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does anyone still use CB?

Chicago has a lot of non trucker activity on the CB band.

Channel 18 is used on the north and south side. But the south siders tend to run serious power from their base stations.
Channel 14 is the 2nd most used channel.
Channel 19 is mostly truckers on the interstates.
Channels 35-40 have nighttme USB/LSB activity.

Channel 6 is the Beacon of 11M conditions.
Channel 20 is almost always full of locals running multiple alternators in their mobiles on the south side, similar to Channel 6, you can't understand their communications. ???

Most of the North siders on Channel 18 have their ham tickets. 8)

LOT of South America skip recently during the daytime.
 
I just bought a 1976 Lafayette HB-740 at a rummage sale. I put it up on a commerical watt meter and got 5 watts (no audio) into a 50 ohm dummy load and 7 watts with 1000 hz tone injected into the audio. It's pristine, as if if were just unboxed. I'm going to see if I still have my old mobile antenna in the garage and try have a little fun with it. My Magnum roof antenna is long since I got my ham ticket. What was amazing is how HEAVY this radio is for such a small rig!
 
Actually if you want to try out the CB, use your 10m antenna. If it is a full dipole, SWR should be good enough to try.
 
mediagobble said:
Chicago has a lot of non trucker activity on the CB band.

Channel 18 is used on the north and south side. But the south siders tend to run serious power from their base stations.
Channel 14 is the 2nd most used channel.
Channel 19 is mostly truckers on the interstates.
Channels 35-40 have nighttme USB/LSB activity.

Channel 6 is the Beacon of 11M conditions.
Channel 20 is almost always full of locals running multiple alternators in their mobiles on the south side, similar to Channel 6, you can't understand their communications. ???

Most of the North siders on Channel 18 have their ham tickets. 8)

LOT of South America skip recently during the daytime.
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I live on the north side...ch 16 was busy.

I don't have anything set up right now, but the car I'm driving now, I found on the CB. ;)
 
I have found the old 40 channel radios that use the PLL02A chip to be VERY useful and relatively easily converted to operate on other bands, far-removed from 11 meters! :D

If anyone has any old mobile rigs that use the PLL02A chip, I'm interested in taking them off your hands! :)

You can see what I have done with several of them, here:
http://www.mymorninglight.org/ham/Hy-GainBoards.htm

That is what I call "fun". ;D
 
Tom Wells said:
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I also have heard the same unwelcoming comments from some old ham farts chasing off new recruits, when monitoring the ham bands. Is it an FCC requirement that one must have a 'countryfied redneck accent', conservative opinions and major health problems, in order to obtain a ham license? It is very rare that I hear 'normal' people carrying on a conversation, other than the usual ham net CQ contests.
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A sad carryover of the old days is that conversations on HF bands are very specifically not supposed to have any
potentially disagreeable/contentious/argumentative content.

So we get, "how's the weather, just ate dinner, my lumbago's acting up.. these prescriptioon prices! ..grandkids are over ..hi hi."

Great way to keep young people out....make the place sound like "God's waiting room".

Back when the FCC authorized amateur services, it was a real concern that HF did not respect borders.
Seems kinda silly now, but that's why you seldom hear anything that sounds like a real conversation.
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International communications are regulated under the following FCC regulation:

§97.117 International communications. -
Transmissions to a different country, where permitted, shall be shall be limited to communications incidental to the purposes of the amateur service and to remarks of a personal character.

Remember, back in the Cold War days, political discussions could get people on the "other side of the curtain" in very serious trouble. So conversations were best limited to the weather, the rig, etc.
 
In Southern California, there was a mild CB renaissance in the late 1980s (around 1986-88 or so). Mostly teenagers chatting about teenage stuff. I think I have a few tapes lying around....
 
charles hobbs said:
In Southern California, there was a mild CB renaissance in the late 1980s (around 1986-88 or so). Mostly teenagers chatting about teenage stuff. I think I have a few tapes lying around....
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SPARE US!!! ;D

I remember Channel 10 was the local (Bridgeport/Fairfield, CT) teenage DRAMA CHANNEL back in the late 70's and into the early 80's. ;) Once the FCC did away with licensing, CB became virtually useless. When that guy who constantly called "How 'bout it Norwalk, Norwalk, Norwalk!!!" came on, it was GAME OVER... he occupied all 40 channels, uniformly. :mad:
 
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