Roger beep

Cause they like to annoy the rest of us!

 

I bumped the switch and don't use talk back so I can't hear that it's on.

 

Much as I hate them, they do have their uses. If covering a great distance through noisy conditions they can be helpful.

Most of the time though they are just annoying. Especially those multi-tone ones, or those that are about 10x louder than the voice transmission.

They have absolutely NO place on SSB. Stop using them there.

 

A Roger Beep gets them an extra $.10 a mile in pay and elevates them to Super Trucker status.

 

Rodger Beep's are installed on CB's mainly for the Mexican Market...Them little senorita's down south wouldn't know what to do without one.

 

Almost forgot: Some say that they are used so 'good buddies' can find each other....

 

Beep at the end of transmission was made popular by NASA who used it for indicating the intentional end of transmission.

 

It's used to piss others off while getting your jollies. You should have seen the last radio I had with roger beep. As an experiment, I performed a mod on the board by replacing the timing cap with a higher value. The beep was 18 second long, and I kid you not.

 

I never have beed fond of the "roger beep" although I've used one on occasion, mostly for entertainment purposes (just horsing around). But I ran one of these on the last base station I had matched up to a HR 2510, an excellent mic with a unique "roger beep" selection.