What's wrong with you guys??? Hams!

I have as much time invested in my antenna and coax setup as I do money involved in my radio. I am kind of OCD when it comes to this. Why spend the extra money on a good radio if you are going to try and run it through a cheap coax, antenna setup. The best antennas we have available locally are wilson 5000s and that is what I am running at the moment. I have them adjusted to an swr of 1.5 on 1-20-40. I have installed extra grounding on all moving parts of the truck ie doors, hood etc.

I am in the market for different antennas and I am looking at Predator 10K at the moment. I am just hoping that 6+ feet of antenna on my mirrors is going to be ok for the most part. I am also looking into investing in an antenna analizer for fine tuning of my setup to get the best possible performance out of my setup. Lots of new toys coming down the pipe for me since the wife and I are getting a huge tax return of over 7 grand.

 

KERCHING !

 

I'm a cb'er and a ham and run a legal cb radio. I don't care where you go on the 11 meter band as long as your footprint doesn't splatter up on the ham bands. I used to have a ton of fun on the free band running a clean radio talking all over the world and because of that, it sparked more interest to go ham when the 11 meter band is dead. What it boils down to is a splatter thing on the receive band scope. See, there are cw/data beacons around 28 mhz which lets us know when overseas skip is running. Hams get pissed off when they can't hear them due to dirty splatter.

 

Ya gotta be kiddin me I was listening to 2 meter band today, UNBELIEVABLE, it was worse than channel 19, during rush hour traffic on the Jersey Turnpike.

 

We don't have that problem here not that there are a few bone heads on 2 meters. 99.999% of the Cbers who get HAM licenses do just fine ! They LEARN how to opperate on the ham bands join into nets learn how to handle traffic and become GOOD HAMS .....

I know its the code ..... without it everything went to hell ..... what a chunk of BS ... I run on 2 meter SSB MANY of the people on 2 are EX-CBers they are GOOD opps many are like spunges just soaking up the world of radio ....

Yep without code we are doomed .......

I was active in New York city on 2 meters in the 1960's it was AM in those days ....

 

Good entertainment is provided on 3910.0

 

Yup, and 3.980 to 3.990. Sometimes it sounds like Community Access TV audio, with what amounts to broadcasting political and religious rhetoric on AM.
On the bright side, some of those folks have amazing audio
Kinda seems like the new clowns gravitate to VHF, and the olde phartes (like Yours Truly) keep going lower and lower in frequency. Once we go past 160 Meters and into VLF, we're about ready for our wings....or pitchforks.....
-- Handlebar --
P.S. Like I said in my post about putting up the Yagi -- Amateur Radio doesn't necessarily attract the best and the brightest

 

If it did the FCC would not be in the mess it is

 

It seems to me the problem got worst when the FCCs dropped the requirement to go to the local FCC office to take the test.

Second is the dropping of the code requirement. And yes I know there are better modes that isn't why I like the code test. It takes some work to pass the code test and I believe people respect something more that they had to work for.

Leon
(kc0iv)

 

But I DID pass the code test TWICE ..... once as a novice and when I retook it for my tech class ...

My station is set up for ALL modes my FT-100D, Ft-840 and TS-2000 all have CW filters AND I have both DSP and audio filters that will go down to under 100 HZ BW ....

I run on 2 SSB and FM NOT using repeaters working weak signal and modes like tropo and e-skip ..... MANY of the people I talk to are no-codes and they are GOOD HAMS not lids or problems on the air ....