galaxy 99 or general lee

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by southtx, May 26, 2011.

  1. Gadfly

    Gadfly Medium Load Member

    674
    323
    Aug 18, 2006
    0
     
  2. Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.

  3. Voyager1968

    Voyager1968 Road Train Member

    2,346
    2,695
    Sep 11, 2008
    Phoenix, AZ
    0
    Why does every thread about an export radio have to turn into a pissing match about the legality of said device? Most people (myself included) only buy these 10m exports to talk with a little more power on the 11m band without having to run a linear. I never venture where I'm not supposed to be, but it's nice to be able to get out over the crap in and around the bigger metro areas and truckstops, or talk to another driver more than a mile or two down the road.
     
    AZS, southtx, Yup and 1 other person Thank this.
  4. AZS

    AZS Honk if anything falls off

    2,912
    1,303
    Sep 30, 2010
    PHX, AZ
    0
    Just hooked up my general lee tonight, didn't change the power cable and blew that after keying it two times. Promptly switched to the heavier gauge and now seems to be no issues. lol. Quick question since I'm coming from a stock 29 and don't want to possibly piss anyone off, which band should I be on D is fine correct?
     
  5. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

    3,324
    577
    Aug 12, 2009
    Seminole Florida
    0
    No problem here.....

    Run what you want on CB it's not a ham problem and the FCC is not doing it's job again not my problem ...
     
  6. kc0iv

    kc0iv Light Load Member

    294
    233
    Mar 31, 2010
    Parkville, Mo
    0
    How would increasing the power, to lets say 500 watts? If everyone was running the higher power the interference would be worse than it is now.

    A better way is to have cleaner transmitters. Get rid of the over modulation. Improve the bandwidth of the receivers. Use SSB instead of AM.

    Kc0iv
     
  7. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

    3,324
    577
    Aug 12, 2009
    Seminole Florida
    0
    Yep SSB and put FM on the old Class C ones ......

    The problem with high power is just like 20 meters EVERYONE runs a KW .... Well almost everyone I still can be heard with my 100 watts ....
    Rase CB to 100 and the people running 100 will go to 1,000 .....
     
  8. Rat

    Rat Road Train Member

    The majority run as much power as they can afford. Most truck drivers can't afford 1000 dollar or more setups in their trucks. The most I see people running in trucks are 500 watts or less. The majority are running export radios that do anywere from 30 to 50 watts with a peak of around 100 to 200. We are talking 300 dollars just for the radio alone.

    I really don't see it becoming a bigger issue then it already is.

    The guys that cause the biggest problems are running 1000 watts. for the most part I can't hear them unless "skip" conditions are strong. And they are running a base setup 90% of the time. It would not be hard for enforcment to come down on these stations that are running more then 500 watts since the majority of them are stationary base setups.

    I know that I can't afford to modify a company truck to handle the current draw of these larger setups. That along with having to modify the company trucks antenna setup to handle more then 500 watts since the factory coax in trucks is junk in the first place and alot of the newer trucks have multiplexor boxes(makes it so that that AM/FM radio uses the CB antenna instead of a seperate antenna) in them that can not handle that kind of power.

    Like me, I do have a setup that will push close to 450-500 watts carrier. I don't use it. Too much clutter in the truck. I just like to turn on the radio and use it rather then have to fiddle with crap and deal with the extra wiring etc in the truck. You can't run this kind of setup off the power ports in the truck. it can't handle the current load. You have to directly run wires to the battery. Most companies will not allow to to do these things.

    We just want to beable to extend our range past 10 miles. This is hard to do in a noisy truck that you have to run shorter antennas on. Sure you might beable to get that out of a 4 watt setup but you can hardly hear them in a noisy truck. I have to stop and turn the truck off to hear a 4 watt setup even on a good quiet day. Now the guys that have exports that have more then 4 watts, can be heard even in a noisy truck.

    The thing is that trucking is not the perfect enviroment for Cb communications. We are moving all the time. Our antennas are not mounted at the top of a tower and they are not 102+ inches long. We have alot of things in the trucks that cause electrical interference with our radios. Heater fans causing whining on the radio, alternator whine, electronic fuel systems that cause interferance. I usually have 2 0r 3 S units of noise when I have my truck running. Kind of hard too hear radios that are only putting out 3 units from 5+ miles away.

    Like Friday, I was about 5 miles behind one of our drivers. He has a regular cobra 29 and I have my connex 4600 turbo. I could just barley make him out. He could hear me just fine. Did not hear him in time to avoid the traffic back up a head. We both ended up sitting backed up in traffic and burning up the last hour we had on our 14 hour clocks. Had I heard him earlier I could have got off the big road and not gone past my 14 hour clock. Now I am a even bigger outlaw for going over my hours of service for the day. We both had on time sensitive loads that had to be dumped that day. Bulk potatoes don't do so well sitting in the back of a trailer on a road sitting in the sun.


    I plan on running an export type radio no matter what the FCC says. Give me a ticket, I don't care. Confiscate the radio, I have another and can easily get one if I don't have one. They can send letters to my boss all they want. I will still run my illegal export on the 11 meter band.

    Fact is that the FCC could give a rats behind about the power out put being used on 11 meter. if they did then you see 100 times more violations being handed out for it every year. The way i understand it, they get kind of pissy when they have to go out and check out a complaint as it is. And it is usually only because some Ham operator was on 11 meter using his tattle tale meters driving around trying to be the radio police then sending in a complaint.

    Dear FCC, tuesday on June ?? 2011, I was monitoring the 11 meter band and picked up an extremely strong station transmitting on the band. I installed my super wizz bang whig a jig flux capacitor powered equipment in my 91 ford tempo with a 4 element beam antenna mounted on the roof. I drove around using my superior direction finding techiniques and found the perp sitting at the local flying J truck stop. The company name on the truck was Super trucker Freight and the unit number was 109023. He was transmitting at ??? watts of output according to my super dooper wizz bang wig a jig. I questioned the driver and he took a club out and proceeded to knock my 4 element antenna off my ford tempo. I went home and looked up the company on the internet and found their phone number and address. I have added a copy of their web site and info to the back of this letter.
     
    Voyager1968 Thanks this.
  9. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

    3,324
    577
    Aug 12, 2009
    Seminole Florida
    0
    Morning Rat .....

    This is my point 11 meters is NOT the place for long range truck to truck radio. You need a band you need to be on FM and like you said 100-300 watts would be a good limit on that kind of band.

    Don't beleve the stories that FM does not go as far as AM that is not true
    TODAY the average FM radio on 29.600 mhz will out due just about any AM rig ever built for the 10 meter band.

    MAYBE ......

    One day I'll talk you into getting your ham license ..... I know fat chance ...

    Be safe ....

    Bruce
     
  10. Mad Dog 20/20

    Mad Dog 20/20 Heavy Load Member

    768
    193
    Jan 31, 2010
    Skid Row
    0

    Are you saying FM will travel farther than AM??????
     
  11. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

    3,324
    577
    Aug 12, 2009
    Seminole Florida
    0
    Yes and no .....
    IF you are talking about the average AM radio they are just not as good fact is Well designed FM radios will hold their own with any AM rig.

    Today with 3KHZ wide FM and very good IF filters a GOOD 10 meter FM rig will easily hear a .3uV signal and most AM rigs will not do better than .5uV FM is better in a noisy environment and some FM radios even use NOISE BLANKERS to back up the limiters.

    SINCE FM is found only on the high end of HF above 29Mhz many confuse the FREQUENCY and how far it will go with the MODE .....

    NOW AM is a bit better as far as phase distortion if the ship is going up and down and shifting polarity AM MIGHT win otherwise You would be surprised how well FM even weak signal FM will do.

    I'm not knocking a good high level modulated AM rig but the days of FM not being a DX mode are long gone .....

    I worked a number of stations on 29.600 SIMPLEX many running 25 watts and many 1,000 milles away this last opening with just my R7 and the built in TS-2000 antenna tuner.
     
  • Truckers Report Jobs

    Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds

    Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.