CB HAM Radio

No kidding????? I have him on ignore so can not see what he is posting.


As for as transmitting more then two miles.

Was on my cobra 29 stealth a week ago. Running cophased wilson 5000 on the mirrors of my pete. Was talking to another one of our drivers 15 miles away.

After that I was on channel 21. I heard some say Audio a few times. I replied back with "Audio". He said "Oh was just checking out my radio, Were you at" I replied. "Heading south on Highway ???? in ??????? county in North Eastern ND" "Ohhhh, I am down in Central Texas!".


The next day I had my connex 4300HP hooked up. I was easily chatting with our other drivers that were more then 15 miles out. It was harder to bring them in but they said it was just like I was right behind them. One of our other drivers has a Galaxy 99 and he was about 25 miles out and we were chatting back and forth like we were just a mile apart. I told me DOT was setup. I knew I was over axle on my trailer so I took another route. Made it to my destination with my wallet in tact and no lost time dealing with Mr DOT.

 

No kidding????? I have him on ignore so can not see what he is posting.


As for as transmitting more then two miles.

Was on my cobra 29 stealth a week ago. Running cophased wilson 5000 on the mirrors of my pete. Was talking to another one of our drivers 15 miles away.

After that I was on channel 21. I heard some say Audio a few times. I replied back with "Audio". He said "Oh was just checking out my radio, Were you at" I replied. "Heading south on Highway ???? in ??????? county in North Eastern ND" "Ohhhh, I am down in Central Texas!".


The next day I had my connex 4300HP hooked up. I was easily chatting with our other drivers that were more then 15 miles out. It was harder to bring them in but they said it was just like I was right behind them. One of our other drivers has a Galaxy 99 and he was about 25 miles out and we were chatting back and forth like we were just a mile apart. I told me DOT was setup. I knew I was over axle on my trailer so I took another route. Made it to my destination with my wallet in tact and no lost time dealing with Mr DOT.


That sounds great man,,,what kind of power are you running? did you do anything special for grounding your Wilson's? Last; what is your SWR setting?

Thanks...

 

Rat,,,you will have to forgive me,,,still trying to figure out how to quote.
My questions, if you don't notice, are at the bottom of what you typed..

Thanks..

 

It is a cobra 29 classic I got from Sparkies CB shack when Doug was still with him. It has some things done to it but it is not puching huge amounts of power. Not like an rfx 29.

The Wilsons are just tuned and mounted on the stock antenna locations on a 04 379 Peterbuilt. I tuned each seperately using a seperate peice of coax. I then hooked the cophased coax up and did the final tuning.

I get a flat 1:1 swr on all channels. It does go up slightly when moving as the antennas flex rearward toward the exhaust stacks. It was alot worse until I bullhorned the antennas about 10 degrees.

My plan is to get the longer lower shafts (I have the 10 inch shafts now) to get the loading section above the cab. Once that is done then I should get even better performance out of my setup.

 

Well, I have posted it here before:
From a location in the western part of Germany (near Luxembourg) I have made contacts with CBers in the UK, Italy and Slovenia using a cheap CB radio as out of the box with 4 Watts output power on FM and a stock mag whip antenna on the roof of my car (which I had tuned to minium SWR).
HF propogation dependes very much on the sun and the season, as well as on the wave length. Now in winter and especially at night everything above 14 MHz is dead. This frequencies require a strong ionisation of the upper atmosphere to be reflected over larger distances, this means strong sunlight.
So us hams move to the lower bands (1.6; 3.5 and 7.0 MHz) during the dark period of the year, which on the other hand are pretty useless in summer and daylight due to the radio waves being swallowed by a certain different ionised layer in the lower upper atmosphere, but this layer disappears in winter and darkness and so allows long distance communications.

73, DL1JRK (Jan)

 

hey gadfly, seriously chill instead of getting hot and bothered with fcc BS, which these guys dont want to hear, just answer the question, is it a ham radio, well it will do ham bands, not very effectively, so its a wanna be, i own one of those ILLEGALS, it came with a full estate i bought from the family of a silent key, being licensed for 28.300 i tried it on 28.314 usb it not like my icom hf rig and you could barely catch what i was saying. i digress is it a ham radio, if it is tuned for that and you use it for it legal or not then you can call it that, just like using motorola mobile for a 2 meter it works but its not made as a HAM radio. AND PLEASE GADFLY STOP PREACHING THE FCC BIBLE PART 95 AND 97. if you think that a cber is doing something illegal just report him to the fcc snitch them out and go about you business but please STOP making ham radio operators look like high and might "Radio GODS" really your putting a bad taste in my mouth about ham radio and IM AND OPERATOR!!! to the truckers if you have an import as i do stay on the forty am or ssb so gf will stop whining, if you want to talk on ten do the tech its easy and ham radio is fun, so is cb!

 

oohh ive seen this same qoute before, the exact same in other forums, dude get something new to rant on about!!!!

 

If your talking about a channel switch there is no FCC rule .....

 

OOPS not awake yet ....

LEGALY ....... he is correct ..... that said .......

The FCC is on record as saying if you are a ham and it is not converted to cover CB it is LEGAL for a ham to use on 10 meters.

So the illegal part is only applying to its use on CB not if your a ham with one on 10 meters and even converted they are not going to track you down .......

EXPORTS range from pure junk to very good some like a chipswitch lincoln as good as a low end ham radio.

 

im glad we could see eye to eye, and using it Illegally is wrong 100 percent, ive got mine for ham and cb it came with the stuff might as well put it to use with the freq counter that i have of course,so im gonna use it, for what im able to legally(got that talk from on of my mentors in ham radio) but you can call it a 10 meter rig like i said just like using a commercial rig with "channels" for 2 meter ir 70 cm. lets just encourage those who want to know more about ham radio and all it offers, instead of throwing the rule book and calling names, elmer ! 73 for now.