CB Radio

[Mitch]

Are any of you here CBers?

Bob

[Bob Russell]

We have 2 very old call signs and seven channel sets.These days no license is required in our country.Our ground plane is about 35 years old.With a little work and checking on the SWR we could be back on air.Have you ever recieved skip from our country.
Bob Russell
New Zealand

[jfischer]

Ummm....

Cellphone.... check.
Wireless palm pilot.... check.
Wireless card in laptop.... check.
Last-ditch emergency pager.... check.
Bluetooth earbud headset... check.
Satellite radio receiver... check.
CB..... huh?

CB? What's a CB? Wasn't that done
with the old spark-gap equipment in
morse code or something? http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Got Honey?]

I like CB's a lot but living in a rich people city, the antenna gives you a mountain folk look. (by the way theres to classes of people in my town, Mountain People and city people) and since I live in the mountains, I'm Mountain folk, and living in the mountains I rarley get reception. but when I do, oh it's heaven. The handle I go by is usally Joethebeekeeper. the only other time I use the CB is when I'm going up and down highway 5 but they can normally tell I'm a teen cause I just say stupid stuff like "how about them seat covers?"

I fond out how to get more channels on my old CB in the lower frequencies, but am also interested in increasing the WATTS since I live in the hills, would I have to get a new transformer or is it more complicated?

Joseph

[This message has been edited by Got Honey? (edited November 19, 2004).]

[Sharkey]

"how about them seat covers?" Even though I really have no interest in CBs, I gotta tell ya, THAT gave me a chuckle.

Thanks, Joseph

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[Rob Mountain]

James Fisher

Rater a showoff I would say or what.

Rob

[Mitch]

Bob Russell
I have talked skip all around the world.I have old equpmet too.A browning mark III and a 4 elament beam antena plus a big watt box.

jfischer
I have not one of the things on your list either lol.Have enough with the computer.

Got Honey?
More watts is easy but like everthing else coasts money.The more watts the more money just like bees lol.If you are useing a mobile radio a nice amp would do the trick

Sharkey
Do you know what is ment by seat covers?

Any way I am not on the cb all that much but it is another one of my hobbies.if i am on the air I will be on chanel 28 (27.285)AM.

Beekeeper in the Buckeye State
Bob

[jfischer]

> Rater a showoff I would say or what.

An very amusing comment from someone who
clearly spent his own hard-earned cash
on a PC for at least $500, and got on the
internet for at least $10 a month sometime
in the past 10 years. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

Hey pot, I'm a kettle, not much different
from you! http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif

I may earn a living in the 21st century, but
I like to live in the 19th. The commute would
be a pain, so I use the modern version(s) of
"CB Radio", which was the point I was trying to make.

Five years ago, lots of folks would go
outside during breaks at beekeeper meetings
to smoke. Now, more than half of beekeepers
carry a cellphone without thinking themselves
"showoffs". They run outside to make a call
during the breaks. Few smoke any more, but they
still congregate in the SAME exact areas!
One is forced to wonder what they did before.
I never saw a line at a pay-phone at any
beekeeper meeting, ever.

The adoption of all these "wireless" tools has
been much quicker in Europe and Asia than in
North America, mostly because their population
densities are higher, and one needs fewer "towers"
to serve "everyone". Go to Asia, and you will see
high-tech wireless communications JEWELRY!
Cellphones in watches. MP3 music players in necklace
pendants, for Pete's sake!

Wait a bit. I assure you that you will be able to
call me a "showoff" in a few years using one or
more of the exact devices I listed, because you too
will own them all, or some sort of integrated device
that does even more than they do. After all, you
would have called me a "showoff" for merely owning
my own computer back in the 1970s or 1980s, let alone
mentioning "the internet".

Beekeepers are rarely "in the office", so all these
tiny techno-toys are more use to beekeepers than most
other folks.

Now, if you'll excuse me, the dairy farmer up the road
wants me to help him install a new satellite antenna
on his tractor. He fertilizes using a GPS unit tied
to an onboard laptop on his tractor that is loaded with
soil data gathered from remote-sensing satellite data.
He bought all the technology because it results in better
hay, but refuses to put air conditioning in his tractor
on the grounds that THAT would be "showing off".

[Got Honey?]

"More watts is easy but like everthing else coasts money.The more watts the more money just like bees lol.If you are useing a mobile radio a nice amp would do the trick"

Do these work both input and out put or just on output?

now I sound like a new guy dang it. What do you call atruck full of beehives? there has to be a name for them.

Joseph

[dragonfly]

Hey, JOseph, sorry to change the subject, but how are your bees doing out there? Hadn't heard from you in awhile and was curious. It was kind of a rough summer here. Back to the discussion at hand...
Sorry, wasn't into CB's even back in the 70's when they were hot.

[Got Honey?]

Hey Dragonfly.
bees did ok this only three gallons of honey, but it ok considering weare on our 4th year of drought. you can e-mail me if ya want to. Jtclassof05@aol.com, or anyone for that matter, need to talk to all of you people.

Back to CB radios, another question any of you ever played the cat and mouse game? I've been trying to get a group together but none of my friends want to so far.

Joseph
Jtclassof05@aol.com

PS if any of you have AIM I'm joethebeekeeper on that

[70cuda]

Got Honey?,

The amp will work on both input and output. Input gain is usually just a few db.

[JWG]

It is not legal to use a CB radio to talk to stations over 150 miles distant. "Working skip," "shooting skip," or talking around the world is a violation of FCC rules.

[jfischer]

> "Working skip," "shooting skip," or talking
> around the world is a violation of FCC rules.

Atmospheric conditions are beyond the
control of even the all-powerful FCC.
They are more the concern of NOAA, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, not that they can actually
"administer" the atmosphere.

As long as one stays within the power limits
imposed on each type of broadcast license,
the FCC will not care how one uses that
power.

I'm in Virginia, and on a good night, I
can pick up WRKO Boston with ease.

[Got Honey?]

""It is not legal to use a CB radio to talk to stations over 150 miles distant. "Working skip," "shooting skip," or talking around the world is a violation of FCC rules.""

my cb I want to modify is just to listen to, since the microphone is all messed up I have no choice, and I'm not going to screw with my working CB. And my nearest nieghboor is ten miles away so I'm not to worried about someone finding out.

[Mitch]

Ok is there anything we can talk about with out doom and gloom.

[JWG]

Should have included a "wink, wink" with my comment. The law is still on the books. How they could possibly enforce it is another thing.

Why the FCC established a personal radio service within the shortwaves, and then imposed a distance limit...doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Part 95 applies to CB specifically, not hams or broadcasters. But sure, fire up the TRAM and Moonraker and go for it. C'maaan DX Laaaand http://www.beesource.com/ubb/redface.gif)

[dtwilliamson]

I keep a CB in my truck for my hr long commute each day. Help to know where the police are radaring but the biggest help is to know where the traffic jams are. My wife thinks I'm a redneck with my dual antennas but I don't mind.

They call me POWERTRADER!

Dan

[Mitch]

Dan it seems i hear the redneck thing too or cb went out years ago lol.But you are right the cb is nice when you are on the road.I am not sure where you are but i think i am to clos for line of sight ground wave and not far enought for propagation or (skip).

Bob

[Mitch]

JWG
Are you a Ham? If so what class

Bob

[JWG]

general. also cb'er though.

there are quite a few beekeepers/radio hobbiests around
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[Mitch]

JWG
I thought you may be a ham operator.I never did get the code down,after a while it all runs together for me.I do find it interesting you mentuoned the Tram i love the tube radios I run a Browning Mark III with an old Wilson Shooting Star.Have a Kenwood 430s Great old radio too.

[Got Honey?]

How much work is it to get an FCC licence to operate CBs?

Joseph

[Mitch]

Joseph
You do not need a license to operate a Cb.
now if you want to get into Amature Radio (Ham)it is a different deal.I am not sure what the requirements are anymore.But you can go to the ARRL site and find out.Here it is www.arrl.org/ (http://www.arrl.org/)
Bob

[Got Honey?]

""Joseph
You do not need a license to operate a Cb.
now if you want to get into Amature Radio (Ham)it is a different deal.I am not sure what the requirements are anymore.But you can go to the ARRL site and find out.Here it is www.arrl.org/ (http://www.arrl.org/)
Bob""


yea thats what I meant I just made a Typo, thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

Joseph