Not feeling the love Grill !!!
To be honest, it starts out as a stock 4 Watt radio until one gets good and pissed off that it doesn't have the power to get vital information across in passing traffic, particularly in and around mountains, elevations, other guy might have something to tell you about a broken down family four wheeler at the road side, to watch out for, as dumb nuts is changing a tire on the white line with his back towards traffic. If you can't get such info clearly and quickly, it can get pretty hairy scary when you have to get into the other lane in a hurry to avoid said family man. It can go wrong in so many ways, so quickly, specially around bends, it just pops up, like a surprise Amish wagon.
So from there, CB radios get modified by CB shops to crank up the receive and output. Done in many several ways. Along with a replacement of the crappy cheap antennas to something more professional quality brand, properly tuned and grounded, this now becomes a radio that can make a real difference. At times a life saving difference.
They'll call out that a meat wagon needs to get through to get to the accident, they'll call out a no-wrapper hiding behind the poles at the underpasses or at the bottom of the hill in the bushes, warning one another to the exact mile marker. People get lost ... people need quick info for a detour in a strange town due to construction with ramps shut down.
Base stations play a large role also, if the know of upcoming storms or major traffic jams, often big stations broadcast to all with respect to conditions and or possible detours.
Then .... there's the CB Rambo'ing, the hooting and hollering, cussing swearing red neck hillbilly hidding behind the microphone threatening to beat everyone up kinda nonsense. It get's out of hand often stateside. Someone cut someone of and wants that someone to pull over at the next ramp, I'll meet ya kinda thing.
But yeah, I made sure I can be heard and that I can hear long range, loud and proud for what ever reason. At the end of the day, it's a bunch of bull crap anyhow unless used professionally. Professionally in terms of radio contact with abroad stations, for the pure sake of performance. I actually had a pretty decent base station radio many moons ago with a huge directional antenna, used to talk to Europe on other frequencies and was even a DX member, QSL confirmation postcards to confirm contact send out in the mail and all .... a hobby growing up. ~
Imagine that!
A little disappointed,,very small ...
That's what she said?
Ron - truckers, RV'ers or others like to hang out on channel 19, both US and nadians, there are plenty of other "preferred" channels, right down to Ethnic selected channels.
Besides the CB (27Mhz Citizens Band) 40 channel AM transmissions, there are plenty of preferred international calling channels at both lower and higher end of the spectrum.
Anything higher or lower then your regular 40 channel CB frequencies get a bit more professional and polished as far as radio communications, it's also a better performing range where talking overseas is a cake walk without having to wait for skip to roll in. I'll switch bands, turn the dail, get somewhere in the 25, higher 27, 28 or 29Mhz and hear 3 or four chaps from the UK carry on about the weather. The other day I listened in on a France station making contact with a Jamaican. I don't butt in to much, that would be illegal on some frequencies, I don't per say have a license, permit or call signs to modulate there. Listening is always allowed.
Fun stuff, I enjoy it, good to listen/talk-to other parts of the world full of different people and special characters.
.... Anyhow, sorry to have bored you all with this CB talk, enough of that, more about your redneck mudflaps that did not come stock.
