Those are not police. We truckers say that to discourage other truckers from buying drugs. The local west Memphis TV news team did a story on the cb radio using drug dealers who post up in the apt complex across the street from the truck stops. I had a conversation about them with another driver, and at the time I too believed them to be law enforcement. That was until this guy schooled me. He confided in me and said he buys from them all the time. He doesn't do hand to hand transactions he said, so he goes into the McDonald's bathroom near the Petro, puts his money behind the toilet, then walks back to his truck, waits a few minutes, then goes back into the McDonald's bathroom to retrieve his drugs. The West Memphis report can be seen on YouTube He said he's never seen them face to face but they never cheat him. True Story
Local law enforcement obviously has taken a hands off position on them if that is true. Funny how they shut down the prostitute business and left the drug dealers. Thanks for posting the news report!
Exactly. Shut down the prostitute business. Like why is it illegal to sell something you can legally give away. Lmao.
The FCC had a field office in Virginia beach, VA. at the corner of North Hampton boulevard and Diamond Springs Rd. just a block or so from Big Charlies Truck Stop. I often wondered with the easy pickings of rogue operators both base and mobile right at their front door they never chose any enforcement action. still a bunch of boneheads on the air there but the fcc field office is long gone.
I still think it would be fun to hang around W. Memphis for a day or two and just blank the dopers out every time they keyed up. It wouldn't take much.........Texas Star 500 ought to do just fine........
There are many ways to boast a CB's modulation to push a more powerful signal and to add channels. Technically, the FCC states 4 watts with SSB set at 12 watts. Respect for other radio operators should be the rule here more that the governments regs. I pushed my own CB to broadcast at 24-28 W on AM and 26 W on SSB. Doing this creates a whole string of interference ramifications for other radio wave frequencies around me, so I was careful about using my mobile CB in populated ares. On the road, hey, the extra broadcast power was great to have. I have a Galaxie DX 959 mobile CB with a 5 ft whip antenna and it has the easiest board possible to manipulate. I can only guess that sooner or later, the FCC will be clamping down on this system. As I stated above though, respect others when boasting your CB to broadcast on channels that are outside of the FCC's CB frequency regulations.
A CB has only as much power as the components on the board limit you to. A knowledgeable radio tech. can give you 11m VHF channels if you want. It's called freebanding on the SSB (for instance, (26.965-27.405 MHz or say, 27.5 to 28 MHz SSB ). Most higher end CBs can be modified to these frequencies very easily. As I stated in my previous post however, respect is the by-word when broadcasting on a CB at these frequencies.
