People! find that dusty old CB radio in your attic

Is silly how great tools sometimes are forgotten . At 1 point CB radios were so popular 1970s ,1980s , early 90s , cops could hardly give a ticket out in our Highway becouse once spoted on the side of the road the warning flag went up on the airwaves ! . now all the idiotic young generation uses cellular phones that are useless for this aplication . If you broke down or was in need of a urgent assistance the nearest driver could help "sure you can call 911 on your cellular but how long before they get there?" .......And since it seems like we live more and more in a Police State a CB radio could also be use to warn others. Radar detectors are ok but nothing beats visual plus in some states Radar Detector are illegal . "sounds like Nazi Germany dont it? " also a great tool for other people to meet new people and hear a real human voice not cyber sex on your monitor screen .

 

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<LI>AM/FM/SSB/CW
<LI>30 Watts RF Power
<LI>100 Watts SSB
<LI>Dual Finals
<LI>Nightwatch® Illumination
<LI>6 Digit Frequency Counter
<LI>Echo Control
<LI>Roger Beep
<LI>SWR Calibration System
<LI>Antenna Warning Indicator
<LI>Dual Power
<LI>+10 RHz Control
Large Full Function Analog Meter

 

Looking for a great base radio? The RCI-2980WX is it! These are some of the loudest and proudest radios Ranger has ever produced. The Ranger 2980WX has all the bells and whistles that you would expect from a top of the line Ranger product such as: 6-digit frequency counter, dual echo, adjustable talk back, variable power, all mode operation (AM,FM,SSB) and much more! If you're looking at the 696F base, take a closer look at the 2980WX as it has features the 696F can only dream of.

 

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[size=+3]Workman Base Antenna w/ ground plane kit[/size]​

Modeled after the the Antron 99, the new Workman base antenna works great for almost all base stations. That's right: CB, 10 Meter, and even 12 Meter.

The antenna has tuning rings to easily tune the antenna to a near perfect SWR. It will handle 2000 watts, and makes any radio sound bigger and better.
Omni-Directional Fiberglass CB Base Antenna
Handles 2000 Watts
SWR Tuneable
Covers 26-30 MHz
3.9 DBI Gain ( Actual Gain)
18' Tall ( Three 6' Sections )
Insulated up to 14,500 Volts
Can be Used for Export, Commercial, and 10 Meter Ham

 

[size=+3]Wilson Black 1000 Magnet Mount[/size]​

[size=+1]Gain performance proven by power gain tests at Lockheed Corporation Antenna Test Laboratory 3000 Watt power handling capability (ICAS) Made with high impact Mobay Thermoplastic 10 gauge silver-plated coil winding Exclusive low loss coil design (Patent #4,882,591) 62"" 17-7 PH Tapered spring stainless steel whip Frequency range 26 MHz to 30 MHz Weather Channel Ready Available in Roof Top, Trunk Lip, or Magnetic Mounts Color choices: Black or White 2 year Warranty [/size]​

 

[size=+3]Galaxy 2547[/size]​

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This unit comes equipped with a multi-function Meter, for measuring Signal Strength, RF output, AM Modulation and SWR's, a large channel display and a six-digit frequency counter (with dimmer). In addition, the DX 2547 has variable RF power output, variable talkback, Roger Beep (On/Off with LED indicator), ANL/NB functions, Clarifier for adjusting SSB RX frequency +/- 800Hz, CH9/ CH 19 selector, and a head phone jack as well as all of the standard controls: Volume, On/Off, RF Gain, Mic Gain, and Squelch. Galaxy has introduced a new filter with the DX 2547, the Galaxy Noise Filter or GNF. This function that increases the signal-to-noise ratio of weak signals, without affecting the strong signals. The GNF is intended for use in the SSB mode, and may cause distortion while in the AM mode. The units also offer a high SWR warning light, a TX indicator, Mode indicators for AM/USB/LSB, PA, Roger Beep, ANL, NB, and GNF. The Galaxy DX 2547 operates on either 13.8V DC or 110V AC @ 60Hz, and comes with Galaxy's 2-year limited warranty. 40 Ch. (11 Meter Band) AM/USB/LSB Large Meter: Signal strength, RF output, SWR, and AM mod. 6 segment frequency counter Dimmer control Variable Power Variable Talkback (ON/OFF) Roger Beep 'ON/OFF' Switch w/Indicator LED Public Address Feature ANL/NB w/Indicator LED AC/DC (3-Pin) Switched Variable Power
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MrPopHistory - Citizen Band or CB radio had been around since the late 40's. Through the late 60's, it was primarily used by businesses to communicate between a base and mobile units. Somehow, hobbyists picked-up on the service. It was just plain easier to get a CB license. You just filled out an application and mailed-in your fee to the FCC. In 1971, that fee was $20. Unlike Ham radio, there were no technical exams to take.

With more baby boomers getting walkie-talkies - these same channels were shared with Citizen's Band. It was cool to all-of-a-sudden, go from a one-channel walkie talkie with 1/10th of a watt to a 23-channel CB radio with 5 watts. Put up a ground plane or Astro Plane antenna and boy, could you really get out. All of a sudden, non-tech types were talking tech - antennas with 3db gain or an SWR of 1.1 -language once confined to ham radio aficionados. This all took place in the early 70's.

Some of the more popular CB-makes were Lafayette, Courier and Cobra. Some of these home-base CB radios were works of art. My favorite is the Courier Royale - a 23-channel tube rig. It just looks great and boy, did it perform. I also loved the simple design of the Lafayette Comstat 25B - in beautiful midnight black. Turn it on and the S-meter (signal strength meter) lit-up in several colors.

The big thing was signal strength. You basically looked at the rig's S-meter while you were talking or receiving. CB'ers loved hearing - "you're hitting me with a 10" or "your pinning the needle." A (3) on the S-meter was lousy. A (1) meant you were in the noise. You prided yourself on how good your transmission was or how "you were getting out." You just hated your friend, who was on a hill and higher than you. He could "get out better."

CB handles could get creative. You never used your full name: either a first name or one of these handles, as long as you didn't copy someone else. "Yea Pink Panther this is the Bull Shipper."

Around 1974, truckers (all-of-a-sudden) become well-known for their CB radios. Country music radio stations began playing songs with CB mentions. Who could forget Cledus Maggard and the Citizen's Band. "Convoy" by C.W. McCall was the biggest of these records. Truckers and CB radios became synonymous in television shows as well. CB-trucker lingo was "in." "10-4 good buddy," "There's a bear on my tail."

With all of this popularity came more interference. It seemed that the 23-channel CB needed extending. Obliging, the FCC gave its citizens 17 more channels and by the late 70's, the 23 channel CB radios gave way to 40 channels.

Sometimes it wasn't all "good buddy." I recall a story in Dallas where two CB'ers kept interfering and stepping on each other while they transmitted. They dared each other to meet. They did and when it was over, both were shot and one died.

 

I've been on CB-radio for over 20 years now and though I lost part of my interest for it I still like some aspects from it. For many people it's their first step into the radio-hobby as it was for me. Some people stay with it, some like to see more of the radio-hobby. Fact is that CB-Radio has become a world-wide hobby which is highly underestimated by licensed radio-operators.
CB-radio or Citizens Band radio is simple radio basics for everyone. You can talk to someone else and experiment with antennae if you like, without a license or permit in most countries. In some countries you're even allowed to experiment with digital modes. CB radio equipment is relative cheap and easy to get. With CB radio you can make local contacts with your neighbours, someone in a city nearby or world wide contacts under the right circumstances. There are actually 2 types of CB stations, legal and illigal. Legal in most countries is a radio with 40 channels on 27 MHz. Illigal in most countries are the radio's which cover 80 to more then 400 channels on frequencies between 25 and 28 MHz. If you like to read and see something about it, I suggest you click some links !

 

XT-400

Transistors 2 x 2SC2290/4 x 2SC2879Dimensions H** 4 1/4**" x L 11 x W 6 3/4"Amp Draw (maximum) 100Class CSSB Delayno Pre-ampno Driver RequiredPower Output (RMS) 450 WattsPower Output (PEP) 1000 WattsDriven Power (RMS) N/ADriven Power (PEP) N/A

 

XT-400

Transistors 2 x 2SC2290/4 x 2SC2879Dimensions H** 4 1/4**" x L 11 x W 6 3/4"Amp Draw (maximum) 100Class CSSB Delayno Pre-ampno Driver RequiredPower Output (RMS) 450 WattsPower Output (PEP) 1000 WattsDriven Power (RMS) N/ADriven Power (PEP) N/A

 

Texas Ranger TR 696F SSB Base Station
- AM, USB, LSB Mode
- Switch for Instant Access to Channel 9
- Built-in 6 Digit Frequency Counter
- Large Channel Selector Knob
- 2 Digit Channel Indicator
- Dimmer Switch
- PA/CB Switch
- 2 Color Xmit/Rcv Indicator
- Advanced Noise Filter Circuit Switch
- Automatic Noise Limiter Switch
- Large Illuminated SWR Meter
- Large Illuminated S/RF Meter
- Noise Blanker Switch
- Seperate Adjustable Volume/Squelch Control
- External PA Jack
- External Speaker Jack
- RF Gain/SWR/Cal Switch
- RF Gain Control
- Seperate SWR Cal Control

 

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Here, I will try and explain band by band the "Amateur HF Spectrum" that you will have as a "General" as I have experienced it myself. This is all just my honest OPINION.

(1) 160 meters or "top band" as they call it is mostly a noisy intercom that works for a few hundred miles in the summer. However, on a cold winter's night if you have enough real estate for the dipole, then you are likely to encounter stations from all around the country. Some real gentlemen hang out down here and there is some AM activity that rivals broadcast quality. If you want to run AM here, then you will need a good antenna and at least a gallon of juice (kw of power). CW works well from end to end, and DX is possible even down here next to people 'preaching', selling weird stuff and predicting economic apocalypse on the AM broadcast band.

(2) 75 or 80 meters it is called, but whatever you want to call it, it is a very effective band and perhaps our most useful one. This one band alone would be worth the upgrade to General. It even works better in the day light hours than they give it credit for. At night, much of the United States has a "State or Section Phone Net" in the early hours of darkness, and you can contact them with a simple dipole. There are some CW traffic nets also, if you are serious. It is a fine band and our "Sunday Punch" for night time local communication. To a Ham Operator "Local" means out to about 1,000 miles give or take a few.

(3) 40 meters is just the daytime version of 80 for practical purposes, with a little more DX potential and a shorter antenna. It works better as a mobile band because of that also. At night, it gets stretched out and too busy to use unless you are pretty big and tough.

(4) 30 meters is CW and Didgey only and more skippy than 40. Nice people hang out here. Like 160, as a General, you have full run of it. Power stays below 200 watts and it is good for Q.R.P.

(5) 20 meters is a GREAT band for DX and long range emergency communication regarding such things as Weather and War. I have seen it perform well when the book said that it would not. I have worked the World and have the wallpaper for it on 20 meter CW. On Single Side Band (except for nets) it may not be for "Sissies". Some big-guns with bad attitudes like to talk here but everything changes.

(6) 17 meters is a band that acts more like 20 than 15 and the people are friendlier. It is our newest HF band and we thank you W.A.R.C.

(7) 15 meters is a long hitter and a long band. I worked my first DX here as a Novice (ZL2MM in New Zealand and I still treasure the Q.S.L card). 15 meters is fine when it is working but does not come to town as often as 20 and is really a little too unpredictable to be of all that much use for traffic. However, I have heard "foreign missionaries" (who have worked out a "skip sked" with someone stateside) hang in there for a long time. You usually hear only one side of these conversations from here on up the spectrum through 10 meters. It can also serve well for maritime operation.

(8) 12 meters is nice but needs more use. It is in nature a lot like 11 meters which has plenty of use. It is strictly for DX and talking a few miles down the road. The people that operate here are not like CBers. I am a CBer myself and know what CB is like. (9) 10 meters is a very interesting band where you can have a local "Ragchew Net" and be visited by people from around the Country and sometimes the World. Where they come from is up to chance and happenstance and that makes 10 meters mostly a TOY but a fun toy it is indeed if you are of the same mind as I am. There are CW beacons up here that send call letters and try to help you make sense of where the band is open to. They help a little. Many FM repeaters are up on 10 meters and you can imagine what happens when you have a repeater and long skip working together. A Chaos of Cacophony is often the result. "Cacophony" is a good and picturest word that was worth me looking up in the Dictionary, hi hi. If you are a CBer turned Ham and you still have some kind of crazy urge to run AM this far up the spectrum then there is a place up here set aside for such things (kind of a CBers Heaven). Ten meters also has it's share of "Play Hams" that cause their CBs to transmit up to and beyond 28 megahertz. This is illegal and there is a man named Hollinsworth who is going around and taking names. Whether he can catch them or not, I do not know but look on the bright side because some of these people are future No-Code Techs who are future "Generals".

 

CB Radio

Saturday night and Sunday we saw some of the worst weather of the winter. Some areas lost power for several hours. Phone service and cable lines were down for a while. Driving was miserable at best. Sunday I only stepped foot outside to get some firewood off the porch. But I never lost touch with the "outside world" because I had the ability to communicate by amateur radio. I chatted with friends, found out what the road conditions around the area were, and talked with people in other parts of the state and beyond. All with fairly simple equipment no phone or cable connection required, no per-minute or monthly fees, and using less power than a 60 watt light bulb. If you like talk with people locally and all over the world, help out in case of emergencies, learn new things, or play with technology, consider amateur radio.

 

I have and use daily a Northstar 440V export, its saved me for many years

 

i have several... including a set of two hand helds.........
everyone should have one.

 

The action was right above 27.405 or channel 40 on sideband quite semi legal since your noT near 10 meters around 29.000 MGHZ . EXPORT radios are still relative cheap execpt for some of the fancy base radios.

 

SuperStar SS-3900EGHPA Export Radio










The SS-3900 GHPA is a reliable mid priced 10 meter AM-FM-SSB-CW mobile radio. It offers nearly 40 Watts PEP AM and on SSB. It also provides high performance features such as roger beep, Mic/RF gain, and dual finals. The SS-3900EGHPA also has dual echo controls, talk back switch and a Patriotic American flag face plate. This radio backed by Ranger's 2-year factory warranty.

NOTICE: 10-Meter Radios are intended for use by amateur radio operators only. A license from the FCC is required.

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