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Post by "Doc"Hammer on Jul 30, 2014 14:31:15 GMT -5
I found a sale last week-end...bought the whole table full of stuff for 50 bucks...A complete 6 piece Realistic component stereo set up with speakers, (the main reason I stopped) and a box of "misc" cables, 14 cb microphones, some coax, and these 2 pieces...THEY WORK! (slight cleanup needed).. The 2970 currently does over 100 watts on sideband...nice rig! I could use a mic plug for the Cobra....got a temp mic wired for now...
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Post by Sandbagger on Jul 30, 2014 16:20:16 GMT -5
I found a sale last week-end...bought the whole table full of stuff for 50 bucks...A complete 6 piece Realistic component stereo set up with speakers, (the main reason I stopped) and a box of "misc" cables, 14 cb microphones, some coax, and these 2 pieces...THEY WORK! (slight cleanup needed).. The 2970 currently does over 100 watts on sideband...nice rig! I could use a mic plug for the Cobra....got a temp mic wired for now... I have a feeling Pete will want to wheel and deal for that Cobra.......
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Post by BBB on Jul 31, 2014 15:24:14 GMT -5
SCORE!!!
I brake for yard sales.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:58:35 GMT -5
How come I can't find a yard sale like this? LOL
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 19, 2014 6:11:11 GMT -5
How come I can't find a yard sale like this? LOL I never can either, don't feel bad. If I see someone with a yard sale at a house with an antenna on it, I make a point to look close. But that never seems to happen either......
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 19, 2014 8:12:20 GMT -5
How come I can't find a yard sale like this? LOL I never can either, don't feel bad. If I see someone with a yard sale at a house with an antenna on it, I make a point to look close. But that never seems to happen either...... Unfortunately there are almost no houses with CB antennas on them in my home town anymore (Rock Hill, S.C.), and other than channel 19 the local airways are mostly empty. The few CB base antennas still standing belonged to people who have passed on or no longer live there. The Charleston, S.C. area does still have some local CB traffic though. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 19, 2014 11:57:41 GMT -5
I never can either, don't feel bad. If I see someone with a yard sale at a house with an antenna on it, I make a point to look close. But that never seems to happen either...... Unfortunately there are almost no houses with CB antennas on them in my home town anymore (Rock Hill, S.C.), and other than channel 19 the local airways are mostly empty. The few CB base antennas still standing belonged to people who have passed on or no longer live there. The Charleston, S.C. area does still have some local CB traffic though. Night Ranger The same can be said for my home town area. I've had to broaden my vintage antenna search from those belonging to those I knew, to anything I can find still standing.
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 19, 2014 12:25:18 GMT -5
Unfortunately there are almost no houses with CB antennas on them in my home town anymore (Rock Hill, S.C.), and other than channel 19 the local airways are mostly empty. The few CB base antennas still standing belonged to people who have passed on or no longer live there. The Charleston, S.C. area does still have some local CB traffic though. Night Ranger The same can be said for my home town area. I've had to broaden my vintage antenna search from those belonging to those I knew, to anything I can find still standing. It is kind of sad really. In the Charleston, S.C. area my home made vertical J-Pole is at 86 feet at the top. I've talked to people 186 miles away ground wave when the tropospheric ducting kicks in at night. Some of the regulars on channel 12 are 80+ miles away. Back in the 1970s my walkie talkies had plenty of people to listen to at night with just the little built in antenna. I think CB radio needs some fresh advertising. Maybe I can use my music ability and write "Convoy 2014" to get a new craze started. "Breaker one-three this here's the Night Ranger. You got a copy on me Sandbagger come'on?" ; ) -Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 19, 2014 13:56:02 GMT -5
The same can be said for my home town area. I've had to broaden my vintage antenna search from those belonging to those I knew, to anything I can find still standing. It is kind of sad really. In the Charleston, S.C. area my home made vertical J-Pole is at 86 feet at the top. I've talked to people 186 miles away ground wave when the tropospheric ducting kicks in at night. Some of the regulars on channel 12 are 80+ miles away. Back in the 1970s my walkie talkies had plenty of people to listen to at night with just the little built in antenna. I think CB radio needs some fresh advertising. Maybe I can use my music ability and write "Convoy 2014" to get a new craze started. "Breaker one-three this here's the Night Ranger. You got a copy on me Sandbagger come'on?" ; ) -Night Ranger As nice as that sounds, I think you and I (and many other hopelessly nostalgic old timers) need to come to terms with the fact that CB radio is a half-century old technology, which holds little appeal to young people, who are completely absorbed by the internet, mobile chat apps, video games, and the culture that seems to revolve around these devices. While there are a handful of younger people who somehow seem to have developed an interest in "old fashioned" analog radio, despite all the digital distractions, they are a minority, much like the shrinking number of base station antennas still standing.
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Post by cbrown on Aug 20, 2014 8:45:26 GMT -5
Right. With all the smart phones and Facebook, Facetime, Snapchat, instant messaging et al there really is no need for any radio communications. I swear future generations are going to be cross-eyed from having those devices at their face all the time.
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 20, 2014 10:22:13 GMT -5
It is kind of sad really. In the Charleston, S.C. area my home made vertical J-Pole is at 86 feet at the top. I've talked to people 186 miles away ground wave when the tropospheric ducting kicks in at night. Some of the regulars on channel 12 are 80+ miles away. Back in the 1970s my walkie talkies had plenty of people to listen to at night with just the little built in antenna. I think CB radio needs some fresh advertising. Maybe I can use my music ability and write "Convoy 2014" to get a new craze started. "Breaker one-three this here's the Night Ranger. You got a copy on me Sandbagger come'on?" ; ) -Night Ranger As nice as that sounds, I think you and I (and many other hopelessly nostalgic old timers) need to come to terms with the fact that CB radio is a half-century old technology, which holds little appeal to young people, who are completely absorbed by the internet, mobile chat apps, video games, and the culture that seems to revolve around these devices. While there are a handful of younger people who somehow seem to have developed an interest in "old fashioned" analog radio, despite all the digital distractions, they are a minority, much like the shrinking number of base station antennas still standing. I find myself to be a contradiction in that regard. Since 1996 I have been earning my living by making the Internet work for everyone else. I've programmed countless Cisco routers and firewalls that have routed internet traffic for countless thousands and maybe even millions of people. I've created and programmed DNS servers for countless users and domains. I've built and run email servers and web servers for thousands of users, and many businesses, churches, and government agencies. I've tracked down Internet hackers and brought them to justice. I helped keep Chinese hackers out of Department of Defense networks, and now I'm helping to route cell phone voice and data traffic for millions of users at AT&T. Despite my extensive know how and role in making all that new technology work for everyone else, I'd rather play with 1960s and 1970s technology when I go home. Go figure. Night Ranger
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 20, 2014 10:39:29 GMT -5
As nice as that sounds, I think you and I (and many other hopelessly nostalgic old timers) need to come to terms with the fact that CB radio is a half-century old technology, which holds little appeal to young people, who are completely absorbed by the internet, mobile chat apps, video games, and the culture that seems to revolve around these devices. While there are a handful of younger people who somehow seem to have developed an interest in "old fashioned" analog radio, despite all the digital distractions, they are a minority, much like the shrinking number of base station antennas still standing. I find myself to be a contradiction in that regard. Since 1996 I have been earning my living by making the Internet work for everyone else. I've programmed countless Cisco routers and firewalls that have routed internet traffic for countless thousands and maybe even millions of people. I've created and programmed DNS servers for countless users and domains. I've built and run email servers and web servers for thousands of users, and many businesses, churches, and government agencies. I've tracked down Internet hackers and brought them to justice. I helped keep Chinese hackers out of Department of Defense networks, and now I'm helping to route cell phone voice and data traffic for millions of users at AT&T. Despite my extensive know how and role in making all that new technology work for everyone else, I'd rather play with 1960s and 1970s technology when I go home. Go figure. Night Ranger Like you, I work in a "high tech" field, bringing digital video and data to millions of content hungry subscribers. But as we've transitioned over my 30 years of employment, from analog to increasingly more complex digital systems, I find myself becoming less and less interested. I am, unfortunately, stuck in the technology of the 60's through the 80's. I find it easy to understand, manipulate and enjoy. Today's tech requires far too many specialized areas of expertise to completely master as one's hobby, at least at my age, where memory capacity is slipping away.
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 20, 2014 10:50:20 GMT -5
Right. With all the smart phones and Facebook, Facetime, Snapchat, instant messaging et al there really is no need for any radio communications. I swear future generations are going to be cross-eyed from having those devices at their face all the time. Yea, when you look at it, anyone with a mobile device has instant access to voice, video and data communications at a level and reliability that was confined to science fiction, when I was playing with my first CB radio. Where us radio guys have to contend with power, antenna gain, interference, and "conditions", the typical smart phone user can be just about anywhere (except at my campground and be able to communicate anywhere in the world. But to me, that takes all the fun out of it. I'd rather talk over the airwaves than over the phone any day. But to today's millennial generation, 2-way analog radio is just as archaic to them as wired telegraphs were to us.
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Post by cbrown on Aug 21, 2014 9:15:44 GMT -5
Agreed. Besides, radio is a lot more fun.
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 21, 2014 10:17:25 GMT -5
Agreed. Besides, radio is a lot more fun. To guys older than 40, who grew up with radio, I'm sure we'd all agree. And there will always be a small handful of young people who, for whatever reason, like "old fashioned" things. But CB radio will never become a mainstream fad again like it did in the 70's. Not with all the other "cool" techie stuff that's out there now. I know guys who still use CB in their off-road 4X4's to communicate in the mountainous areas where cell coverage is almost non-existent. Truckers still use it too, although they seem to be a lot less "chatty" than I remember back in the heyday. Channel 19 can be perfectly quiet, until there's a traffic jam or accident, and the all of a sudden a whole lot of voices come on wanting to know what's going on. And that "twangy" 70's trucker lingo is pretty much gone too. No more of that "shiny side up, dirty side down, catch you on the flip-flop 4-10" stuff. Less colorful and more direct now along with the typical obscenities. Once in a while I'll see a regular passenger car or truck with a CB antenna on it. It's funny, you can almost tell what kind of CB'er they are by looking at the antenna. If it's a little 2' magnet or trunk mount, I'm thinking "uses it to monitor channel 19, and that's it". If it's a Wilson 1000 or similar, they probably also talk on it occasionally, mostly on channel 19. If they have 102" whips or thick aluminum coily antennas, I think that they're a somewhat serious radio guy who probably hangs out on some local channel somewhere. If there are 2 coily antennas, one in front of the other, I think "Keydowner".
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Post by Night Ranger on Aug 21, 2014 10:31:50 GMT -5
Right. With all the smart phones and Facebook, Facetime, Snapchat, instant messaging et al there really is no need for any radio communications. I swear future generations are going to be cross-eyed from having those devices at their face all the time. Yea, when you look at it, anyone with a mobile device has instant access to voice, video and data communications at a level and reliability that was confined to science fiction, when I was playing with my first CB radio. Where us radio guys have to contend with power, antenna gain, interference, and "conditions", the typical smart phone user can be just about anywhere (except at my campground and be able to communicate anywhere in the world. But to me, that takes all the fun out of it. I'd rather talk over the airwaves than over the phone any day. But to today's millennial generation, 2-way analog radio is just as archaic to them as wired telegraphs were to us. There is no "competition" to put out the best signal with a cell phone. How much tinkering and experimentation can you do with one of those? Pretty much none. It is a communication medium that requires none of your own know how, and the possibility of expanding the capabilities has been pretty much removed. There are no "extra channels". There is no tweaking that amounts to anything. It is all a "dummy service" based on someone else's know how and someone else's hardware and infrastructure. The fun is not there for me. With CB you have the "elite crowd" that has capabilities the average user does not have due to skill and know how. None of that exist with cell phones. Grandma is on the same level as the cell tower technician and TCP/IP network professional. Night Ranger
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Post by BBB on Aug 21, 2014 16:09:21 GMT -5
Funny to think that if the power grid went down for a couple of years, maybe more folks would reconsider the use of the good old cb radio equipment. One small area of CB radio growth is the "Prepper" movement. Broadcasts are to be conducted on a "3-3-3" basis or CH 3 AM every 3 hours for 3 minutes. Incidentally there is a list of prepper/ survivalist frequencies, that of course includes CH 9, but also CH 3 AM mentioned above, CH 36 USB and 37 USB along with some off band plan freeband and ham frequencies. Probably not a bad frequency list to have a copy of in the shack or vehicle that can be found here: radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/shtf-survivalist-radio-frequency-list/
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 21, 2014 21:54:37 GMT -5
Yea, when you look at it, anyone with a mobile device has instant access to voice, video and data communications at a level and reliability that was confined to science fiction, when I was playing with my first CB radio. Where us radio guys have to contend with power, antenna gain, interference, and "conditions", the typical smart phone user can be just about anywhere (except at my campground and be able to communicate anywhere in the world. But to me, that takes all the fun out of it. I'd rather talk over the airwaves than over the phone any day. But to today's millennial generation, 2-way analog radio is just as archaic to them as wired telegraphs were to us. There is no "competition" to put out the best signal with a cell phone. How much tinkering and experimentation can you do with one of those? Pretty much none. It is a communication medium that requires none of your own know how, and the possibility of expanding the capabilities has been pretty much removed. There are no "extra channels". There is no tweaking that amounts to anything. It is all a "dummy service" based on someone else's know how and someone else's hardware and infrastructure. The fun is not there for me. With CB you have the "elite crowd" that has capabilities the average user does not have due to skill and know how. None of that exist with cell phones. Grandma is on the same level as the cell tower technician and TCP/IP network professional. Night Ranger I agree with you in that respect. I have this "conversation" with my wife on occasion. She's an big I-phone user and I hate the damn things. She's always trying to compare it to my radios, and I keep telling her that you can't compare a tool to a hobby. But you're not entirely correct when you say that there aren't things you can do to a smart phone to "hop it up" so to speak. There is a whole subculture of hacker types who have come up with all sorts of things you can do to "get around" certain limitations of the system. There are codes you can punch into certain model phones that turn it into an open monitor. Sort of reminds me of the "phone phreak" guys back in the 80's with their "beige boxes", loop lines, "black boxes" etc. It's all out there, but hacking computer code is not my thing. I prefer hardware, with real knobs and switches. And I prefer depending on my own equipment to get the job done, not someone else's infrastructure.
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Post by Sandbagger on Aug 21, 2014 22:01:16 GMT -5
Funny to think that if the power grid went down for a couple of years, maybe more folks would reconsider the use of the good old cb radio equipment. One small area of CB radio growth is the "Prepper" movement. Broadcasts are to be conducted on a "3-3-3" basis or CH 3 AM every 3 hours for 3 minutes. Incidentally there is a list of prepper/ survivalist frequencies, that of course includes CH 9, but also CH 3 AM mentioned above, CH 36 USB and 37 USB along with some off band plan freeband and ham frequencies. Probably not a bad frequency list to have a copy of in the shack or vehicle that can be found here: radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/shtf-survivalist-radio-frequency-list/That's a little frightening...... Anarchist types looking for a good excuse to run illegal equipment. But it is true that if, God forbid, this country ever does break out in some sort of civil war, and the common carrier systems go down, good old fashioned analog radio will get the job done.
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