Tired of the ham trolls

Will do unless i out on the road. Been home for almost 2 weeks so i may have to go out soon.....and you can be sure i am looking foward to it

 

Sure, i got a radio check with your name on it!

 

Simple: the radios with the "bands of channels" are not actual CB radios but ametuer ham radios dressed up like CB's...problem is this:

1. They're not set up from the factory to work on the CB band but can/will with some work, but you still have access to the 10 meter ham radio band (bad)

2. They're made to be sold as ham radios but they were really designed for CB; a true ham rig covers more than just 10 meters and is not channelized.

Now....let me say this now, if you get caught transmitting on that radio on anywhere you're not supposed to, you can be fined heavily. Just a friendly warning.


Best advice I can give you is if your buddy wants to run that radio, put it on the D band, make sure you can hear him with your standard CB. if you can. leave it there and don't take it off the D band. Ever.

The Cobra 25 is a good radio. It doesn't give you access to the 10 meter band which an unlicensed person has no buisness there anyways.

 

I appreciate the amateurs love for their hobby and definitely agree that amateurs bands should be sacrosanct for people that wish to engage in this hobby. My only problem is that some hams jump into threads that have absolutely nothing to do with ham radio and are merely discussing high powered radios which will be only used on 11 meters...albeit they do have the capability of 10 meter channels. I can tell you only of personal experience, at least my circle of friends and fellow drivers but none of us have any interest in ham radio or talking to people around the world on radio. If we wanted to talk to someone in another country we would call them on our CELLPHONES!. DUH! The radio to us is a TOOL. When we need information we don't try to contact a ham on some channel other than 19 on the 11 meter band. Try and ask a ham how to get around a backup, lol.

If you use a standard 4 watt cb you will never be heard , at least in any big metro area like Atlanta where I work. You'll be stepped on every time you key up. If you want to get out and get your questions answered you need more power. Most companies don't allow rewiring or amplifiers. A lot of us have to slip seat. The best alternative is to have a radio capable of a little more wattage to get above noise. That's why 10 meter radios have become so popular. I don't know ANY fellow truckers that use them for other bands than 11 meters and I know quite a few. And it really pisses me off when some elitist little POS comes out with "10-4 Good Buddy". I'll run what I want and I wouldn't be caught dead on ham channels because I'm pretty darn sure there isn't anyone there I'd want to talk to anyway.

 

He can tell you how to get around the backup in his basement...or closet!

They don't come out of the basement much...
A few of them have come out of the closet though! The rest of them prefer to stay in...

My sentiments exactly!

 

Well, if they would relax the power limits on the CB 40 then companies would come out with high powered CB radios and people would not look for 10 meter radios that had the band selectors.

I run a clean connex 4300HP and the selector never moves period. Why? Because I like big performance. To me the difference between a 4 watt CB and my connex is like compairing a Geo Metro to a Corvette. Sure the Metro will get the job done but the Corvette will do it with more pleasure.

Too me the power rule limits, on the cb 40, are like the gov telling people that we should all be driving Metros and it is illegal to drive a Corvette.

But alot of hams get up tight because they think they are the only ones who should beable to run more then 4 watts.

 

Cb was set up in 1958 to be a short range non hobby radio ......
With the license for 200 watts on 10 meters so easyI can't see the FCC doing any rule changes for CB at all.

BUT ......

No harm in filing for a rule change ...

 

Or, Better yet...Screw the rules, Just run it!

Nobodies gonna do anything about it regardless what the ham trolls say!

 

Hummmm .......

I have always wanted to drive a 18 wheeler ..... so you say its alright to do that too ....... ?

I work at a jail and hear this every day ....... If you don't like rules get them changed .....

 

Some of you clowns still don't get it, LOL. It's about obeying the rules and regs. Hams obey the rules and regs, they don't want to lose their callsign. Also, it's just the right thing to do. It is clear from the start when you listen to 11 meters and then jump to 40 meters, 20 meters, 17,15,12,10, even 2 meters how different the people are. You go from trash talk, illegal crappy radios, people with an I.Q. of a house plant making threats to one another as to how tough they are (or how much hair is on their knuckles), to intelligent conversation on whatever ham band is active at the time. All one has to do is listen to 11 meters in any given city in this country and you will soon see why Ham Ops loath the CB Radio and anything connected to it.

KB0DV