Cobra or galaxy

i really am not an expert on the ssb,i heard drivers going onto those channels,but not my cup of tea. i haven't did anything to my 959 yet,but it's time. i really want a texas ranger,due to i've heard so many positive comments about them. who knows the make of the good texas ranger?

 

i just visited Sparky's website,it's an excellent way to stay current on the cb products. i saw his review of the texas ranger 996 or 966,so i think that's the route i'm going.

 

If that radio does what it says it does, and is stable on SSB, it sounds like a great radio. All the stuff about how they worked on the receive end is especially appealing to me. I really prefer a big meter, but I know that's not an issue for most. Now if all these manufacturers would stop making blue their only option for lights! It really doesn't seem like it would be that hard for them to offer different colors. Blue is probably the worst color to have exclusively, that end of the color spectrum makes your pupils dilate more than the red end. Anyway, I would call Sparky directly, and get the low down from him on the SSB on that radio. He's great to talk to, and will spend time getting you what you want. As long as it's not something they don't make, like me...

 

No you don't just click it on upper or lower to hear skip roll in.

Skip rolls in when conditions in the ionosphere are right. You can get skip on any CB radio, on any channel.

There's a few ways of telling when skip is rolling:

1. The channels will seem very noisy with a bunch of people trying to all jam on all at one time

2. You turn to channel 6 and hear a bunch of black guys (running thousands and thousands of watts) hollering off their call signs.

Now, the CB radio enthusiasts (not necessarily the truck drivers) usually all head to channel 38 LSB when they hear skip roll in and start calling off their call signs until someone responds...sort of how male toads head to the pond in the spring and call for females until they find one to mate with.

The CB radio enthusiasts find SSB CB radio to be the little brother to ham radio. They also find talking skip to be considered a hobby. It's actually pretty cool. By talking skip you can talk to others several hundreds even thousands of miles away. Though the FCC states you're only legally allowed to communicate 155 miles, you cannot control skip.

I personally have talked to people in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and even Canda....from Missouri....during skip conditions.

Now as for how to use SSB....you pick what channel you want to use, then you go to either lower side band (LSB) or upper side band (USB). Then you have to "dial in" your opponent by using the clarifier until he/she no longer sounds like Donald Duck on the other end.

The SSB part, as Gadfly said, removes the carrier frokm the transmission so all the power is focused into the modulation.

Yes by using SSB it's easier and more efficient to talk skip....but also you can talk further than you can on regular AM. The only thing is the guy or gal you want to chat with has to also have a SSB radio to communicate with you.

 

Thanks Turbo for the reply, I know what skip is and I know you don't just click the SSB switch and your automatically going to hear skip. I'm not an idiot. hahaha. I talked skip myself last Friday afternoon driving through my little home town. I talked to a guy in Atlanta, GA, Virginia and Kentucky all within about two minutes. It was like the four of us were just chatting back and forth clear as a bell.


so, one more question for Turbo or anybody else that knows...

I have heard people talk about 38 LSB before, why this particular channel on SSB?

 

What?

 

Just playin' around.............................................................

GF

 

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SSB is just a mode of transmission, just like AM. It is much more efficient, it basically narrows down your signal, instead of a wide broadcast like AM. You won't always here skip, but if there is skip, you should hear it on 38 LSB. Your clarifier will come in to play here, when other operators sound like either Darth Vader or Donald Duck, you use the clarifier to clear up their signal and get it on the same frequency as you.

You need to be on the same channel and mode to communicate, just like 19 AM, 38 LSB, and so on. Echo is not understandable on SSB. You will more than likely be ignored if you have it on because you will sound absolutely garbled!

 

Excellent post, covered all the bases!