Explain this propagation

Rabbi said:

“Not to be disingenuous, but I'm not sure how legal CB output has any relevance to the terminology of barefoot as defined by qrz. “

It doesn’t, since qrz is referring to 100 watt amateur radios, not 4 watt cb radios.

 

Words have different meanings depending on your audience. The word "boot", for example, means footwear when you talk to a shoemaker. "Boot" means something else to a computer repairman.

To CB guys, "barefoot" means the legal 4 watts output. That's the bottom line

 

Barefoot is not a ham term, it was dragged over from the cb world, simplifying ham terms.

But seeing there are people using it on 40 meters (puke), it means using a selfcontained transmitter with no external amp.

 

From CBSlang.com. A barefoot radio is another way to say " Legal, unmodified CB transmitter" . Barefoot usually means running without a linear amplifier and sticking to the legal 4 watts AM or 12 watts SSB. As ridgeline stated barefoot primarily is a cb slang term , and most cb resources that can be researched all have the same definition as this site does.

 

Regardless of the fact of whether or not it was "Barefoot" the contact in that demographic is still impressive, Im guessing the Anytone 6666 has a carrier of 12 watts and pep to 50 to 60 watts which by most " Big Radio" standards is on the modest side.

 

I’d agree. He didn’t have a big DaveMade hooked up to it. That’s modest power being used and easily obtained, plus easily installed in a truck.

I wouldn’t expect it at all from a 4W CB. But a dual final radio is still a CB. Ordinary.

 

Was he also just using his radio or did he have the help of an amplifier?