outlaw and illegal amps. Everyone had a level playing field. Each radio had ONLY 4 watts. Your overall distance would INCREASE, your noise would DECREASE, the hash and trash would diminish. Ever wonder where, when conditions are just ROLLIN', all that SCREEEEEEEEEEEE, HOOOOOOOOOOWLLLLLL, ROOOOOAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR was coming from? It is caused by YOURSELF!!!! Your buddies who, thinking that *I* just HAVE to be the biggest, baddest radio hombre, slap on these splattering, dirty amplifiers and overmodulate to their hearts content. And not only are they yapping away fulfilling this deep-seated lack of a phallus, they are also causing noise (SCREEEEEEEE, HOOOOOOWLLLLL, ROOOOOOOOAAARRR!!!!!) as much as 10 channels away----even scratching, screeching, and hashing on the 10 and 12 Meter bands AND creating noise that other such users can't explain why they are having mysterious racket in THEIR sets! BUT, the key is *I*, *I*, *I*, *I* what *I* want is so much more important than anyone else on the planet.

Many years ago, I used to have an old Raytheon 5 channel CB I bought in a junk shop for 5 bucks. I lived in a rooming house at the ripe old age of 19. I put a back of set antenna from Radio Shack on the radio, and at night, I would sit on my bed and talk in a 10 mile radius of home. No amps, no "extra channels"----------------nothing but that old 1950's CB radio and I had a blast with it! The CB craze of the 70's brought with it the dirty, splattering amps, and extra channels (I am just so special, that the law doesn't apply to me so I have "right" to them channels, etc etc!)
The 80's brought the "ME, MYSELF, and I" syndrome. The combination of the two is what brought the derisive moniker to the CB "service' of "chicken band"! Unfortunately, it IS deserved I am afraid. With the advent of cell phones, computers, email, text messaging, the best thing that could happen to CB is for it to be "sunsetted". That is, given a date out of several years where 27 MHZ CB would no longer be allowed. Replacing it with much higher frequencies with FM and 25 watt transmitters would allow the trucking industry to do their jobs while removing the "skip", the amps, and the temptation to try to walk over each other----IOW, the "hobby" aspect that causes grief to other services. Something to think about!

Gadfly

[kd5drx]

Originally Posted by k7aab

Putting my Kenwood TS-480HX in my truck... well after I pick up my cdl this week. 200 watts of pure over the road hamming enjoyment. Now that is what I call a great job! I cant wait. And I may leave the chicken bander in the truck for nostalgic purposes.

73,

K7AAB

*ps.. is there a ham freq that ham truckers stay around?

14.302.5 is still active just allot of us have moved away or are not trucking any more but there are still some real good guys there i talked to several when i was home last month. N4UOG,AB8JL,W3VLG,KB0LTT,W5CI just to name a few that are still around the old home Frequency. So tune up and tune in at night around 1830 central time try 3.987.5 and the Ark Razorback net. the net controls allways listen up for mobile's and tell them DRX sent you by from all the way in YI land 73's enjoy the truckin Ham adventure i miss it dearly. KD5DRX/YI9DRX

[squirrellsgnwild]

Originally Posted by junior

so yallve heard that guys singing, " i aint got no panties on" to, damn hes annoying

i have never herd that. I told this guy once who was talking about the prices of cases of bottle water to "can we talk about something else" to top it all off he was on 19!!!! What i really don't get was, i think he was talking to himself.

[jash369]

Interesting..............................:biggrin_ 2554:

[Kaonix]

Originally Posted by kc0rey

What you got:
$100 worth of parts on a poorly designed and built Illegal radio, Another $100 worth of parts on a very dirty, poorly designed and built Illegal Amp. The antenna is not bad and the SWR means very little <---bet that is something you thought you'd never hear...that is discussed elsewhere. What you can do, Talk a little better on channel 19, and splatter on licensed services.

Are you aware that with knowledge and a piece of wire a 5W radio will talk around the world........

BTW, It is not "Your point of view.. It is the Law, and proven scientific facts.

I started this section in an effort to educate those who don't know.
Then we have a driver, like yourself, who thinks he knows and thinks he is more important then everybody on the face of the planet.
What he wants is what counts and doesn't care if he violates other's rights or interferes with Licensed services like the police, TV, Ham radio, aircraft, etc.
He THINKS nobody cares and nobody is enforcing the regulations, but you are wrong driver. It is being enforced and you are doing allot of harm.
It has nothing to do with me liking or disliking radios.

Why don't you share with us this knowledge? Create a kit and start passing it out at the truckstop so we can talk around the world?

Traveling in any lane but the right lane is against the law unless your passing. Bet your Guilty.

I don't THINK I know everything, however, when I'm in Chicago and need local information, I need power to be able to get out over the B.S.

Yeah, people care, and they are enforcing the laws, as long as it's equitable to the enforcing party.

Take your nose outta the air.

[1989 Pete]

Originally Posted by kc0rey

The very sad thing is you guys spent allot of money on Junk. Sadder yet is the fact that you spent big bucks with-out researching what you were buying, or learning about it.

You are uninformed or miss-informed, you believe everything your CB buddies and the idiots at the CB Shops told you. Until you came to this site, you didn't even know what RF Power was......what it can do to you........and probably still don't.

You have no idea how funny I find that.............

lmao so true driva

[FriedTater]

What clown show did they kick you out of fella ?
You talk alot of smack about something of no interest to you.
What people choose as a hobby is none of your business
first off,secondly the "junk" you speak of has never been more refined like it is today.
(for some reason you reek of a ham-op)

I buy quality to get quantity to crack heads and lock down parking lots for past time entertainment.
Nothing funnier IMO then locking down 200+ Cobra radio's with the flip of two switches,clicking the key lock on the D104 and going inside for a soda



MY ENTERTAINMENT !
I have just as much fun talking to hams on the other short channels using very little power.
Its my hobby thats Incorporated into my career.

now run along back to your ham bones . . . . . .

Originally Posted by kc0rey

What you got:
$100 worth of parts on a poorly designed and built Illegal radio, Another $100 worth of parts on a very dirty, poorly designed and built Illegal Amp. The antenna is not bad and the SWR means very little <---bet that is something you thought you'd never hear...that is discussed elsewhere. What you can do, Talk a little better on channel 19, and splatter on licensed services.

Are you aware that with knowledge and a piece of wire a 5W radio will talk around the world........

BTW, It is not "Your point of view.. It is the Law, and proven scientific facts.

I started this section in an effort to educate those who don't know.
Then we have a driver, like yourself, who thinks he knows and thinks he is more important then everybody on the face of the planet.
What he wants is what counts and doesn't care if he violates other's rights or interferes with Licensed services like the police, TV, Ham radio, aircraft, etc.
He THINKS nobody cares and nobody is enforcing the regulations, but you are wrong driver. It is being enforced and you are doing allot of harm.
It has nothing to do with me liking or disliking radios.

[relic1228]

With 1000 watts you can talk a long way, but it only taes 4 watts to plug your ears.