The CB Radio

[Tank69]

this is KBJP1013 I'll be on the side.

 

[goldie1959]

just a question, in some emergency situations, where we will be in survival mode, radio signaqls,etc can be jammed or not . please inform me . thanks goldie

 

[NGE]

Back in the late 60' early 70's I built, Heathkit Mohawk and Apache, and SB-200 linear amp. Had a ham operator wrap chokes and coils for 11 meter. I had a friend that lived about a mile away and when the rip rap would come on the air and start dead keying with 200 to 500 watts. My friend would put his transmit on 23 and receive on channel 1, I would put my transmit on channel 1, and my receive on 23, then we would crank up our amps and cross-talk all 23 channels what a hoot! I also had a VFO, now that my friend was alot of fun, I had a Shakespeare Big stick for a stand-by (under 100 watts power) and PDL Beams on a 60 ft crank up tower. The furthest I talked on the horizontal side, below channel one, was a Navy station in the Fiji Islands. I had a rocker switch to go between stand-by antenna and beams under my desktop. My sister came into my room and was playing with the switch box unbeknownst to me. I always left my linear on stand by and on the beams. I came home from afternoon shift one night, and skip was really rollin', so I turned my stuff on and started hollerin' for a friend of mine in Manitoba. When all of a sudden I heard this HUGE BANG outside. And my radio went silent. I ran outside, and you guessed it, my Big Stick was nonexistent. My dang sister switched my linear and radio to standby antenna. I was pumpin' around 1600 watts through that stick. There was fiberglass shards all over the yard and I never did find the 108 inch whip that was on top. I sure miss that ultra violet glow that would light up my room late at night when I keyed that mic, my power came on modulation only, the louder I would talk the brighter the glow . BTW, my handle back then was ; Dumb Dago..........NGE

 

[alexfm123]

just a question, in some emergency situations, where we will be in survival mode, radio signaqls,etc can be jammed or not . please inform me . thanks goldie

yes, they can.

i would recommend www.survivalistboards.com and go to the communications forum there. they also have a pretty big Michigan group.
And yes, i'm one of "those" guys....

I dont have a CB yet, but I plan on getting one fo rmy jeep pretty soon. My dad says he has one somewhere, but hasnt found it yet.

And Rando,
I dont think anyone minds that your one of "those" guys, and if they do, I guess we're in the same boat. Im a member on that forum also, but dont get on it a lot.

 

[Functional]

Well, I ain't no CB radio devotee, but I've used them off 'n on since the late 70's, (when they were still popular). Now everyone wants to shell out bucks for a cellphone so they can "Twitter", Tweet, shop online, or surf the web and post on TNet.

Living in a small town, (tourist trap), here in western Canada, I'm lucky to hear one person a day on the CB and that's usually a trucker passing through, or some lost tourist looking for directions in summer. At home I just use an old 23 ch. Realistic Navaho base station that I rarely turn on these days, but I've got at least 6 other radios, (mostly low to middle level), plus a couple of 40 Ch. hand held emergency units with the magnetic mount antenna's. Only one SWR meter, (I can't think of it's origin off hand), and a Tenco C610 SWR and field strength meter. I really need to sift through what I've got and thin out the collection of radio's. My little 40 Ch. RS would be a good thing to have on my bike and I plan to install a CB in my travel trailer and another in my next truck. Not sure who I'll be talking to with all those radio's, but maybe I'll locate a gal that's into gold panning and nugget shooting, (or one that likes to cook for and satisfy the appetite of a guy that is).

I don't know what the law's are in the USA, but I've never had a license for my CB. And unless they changed the law here, I don't think I'll be getting one any time soon. It used to be that so long as the CB wasn't "hard wired" to power, it was legal to have in a vehicle, so people would just use a cigarette lighter adapter for power and if stopped by the cop's, they would just unplug the CB.

K.

 

[goldie1959]

thank you for answering my question.

 

[gallileo60]

i was in to it big time in the early 70s, still had to take a test to get a license cost $5.00 . had a cobra cam 88 base that would dead key 85 watts hooked up to a 500 bi-leanner(spelling) + an astatic pdl II beams on a 100 ft break-over tower, it would really get out, then the sunspots came along and killed all the reception so most of us got out of the business. whitt459

You never had to take a test to get a license, just pay the fee.AT least not when I got mine back in the 70's.....KFW4568..........I went by Gallileo back then too...Still got a CB, and Ham Radio Too....Love Radios of all types...Tom

 

[swampgal]

Cobra Cam 89 Base, Starduster Intenna, Turner 2 power Mic. KWC 6162 - Little Cajun , Talked to the Arbuckles from the house here in Texas.

 

[gallileo60]

Cobra Cam 89 Base, Starduster Intenna, Turner 2 power Mic. KWC 6162 - Little Cajun , Talked to the Arbuckles from the house here in Texas.

Oh yeah had a Star Duster too....Also had an Astro Plane..5 Channel Crystal controlled "Globe Star" Radio ....Now, I have the best omni I have ever had, A Maco V58.......Billy bad boy antenna...Running a Comanche Warrior Radio, and a KLH Helper....Nice setup....Man CB was hot back in the 70's....All the trucker lingo, and such...Met many girls thru the radio...It was like the cellphone is today....

 

[civil war hunter]

My Dad said my Grandfather spent 2,000 dollars on a CB system. It was so powerful that my Great Grandparents that lived half a mile away, would have there TV turn to static everytime my Grandfather talked.

In the 70's my Grandfather would spent money for TV. They lived at the bottom of are hill, each year he would move the antenna up the hill and get maybe two channels.

 

[JOE(USA)]

Hey Break!!

"Treasure Hunter" here. A Uniden President with a kicker, D-104,and a crystal for the 10 meter band. I spent many an hour on and off the road, met lots of good people (An a few bad ones) on the old rig. At my base station I had a "Moon Raker" vertical on a mast and a wire dipole for DX. Good memories! Joe

 

[swampgal]

My dad built me a 50 ft. tripod tower for my starduster. I had to go to radioshack to buy all the neighbors a thing to go on their tvs so i would not talk across them. Embaressed my mom bad she was in walmarts one evening when I got on the radio and was messing with the truck drivers, I was coming across their PA system from the house 4 blocks away. Needless to say I got grounded for a while.

 

[civil war hunter]

That sucks. It isen't your falt.

My dad built me a 50 ft. tripod tower for my starduster. I had to go to radioshack to buy all the neighbors a thing to go on their tvs so i would not talk across them. Embaressed my mom bad she was in walmarts one evening when I got on the radio and was messing with the truck drivers, I was coming across their PA system from the house 4 blocks away. Needless to say I got grounded for a while.

 

[swampgal]

LoL I miss my base station and cb in the car.

 

[Excavator]

Breaker one nine .. Anyone ever hear The Dolomite? That's one annoying fellow when you're trying to work. Oversize load drivers need to hear their escort car. Otherwise, as soon as some liar, foul-mouthed loser, or radio wave reverend fires up, I turn it off.

I-77 in Ohio was covered by floodwater in 2003 or 2004. Some cb liar said they were keeping the road closed, so many drivers did a u-turn back to I-70. I stayed put and was only delayed as traffic slowed and waded through the waters.

Pete, Cummins, 18spd deep reduction, cheater axle, wet lines, 3 stage jake, detatchable Fontaine, 26 wheels of traffic snarling delight.

In the radio dept.: Eight FRS, four hand-held 40chl cb, way too many mobile cb outfits to count. Would be nice to build a high power base at home to blow out passing sub-woofers.

I was a teen when the cb craze hit, met a lot of girlfriends on there. Seemed like everyone had one or more.

Sunspots may be a problem for radio traffic:

February 8, 2010 - Ham Radio Operators Listening to Sun.

“There have been many loud shortwave radio bursts over the past two days.
Some of the bursts have completely saturated my receivers.”

- Thomas Ashcraft, Amateur Radio Astronomer, New Mexico

Huge sunspot 1045 has grown rapidly the past 48 hours and has unleashed multiple
M-class solar flares including a major M6 x-ray flare on Feb. 7, 2010 at 0230 UT.
To hear mp3 of Type III solar shortwave radio burst from sun. Sound is caused by beams of electrons streaming through the sun's outer atmosphere. Click here:
http://www.heliotown.com/Sr20100207_1849III21_24Ashcraft.mp3

More solar audio here:
http://www.heliotown.com/Sun_20100207_Ashcraft.html

 

[civil war hunter]

My Grandfather still has the Police scanner, he leaves it on during TV!

LoL I miss my base station and cb in the car.

 

[Excavator]

My Grandfather still has the Police scanner, he leaves it on during TV!

Why sure, most of us probably do. It's the only way to know what's happening, the news isn't going to tell us. Although, lately, I find the scanner more annoying than informative. That young woman dispatcher keeps saying 'gead' (short for go ahead), and both the dispatcher and mobile units in the next town say 'clear' after every single transmission.

I got into the scanner habit in my news video years, but it's unplugged most of the time now.

One night last winter, the scanner told me to step out on the porch. I saw the two cops run off behind a house. As soon as they were out of sight, some guy with handcuffs behind his back wriggled out the back window of a cruiser and ran off.

Never leave the house without a video camera. COPS filmed before a live audience

 

[mojjax]

We have scanners all over the house . 2 in the dining room , 1 in the living room , 1 in the bed room , 1 in the bath room , 1 next to the computer , and 2 handhelds in my truck . I miss the days when you could intercept cell phone calls

 

[olepossum]

my first cb was mounted to the handle bars of my huffy dirt bike 4 channels powered by 2 9 volits was called jonny pecker head untill my uncle heard me on the radio and told them who he was and my name wasnt jphit was little snowman he was the snowman before jerry reed was

 

[swampgal]

LOL