Why do truckers use linear amplilfiers with their CB radios?

>>>>Why do truckers use linear amplilfiers with their CB radios?

So they can hear all the BS arguments happening further away...I would never juice mine just for that reason, too much BS on there in close proximity...

 

I use X-Force for mobile 11m and have a couple Ameritrons for home use...For the money Ameritrons are great amps..

 

We're discussing linears, which is power out. You're thinking of a pre amp which increases receive, but also induces noise.

Funny thing is if everyone ran the same amount of power, you wouldn't have as many problems but then again some people on CB want to try to out do the next guy, hence why some run linears.

 

Seriously...you need to get a life! End of story! You always show up in these discussions....I think alot of ppl rarely get past the first sentence or two before thinking "same troll, same post, same bs ham bullying" WHO CARES!!! Really, who cares SO much...besides you're non-life having ###!

 

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I have an old Golden Eagle 250 sitting on my shelf, anyone got some info about them?

 

My palomar has a high and low setting. I hardly ever wsitch it to high. On low is does enough to get my point across. Anyway, yesterday I was rolling south down I29 in north dakota, met one of our drivers and he was asking me a question. He then said I was cutting out. Was not sure if it was my side or his. I had a mic issue a while ago so I flipped the channel up to the high 20s were there was no one on the channel. turned on the Talk back and said 1,2,3,4,5 to see if it was my mic. Well someone said 6,7,8 back to me. LOL. I asked were he was. South eastern Florida. LOL

Day before I thought I would play a little since skip was pretty heavy. I heard 187 calling out from somewere in the sand pile (Florida). He was lookign for a comeback. I flipped to high on the box and called back. Gave him my handle which by the way is my user name on this board and the many other boards I am on. Also my location, north eastern ND, he came back to me stating my location and my name and that my radio was doing well all the way down to the sand pile. Oh and yes that was on the super busy channel 19.

My setup is a Sparky CB shack Cobra 29 stealth running into a old Palomar 450 and out to a 10 inch shaft wilson 5000 on the passenger mirror bracket. Linked together with clear mini 8 from the local truck stop.

But back to the cutting out, well I figured my signal was being blocked by the trailer since the other driver was heading north and I was heading south. That and I know his coax is bad in his truck. He usually can't get out more then a mile so I can't hear him much farther then that. I checked out his coax and SWR one day and his SWR was above 4 and I could see the coax was cracked on the drivers side. he don't seem to care that much so we left it at that.

 

Pretty much says it all

 

i work local, don't need a stinkin cb.

 

Well said ... There is one guy around my area that you can hear from about 10 miles away talking to trucks passing by in the opposite direction.