Smith Trucking Company Told to stay OFF the 10 Meter band

The personal attacks will stop, or this thread will get closed too. Thank You!

 

just ignore them gadfly. you know way more about radios than they will ever know in their life!

 

I'll agree with the Hams that we shouldn't be up there. My locals and I had to go up several bands to a favorite quiet spot due to local rednecks with dirty amps all trying to outdo each other every night, so the decent folks who were actually trying to have a CONVERSATION couldn't hear each other.
Eventually, we heard a noise like an electronic buzz and found out that was a packet coming through. We stayed up there but would totally go silent to allow anything thru that belonged there and seemed to have no problems, but as stated; it was illegal. But it was the only thing we could do without going Ham. (most of us couldn't afford that)
Now it seems to me that most of the CB'ers in here don't know too much, because it wasn't until page EIGHT that sideband even got mentioned. It is my favorite thing, as you can get out 3x the distance, especially with a footwarmer, and you're not bothering ANYBODY if your schtuf is clean.
As for footwarmers or peaked radios...how many guys with stock radios couldn't get directions because of lack of power/range? I can't see how we would have gotten around without them back in the day. But now you have GPS as your friend, and the sideband is still there (giving you 80 more "channels") to talk with. Well, except for upper and lower 18-20 which gets bleedover from 19, and if anyone is dirty near you, and plugging your ears, but that's not too often.

 

I dont see what the problem is with drivers running radios with a few extra watts. If you ham guys would go to walmart and go buy a cobra 19 ultra 3 for 35 dollars and get on I-40 and just try to get a word in on 19 without being walked on then come back and talk to us who run big radios. Last time i was on I-81 i couldnt get a word in on 19 the whole 15 hours and 800 miles. So next time i make that trip im gonna be pretty well armed

 

THe bottom line here guys is if you want to run power on the CB band spend the little extra get good quality amps that have some filters in them and stay in the cb band with it and no one is going to bother you. The ones that cause the problems are those that get where they shouldn't be and those that run so much dirty power that they bleed all over the place. I have ben on 20 Meters 14.302.5 and had a truck pass me talking on the cb and he was splattering all the way down there. That is just way to much trash i can imagine what he sounded like on channel 19 he was probably all kinds of distorted and garbled. And as far in the old days I for one never depended on the cb radio for directions after the first time some local had me headed down a narrow one way street the wrong way with a low bridge on it

 

Your right the point is that what power your runnin needs to be clean power thats not over modjed. And cb users need to stay within cb but its ok to run 50-100 watts. But alot of drivers mainly super truckers ruin it all for everybody else by runnin linears that way too powerful for what they are using them for. People in california dont need to hear my conversation about the blonde in the convertable mustang next to me. So if im gonna talk about that i dont need 1500 watts to talk to the truck in front of me.

 

Just today I answered some driver that was a good way off asking for a radio check...and his rig was splatterihn' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock. I told him he was way over modge and had him about to drop it a bit when several stupids chimed in and told him he was fine, he was really loud, and he was blowin' their speakers...
...so of course, he left it right there...

 

Yes that is exactly how they got caught, DFing(finding transmitters) has become quite popular in the ham community over the past few years, there are contests and even drills to locate personal location beacons, epirbs, the ones hikers and boaters use, as with anything els the ham commuinty touches, they have perfected this and are very good at finding even very lower power transmitters, so some guy with a stryker swinging 75 watts on 28.510 is easy game. i am a general class ham and have participated in many "games" with my local club, even with simple mobile equiptment and a small handheld beam, if You are transmitting, on a freq I am looking on, I can find You quick.. As the others said there are no fair game frequencies, except in the experimental spectrum which is somewhere in the 10 gig range, So if You have a 10 meter Radio just use caution, try to respect the amateur alloted frequiences, if You need to see the spectrum as a whole You can go to The ARRL web site there You will find all the frequiency info.

 

Where i live we've never had a problem with the hams. I even know i few that run linears on 11 meter. But i think that a few need to get a life i dont really see the point in huntin down somebody with an 80 watt stryker when all he wants is just to be able to talk to somebody. But i have a question for of the hams. How hard is it to get your licence?

 

Actually, it's pretty easy to get you licesne. Check out the ARRL website (arrl.org) for info.