CB shop black list.

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by Carolina Thunder, Oct 15, 2009.

  1. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

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    I hang out on 2 meters but look closely you will see my grant LT ..... that is the cb station here NONE of the ham radios goes outside the bands I dont need problems with the 6 hams that live within 1,000 feet of me ....... My cb antenna is by using the vertical and a tuner for now ...... I'm gonig to replace the 2 meter ( CAABC23 ) vertical with a even better one since it took a hit ...:biggrin_25521:

    My first CB license was issued in the early 60's ....
     

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  3. mike5511

    mike5511 Road Train Member

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    Awww, see the grant on the top shelf......missed that the first time! My bad.
     
  4. Turbo-T

    Turbo-T Road Train Member

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    Which is pretty sad. The kids of today are all for texting and chat rooms, not as much fun with that as chatting on a radio IMO.

    Yep and here around where I live you still see a lot of cars, pick ups, etc. with antennas on them.

    Just last night I met a guy on a military installation that was following behind me after I came thru the gate, he tried calling out to me but I couldn't understand him. He sounded like Donald Duck over the radio but he wasn't on a SSB radio. Finally we pulled over and chatted. Guy must have been maybe 20 or so, had a Cobra 19III on his dash and some sort of Predator looking antenna on the left front bulkhead of his 2004 Chevy 1/2 ton. Said he also just picked up a base station and he lived in the barracks. I told him a dipole would be his friend if he wanted to use the base station in the barracks.

    And he's just one of the young cats I've met around here running a radio, so it seems there's a new breed of CBers coming into the game, just looking to chat with someone.
     
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  5. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

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    I got my first shortwave receiver at age 9 my first license at 13 and started my first electronics school classes at 14. In thoes days it was how it was done .... I even had a station in my locker in the army.

    You learned from your elmers ... that was part of being a older ham.
     

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  6. Mad Dog 20/20

    Mad Dog 20/20 Heavy Load Member

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    Bruce, didn't you elmer Marconi,Fessenden and DeForest????
    :biggrin_2559::biggrin_25514::biggrin_2559:

    BTW,I dig the laugh-ayette
     
  7. WA4GCH

    WA4GCH Road Train Member

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    Yes I did and tought him how to use SPARKGAP as a radio ....
     
  8. cadillacdude1975

    cadillacdude1975 Road Train Member

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    mods, shouldnt this thread be a sticky?
     
  9. groundpounder

    groundpounder Road Train Member

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    would you want your business on this list based on opinion and hearsay from a bunch of truck drivers ?? :biggrin_25512:

    hardly scientific.. :biggrin_25513:
     
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  10. cbrepairman

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    Well I have read through this post and I think I will put my 2 cents worth in.
    CB Shops and repairman are for the most part doing what they can get away with, or doing what they have to do to sell radios.
    You see, no one wants a radio that is set to the FCC regulations and has the modulation set as it is supposed to be. (now before you all go chiming in and say I want my radio to be set at 100% modulation and so on) let me say no you don't..
    I have been doing radios for over 28 years and know what most of you want is a radio that is loud and will talk 1000 miles on some brown coax and a broken firestick antenna, or you have bought a $200.00 coil antenna and super flex high voltage coax that is purple in color and will handle 10000000000 watts. When the static level is high and you can't talk 1000 miles the radio is a peace of crap and the guy that worked on it is a hack. The first thing you do is to stop at the nearest truck stop and have that shop look at the radio. Well he says the radio is all screwed up and he will fix it for you for $45.00 and you will be talking 1010 miles soon.
    $45.00 later you are back on the road ans guess what you just can't hear anything now... (Make a note to self..self when I come back through here stop back at that shop and kick that guys a#$) So you go on the the next shop and stop in and the guy says the radio is de-tuned and he can fix it for $35.00 so you agree and $35.00 later you are back on the radio with the same static you had but you are now out $80.00 and the real problem is in the coax and antenna system or the grounds. Or even worse we just had a sun spot and the noise is just the way the band is.
    My question is did the shops screw you or did you screw yourself...
    There is no way I can type all the issues that can be wrong with a CB radio system and to be plain honest some of it I don't understand myself but you can bet you bottom dollar that most of the time your radio is not at fault unless you have had every tom dick and harry in it.
    Check your system first before you go into a CB Shop.. You don't know them and if they don't fix something they don't make any money.
    For myself, my reputation is all I have on the net and when someone bad mouths me it not only costs me money but it is a direct insult to what I do. I'm not perfect but I do take a great deal of pride in my work and try to give people the best radio I can.
     
  11. popmartian

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    To the original post, Thanks, I have to admit, that 3 out of 4 "techs" that I had tune my LTD 29 made it worse. Finally a guy in Tuscan AZ fixed it, Put a super mod, a new Output transformer (with more watts) and adjusted the dead key, 50 bucks. Put that baby to work 24/7 for 4 years and it never sounded bad. Not able to remember the name (one in TN on 75 at the ponderosa ts) he was an absolute rip-off.
     
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