Big radio's this is for you.

Talked to 171 in Jacksonville Florida from Grand Forks ND today. Chatted with Billy the kid the other day. I think he is in Florida also. But usually I can hit the south east fairly easy. Once and a while I can hit the west coast. I gotta get my box up so I can do a little better then what my connex is doing barefoot.

 

i hear alot from florida and texas up here in canada when i run the flat land of manitoba. and alot of texas in north west ontario, (dont understand surounded by rock cuts made of granite and iron?)

 

i had a driver 1 mile away and the skip walked on him!!!! it will go away this year has been crazy

 

Just curious, how do you know it's ham operators?

 

Yeah,...... unless the drivers are running those so-called "10 Meter 'amateur' radios" and are ON 10 meters where the CBers have NO business, they wouldn't be hearing hams........... or unless they've had their radios snipped, clipped, beeped and squeaked, and turned up to the moon! I heard plenty of that on my trip over Thanksgiving---mostly truckers yapping away on 28.085 AM where they don't belong. If I could just gotten alongside one of them.....FCC here we come! Most of it was long-distance stuff, tho.

GF

 

Lots of Hams on CB playing the power game. They are out there.

 

Think the solar flares are causing much of it....I have a modified Stryker and about crapped myself when I heard the Midnight Cowboy...who is in Jersey/NYC all the way down in Dallas Texas the other day on my route.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZ5LPA3FxQ

 

It's sunspots. Solar flares will shut down propagation like flipping a switch.

 

Dude , You can't here them respond.

I've talked to guys that faded when they got 500 ft from me. The reason they faded , cause they slowed down a little to get closer again and tell me they're antenna is snapped off on the driver side. Some guys hook radio's up and don't even know about the swr and impedance. If your radio is peaked and tuned properly you'll communicated with me over the hams out there , when we're only a few miles away. I can talk at 10pm any given night almost from 6 or 8 miles north of Lucasville OH , down to a guy goes by Gator in lewis county KY (Garrison) my home town . I'm shooting about 22 miles in the hills to him , and we pretty much hear everything each other say. It's not your receive is what I'm saying it's not the Ham ops or big radio's interfering , it's cheap radios and 11 to 15 dollar antennas and badly tuned or not tuned at all. . That why you're not hearing them.

 

When I say Ham , I refer to those that are 1 licensed or 2 know how to set up and worry none about the FCC. To think the FCC will catch them is crazy. I did some checking like 4 yrs ago . Unless the FCC has more than tripled it's field agent force the only complaints they'll investigate are those interfering with air traffic controll or law enforcement communication Agencies of this nature hold top priority. It will not be investigated if you or I complaint about Mr. So in So down the block scrambling your tv cause he's running too much power. They absolutely do not have the manpower to investigate those type of complaints. Now , that could change if they're over run with calls for a period of time all seemingly directed at the same offender . If my memory serves me well , there was like 26 agents that made up the FCC like 4yrs ago . 26 to cover 48 states. Not a good chance they'll be interested in a complaint about a guy shooting too much power on channel 19 or any other for that matter.