thank u for your quick response, people can do so much creativity, even more together. imagine children in this world thinking together to create a better battery and other ideas, for free
😂 lol! I couldn't understand why he would even leave a comment like that but to each his own. Hell I'm almost 65 and according to his remark he was a full tilt CB radio guy when I was still knee high to a grasshopper. Did you read my reply? I'm waiting to see what he says back.
I too have an Icom 7300 that I do more listening than talking on. It's a great rig with it's frequency coverage. About 5 months ago I discovered the SDR radio world and for $30 bucks and a free program it kills! It covers all the way down to 150 Khz all the way up to around 2.2 Gig. It took some tinkering to figure it out but it was well worth the purchase!
I was monitoring FM on my new 20 amp radio and my scanner on about this same frequency yesterday. I was listening to some guy in Florida, who I believe was on a CB, from my home in Nebraska.
Yeah that's pretty cool! I have a scanner in the shop that can monitor the 11 CB meter band and every now and then I'll monitor anywhere from the 2 Meter band and even the CB band and I'll pick my locals here too.
You never know, somebody may get the ball rolling on an idea like that. What I see with FM is mainly the small groups of locals who will get on it on occasion. The skip conditions have to really be working good for the FM mode even more so than for the AM mode. This is why SSB is king for long distance voice communication.
@@flash001USA I tried with the local around me. Was catching on till the Old Guys that Did not like the change/ need for newer radios were not onboard. Maybe one day.
@@WoodHippy1971 There's something else to consider too. With CB, FM is narrow band I want to say around 3 Khz to 5 Khz and a problem with a lot low price or cheap CB radios is their frequency have the tendency to drift because unlike a ICOM or a Kenwood radio, they just aren't as frequency stable and what happens is FM can be a bit muffled until you use the clarifier to center them in but..... Wait... What happens if you have a AM only rig that doesn't have a reason for a clarifier since it doesn't have SSB or if you have an older AM rig that has had a FM kit put into it? Better yet, you purchase a AM/FM truck stop special CB? They more than likely won't have any way to center the frequency either. Now in defense of the newer CB radios, they are much more frequency stable than the older rigs and they are getting better to the point that they are now starting to rival expansive HAM rigs as far as frequency stability goes. AM on the other hand will stay clear even if two people are slightly off with each other but FM? Nope, it will be muffled and low volume. Go back and listen to the beginning of this video. I was totally on frequency but the guy that was from Canada was slightly off frequency and if you listen closely you will hear he started off slightly distorted or muffled It got better as we talked but if I speak to someone who has a good rig who is on frequency, they will sound like a quality radio station ready to play music on my end. I'm lucky because I have a good electronics background and I keep my radio equipment spot on frequency and even though you don't see it in the video, I have a very accurate frequency counter in my setup and before I start running the rig, I will always touch my radio up. Going back to AM vs FM, there is another reason it's not popular with old school AM operators. AM can sound loud and the AM receive doesn't have all of the hiss that the FM receive does when nobody is speaking so you have to use the squelch to not go deaf with white noise and if you have a round table with a few weaker stations, by the time you squelch down enough to kill the FM hiss, you probably won't hear your weaker stations. There are a few people that I do talk on FM with here and they are close enough that we can talk with ease using squelch and they all run quality rigs too. Didn't mean to write a book here but this is a topic near and dear to my heart that I've though a lot about in the past as to why people don't care for the FM mode.
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Hi I just got my technician license for Ham radio. I thought the 11m was usually only a couple hundred miles at best. Would this be because most CB radio is operating in AM and your radio operates in FM? This would make sense to me as 11M should work as well or better than 10M depending on atmospheric conditions. I'm brand new to radio but I may get a CB radio like the alinco 135 to play with CB. I didn't know this was possible unless using a CB that was converted to Ham. Is all I need to do is find a CB that has an FM mode? Thanks. Incredible BTW you blew my mind. I used to only get about 5 miles out of my CB when I was a kid but we knew nothing about antenna tuning and modes other than flipping the channel button.
CB radio falls into the upper range of what is considered to be shortwave radio and when the conditions are good you can talk thousands of miles even off of a few watts. Before I retired I worked in electronics and in television shops as a repair tech working on pretty much anything that plugged into a wall or that ran on batteries and in the mid 1980's, I was already designing my own FM circuits to convert off the shelf CB radios over to include FM which was pretty much unheard of back then but during that time we had some good sun cycle activity and I was sitting in my car with a CB radio that I had just put an FM kit in and I spoke to a guy all the way in Ireland on 2 watts on my end and he just happened to be a HAM operator with a high dollar rig that had FM when he heard me and we talked for around 10 minutes and it was clear as if he was just up the road from me so never underestimate the power of a CB radio when the conditions are good. They just legalized FM for CB radios here in the US and now you can buy CB radios that now include FM which is pretty cool. CB is good but it's limited compared to HAM. When you start going down to 40 Meters and below, you can talk long distances almost on a regular basis. As to the 40 Meter band it's considered to be a pretty reliable all-season long distance (DX) band. It is almost always busy for DX at night. It's also reliable for medium distance (1,500 km / 1,000 miles) contacts during the day where 11 Meters is only good for around 5 or 6 miles from mobile to mobile and if it's quiet in the night it will go a few extra miles mobile to mobile however 11 Meter base to base communication is a different story and depending on your antenna and location you can really talk a good distance at night even on 5 watts. Most people that run CB today will run more than 5 watts and I don't hold issue to to people running 50 or even 100 watts but when you have people running 500 watts or more with dirty radios and amplifiers that splatter it gives all of us a black eye. I have never ran high power that would cause issues or even draw attention but I have ran up to 100 watts with a filtered setup and never caused issues. I'm way out in the country and I could probably get away with a super bowl power station but for me it's about talking and not trying to rival my local AM radio stations with excessive power. As to the hobby, yeah I really enjoy it and I also have a setup to listen to broadcast starting at 100 Khz all the way up into the Gigahertz range. I never held an interest to go HAM but it's a damned good hobby and depending on your background it can open doors if you're in the electronics field. Thank you for replying and good luck with your HAM journey.
I am going to take a guess and say that you enjoy the radio hobby too. The skip has been non-stop early in the morning here until around mid day then it kicks back in in the evening.
That's odd that you would ask me that question. I do have a AR3500 and I need to repair it but back in the day that was my go to radio but I haven't used it for over 20 years however I do have a Anytone 5555n mobile radio that I have used as a base and that radio talks great too. It's my standby radio. As to theAR3500, I loved the way it was laid out. It was an old school approach because it was early digital technology but that radio really talked. One day I'll get around to repairing it and setting it back up and who knows, you may hear me on the bands with it.
Well I'm not trying to impress anybody and if I want to make money with a radio, I would probably invest into an AM or a FM station where I could recruit paid advertisers along with playing everybody's favorite hits around the clock. I would probably request for the radio to have the identification call sign WSHIT so I could let the public know they could find the station as the little brown dot on their radio dial.
FM DXing was a new thing to me - thanks!
Sounds like what you would expect as the World is coming to an end !
Chaos & Madness !
I have a feeling it would be a bit more urgent sounding lol but I'm as ready as I can get if things do take a nose dive.
Impressive !
I have always loved my radio hobby.
thank u for your quick response, people can do so much creativity, even more together. imagine children in this world thinking together to create a better battery and other ideas, for free
Good DX. Enjoy it when you have it. Screw the so called uninpressed.
😂 lol! I couldn't understand why he would even leave a comment like that but to each his own. Hell I'm almost 65 and according to his remark he was a full tilt CB radio guy when I was still knee high to a grasshopper. Did you read my reply? I'm waiting to see what he says back.
I run a Ft DX 3000, Icom 7300 and Stryker 955hp all open.
I too have an Icom 7300 that I do more listening than talking on. It's a great rig with it's frequency coverage. About 5 months ago I discovered the SDR radio world and for $30 bucks and a free program it kills! It covers all the way down to 150 Khz all the way up to around 2.2 Gig. It took some tinkering to figure it out but it was well worth the purchase!
I was monitoring FM on my new 20 amp radio and my scanner on about this same frequency yesterday.
I was listening to some guy in Florida, who I believe was on a CB, from my home in Nebraska.
Yeah that's pretty cool! I have a scanner in the shop that can monitor the 11 CB meter band and every now and then I'll monitor anywhere from the 2 Meter band and even the CB band and I'll pick my locals here too.
We need a dedicated FM calling Freq. I would be there as a regular. 171 Central Mo.
You never know, somebody may get the ball rolling on an idea like that. What I see with FM is mainly the small groups of locals who will get on it on occasion. The skip conditions have to really be working good for the FM mode even more so than for the AM mode. This is why SSB is king for long distance voice communication.
@@flash001USA I tried with the local around me. Was catching on till the Old Guys that Did not like the change/ need for newer radios were not onboard. Maybe one day.
@@WoodHippy1971 There's something else to consider too. With CB, FM is narrow band I want to say around 3 Khz to 5 Khz and a problem with a lot low price or cheap CB radios is their frequency have the tendency to drift because unlike a ICOM or a Kenwood radio, they just aren't as frequency stable and what happens is FM can be a bit muffled until you use the clarifier to center them in but..... Wait... What happens if you have a AM only rig that doesn't have a reason for a clarifier since it doesn't have SSB or if you have an older AM rig that has had a FM kit put into it? Better yet, you purchase a AM/FM truck stop special CB? They more than likely won't have any way to center the frequency either. Now in defense of the newer CB radios, they are much more frequency stable than the older rigs and they are getting better to the point that they are now starting to rival expansive HAM rigs as far as frequency stability goes. AM on the other hand will stay clear even if two people are slightly off with each other but FM? Nope, it will be muffled and low volume. Go back and listen to the beginning of this video. I was totally on frequency but the guy that was from Canada was slightly off frequency and if you listen closely you will hear he started off slightly distorted or muffled It got better as we talked but if I speak to someone who has a good rig who is on frequency, they will sound like a quality radio station ready to play music on my end. I'm lucky because I have a good electronics background and I keep my radio equipment spot on frequency and even though you don't see it in the video, I have a very accurate frequency counter in my setup and before I start running the rig, I will always touch my radio up. Going back to AM vs FM, there is another reason it's not popular with old school AM operators. AM can sound loud and the AM receive doesn't have all of the hiss that the FM receive does when nobody is speaking so you have to use the squelch to not go deaf with white noise and if you have a round table with a few weaker stations, by the time you squelch down enough to kill the FM hiss, you probably won't hear your weaker stations. There are a few people that I do talk on FM with here and they are close enough that we can talk with ease using squelch and they all run quality rigs too. Didn't mean to write a book here but this is a topic near and dear to my heart that I've though a lot about in the past as to why people don't care for the FM mode.
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Hi I just got my technician license for Ham radio. I thought the 11m was usually only a couple hundred miles at best. Would this be because most CB radio is operating in AM and your radio operates in FM? This would make sense to me as 11M should work as well or better than 10M depending on atmospheric conditions. I'm brand new to radio but I may get a CB radio like the alinco 135 to play with CB. I didn't know this was possible unless using a CB that was converted to Ham. Is all I need to do is find a CB that has an FM mode? Thanks. Incredible BTW you blew my mind. I used to only get about 5 miles out of my CB when I was a kid but we knew nothing about antenna tuning and modes other than flipping the channel button.
CB radio falls into the upper range of what is considered to be shortwave radio and when the conditions are good you can talk thousands of miles even off of a few watts. Before I retired I worked in electronics and in television shops as a repair tech working on pretty much anything that plugged into a wall or that ran on batteries and in the mid 1980's, I was already designing my own FM circuits to convert off the shelf CB radios over to include FM which was pretty much unheard of back then but during that time we had some good sun cycle activity and I was sitting in my car with a CB radio that I had just put an FM kit in and I spoke to a guy all the way in Ireland on 2 watts on my end and he just happened to be a HAM operator with a high dollar rig that had FM when he heard me and we talked for around 10 minutes and it was clear as if he was just up the road from me so never underestimate the power of a CB radio when the conditions are good. They just legalized FM for CB radios here in the US and now you can buy CB radios that now include FM which is pretty cool. CB is good but it's limited compared to HAM. When you start going down to 40 Meters and below, you can talk long distances almost on a regular basis. As to the 40 Meter band it's considered to be a pretty reliable all-season long distance (DX) band. It is almost always busy for DX at night. It's also reliable for medium distance (1,500 km / 1,000 miles) contacts during the day where 11 Meters is only good for around 5 or 6 miles from mobile to mobile and if it's quiet in the night it will go a few extra miles mobile to mobile however 11 Meter base to base communication is a different story and depending on your antenna and location you can really talk a good distance at night even on 5 watts. Most people that run CB today will run more than 5 watts and I don't hold issue to to people running 50 or even 100 watts but when you have people running 500 watts or more with dirty radios and amplifiers that splatter it gives all of us a black eye. I have never ran high power that would cause issues or even draw attention but I have ran up to 100 watts with a filtered setup and never caused issues. I'm way out in the country and I could probably get away with a super bowl power station but for me it's about talking and not trying to rival my local AM radio stations with excessive power. As to the hobby, yeah I really enjoy it and I also have a setup to listen to broadcast starting at 100 Khz all the way up into the Gigahertz range. I never held an interest to go HAM but it's a damned good hobby and depending on your background it can open doors if you're in the electronics field. Thank you for replying and good luck with your HAM journey.
Here is another video I uploaded around 10 years ago. The conditions were wide open at this time too. th-cam.com/video/ADQKRtOXN2o/w-d-xo.html
You're going through the antenna on the mini-tower, right?
I'm using a 5/8 wave vertical ground plane antenna that's on a 50 foot mast.
What's your QTH?
QSL?
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GREAT VIDEO! 👍
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I am going to take a guess and say that you enjoy the radio hobby too. The skip has been non-stop early in the morning here until around mid day then it kicks back in in the evening.
nice . what kind of radio ?
It's an Eagle Tomahawk 10 Meter radio that covers everything from 10 to 12 Meters. I've had this radio for around 20 years.
How’s your ar-3500 compare to this radio
That's odd that you would ask me that question. I do have a AR3500 and I need to repair it but back in the day that was my go to radio but I haven't used it for over 20 years however I do have a Anytone 5555n mobile radio that I have used as a base and that radio talks great too. It's my standby radio. As to theAR3500, I loved the way it was laid out. It was an old school approach because it was early digital technology but that radio really talked. One day I'll get around to repairing it and setting it back up and who knows, you may hear me on the bands with it.
NOT IMPRESSED.RAN CB 60 YEARS AND NEVER SAW A RADIO THAT MADE MONEY.WASTED THOUSANDS TALKED WORLD WIDE,AND GOT TIRED OF IT..
Well I'm not trying to impress anybody and if I want to make money with a radio, I would probably invest into an AM or a FM station where I could recruit paid advertisers along with playing everybody's favorite hits around the clock. I would probably request for the radio to have the identification call sign WSHIT so I could let the public know they could find the station as the little brown dot on their radio dial.