Lots of CB Traffic in Baton Rough this Morning

It begins with you...

I decided a while back that I would start using my radio like I did in the old days--reporting cops, accidents, vehicles on the shoulder, thanking drivers for letting me over--regardless of whether or not anyone responds. Lo' and behold, there are drivers on the radio.

I was running across I-10 in Florida one night when a driver cut his headlights to let me back over. I grabbed the mic and said, "Thank you, driver. Blink blink."

He came back and said, "Wow, I wasn't expecting to hear anything on my radio."

I think that's part of the trouble. Everyone is waiting for someone else to say something. Be that someone else.

 

I keep mine on. Old skool. It may be turned way down to where I hear only key words or direct inquiries , but it's ALWAYS on.

I don't know how they function without it.

I really appreciate it when I avoid the shutdowns and I'm zooming past the snarl on the parallel surface as the hell raising commences.

Not me.

 

I keep mine on but sometimes forget to turn it back up when I turn it down because I find someone annoying, ...it saves me aggravation often enough to keep it on and to be concerned about it operating efficiently both in transmitting and receiving.

 

I just cut my RF gain all the way back for those people. They're usually talking on a splatterbox piece of crap anyway and disappear within a mile or two.

That way my volume is still up and I can hear someone who is near me.

 

I always run with my RF gain wide open and my squelch wide open. I like to listen for those really weak stations that don't move my needle but sound fairly close but in reality could be far away.

 

That's exactly how i run my radio, sometimes there is some surprise buried in the background noise.

 

I like those surprises.
Especially if it's somebody that I know which happens to be the case quite often.

 

I was glad I had mine on one day when the wife and I were going through Memphis, Tennessee west bound on I-40. We were nearing the Mississippi river bridge when another driver keyed up and said there was an accident between the bridge and West Memphis and that the whole west bound side would be shut down for several hours. I got off on Riverside Drive and went to the Old I-55 bridge to cross and never had a problem with traffic.

 

You must be in RF quiet areas. I've been in those and thought the radio was broken. Then I was in Indianapolis and there was an atmospheric warning for ozone. I had to turn the RF gain down.