Yup. My favorite rig is my Cherokee CBS-1000. It's modified and expanded to 10 bands and let's me browse 10-meter as well. I get coverage from 25.165 to 29.665 Mhz. With a little Texas Star kicker next to it, I can get out REALLY well. Lots of fun.
Very well said, i hate the snob ol' farts who deny CB radio ;) I, as lots of radio ops, arrived from CB radio, i LOVE both CB and HAM. Radio is radio, indeed !!! :)
I thought the only way to get out of trucking was to die. Im open to other suggestions though! Well over 3 million miles. I do Enjoy maneuvering big trucks around. But you know all the down sides. The fun has been pretty well Sucked out of trucking. I have a Cobra 29 classic. I took it out of the box, plugged it in. Hooked it to a 12 foot coax on a vise grip mount and go. People routinely asked about my radio setup saying it sounded great. Just got lucky on that I guess. Best wishes to you.
After driving 42 years i broke my back it forced my retirement what sux is i left my CB in the truck i was driving for walmart thinking i would be back it was double sideband talkback put out 28 watts barefoot and my 500 watt kicker its all gone from my old truck someone stole it
Sorry to hear about your back and your radio. I've been busted up on the job and it's no picnic. Hope you get a complete recovery. Your radio sounds like it was awesome. I guess you'll have to build you one even better now. Best of luck to you Driver!
@@mikehagan4320 thanks ,they told me id be in a wheel chair within 6 months of my sergury, that was 4 years ago im still walking ,im no better but no worse being retired sux but with the new laws i would have quit anyways,i miss driving in the 70 through 90s but around 2010 everything went south i drove for walmart the last 22 yrs and they turned into a crap job around 2010 i hear there worse now ,anyhow take care
@@mikehagan4320 I developed Type2 Diabetes. Lost my medical card.had to come off the road. I'm now a forklift driver loading trlrs. I do have 2.1 million miles under my belt. I don't recommend getting Diabetes, it's not fun sticking yourself 3 or 4 times a day..
Jim Newman - I got into CB back in the 70’s. Eventually became a ham in 1989. I still go back to CBs once in a while. Hams were always the radios gods to me back then. Good times good times.
I use my CB Radio every day ! Thank you for this video ! Using CB since 1986 ! I'm a HAM radio operator and I'll tell you, I love CB more than HAM Radio bands. 73's from Puerto Rico.
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Thank you!! Finally someone standing up for CB radio..The Expedition Overland channel just referred to a CB as useful as a cardboard box. That got me mad. I think it's extremely useful. I'm a trucker and have one in my truck and in my car. It has saved me numerous times from highway closures and other disasters. It still works well as communication and the barrier to entry is extremely low. I mean you can get one at Walmart for God's sake.. Everyone has a Walmart. I am a ham radio operator now and you're exactly right, I got into CB when I was a kid and worked skip and eventually got myself and my uncle into ham radio.. So I don't know why hams are such snobs. It's really insulting. Now yes in the city you're mostly going to hear nothing or truck drivers screaming at "new" truck drivers for traveling the middle lane going below the speed limit but that's why you have a volume knob. As soon as you leave city limits people are mostly helpful and kind. In my car I have a CB, an analog dual band ham and a dmr digital plus a scanner from time to time and I think cb should be included in most any system.
I got started in ham using CB back in the 70's during the CB boom. I have had a CB in the shack here ever since then, it is all radio to me. I also have one in the mobile and have the same antenna you do. If you hear the midwest coming in, listen for the 1430 southern MN, that is me on lower 38!
In fact here in sweden we have clubs for 11m that are like ham-clubs. We have designated callsigns based on where we live. We have contests, mobile days, test nights and so on. 11m (CB) is very much alive and growing here in sweden. Our club is only at 500 members so far but many of us are hams that are just having fun with each other and talking.
Hi, i guess you're on SSB on the EU40 there? Not got a sideband rig yet but 27/81 FM is well alive in the UK. Will keep an ear out for any Swedish calls when i can.
@@danielgubbgron8316 Cool thanks for the freq. I'm still waiting to find a good SSB rig at the right price but will listen out on 235 for "Daffy Duck" on my old mid band rig when i get a chance. 73, Dan.
I was into CB radio as early as 1973. In the late 80s while going to college I worked security so spent a lot of time sitting in my car. I ended up getting a President Grant with low mid and high bands. 1987 was a good year for skip, and we were able to go below channel 1 and talk to a number of midwest station operators while sitting in the San Francisco Bay Area. That year I also got my ham ticket after passing the 5wpm and technical exam for the novice class. Daily contacts through Asia, Australia, New Zealand and one contact in Mongolia. But the CB band was truly alive. Even made a friend who lived in Quebec and was operating on Channel 35 LSSB. Not much traffic in our area except for truckers. Many people now have their Technical Class license for Ham because you no longer need to know morse code, and many clubs spoon-feed you the answers to the technical test.
If you have the mean$, just getya a decent HF rig and do the MARS/CAP mod on - if the FCC cared about CB Radio violations as such, they'd have been all over me years ago with fines and confiscation because I (emphasis added) have a "fan club" on the CB band here in Akron, Ohio and they KNOW what make and model of radio I'm using on CB.
I'd recommend a Uniden Bearcat 980SSB. I always get compliments on how good it sounds, and I'm just running barefoot. Hell, even before I had my nice K40 BCMAX antenna, and I just had a slightly out of tune, non-tune-able magmount TRAM antenna, I still got compliments. All I'm using is the standard mic that comes with the radio. It includes weather radio as well. That's handy when you want to hear the weather while driving, and don't want to poke around on your phone. Uniden also makes a model that's a CB and police scanner in one, but I'd check if your local PD has switched to digital, because it would be useless to do that then. And I don't think the scanner model has SSB.
The 16th of June of this year 2022, I was listening to Belfast, Ireland on channel 35 USB from Uranium City, Canada. It was extremely clear. I responded with my ancient Cobra 148 GTL and Belfast heard me. The conditions are phenomenal. That day, the solar flux index was 185! The Cobra 148GTL is 41 years of age. I have had it in my vehicle since 1996 when I bought the vehicle new. It is dying and will likely not be around in a month. But I will enjoy it while I have it.
@@masterscambaiters3121 The Cobra 148 GTL did die in July 2022. Now I have an Anytone AT-5555n II. It is a radio with a Stryker SR-955 HPC. From the factory it is 60 Watts! I made a modification for 12 meters, 11 meter CB, and 10 meters. It does all the heavily modified Cobra 148GTL did without any modification and more! I hope it lasts as long as the Cobra lasted. Hope to hear you on the air some day.
I'm in Northern Nevada and we've been getting some great west-east skip the last few days! I love talking on CB radio, just made it out to Hawaii today on channel 6. I always enjoy your great videos!
Been watching your videos for a few years now and have always enjoyed them! Now I see you post something like this and it has not changed my respect for you! In fact I have even MORE respect then ever now!😂😂 I am a ham and very much into the hobby with digital and HF ect... BUT! I still do use a CB with a few of us guys here in Billings, MT who are also Hams as well. We have fin with it and have a great time with the non hams as well. Nice to see your appreciation for all the different bands and not just bias with the only Ham deal. Like you said it is all about the hobby of radio! I been playing with CB since I was like 9 years old when they had licenses. Ya I was boot legging it! But as I got older I got my ticket and really went to town with different modes. Hats off to you with this great video! Love to work ya sometime on digital or HF or echolink or....... Hell ya.. CB baby! 🤣 Either way 73s from Montana and keep up the great videos!
Good for you calling into the radio station. I think a lot of us remember someone in the 70s or 80s with a CB. Thanks for sharing! (I finally got my 7100 so now I need to learn to use it... watching for more videos :) )
I talk to South America most days on 11 meters from England at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, I worked Bonaire, Bermuda,French Guyana,Africa, only last week on 11m. When i listen on 12 meters and 10 meters i have to check the antenna is still plugged in.Great video and i enjoyed watching.
@@oldnbroke1544 In the UK we have three levels of licence; foundation, intermediate and full. I have the full. Foundation gets you on the air, intermediate gets you more power and more privileges and full gets you the full banana.
Stephen Morton True, I wish ham radio would Drop the regulations . It’s 2019 people are going to use cursewords. I’ve been a ham radio operator for years, and I can never get past five minutes of talking on him radio repeater or any kind of ham radio, The most friendly people I’ve ever met on the radio was on CB radio and those little family radio service radio you can buy from Walmart, a lot of folks and ham radio and I mainly talking about the older generation think they’re too high up and Frown down at newer hams
@Stephen Morton True because again cell phones don't have regulations on what you can say or do on them, It's just another form of communication. Its simple and easy to use. I talk on simplex 2m all the time and enjoy making long distance contacts, I also do some dmr on simplex and its crazy,I live in Arkansas and I hear alot of folks using dmr on simplex, but I just don't have time to program a repeater in when Im on the road, or in a quick second
Super upload brother!! Well said. Radio is, indeed, radio!! There's NO room for snobbery no matter how many meters you're talking on. Talking further than you did yesterday is STILL such a blast wether on cb or ham. Finding new people/contacts on the airwaves never gets old!! It's fun, Fun, FUN!! Let the people have their fun and join in. You'll have a blast too!! 73's from Montreal, Canada. Norman, cb-ing for decades 😉!!
I love CB. I got my ham tech ticket just shy of two years ago, and I have a CB set up right next to my ham rig in the "radio" room in my house. I also have both ham and CB in my car. If someone chooses to look down on CB, they are only depriving themselves of some good radio fun, like you say.
I dove head first into CB radio in early 2019 and have since used it as my push to get my ham license. Besides shooting skip, when no hams want to talk locally, there's a crowd of people most EVERY night who are always willing to on CB. 73s from South Carolina
I think it should be noted for those listening that aren't for totally familiar that radio you're demonstrating does have sideband and it is on Side Band. This is important because sideband on skip is a lot more usable often times than a straight AM
N5MKH - Started on CB and STILL running CB. Was just in Prescott AZ this last Weekend and was AMAZED at how many cars and trucks were running around with a CB antenna. Not Ham radio antennas (I did see a few but they had a CB antenna too). Probably 2/3 of the town has a truck, SUV, Jeep, or van. And probably 2/3 of all the trucks, Jeeps, SUVs, and vans had a CB antenna. It is alive and well in this pocket. Big shout out to the Radio Friendly folks in Prescott!
Back in the day before cell phones, I was maybe 10 or 12 talking to my dad on his way home from work on a cb radio and we thought it was the bees knees. Heard about HAM, figured it was somehow "beyond me" and dreamt of getting my license. Recently did and am learning a ton. I gotta agree with another poster completely: for me, CB was the gateway to HAM. Yeah okay, there was 30+ years in between, but hey.
Nice video, Eric. I got hooked on CB in ‘’75 and now an extra. It’s fun, whatever the mode, band, or class. There is so much, I can’t keep up, from CB to SSB to Satelite, to digital. Lighten up and have fun. By the way, not all hams are snobs
I didn't hear 301-Wyoming in the mobile!! Thanks still shooting the "skip" out here. Cardiff by the sea..good friend of Wyoming... We do VHF/UHF and HF too!! Great Video!!
I recently installed a McKinley and quickly upgraded to a modified Lincoln II+ in the pickup. I have a 102" whip flailing in the wind and I hear everything! I can find out what's going on up ahead on the highway and it's thousand times quicker than GPS when there's a recent traffic incident and I need to re-route. I monitor channel 19 and give traffic alerts when it might save someone else time who's behind me or coming up from the other direction. Hopefully the truckers out there will start getting radio's back in the cab.
After watching one of your previous videos on CB, I went to my shed and dug out my 30 year old (yes 30) 40 channel Realistic with upper and lower side bands, fired it back up and it still works like a new one!!! AND THERE ARE LOCALS ON CB!!! Thank you Eric for re-igniting my interest in CB. I’m having a blast. Do you know about qrz11.com??? 73 brother. KN4TAK
Is there a recommended pattern for CB callsigns? For example, i hear many folks using three numbers when doing DX on SSB and i wonder if they are using parts 9f their ZIP codes or the area code of their local phone numbers.
At 33 years old, I have had CB since I've been driving. Current setups are Uniden Bearcat 880 with 2 tram 10 meter whips trimmed down for best swr. My portable setup to swap out between vehicles is a tram 3500 mag mount on a Uniden bearcat 980ssb peaked and tuned. And use a road devil power mic on both. Great bear foot setup!
So glad to see this video. My Dad started out on 11 meter before I ever came along. The old crystal tube rigs. When CB required a license and call sign. Some of the greatest fun I ever had was shooting skip on upper sideband. Talked to a lot of great and super nice folks from Nova Scotia to Australia. Still own around a couple of hundred "antique" Johnsons, Citiphone, Lafayettes, and many more. All that fun was groundwork for my Amateur license. Love it all!! 73s
I keep a Galaxy DX-959 on my ham bench turned on most of the day tuned to Channel 38 LSB (27.385 MHz) as a 11-Meter activity monitor. The channelized CB system keeps the majority of CB/SSB operations on channel 38 which makes a dandy activity detector. When 11 Meters is open, so is Ten Meters which is why I keep the radio on. I'm in Central California and as far as AM/CB, I don't hear much activity but the SSB channels many times are full.
Well Eric I've been in radio since I was 16 and I started out on CB radio and I've been a ham for 30 years and I'm almost 60 so okay I'm Still on 11 meters to have a good one 73, oh yeah Eric I forgot to put this in the little comments yesterday. Upon 160 + 80 and 40 meters those guys talk worse than sailor sometimes least on the CB radio you're more professional hi hi 73. (N9XYI)
When my Daughter was 10 (2006) she used to check into the local SSB net on 27.385 that I belonged to. They asked her to do roll call many times. She was very proud of being accepted and I think they were proud to have her on board. The following year she got her ham ticket. She worked her first ham radio field day that year using her Icom 2 meter SSB station. I think CB gets a bad rap from many hams but the truth is many of us didn't really know what ham radio was. Unless you had exposure to ham radio, CB was the accessible and affordable entry to 2 way radio. CB was the poor mans ham radio. I still have my original Johnson Viking Messenger 1 that started the love of radio for me back in the late 60s. Becoming a ham is a perfect next step for people who love radio and want a life long journey in this great hobby. It was for me. I think I'll call CQ on 10m today to see whats hiding in the brush. Nice video Eric!
Hey, thanks for the shout out in your description lol. Not sure if you've actually watched one of my "STUPID" videos... Trying my best. God bless brother 🙏
I just travelled from Indiana to Ormond Beach last week... the 11 meter radio always goes on the trip and is so handy on the interstate. I ran APRS while monitoring 6.52... crickets.
I remember when we had to get an FCC license to use CB. I also recall the earlier radios were crystal controlled before introduction of the synthesized rigs. And if one had a 3-channel HT it was possible to change the channels by plugging in new crystals.
Same story here. KZO8175, handle was Panhead on CB radio way back when. Now K8ETA. Had lots of fun with both CB and HAM radio.. CB was a gateway drug into ham radio for me!....
I've spent many evenings on 27.355 through 27.405 LSB catching that second wave and talking with locals. I haven't done that in years though. I still have my Cherokee CBS 1000 base unit. Although it could probably use new capacitors now. However, my 5/8 wave stick needs a new top section. I don't know when or if I will get that back up and running. However, I've been thinking about putting a mobile unit in my truck.
That was back when we had some sun spots. We are at the low of the cycle and we are at least another year out. I know, I sure do miss it too. Just have to be patient, there is no other choice. We are in the same sun spot boat on the ham bands too.
Kick ass video! I have been noticing a rise in CB antennas showing up on vehicles lately. I should probably get my old Galaxy 88 and Palomar 350 watt amp fixed up and use them again.
I started on CB in 1975 and I still use CB today and I love it and I am a ham radio sense 2000. In huracan Maria over Puerto Rico CB was the only way of communicating for around a month because all local repeaters was not working. Still have my HR2510 in my van working grate
As a current trucker, and a trucker of 23 continuous years. C.B. use is UP. More drivers are sing it again and using it with manners and professionalism. For now anyways. It sure is nice to hear people coming back. It's rekindling my want to get my H.A.M license. Great video and I'm sub'd.
Bravo, thanks for speaking up! Yes CB can be loads of fun, I just tune away the potty mouths. I got interested in electronics back when about 10 years old through cb radios. Became a self taught consumer electronics tech, have been doing this for almost 30 years. I’m now finally going for my technicians license so I can talk on my Yaesu FT-70D and old FT-101ZD . Radio is exciting! I also highly recommend people get into the hobby at any level, and most important of all...HAVE FUN ! ✌️😁👍
My wife brought me my first radio Midland then I moved up to a Cobra 148GTL and for a base I was using a Superstar 3900 with AM/FM/SSB, Uppers &Lowers 10k slider. Had a 1/4 wave ground plane I could not wait for a cloudy day so I could shoot skip all day. Man those were great times everyone had one in their car and the meet ups were great you came away with knowing some good people
I have my license since 2015,but I keep coming back to cb band over and over again. Ok it more like freeband,but you can get such great DX's,it's worth it
Superbowl 6 and 28 was blowing up today. I heard people from all over Florida, GA, AL, MS, KY. LOVE DOCS! There is a guy out of Cocoa Beach running some serious power. I heard him in Titusville a few days ago and then today at home in Port St. Lucie. 772 YOTA waving at you!
I use the CB that’s built into my 2015 Harley when I go on road trips. It comes from the factory with it, so the people on that show are full of shit. People still use it!
I love CB radio. Used to drive for JB Hunt. Retired now. Talked to a truck driving school graduate recently who was doing his first year hauling freight. I asked what type of CB he had in his truck. He said he didn't need a CB...becsuse he has a Cell Phone and an on-board computer. He also didn't carry any maps. Why? Well, he has on-board GPS. MADE ME FEEL OLD. When I hauled freight all I had was a map and my CB.
I started with CB radio in the 70’s just like many other HAMs. We use to have a blast meeting every evening about 8pm for group rag chews. That, along with influence from my Dad that was a HAM, lead to me and my younger brother becoming HAMs in the early 90’s. I still listen to the 11 meter band.
Great video. CB is what got me started and now I have a technicians license to operate on Ham frequencies. 73s to you and yours. Thanks for the videos.
CB radio here in Louisiana on ch19 in contrast to "SOME" of the folks on the HF bands, Ch19 is like a Disney Movie rated G where people who are supposed to know better and hold a License speak using foul language that would make a New Orleans hooker blush. Tru Fax!
Having a 100 stations trying to "ride over" each other sounds like a cluster f#$k!! BTW, be honest, you do not hear this everyday because atmospheric conditions do not allow this ever day!!
Well, normally that doesn't happen unless you're near a large city, and even then, it's rare. Conditions have to be just right. But it's regularly fine for talking within your city, or even the next city over depending on the terrain in the area you live. I find myself having a great time on CB almost every day in the mobile.
Subscribed to your channel in a thumbs up absolutely right I love CBI had an old Lincoln and I see your Lincoln I think I wanna get that And put it back in my truck Love to shoot skip My numbers were 58 heading down a country road in South Carolina hope to catch you out there some day when I get backup injoied the video
Appreciate the video ERIC, I’ve listen to the love doctors when I lived in West Palm 23 years ago. I enjoy CB and got my tech license a few years ago. Anyways, I enjoy your videos and love to meet you one day if I’m back in South Florida. KN6DOL, 73
I agree with you 100% let the people have fun there's nothing wrong with that. If something is said that offend you turn the channel turn off the radio. I myself still operate a CB radio and I can tell you that yes CB is alive. And I am also an amateur radio operator as well. And you are right when 11 is open so is 10.. and yes you are right some amateur radio operators do look down on CB. but most if not all ham radio operators at one time talked on cb radio
This CB vs Ham shit has been going on since before I was even born. To get to the point, the FCC does still investigate radio complaints especially if they get enough of them. If you get caught running heat on a 4 watt radio, on 10 meter - they might be nice and give you a warning the first time around. But the second time... they will set you back 15K. If they see anything else, like an antenna above 60 feet in a tree there is a few hundred more. I know someone who got busted just 5 years ago. There was another case where a licensed ham operator got busted jamming cell phones on his daily commute - that got him an 18K fine. So it goes both ways. And no, I'm not a ham operator - but I was going to get licensed. I use CB daily when driving for things like accidents, speed traps, construction lane changes, etc.
I didn't know the Lincoln 2 was capable of transmitting on 11m (cb). I use a McKinley 2 with SSB. A way to know if the band is open is the "Superbowl" channel 6 or the splatter box channel as I call it. It was fun making contacts while driving a rig. It really depends on your area. When I used to drive thorough Chicago heading east, I'd shut the radio off. Some of the things said was just baffling. 73, KE0VGE and 505 central Iowa.
I started at the age of 12 with a Pearce Simspon Lynx 23 base station CB. My Grandad set me up with it along with a 36ft triangle tower. I spent hours on it. "Breaker breaker one nine.." it was a great experience! Great video! So true.
The cost of vintage cb equipment has gone thru the roof. I first got on CB back in 1967 thru 1977. Back when things were good and you formed new friendships with those you talked to on air AND...everyone had a CB LICENSE with a call-sign. Most cb'ers today weren't even born when we were active. Back in the day...you could make a 2 hour drive from Mass. to both Winnisquam or Laconia, NH and go to either the Browning or Tram factories and get the royal treatment from the techs who were more than glad to guide you thru their facilities. We formed radio clubs and hosted "Coffee Breaks" and "Jamborees" and traveled three or four states to attend another clubs functions. We shot a lot of Skip everywhere..even Europe and collected QSL cards from nearly every station we talked to. If a QSL wasn't available, a three cent postcard would suffice quite nicely. We used to attend "Antenna Raising" parties. and install mobile rigs for the uninitiated at ten or fifteen bucks a pop. In the winter we had a group of mobiles which outfitted their cars & trucks with thermos's of coffee, flares, blankets and chains in the event we come across a disabled snowbound motorist. We had a command center and numerous maps on the walls to assist in our operations plus we were connected with the county's ALERT / 9 EMERGENCY CHANNEL...not to mention our local CIVIL DEFENSE. We assisted on a voluntary basis during raging storms, downed aircraft, missing persons and other areas of concern. Yep...most modern day so-called cb'ers. don't have a clue what it was like back when CB Radio was "Good".
My friend and I have set up CB base stations between our homes, which are six miles apart. We talk every night, staring at 10:30 p.m. We also talk with people who live twenty to thirty miles away from us. My friend was a radioman in the Air Force, who knows Morse Code. He has been a great help in getting our base stations and mobile stations working good. My base antenna is 54 feet in the air, while his antenna is about 45 feet in the air. We both use President SSB/AM radios. CB radio is not dead where I live in Northern Michigan.
I started the same way, but stay on the SSB frequencies 97% of the time both day and night. At one time I was really heavy into the whole ham radio for SSB talking only. TB105 is the call sign I use so if you ever hear me on be sure and give me a shout. The frequency you had showing on your radio is one of the ones I'm on regularly.
I still have my Cobra 2000 GTL base station that was first set up in 1974 and have kept it in operation since then. There is indeed still traffic on today in my area.
After driving myself crazy trying to use sdr for listening to all bands, the problem with overheating sdr dongles , I finally got myself a bearcat 980 ssb im still waiting for the ant and power supply to come but im in hopes that ill find the fun ive lost in radio listening. Ive never been much of a talker but i always love tuning up and down over and over. I figured that this would be a good starter till ive learned enough to take my arrl exams. I should have never left the cb was always so much fun.. Thanks for rekindling my ainterest in both cb and ham radio again.
I've been a CB operator for 12 years and I thoroughly enjoy the hobby. I primarily use an RCI 2980 WX but my favorite radio still to this day is my RCI 2950 DX. I have several amplifiers but I mainly use my Dave Made M80 to drive my Swan Mark II, tube amplifier. I get on the radio every night. Skip has been great the past month or so. 73s to you and yours!
We are in a sunspot minimum. Sunspots a no-show with small prominences at my astronomy club's public events. 10 and 11 meters are open without interference from solar flares. A few years ago I was asked to look up my old CB club on a forum group. There's no reference to that old club, but a newer one with a lot of swear words on their website. The local 11 meters became a cussing contest. Retired RF repairman with an FCC commercial license. I still have the small CB in a leather pack with external meter/charger/antenna switch fit across the bicycle crossbar with battery pack charged AC or by my bike light generator. Antenna made using copper magnet wire wrapped around a fiberglass bicycle flagpole with a green neon bulb on top. A loop antenna for finding the bad boys.
Eric, I'm a new Ham at 70 yrs of age, I had CB's before they were popular and I still have a box of them I just got out of the garage. I'm going to try them on the new 10 meter antenna I'm building out of plumbing supplies 73's KD9OAM. ( Old Ass Man). lol.
Way to be a ambassador of the hobby !!! Very much appreciated from a fellow enthusiast
As a wise old Ham told me many decades ago, "Radio is radio!"
Yup. My favorite rig is my Cherokee CBS-1000.
It's modified and expanded to 10 bands and let's me browse 10-meter as well.
I get coverage from 25.165 to 29.665 Mhz.
With a little Texas Star kicker next to it, I can get out REALLY well.
Lots of fun.
Absolutely
Very well said, i hate the snob ol' farts who deny CB radio ;)
I, as lots of radio ops, arrived from CB radio, i LOVE both CB and HAM.
Radio is radio, indeed !!! :)
If not for CB back in the 70s when I was young, I wouldn't be a General class Ham now that I'm old.
@@W-733_KWX a lot of the ham operators who down CB radio are probably on CB radio half the time but they just won't tell you
Former truck driver, I still have the one I used in my 18 wheeler.I will never get rid of it.
I thought the only way to get out of trucking was to die. Im open to other suggestions though! Well over 3 million miles. I do Enjoy maneuvering big trucks around. But you know all the down sides. The fun has been pretty well Sucked out of trucking. I have a Cobra 29 classic. I took it out of the box, plugged it in. Hooked it to a 12 foot coax on a vise grip mount and go. People routinely asked about my radio setup saying it sounded great. Just got lucky on that I guess. Best wishes to you.
After driving 42 years i broke my back it forced my retirement what sux is i left my CB in the truck i was driving for walmart thinking i would be back it was double sideband talkback put out 28 watts barefoot and my 500 watt kicker its all gone from my old truck someone stole it
Sorry to hear about your back and your radio. I've been busted up on the job and it's no picnic. Hope you get a complete recovery. Your radio sounds like it was awesome. I guess you'll have to build you one even better now. Best of luck to you Driver!
@@mikehagan4320 thanks ,they told me id be in a wheel chair within 6 months of my sergury, that was 4 years ago im still walking ,im no better but no worse being retired sux but with the new laws i would have quit anyways,i miss driving in the 70 through 90s but around 2010 everything went south i drove for walmart the last 22 yrs and they turned into a crap job around 2010 i hear there worse now ,anyhow take care
@@mikehagan4320 I developed Type2 Diabetes. Lost my medical card.had to come off the road. I'm now a forklift driver loading trlrs.
I do have 2.1 million miles under my belt.
I don't recommend getting Diabetes, it's not fun sticking yourself 3 or 4 times a day..
CB is the gateway drug for ham radio.
Amen
Jim Newman - I got into CB back in the 70’s. Eventually became a ham in 1989. I still go back to CBs once in a while. Hams were always the radios gods to me back then. Good times good times.
damn right it is..
got my gmrs cacll wrfd339 going for ham cb was my start
Exactly and I'm burning up radio Airwaves crack often. LOL ! CQ DX
I use my CB Radio every day ! Thank you for this video ! Using CB since 1986 ! I'm a HAM radio operator and I'll tell you, I love CB more than HAM Radio bands. 73's from Puerto Rico.
I agree! Same here!
Just people having fun on cb!! That's why I like it more than ham too.
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Since 1969 and pops Golden Eagle 🦅 and the MoonRaker 4
i think i heard you on channel 20 about a month ago i use a pearce simpson lynx 23
Thank you!! Finally someone standing up for CB radio..The Expedition Overland channel just referred to a CB as useful as a cardboard box. That got me mad. I think it's extremely useful. I'm a trucker and have one in my truck and in my car. It has saved me numerous times from highway closures and other disasters. It still works well as communication and the barrier to entry is extremely low. I mean you can get one at Walmart for God's sake.. Everyone has a Walmart. I am a ham radio operator now and you're exactly right, I got into CB when I was a kid and worked skip and eventually got myself and my uncle into ham radio.. So I don't know why hams are such snobs. It's really insulting.
Now yes in the city you're mostly going to hear nothing or truck drivers screaming at "new" truck drivers for traveling the middle lane going below the speed limit but that's why you have a volume knob. As soon as you leave city limits people are mostly helpful and kind. In my car I have a CB, an analog dual band ham and a dmr digital plus a scanner from time to time and I think cb should be included in most any system.
I got started in ham using CB back in the 70's during the CB boom. I have had a CB in the shack here ever since then, it is all radio to me. I also have one in the mobile and have the same antenna you do. If you hear the midwest coming in, listen for the 1430 southern MN, that is me on lower 38!
Roger,smoker 55 mobile back out
Well I still talk on the cb some but I like to use the repeaters about as much , if not more. I'm proud to do both !
Yea got my 1st cb december 1968 b4 the boom
In fact here in sweden we have clubs for 11m that are like ham-clubs. We have designated callsigns based on where we live.
We have contests, mobile days, test nights and so on.
11m (CB) is very much alive and growing here in sweden. Our club is only at 500 members so far but many of us are hams that are just having fun with each other and talking.
Hi, i guess you're on SSB on the EU40 there? Not got a sideband rig yet but 27/81 FM is well alive in the UK. Will keep an ear out for any Swedish calls when i can.
@@danmackintosh6325 that's correct, we use ch24 (27.235) usb as a calling channel. Keep an ear out, we often hear uk on usb as well
@@danielgubbgron8316 Cool thanks for the freq. I'm still waiting to find a good SSB rig at the right price but will listen out on 235 for "Daffy Duck" on my old mid band rig when i get a chance. 73, Dan.
I was into CB radio as early as 1973. In the late 80s while going to college I worked security so spent a lot of time sitting in my car. I ended up getting a President Grant with low mid and high bands. 1987 was a good year for skip, and we were able to go below channel 1 and talk to a number of midwest station operators while sitting in the San Francisco Bay Area. That year I also got my ham ticket after passing the 5wpm and technical exam for the novice class. Daily contacts through Asia, Australia, New Zealand and one contact in Mongolia. But the CB band was truly alive. Even made a friend who lived in Quebec and was operating on Channel 35 LSSB. Not much traffic in our area except for truckers. Many people now have their Technical Class license for Ham because you no longer need to know morse code, and many clubs spoon-feed you the answers to the technical test.
I agree and yes I have a CB radio and I need to pick up a SSB CB Radio.
If you have the mean$, just getya a decent HF rig and do the MARS/CAP mod on - if the FCC cared about CB Radio violations as such, they'd have been all over me years ago with fines and confiscation because I (emphasis added) have a "fan club" on the CB band here in Akron, Ohio and they KNOW what make and model of radio I'm using on CB.
@@Dr.Gunsmith it would not apply in the UK given you run on fm carrier not AM where am and ssb live
@@jasonhowe1697: FM, AM and SSB are all now legal in the UK.
I'd recommend a Uniden Bearcat 980SSB. I always get compliments on how good it sounds, and I'm just running barefoot. Hell, even before I had my nice K40 BCMAX antenna, and I just had a slightly out of tune, non-tune-able magmount TRAM antenna, I still got compliments. All I'm using is the standard mic that comes with the radio. It includes weather radio as well. That's handy when you want to hear the weather while driving, and don't want to poke around on your phone. Uniden also makes a model that's a CB and police scanner in one, but I'd check if your local PD has switched to digital, because it would be useless to do that then. And I don't think the scanner model has SSB.
@@brickson98m, thanks for the recommendation on the SSB radio. I've been thinking about putting a mobile unit in the truck.
I use my CB radio almost everyday 😂
Same here.
Ham isn't so good when all you see is break lights for a few miles in front of you on the interstate.... cb still rules
@@walterdavis4808 I fully agree
Same on my side :)
So CB isn't dead yet for those that like "shooting skip".? What about the Philadelphia Pa area.......???
The 16th of June of this year 2022, I was listening to Belfast, Ireland on channel 35 USB from Uranium City, Canada. It was extremely clear. I responded with my ancient Cobra 148 GTL and Belfast heard me. The conditions are phenomenal. That day, the solar flux index was 185! The Cobra 148GTL is 41 years of age. I have had it in my vehicle since 1996 when I bought the vehicle new. It is dying and will likely not be around in a month. But I will enjoy it while I have it.
🔥 fire in the wire 📻
@@masterscambaiters3121 The Cobra 148 GTL did die in July 2022. Now I have an Anytone AT-5555n II. It is a radio with a Stryker SR-955 HPC. From the factory it is 60 Watts! I made a modification for 12 meters, 11 meter CB, and 10 meters. It does all the heavily modified Cobra 148GTL did without any modification and more! I hope it lasts as long as the Cobra lasted. Hope to hear you on the air some day.
I'm in Northern Nevada and we've been getting some great west-east skip the last few days! I love talking on CB radio, just made it out to Hawaii today on channel 6. I always enjoy your great videos!
Wow. How many watts are you running? Are you a ham too? Im in st george utah about 120 miles north of you
Been watching your videos for a few years now and have always enjoyed them! Now I see you post something like this and it has not changed my respect for you! In fact I have even MORE respect then ever now!😂😂 I am a ham and very much into the hobby with digital and HF ect... BUT! I still do use a CB with a few of us guys here in Billings, MT who are also Hams as well. We have fin with it and have a great time with the non hams as well. Nice to see your appreciation for all the different bands and not just bias with the only Ham deal. Like you said it is all about the hobby of radio! I been playing with CB since I was like 9 years old when they had licenses. Ya I was boot legging it! But as I got older I got my ticket and really went to town with different modes. Hats off to you with this great video! Love to work ya sometime on digital or HF or echolink or....... Hell ya.. CB baby! 🤣 Either way 73s from Montana and keep up the great videos!
Good for you calling into the radio station. I think a lot of us remember someone in the 70s or 80s with a CB. Thanks for sharing! (I finally got my 7100 so now I need to learn to use it... watching for more videos :) )
Hope you enjoy very much that radio. I have that one and the 7300 too.
Sure glad they had CB back when I drove truck over the road before cell phones! Still have my cobra, base station it is!
I am in port st lucie, new to cb. When I was younger and poor it was the rage now at 75 I am interested
I talk to South America most days on 11 meters from England at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, I worked Bonaire, Bermuda,French Guyana,Africa, only last week on 11m. When i listen on 12 meters and 10 meters i have to check the antenna is still plugged in.Great video and i enjoyed watching.
Where I live we have no skip this month, I check my radio once a day, everyday !
I'll listen for you!! 301-Wyoming
Get that antenna up.high and check swr
I have a full ham licence and use 11 more than anything.
I have respect for operators who are willing to admit this.
What is a "full" ham license...
@@oldnbroke1544 In the UK we have three levels of licence; foundation, intermediate and full. I have the full. Foundation gets you on the air, intermediate gets you more power and more privileges and full gets you the full banana.
I'm a ham as well I use cb more then ham..
Ditto
I’ve been a ham operator for years and what amazes me is you can get on CB and have a normal ‘qso’.
Stephen Morton True, I wish ham radio would Drop the regulations . It’s 2019 people are going to use cursewords. I’ve been a ham radio operator for years, and I can never get past five minutes of talking on him radio repeater or any kind of ham radio, The most friendly people I’ve ever met on the radio was on CB radio and those little family radio service radio you can buy from Walmart, a lot of folks and ham radio and I mainly talking about the older generation think they’re too high up and Frown down at newer hams
@Stephen Morton True because again cell phones don't have regulations on what you can say or do on them, It's just another form of communication. Its simple and easy to use. I talk on simplex 2m all the time and enjoy making long distance contacts, I also do some dmr on simplex and its crazy,I live in Arkansas and I hear alot of folks using dmr on simplex, but I just don't have time to program a repeater in when Im on the road, or in a quick second
@Rene Drew so will parents. Then there are no more manners at the dinner table. How low does the bar need to drop? [drops mic]
Super upload brother!! Well said.
Radio is, indeed, radio!! There's NO
room for snobbery no matter how
many meters you're talking on.
Talking further than you did
yesterday is STILL such a blast
wether on cb or ham. Finding new
people/contacts on the airwaves
never gets old!! It's fun, Fun, FUN!!
Let the people have their fun and
join in. You'll have a blast too!!
73's from Montreal, Canada.
Norman, cb-ing for decades 😉!!
I love CB. I got my ham tech ticket just shy of two years ago, and I have a CB set up right next to my ham rig in the "radio" room in my house. I also have both ham and CB in my car. If someone chooses to look down on CB, they are only depriving themselves of some good radio fun, like you say.
I dove head first into CB radio in early 2019 and have since used it as my push to get my ham license. Besides shooting skip, when no hams want to talk locally, there's a crowd of people most EVERY night who are always willing to on CB.
73s from South Carolina
I started out on CB back in 1995 as polar bear, now a ham KC3DSF. And I still love CB, 73!
I think it should be noted for those listening that aren't for totally familiar that radio you're demonstrating does have sideband and it is on Side Band. This is important because sideband on skip is a lot more usable often times than a straight AM
It’s cycling back around. Every 11 years.
Yup, i guess you could say it's being propped up... Very bad pun...
2020 is going to be at its low then it will start to pic up.
they say time repeates itself !
N5MKH - Started on CB and STILL running CB. Was just in Prescott AZ this last Weekend and was AMAZED at how many cars and trucks were running around with a CB antenna. Not Ham radio antennas (I did see a few but they had a CB antenna too). Probably 2/3 of the town has a truck, SUV, Jeep, or van. And probably 2/3 of all the trucks, Jeeps, SUVs, and vans had a CB antenna. It is alive and well in this pocket. Big shout out to the Radio Friendly folks in Prescott!
Back in the day before cell phones, I was maybe 10 or 12 talking to my dad on his way home from work on a cb radio and we thought it was the bees knees. Heard about HAM, figured it was somehow "beyond me" and dreamt of getting my license. Recently did and am learning a ton. I gotta agree with another poster completely: for me, CB was the gateway to HAM. Yeah okay, there was 30+ years in between, but hey.
Nice video, Eric. I got hooked on CB in ‘’75 and now an extra. It’s fun, whatever the mode, band, or class. There is so much, I can’t keep up, from CB to SSB to Satelite, to digital. Lighten up and have fun. By the way, not all hams are snobs
I HAVE A RADIO IN MY HOME , OFFICE and CAR HERE IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
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I didn't hear 301-Wyoming in the mobile!! Thanks still shooting the "skip" out here. Cardiff by the sea..good friend of Wyoming... We do VHF/UHF and HF too!! Great Video!!
I am tempted more and more to see if my dad still has his CB radio and install that in my truck... that would be fun.
I recently installed a McKinley and quickly upgraded to a modified Lincoln II+ in the pickup. I have a 102" whip flailing in the wind and I hear everything! I can find out what's going on up ahead on the highway and it's thousand times quicker than GPS when there's a recent traffic incident and I need to re-route. I monitor channel 19 and give traffic alerts when it might save someone else time who's behind me or coming up from the other direction. Hopefully the truckers out there will start getting radio's back in the cab.
After watching one of your previous videos on CB, I went to my shed and dug out my 30 year old (yes 30) 40 channel Realistic with upper and lower side bands, fired it back up and it still works like a new one!!! AND THERE ARE LOCALS ON CB!!! Thank you Eric for re-igniting my interest in CB. I’m having a blast. Do you know about qrz11.com??? 73 brother. KN4TAK
Thanks for mentioning QRZ11.com!
Is there a recommended pattern for CB callsigns? For example, i hear many folks using three numbers when doing DX on SSB and i wonder if they are using parts 9f their ZIP codes or the area code of their local phone numbers.
I use 134 Colorado springs Colorado or WWS0911. 134 cobra was my first radio and 0911 is the last4 of my zop
At 33 years old, I have had CB since I've been driving. Current setups are Uniden Bearcat 880 with 2 tram 10 meter whips trimmed down for best swr. My portable setup to swap out between vehicles is a tram 3500 mag mount on a Uniden bearcat 980ssb peaked and tuned. And use a road devil power mic on both. Great bear foot setup!
Haven't heard much in years but my cb is on every time I'm in my truck. Wish it would come back
So glad to see this video. My Dad started out on 11 meter before I ever came along. The old crystal tube rigs. When CB required a license and call sign. Some of the greatest fun I ever had was shooting skip on upper sideband. Talked to a lot of great and super nice folks from Nova Scotia to Australia. Still own around a couple of hundred "antique" Johnsons, Citiphone, Lafayettes, and many more. All that fun was groundwork for my Amateur license. Love it all!! 73s
Fun?! How dare you?! *lol*
I keep a Galaxy DX-959 on my ham bench turned on most of the day tuned to Channel 38 LSB (27.385 MHz) as a 11-Meter activity monitor. The channelized CB system keeps the majority of CB/SSB operations on channel 38 which makes a dandy activity detector. When 11 Meters is open, so is Ten Meters which is why I keep the radio on. I'm in Central California and as far as AM/CB, I don't hear much activity but the SSB channels many times are full.
Well Eric I've been in radio since I was 16 and I started out on CB radio and I've been a ham for 30 years and I'm almost 60 so okay I'm Still on 11 meters to have a good one 73, oh yeah Eric I forgot to put this in the little comments yesterday. Upon 160 + 80 and 40 meters those guys talk worse than sailor sometimes least on the CB radio you're more professional hi hi 73. (N9XYI)
When my Daughter was 10 (2006) she used to check into the local SSB net on 27.385 that I belonged to. They asked her to do roll call many times. She was very proud of being accepted and I think they were proud to have her on board. The following year she got her ham ticket. She worked her first ham radio field day that year using her Icom 2 meter SSB station. I think CB gets a bad rap from many hams but the truth is many of us didn't really know what ham radio was. Unless you had exposure to ham radio, CB was the accessible and affordable entry to 2 way radio. CB was the poor mans ham radio. I still have my original Johnson Viking Messenger 1 that started the love of radio for me back in the late 60s. Becoming a ham is a perfect next step for people who love radio and want a life long journey in this great hobby. It was for me. I think I'll call CQ on 10m today to see whats hiding in the brush. Nice video Eric!
When the power goes out (like in CA right now) a CB or ham radio is the only communication you might have.
Hey, thanks for the shout out in your description lol. Not sure if you've actually watched one of my "STUPID" videos... Trying my best. God bless brother 🙏
Oh Yes I live in Lynchburg Virginia and 11 meter CB is rocking very well channel 28 am and 38 LSB is Rolling here to
I have a friend in college liberty Lynchburg. I gave him a cobra.. Call name Grey Ghost.
@@asappestcontrol1250 great I go by white star 341 ... Im actually in Amherst county 10 miles North of Lynchburg
I just travelled from Indiana to Ormond Beach last week... the 11 meter radio always goes on the trip and is so handy on the interstate. I ran APRS while monitoring 6.52... crickets.
I was on 38 about 4 CST. It was crazy I talked to 2510 Virginia, he was at the beginning.
I talked to him as well today
Thanks for sharing the CB again. I'm 65 now and an inactive ham It will be great fun to clean up the old radios and see how far they can reach !
CB is alive and well. Many people are on the radio. Maybe not every local yocal like in the 70's but there are many.
I remember when we had to get an FCC license to use CB. I also recall the earlier radios were crystal controlled before introduction of the synthesized rigs. And if one had a 3-channel HT it was possible to change the channels by plugging in new crystals.
KHH5389 Big Bird was how I started out as a kid back in 76 with a Realistic 23 Ch with SSB. Yes I became a ham. KC5ECB
KRK8171 I also used a friends call sign until I got mine KRJ9963 I'm a new ham now KD9OAM. 73's Bill.
Same story here. KZO8175, handle was Panhead on CB radio way back when. Now K8ETA. Had lots of fun with both CB and HAM radio.. CB was a gateway drug into ham radio for me!....
cb was alot of fun as a kid in 74 for me here in Australia, im a ham as well but i do love my cb radio's cheers 025
I have a 1977 Royce cb I've had it about 40 years well I put it in my 1986 Ford F-150 and it still works great. Gettn back into it.
I was picking up skip 5 states over yesteray as well.
Some 505 guy bragging about using 480watts.....
I've spent many evenings on 27.355 through 27.405 LSB catching that second wave and talking with locals. I haven't done that in years though. I still have my Cherokee CBS 1000 base unit. Although it could probably use new capacitors now. However, my 5/8 wave stick needs a new top section.
I don't know when or if I will get that back up and running. However, I've been thinking about putting a mobile unit in my truck.
That was back when we had some sun spots. We are at the low of the cycle and we are at least another year out. I know, I sure do miss it too. Just have to be patient, there is no other choice. We are in the same sun spot boat on the ham bands too.
Here in Miami, almost every day I heard people from different states and also
from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In AM and SSB mode.
Kick ass video! I have been noticing a rise in CB antennas showing up on vehicles lately. I should probably get my old Galaxy 88 and Palomar 350 watt amp fixed up and use them again.
Been on cb since the 90's
I started on CB in 1975 and I still use CB today and I love it and I am a ham radio sense 2000. In huracan Maria over Puerto Rico CB was the only way of communicating for around a month because all local repeaters was not working. Still have my HR2510 in my van working grate
I started in cb, still have my navaho ssb that i turn on now and then: i'll never bad- mouth my begainnings. Ke6gkv
Between talking on and repairing CB's,it led me to ham land too!
BTW I hope your doing ok,with the power outage!
As a current trucker, and a trucker of 23 continuous years. C.B. use is UP. More drivers are sing it again and using it with manners and professionalism. For now anyways. It sure is nice to hear people coming back. It's rekindling my want to get my H.A.M license. Great video and I'm sub'd.
CB and HAM is what you can count on when things go down. Don't think cell and internet will always be there in an emergency.
Bravo, thanks for speaking up! Yes CB can be loads of fun, I just tune away the potty mouths. I got interested in electronics back when about 10 years old through cb radios. Became a self taught consumer electronics tech, have been doing this for almost 30 years. I’m now finally going for my technicians license so I can talk on my Yaesu FT-70D and old FT-101ZD . Radio is exciting!
I also highly recommend people get into the hobby at any level, and most important of all...HAVE FUN !
✌️😁👍
"Radio Authoritaiii" lmao South Park reference.
Great video Eric. Thanks for helping to bring all radio enthusiasm back to life. Keep posting great content!! 73’s
I just watches your video on citizens band, "coincidence" that this was just uploaded
weird
same!
CB was our internet and social media back in the day. Nice to see it's still going.
At 36 years old I've been on cb since a very young boy. I currently run a galaxy DX959. Often have conversations out here in big sky country Montana.
Galaxy 959 is a very good radio..love it got extra channels on mine ..
Yep I started when I was 12 years old was an old Sears 23 channel
I'm 38 now
My wife brought me my first radio Midland then I moved up to a Cobra 148GTL and for a base I was using a Superstar 3900 with AM/FM/SSB, Uppers &Lowers 10k slider. Had a 1/4 wave ground plane I could not wait for a cloudy day so I could shoot skip all day. Man those were great times everyone had one in their car and the meet ups were great you came away with knowing some good people
More people in my area on CB than the repeater
@Michael G I'm in Nevada often, I've seen it used there alot among the offroading community, but I've never had mine when I go
Same here in South East England 😁
I have my license since 2015,but I keep coming back to cb band over and over again.
Ok it more like freeband,but you can get such great DX's,it's worth it
cb radio brought a million people into the radio hobby in the 80s in the uk "
Superbowl 6 and 28 was blowing up today. I heard people from all over Florida, GA, AL, MS, KY. LOVE DOCS! There is a guy out of Cocoa Beach running some serious power. I heard him in Titusville a few days ago and then today at home in Port St. Lucie. 772 YOTA waving at you!
Yah them boys in Cocoa are always running power. I give them a hard time every time I drive through Cocoa HAHAHA
I use the CB that’s built into my 2015 Harley when I go on road trips. It comes from the factory with it, so the people on that show are full of shit. People still use it!
I love CB radio. Used to drive for JB Hunt. Retired now. Talked to a truck driving school graduate recently who was doing his first year hauling freight. I asked what type of CB he had in his truck. He said he didn't need a CB...becsuse he has a Cell Phone and an on-board computer. He also didn't carry any maps. Why? Well, he has on-board GPS.
MADE ME FEEL OLD.
When I hauled freight all I had was a map and my CB.
"WOODSTOCK" 411 BLUE SKY OPERATOR, HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA. JUST GOT DOWN.
I started with CB radio in the 70’s just like many other HAMs. We use to have a blast meeting every evening about 8pm for group rag chews. That, along with influence from my Dad that was a HAM, lead to me and my younger brother becoming HAMs in the early 90’s. I still listen to the 11 meter band.
Nothing wrong with CB. Keep it up guys KC3NL
Why dont I find your call on QRZ? Is it a real call? Yes I am a real ham....are you?
Great video. CB is what got me started and now I have a technicians license to operate on Ham frequencies. 73s to you and yours. Thanks for the videos.
Cb right now more decent than ham radio in miami
I have heard that from several people.
There is trash in every part of our lives, too bad the FCC doesn't screen people for morals. 73 de KG5RQZ
Yes, there is a repeater here in Miami, that I have to erase from the memories of
all my radios because the bad language they allow in that Rep.
CB radio here in Louisiana on ch19 in contrast to "SOME" of the folks on the HF bands, Ch19 is like a Disney Movie rated G where people who are supposed to know better and hold a License speak using foul language that would make a New Orleans hooker blush. Tru Fax!
3.860 LSB is rediculous! So is 7.5 LSB.
You make a valid point. Radio is radio. I also like scanning, TV DX-ing, Shortwave and medium wave listening, anything to do with radio.
Having a 100 stations trying to "ride over" each other sounds like a cluster f#$k!! BTW, be honest, you do not hear this everyday because atmospheric conditions do not allow this ever day!!
A CB/SSB monitor on channel 38 LSB makes a great alarm for a potential openings on 10 Meters.
Well, normally that doesn't happen unless you're near a large city, and even then, it's rare. Conditions have to be just right. But it's regularly fine for talking within your city, or even the next city over depending on the terrain in the area you live. I find myself having a great time on CB almost every day in the mobile.
Subscribed to your channel in a thumbs up absolutely right I love CBI had an old Lincoln and I see your Lincoln I think I wanna get that And put it back in my truck Love to shoot skip My numbers were 58 heading down a country road in South Carolina hope to catch you out there some day when I get backup injoied the video
Appreciate the video ERIC, I’ve listen to the love doctors when I lived in West Palm 23 years ago. I enjoy CB and got my tech license a few years ago. Anyways, I enjoy your videos and love to meet you one day if I’m back in South Florida. KN6DOL, 73
I agree with you 100% let the people have fun there's nothing wrong with that. If something is said that offend you turn the channel turn off the radio. I myself still operate a CB radio and I can tell you that yes CB is alive. And I am also an amateur radio operator as well. And you are right when 11 is open so is 10.. and yes you are right some amateur radio operators do look down on CB. but most if not all ham radio operators at one time talked on cb radio
This CB vs Ham shit has been going on since before I was even born. To get to the point, the FCC does still investigate radio complaints especially if they get enough of them. If you get caught running heat on a 4 watt radio, on 10 meter - they might be nice and give you a warning the first time around. But the second time... they will set you back 15K. If they see anything else, like an antenna above 60 feet in a tree there is a few hundred more. I know someone who got busted just 5 years ago. There was another case where a licensed ham operator got busted jamming cell phones on his daily commute - that got him an 18K fine. So it goes both ways. And no, I'm not a ham operator - but I was going to get licensed. I use CB daily when driving for things like accidents, speed traps, construction lane changes, etc.
I didn't know the Lincoln 2 was capable of transmitting on 11m (cb). I use a McKinley 2 with SSB. A way to know if the band is open is the "Superbowl" channel 6 or the splatter box channel as I call it. It was fun making contacts while driving a rig. It really depends on your area. When I used to drive thorough Chicago heading east, I'd shut the radio off. Some of the things said was just baffling.
73, KE0VGE and 505 central Iowa.
I started at the age of 12 with a Pearce Simspon Lynx 23 base station CB. My Grandad set me up with it along with a 36ft triangle tower. I spent hours on it. "Breaker breaker one nine.." it was a great experience! Great video! So true.
The cost of vintage cb equipment has gone thru the roof. I first got on CB back in 1967 thru 1977. Back when things were good and you formed new friendships with those you talked to on air AND...everyone had a CB LICENSE with a call-sign. Most cb'ers today weren't even born when we were active. Back in the day...you could make a 2 hour drive from Mass. to both Winnisquam or Laconia, NH and go to either the Browning or Tram factories and get the royal treatment from the techs who were more than glad to guide you thru their facilities. We formed radio clubs and hosted "Coffee Breaks" and "Jamborees" and traveled three or four states to attend another clubs functions. We shot a lot of Skip everywhere..even Europe and collected QSL cards from nearly every station we talked to. If a QSL wasn't available, a three cent postcard would suffice quite nicely. We used to attend "Antenna Raising" parties. and install mobile rigs for the uninitiated at ten or fifteen bucks a pop. In the winter we had a group of mobiles which outfitted their cars & trucks with thermos's of coffee, flares, blankets and chains in the event we come across a disabled snowbound motorist. We had a command center and numerous maps on the walls to assist in our operations plus we were connected with the county's ALERT / 9 EMERGENCY CHANNEL...not to mention our local CIVIL DEFENSE. We assisted on a voluntary basis during raging storms, downed aircraft, missing persons and other areas of concern. Yep...most modern day so-called cb'ers. don't have a clue what it was like back when CB Radio was "Good".
My friend and I have set up CB base stations between our homes, which are six miles apart. We talk every night, staring at 10:30 p.m. We also talk with people who live twenty to thirty miles away from us. My friend was a radioman in the Air Force, who knows Morse Code. He has been a great help in getting our base stations and mobile stations working good. My base antenna is 54 feet in the air, while his antenna is about 45 feet in the air. We both use President SSB/AM radios. CB radio is not dead where I live in Northern Michigan.
I started the same way, but stay on the SSB frequencies 97% of the time both day and night. At one time I was really heavy into the whole ham radio for SSB talking only. TB105 is the call sign I use so if you ever hear me on be sure and give me a shout. The frequency you had showing on your radio is one of the ones I'm on regularly.
I still have my Cobra 2000 GTL base station that was first set up in 1974 and have kept it in operation since then. There is indeed still traffic on today in my area.
@ 4:13 I hear ya loud and clear out here 333 wav'in back @ ya ten foe !
Good explainer. I'm not very experienced and am doing research. This guys easy to understand. Thanks for the content.
that cb radio you have is beautiful. Where did you get it and is it modafied? and what typ of antana do you use? curt
Thanks for standing up for us old CBrs.. Much obliged.. This is
ol whiskey07 saying good bye..
After driving myself crazy trying to use sdr for listening to all bands, the problem with overheating sdr dongles , I finally got myself a bearcat 980 ssb im still waiting for the ant and power supply to come but im in hopes that ill find the fun ive lost in radio listening. Ive never been much of a talker but i always love tuning up and down over and over. I figured that this would be a good starter till ive learned enough to take my arrl exams. I should have never left the cb was always so much fun.. Thanks for rekindling my ainterest in both cb and ham radio again.
I've been a CB operator for 12 years and I thoroughly enjoy the hobby. I primarily use an RCI 2980 WX but my favorite radio still to this day is my RCI 2950 DX. I have several amplifiers but I mainly use my Dave Made M80 to drive my Swan Mark II, tube amplifier. I get on the radio every night. Skip has been great the past month or so.
73s to you and yours!
We are in a sunspot minimum. Sunspots a no-show with small prominences at my astronomy club's public events. 10 and 11 meters are open without interference from solar flares. A few years ago I was asked to look up my old CB club on a forum group. There's no reference to that old club, but a newer one with a lot of swear words on their website. The local 11 meters became a cussing contest. Retired RF repairman with an FCC commercial license. I still have the small CB in a leather pack with external meter/charger/antenna switch fit across the bicycle crossbar with battery pack charged AC or by my bike light generator. Antenna made using copper magnet wire wrapped around a fiberglass bicycle flagpole with a green neon bulb on top. A loop antenna for finding the bad boys.
4.35m in and 327 is Gary from NYC, chatted to him many times across the pond from the UK, smoked it across to Hawaii, got to love the 11m Ssb.
Eric, I'm a new Ham at 70 yrs of age, I had CB's before they were popular and I still have a box of them I just got out of the garage. I'm going to try them on the new 10 meter antenna I'm building out of plumbing supplies 73's KD9OAM. ( Old Ass Man). lol.