CB Tech Talk

[w3sy]

What's the most idiotic technical statement you have ever heard a ChickenBander make? I can think of several I have actually heard:

1) "AM is when you modulate the amplitude and FM is when you modulate the frequency."

2) "That colinear antenna is illegal! It has a linear in it and it makes your power too high!"

3) "When you key up, your signal goes all around the world and comes back to you. That's why you hear echos. I hear 'em all the time."

4) "I know what a dummy load is. I MARRIED one." (Okay, that was kinda funny.)

5) "Not gettin' ya too good. You must be between my elements." (Actually meant the radials on his ground plane.)

6) "That Turner Plus Two is an SSB mic. You gotta get yerself an AM mic."

7) "You can't mix thick coax and thin coax [RG8 and RG58]. Your signal will get a bottleneck when it hits the thin stuff."

8) "Do ya HAVE to solder them PL259s onto the coax??"

[W5KLB]

"AM is when you modulate the amplitude and FM is when you modulate the frequency."

Steve,

I hate to correct a Pope, but that's incorrect.

AM is Another Miracle and FM is Frigg'n Magic.

Tain Fer?

I learn this in the Navy. Your federal tax dollars at work! ;)

"You can only talk off the top two inches of your antenna." I was laughing so hard when I heard this, I nearly had and accident in my ol' pickup. :lol:

[K8YS]

9) the coax to the mobile antenna must be exactly 17.5 feet long or the SWR will be high.

10) the SWR must be 1:1.1 or you loose all of your power and damage your radio.

[K8YS]

as far as soldering the PL259, there is a local CB shop that claims to be a ham shop, you see thier ads on all the ham portals, anyway, they sell 3 foot jumpers made using RG-8. The braid is folded back over the jacket, stuffed into the reducer, then the center is soldered to the pin.

I pointed out this error one day, it was a mistake, I pointed this out while there were customers in the shop, and the owners kid promptly expelled me from the shop. I have never been back, and that was 13 years ago.

[W7XF]

as far as soldering the PL259, there is a local CB shop that claims to be a ham shop, you see thier ads on all the ham portals, anyway, they sell 3 foot jumpers made using RG-8. The braid is folded back over the jacket, stuffed into the reducer, then the center is soldered to the pin.

I pointed out this error one day, it was a mistake, I pointed this out while there were customers in the shop, and the owners kid promptly expelled me from the shop. I have never been back, and that was 13 years ago.

Well.... I guess that supposed tech was in the business of drumming up repeat business... only the repeat business was to replace french-fried final output transistors. Sheesh... even I knew how to solder when I was like 10 yrs old.....

K7KWH

No cold solder joints here.

[w3sy]

as far as soldering the PL259, there is a local CB shop that claims to be a ham shop, you see thier ads on all the ham portals, anyway, they sell 3 foot jumpers made using RG-8. The braid is folded back over the jacket, stuffed into the reducer, then the center is soldered to the pin.

I pointed out this error one day, it was a mistake, I pointed this out while there were customers in the shop, and the owners kid promptly expelled me from the shop. I have never been back, and that was 13 years ago.

Well.... I guess that supposed tech was in the business of drumming up repeat business... only the repeat business was to replace french-fried final output transistors. Sheesh... even I knew how to solder when I was like 10 yrs old.....

K7KWH

No cold solder joints here.

I knew a CB'er... watched him solder once. He'd melt the solder onto the iron, then kinda "paint" it on. Ugh.