question about sparky's cb

10-4 on the professional CBers love to play games.

 

I have no clue of these "3" radios you are talking about. I have two Sparky tuned radios. One is a connex 4300HP and the other is a stealth cobra 29.

The connex 4300HP keeps blowing the input cap and no one knows why. Sparky has went above and beyond and fixed it for me even after warrenty. Whe it is working it is the loudest cleanest radio in the area. The stealth model cobra 29 works well depending on the mic you use. It sounds tinny when you use an RK56 or a sky thumper mic. I use an astatic 636 and it sounds great.

Another driver for our company bought a galaxy 979 from Sparky awhile ago. In a 5 mile range it sounds nice and loud and clean. It can easily be picked out of the crowd at up to about 20 miles.

My only problem radio is my connex 4300 HP. I was warned against it by others because it is a HOT (physically) running radio since it has a single final. I should have went for the 4600 turbo. Other then the input cap problem, it has a problem with the chassis grounds inside. If you tighten it just ever slightly too tight in the mount, it will pull the grounds loose from the board.

Right now the connex is sitting up collecting dust. I replaced the burnt cap with a 104M which is all that was available in town. It is supposed to have a 104Z cap which I found out later from a picture posted on another forum. It works great for a bit then starts getting scratchy. I am running an older galaxy 949 with an older palomar 450 in its place. The stealth is a backup radio.

Oh and for the record, my Stealth was built by Doug when he was still working at Sparkys.

So there is a reason why I ask which radios the op is looking at. If he is looking at a 4300HO connex then I just wanted to mention that my 4300 has has some long term reliability issues.

I also want to mention another thing, if you drive alot at night, stay away from anything with blue lighting. Unless you plan on leaving it off at night or cover it up at night. The blue lights kill your night vision. I can see much better at night when I run a radio that does not have blue lighting.

 

"Games?" Didn't see any Game posted...Just my post of which was 100% accurate on what I see going on here on this Forum. (and a few others)

And then you popping up before my screen even has time to refresh saying "I hate Ham's"....

I don't hate anybody lets get that straight... But I do despise the way some Ham Operators think it is their responsibility to Police the Forums and sales places like Narks on some High School Campus back in the 70's.

 

Yeah "games". You said I was the "winner".

You hate the way people think? Man, I would love to have your magic. I would kill to know what other people think.

 

I completely know ahat you are talking about and I wish that the moderators of this forum would ban these hams that think it is their responsibility to police this forum.

I believe the FCC is starting to feel the same way we do because they are doing very little policing of the CB bands and the power being used on them. Especially since the public is now into the digital age were there is little to no interference from higher powered radios on the am cb bands. Heck even the Rc world os going away from AM and FM transmitters and going into a world of spread spectrum.

 

I don't know what you mean about how "hams are policing" this forum.

I've only been posting here for a couple of weeks so I don't know all the drama.

Most of us hams here still run CBs still, so I think we have every right as the non-hams.

Once you hear a CLEAN radio like most HF transceivers, you will understand why we laugh at over modulated CB radios on 19.



And I'll agree with Dutchman, Rolling Radios is the way to go.

 

Spread spectrum .... we have ben fighting that on any band below 223 for a decade now .... I hope you don't think this is the future of radio unless you want to spend 2k or more on a 40 ch cb .....

Digital other than narrow modes like PSK-31 just don't offer much bang for the buck even D-Star has gone nowhere.

The FCC is not intrested on CB or HAM radio but they ARE enforceing those who feel they can go onto 10 meters and the fact that the goverment is shoving digital down on the public is in part why they leave cb alone but with the renewed use of TV frequencies for INTERNET it's only a matter of time that the internet and providers will start using the 50-70 mhz range and that is when the problem will restart .....

AM/FM/SSB are going no place they will be around for many decades to come DIGITAL and SS are just too costly

If you have a radio that will go on 20 meters lissen around 14.070 for the PSK-31 guys IT is a very good mode using low power you can download the program for free and simple boxes like the signalink work great.
Yes it is found on 10 meter too many export radios can be made to work it on 10.

 

The RC world is going spread spectrum. Meaning many Radio controlled aircraft and ground based radio controlled vehicals are now using this tech. They get alot less interference which means no fear of a giant scale RC aircraft going crazy and taking out people at an RC flying field. Heck even the smaller parksized planes can kill a person if they get interference.

My only concern is the regular CB 40 and being able to run more then 4 watts if I should feel the need.

With the multitude of frequencies that the hams have at their choosing, why do they insist on crying and whining about CBers using more then 4 watts on the CB bands? What is the point? It is not interfering with 99.99% of the hams frequencies. What is the big flippen deal!?!?!? Is it that the majority of the hams feel that they should be the only ones in the world entitled to running more then 4 watts? Is it that the hams should be the only ones that should beable to comunicate more then 20 miles at any given time?

Alot of hams are so poed about 10 meter radios and people using them. If they (FCC) would just open up the power limits on the CB bands then regular CBs would be designed with the power capabilities of a ten meter radio except they would only beable to run on the regular CB 40. This would more then likely kill the export radio business and would kill the possibility of people accidently getting on the 10 meter band.

But most of the hams I know, would never go for this. They want,hope, and pray that CBs are always limited to 4 watts and 4 watts only.

 

RAT ......

I don't disagree with all of what you are saying the problem is getting the rules changed .....

One thing that COULD help would be allowing FM on the so called RC channels but again finding a way to get the FCC to lissen .....

I don't care hat goes on on CB it's not my problem and i am not a cop .

 

Why FM on RC? I am happy with my spread spectrum RC transmitters. They work great, no fear of my RC planes being shot down and I can fly them so far away that they actually turn into a small spec and I don't have to trail a foot long antenna wire off the planes meaning the planes reciever antenna wire is only a couple inches long at best.

As far as changing the rules, well if the hams would also get on board with changing the power limits on the CB frequencies then it would be much easier to convince the FCC that the 4 watt rule is old and should be thrown out. That and not many are following the rule anyway so why have it on the books. There is no way that the FCC can possibly enforce this rule with everyone. They do not have the money or the man power to do so. It would clean up the unliscensed activitiy on 10 meters and also clean up the bleeding 11 meter radios because they would be designed with more power already which would negate the need for them to be opened up and hacked up into bleeding radios.

I would love to go out and buy a clean running 150-200 watt CB that came that way from the factory. Not something that had to come from a tech with parts removed etc.