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February 7th 09, 09:36 PM
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A open letter to CBres
A open letter to CBres
Lets keep are linear amplifiers turned off for the next sun spot season. Just imagine a day when you can turn on your radio (Durning sun spot season) and not hear 9db plus of noise. Hearing the sound of millions of CBers keying up with High Power, poorly tuned and over modulated radios is not what I call a fun way to enjoy a hobby. I would like to suggest a better way of operating your CB equipment. Instead of using the brute force method of CB Operation (High Power, over tuned and over modulated radios). I suggest using the radios as they were intended, outputting the Maximum legal power and staying out of the radios. Using linear amplifiers ruined the CB experience for everybody else. linear amplifiers splatters RF to adjacent frequencies, Interferes with other services (aviation and emergency services) and can even be hazardous to your health. The modification of CBs (Freq and Peek) is also a concern. I can't tell you how many times I have opened a radio I bought from ebay or the ham swap to see all of the tunable components hacked or tuned with a 1/4 inch flat screwdriver. I don't understand how someone would think you can tune a radio better then at the factory, after all the factory only has the best possible electronic test equipment to calibrate the radios. Sure, I understand that these radios are not tuned to output the maximum possible RF output that the circuit can supply, But instead set to the FCC maximums. I just think people should take pride in there RF Signal. CB would be a much better place with out the noise makers, profanity, linear amplifiers and all the other stuff that makes CB a joke. Are you proud to be a CBer? CB radio was a starting place for my career(and Life) in technology. I eventually earned my ham ticket than went to college to get my degree in electrical engineering. I hope someday CB will be a place were young people will spark there interest in technology . Keep your RF level down so we can all enjoy the band. Thanks KGK5417 (My CB call sign circa 1971) |
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February 7th 09, 10:43 PM
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A open letter to CBres
On Feb 7, 3:36*pm, wrote:
A open letter to CBres Lets keep are linear amplifiers turned off for the next sun spot season. Just imagine a day when you can turn on your radio (Durning sun spot season) and not hear 9db plus of noise. Hearing the sound of millions of CBers keying up with High Power, poorly tuned and over modulated radios is not what I call a fun way to enjoy a hobby. I would like to suggest a better way of operating your CB equipment. Instead of using the brute force method of CB Operation (High Power, over tuned and over modulated radios). I suggest using the radios as they were intended, outputting the Maximum legal power and staying out of the radios. Using linear amplifiers ruined the CB experience for everybody else. linear amplifiers splatters RF to adjacent frequencies, Interferes with other services (aviation and emergency services) and can even be hazardous to your health. The modification of CBs (Freq and Peek) is also a concern. I can't tell you how many times I have opened a radio I bought from ebay or the ham swap to see all of the tunable components hacked or tuned with a 1/4 inch flat screwdriver. I don't understand how someone would think you can tune a radio better then at the factory, after all the factory only has the best possible electronic test equipment to calibrate the radios. Sure, I understand that these radios are not tuned to output the maximum possible RF output that the circuit can supply, But instead set to the FCC maximums. I just think people should take pride in there RF Signal. CB would be a much better place with out the noise makers, profanity, linear amplifiers and all the other stuff that makes CB a joke. Are you proud to be a CBer? CB radio was a starting place for my career(and Life) in technology. I eventually earned my ham ticket than went to college to get my degree in electrical engineering. I hope someday CB will be a place were young people will spark there interest in technology . Keep your RF level down so we can all enjoy the band. Thanks KGK5417 (My CB call sign circa 1971) I always operate my CB with eiher the legal amount of power or under. There are only a very few people I ever heard on CB who were using more than the legal amount of power. these were some of the people on CB channel 6 and some people on channel 19 who seem to have immigrated from a Hispanic country. They had Hispanic accents, although I'm not sure which specific country they were from. None of the American truckers I heard were ever using illegal power. They were all using legal power. And yes, I know countries like Mexico is also in America. I was using "American" in thesense of the U.S. |
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February 8th 09, 06:50 AM
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A open letter to CBres
On Feb 7, 1:36*pm, wrote:
A open letter to CBres Lets keep are linear amplifiers turned off for the next sun spot season. Just imagine a day when you can turn on your radio (Durning sun spot season) and not hear 9db plus of noise. Hearing the sound of millions of CBers keying up with High Power, poorly tuned and over modulated radios is not what I call a fun way to enjoy a hobby. I would like to suggest a better way of operating your CB equipment. Instead of using the brute force method of CB Operation (High Power, over tuned and over modulated radios). I suggest using the radios as they were intended, outputting the Maximum legal power and staying out of the radios. Using linear amplifiers ruined the CB experience for everybody else. linear amplifiers splatters RF to adjacent frequencies, Interferes with other services (aviation and emergency services) and can even be hazardous to your health. The modification of CBs (Freq and Peek) is also a concern. I can't tell you how many times I have opened a radio I bought from ebay or the ham swap to see all of the tunable components hacked or tuned with a 1/4 inch flat screwdriver. I don't understand how someone would think you can tune a radio better then at the factory, after all the factory only has the best possible electronic test equipment to calibrate the radios. Sure, I understand that these radios are not tuned to output the maximum possible RF output that the circuit can supply, But instead set to the FCC maximums. I just think people should take pride in there RF Signal. CB would be a much better place with out the noise makers, profanity, linear amplifiers and all the other stuff that makes CB a joke. Are you proud to be a CBer? CB radio was a starting place for my career(and Life) in technology. I eventually earned my ham ticket than went to college to get my degree in electrical engineering. I hope someday CB will be a place were young people will spark there interest in technology . Keep your RF level down so we can all enjoy the band. Thanks KGK5417 (My CB call sign circa 1971) You're asking CB'ers to operate in a reasonable manner? Ain't gonna happen. |
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