My imagination

[N2RJ]

Or do lot of people still have CB's?

Is there like a CB resurgence or something?

Not talking about truckers, but I'm seeing a lot of regular people with CB antennas on their cars.

I know they're CB antennas, in fact I see some K40s and the like.

Maybe it's the area I live in or is CB making a resurgence?

[kc7jty]

NORTH JERSEY!!?? Canada maybe, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida panhandle?

[KU4MY]

Maybe the apparent resurgence is a regional thing. When 12 seems to be opening up, I will check for ‘noise’ on 11 before heading for 10m to check for a band opening. The county I live in probably still has a population under 200k and an interstate running through it. Other than channel 19, there is a local channel where three guys with tons of modulation and echo hang out (one of those three has an extra chromosome or three), so it’s still pretty dead here.

[N2NH]

Today when I was out, I saw a lot of yellow cabs here with K-40's on the roof. Maybe it's coming back?

[KU4MY]

Today when I was out, I saw a lot of yellow cabs here with K-40's on the roof. Maybe it's coming back?


Location: nYc

I can see the adds for Cobra now...... "nYc, the NEW Kentucky, 10-4!"

[N2RJ]

NORTH JERSEY!!?? Canada maybe, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida panhandle?

Actually North West Jersey.

There's a difference. We're pretty rural.

[N2RJ]

Today when I was out, I saw a lot of yellow cabs here with K-40's on the roof. Maybe it's coming back?

I've seen those, and my cab driver relatives (don't laugh, they're in laws though) tell me they use that to talk to their buddies back in India and Pakistan.

[N2NH]

Today when I was out, I saw a lot of yellow cabs here with K-40's on the roof. Maybe it's coming back?

I've seen those, and my cab driver relatives (don't laugh, they're in laws though) tell me they use that to talk to their buddies back in India and Pakistan.

I've never laughed at anybody doing an honest living. I wouldn't be surprised. I was in Central Park one day and I saw a sparrow take a header into the ground after flying close to a K-40. Must've been using some size 12 shoes.
;)

[N5RLR]

...I was in Central Park one day and I saw a sparrow take a header into the ground after flying close to a K-40. Must've been using some size 12 shoes.
;)
How much power will a K40 handle? :shock:

[w2amr]

Or do lot of people still have CB's?

Is there like a CB resurgence or something?

Not talking about truckers, but I'm seeing a lot of regular people with CB antennas on their cars.

I know they're CB antennas, in fact I see some K40s and the like.

Maybe it's the area I live in or is CB making a resurgence?
Yeah , I noticed a CB resurgence, on 2 meters. :shock:

[N2NH]

MH is right. I've seen a lot more cars and SUVs with CB antennas here. I took a bit of a walk and must've seen 80 or 90 cars with CB antennas. One even had a bugcatcher but it wasn't a Ham.
:o

[kd6nig]

There are a lot of drivers who come into my facility that have them on the trucks, but they don't leave them on much. Most of them keep them because some places use them to coordinate stuff still, like sending drivers to doors when they become available.

We were supposed to have one when we moved to our new facility (because we were going to have a seperate entrance/exit gate was part of the reasoning) but in the end we stuck with a single gate, and that was eliminated.

I took my old Rat Shack HT out there though-I like to listen to them complain to each other on 17 when the line isn't moving sometimes. They wouldn't hear me if I transmitted back, its only good for a half watt :)

[w3sy]

It's not surprising to see so many CB antennas. After all, it's still so COTTON PICKIN' HARD to get a hamster ticket. Even without that beep-dee-beep Morris Code "and wut not."

Also, you have all the folks who bought that bogus NCT bill of goods a while back and found the 2 meter FM repeaters about as exciting as a CPA Exam Review Course. It was easier to get a Chicken Band radiddio and shoot some skip.

(This is NOT a poke at NCTs. It's a slam at the FCC and ARRL for allowing the NCT to replace the Novice as the entry point to hamming.)

Sorry to veer off topic.

W3SY sez: Chicken Band is full of lids and yo-yo's, but is more exciting than 2 meter FM.

Out.

[kc9hlb]

cb is still a multi billiondollar a year business in the us also most malor brand antennas such as wilson and k40 work as well on 10 meter as they do 0n11

[n4aud]

There is a lot of mining in my area, and the coal is taken to the tipples and other places with tractor trailer rigs, and all of the trucks have CB's. I see a lot of CB antennas on cars and trucks too, but I just figured they were coal truckers or their families. Maybe there is some sort of resurgence in CB, don't know.

[KB2QU]

Is there like a CB resurgence or something?


Yeah , I noticed a CB resurgence, on 2 meters. :shock:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[kb2vxa]

Uh Mr. Rot, I must be an exceptional 2M CBer, I prefer swingin' slop bucket an' shootin' skip. Right about one thing though, repeaters are about as interesting as watching paint dry.

[KE7PMX]

Very popular out in my neck of the woods.

I bet I could go down to the High School parking lot, and count 100.

Just about every SUV/PU truck has one. But then again I live in a logging town, that also has a huge sand/rock pit. :D

[N8YX]

We have them on all of our touring motorcycles...for the simple reason that our bikes' OEMs haven't marketed a dualbander which cleanly integrates with the stock AM/FM stereo setups. The OEMs built CB rigs which will...

[w8nsi]

Or do lot of people still have CB's?

Is there like a CB resurgence or something?

Not talking about truckers, but I'm seeing a lot of regular people with CB antennas on their cars.

I know they're CB antennas, in fact I see some K40s and the like.

Maybe it's the area I live in or is CB making a resurgence?

My neighbor has cb base and mobile but I haven't noticed any big resurgence of antennas on cars.

I hang out at a local short track (Berlin Raceway) on weekends and I would expect to see a few there. None that I can recall.

[KC8TCQ]

Or do lot of people still have CB's?

Is there like a CB resurgence or something?

Not talking about truckers, but I'm seeing a lot of regular people with CB antennas on their cars.

I know they're CB antennas, in fact I see some K40s and the like.

Maybe it's the area I live in or is CB making a resurgence?

My neighbor has cb base and mobile but I haven't noticed any big resurgence of antennas on cars.

I hang out at a local short track (Berlin Raceway) on weekends and I would expect to see a few there. None that I can recall.

CB is alive and well in the city where I live, we even have a gentleman with a "golden screwdriver" who lives in a trailer and works on radios. He has a base and a scanner in every room of the trailer. About the only thing he doesn't screw up on is soldering mic connectors.

[N9FE]

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[KC8TCQ]

Hey.. You can play CB as much as you want.. Just remember to seperate the two. No chicken charley on the ham bands. And no call sign usage on the chicken band.. And your still are suppose to use 5 watts on chicken.. If you have some local that is jelous that you moved on from cb. He'll turn you in for running power. I have seen it happen...


I don't play on 11m anymore, I still have some 11m gear, but I have it because it is considered collectors items. I got tired of the BS on 11m long ago.

[K8WPJ]

There is a lot of mining in my area, and the coal is taken to the tipples and other places with tractor trailer rigs,

dumb question-

what is a 'tipple'??

every explaination I can think of is kinda crude...

maybe you could explain it ?

[KC8TCQ]

There is a lot of mining in my area, and the coal is taken to the tipples and other places with tractor trailer rigs,

dumb question-

what is a 'tipple'??

every explaination I can think of is kinda crude...

maybe you could explain it ?

a structure used for loading coal into railroad cars

[N9FE]

There is a lot of mining in my area, and the coal is taken to the tipples and other places with tractor trailer rigs,

dumb question-

what is a 'tipple'??

every explaination I can think of is kinda crude...

maybe you could explain it ?

a structure used for loading coal into railroad cars They allways load the living crap out of those trucks. You have watch there stopping ability at those weights

[KC8TCQ]

a structure used for loading coal into railroad cars They allways load the living crap out of those trucks. You have watch there stopping ability at those weights


I know when I was in WV I always gave those trucks more clearence while sharing the road.

[kb2vxa]

The tipple I grew up with was at the mine colliery. It's called that because the mine skips are hauled to the top where they're tipped and the coal goes down through a series of belts and shakers (screens) where it's graded. Shaft and drift mines use tipples, open pit mines use shovels to load haulers (big dump trucks) that take it to the colliery. Trucks and rail cars are loaded by conveyor belt usually, that's at the far end from the tipple.

The B&W photo is of a typical small mine tipple (the ramp at the rear) showing railroad tracks where hoppers were loaded under the colliery. The color photo is a coaling tower that loaded coal into steam locomotive tenders. From this angle the tipple can be clearly seen.

I don't know what any of this has to do with CB except maybe back in the day one guy claimed he had a steam powered radio. I figured it out eventually, his electricity came from Hudson Generator, a coal fired steam turbine plant. I on the other hand in some of my sig lines claim to use atomic energy, mine comes from Oyster Creek Nuclear. I guess eventually I'll get around to saying I spotted a "stick" on the mirror of a construction company's flat bed truck today so I guess some good buddy around here is still trying to break 19 whatever that is.

[K8WPJ]

thanks guys...

I was hoping for a serious answer, because, I geniunely did not know what a 'tipple' was....

wow...

That was so cool...

I came, I saw, I asked an honest question, and got a straight, no nonsense answer...

Too bad all hobby sites can't work this way...

Seems to me, I would have been banned from 'some other site' for just asking the question...

Thanks again, to all that took the time to explain things.

All of this, and no moderator intervention required....

LOL!

Guess it is as easy or as hard, as you choose to make it...

Thanks again, and 73,

K8WPJ

[N8YX]

The tipple I grew up with was at the mine colliery. It's called that because the mine skips are hauled to the top where they're tipped and the coal goes down through a series of belts and shakers (screens) where it's graded. Shaft and drift mines use tipples, open pit mines use shovels to load haulers (big dump trucks) that take it to the colliery. Trucks and rail cars are loaded by conveyor belt usually, that's at the far end from the tipple.

The B&W photo is of a typical small mine tipple (the ramp at the rear) showing railroad tracks where hoppers were loaded under the colliery. The color photo is a coaling tower that loaded coal into steam locomotive tenders. From this angle the tipple can be clearly seen.

I don't know what any of this has to do with CB except maybe back in the day one guy claimed he had a steam powered radio. I figured it out eventually, his electricity came from Hudson Generator, a coal fired steam turbine plant. I on the other hand in some of my sig lines claim to use atomic energy, mine comes from Oyster Creek Nuclear. I guess eventually I'll get around to saying I spotted a "stick" on the mirror of a construction company's flat bed truck today so I guess some good buddy around here is still trying to break 19 whatever that is.

Warren,

What era is that color photo from, and in which part of Akron? I live nearby - would be neat to run over to the existing railyards and see if the structure is still standing...

[KC8TCQ]

The tipple I grew up with was at the mine colliery. It's called that because the mine skips are hauled to the top where they're tipped and the coal goes down through a series of belts and shakers (screens) where it's graded. Shaft and drift mines use tipples, open pit mines use shovels to load haulers (big dump trucks) that take it to the colliery. Trucks and rail cars are loaded by conveyor belt usually, that's at the far end from the tipple.

The B&W photo is of a typical small mine tipple (the ramp at the rear) showing railroad tracks where hoppers were loaded under the colliery. The color photo is a coaling tower that loaded coal into steam locomotive tenders. From this angle the tipple can be clearly seen.

I don't know what any of this has to do with CB except maybe back in the day one guy claimed he had a steam powered radio. I figured it out eventually, his electricity came from Hudson Generator, a coal fired steam turbine plant. I on the other hand in some of my sig lines claim to use atomic energy, mine comes from Oyster Creek Nuclear. I guess eventually I'll get around to saying I spotted a "stick" on the mirror of a construction company's flat bed truck today so I guess some good buddy around here is still trying to break 19 whatever that is.

Warren,

What era is that color photo from, and in which part of Akron? I live nearby - would be neat to run over to the existing railyards and see if the structure is still standing...

Google Earth shows a structure similar over on the East side? To the east of North Arlington St, between Hazel and Eastwood Ave.

[kb2vxa]

I include all available information in the file name, particularly the subject, location and date but sometimes things are missing so what you see is what you get. In any case it's not recent and a lot has changed so I really can't point you to it. All I can say is the structure at the neck of the wye you pointed me to doesn't even resemble the photograph, it's a shed of some sort. One more thing, Akron is a spider web of tracks. :wall

[N2RJ]

I figure it's:

- Crappy cell coverage (T-mobile only works in the center of town and a few other areas, AT&T is like shiat, and Verizon is tolerable)

- Cell phone plans are now getting expensive due to rising costs

- CB radios have actually gotten sexier now. They're not all chrome laden Cobra 148GTLs (although that is a sweet CB rig)

[N8YX]

I include all available information in the file name, particularly the subject, location and date but sometimes things are missing so what you see is what you get. In any case it's not recent and a lot has changed so I really can't point you to it. All I can say is the structure at the neck of the wye you pointed me to doesn't even resemble the photograph, it's a shed of some sort. One more thing, Akron is a spider web of tracks. :wall

A post above references North Arlington St - and there are a lot of tracks in the area where it joins up with Dan St. I may take a run up that way and see if the structure is still standing - maybe take a pic or two and post it.

[KC8TCQ]

Here are two pictures from Google Earth

First one is a zoom of a structure that looks like it might be place in question

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/webdoc/Akron-coalsite01.jpg

Second one shows it's location

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/webdoc/Akron-coalsite02.jpg

But looking at the Microsoft online map with "bird's eye view" that building is no longer standing in that location.

[kb2vxa]

Keith, that's not the location in the first place. Look again at the photo and notice the tracks form a T with the coal hoppers on the staff standing at the tipple and the coaling tower itself straddling the tracks that form the cross of the T. I found my source of the photo and this description, the location is Akron Junction. Uh oh, 1978 was quite a while ago, you might not even recognize the spot today.

http://www.railpixs.com/chessie/chessie.html

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ex B&O coaling tower at Akron,Ohio -- December 1978.

On the Washington - Chicago main (with a branch line from Cleveland near this point) - the B&O used this coaling tower for steam around the Akron area till about 1958.

Here is a different one which shows what the one in Akron looks like (more or less) from a 90 degree angle. Notice the CSX Diesel passing under it where the tender would stand during loading.

[K8WPJ]

Keith, that's not the location in the first place. Look again at the photo and notice the tracks form a T with the coal hoppers on the staff standing at the tipple and the coaling tower itself straddling the tracks that form the cross of the T. I found my source of the photo and this description, the location is Akron Junction. Uh oh, 1978 was quite a while ago, you might not even recognize the spot today.

http://www.railpixs.com/chessie/chessie.html

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ex B&O coaling tower at Akron,Ohio -- December 1978.

On the Washington - Chicago main (with a branch line from Cleveland near this point) - the B&O used this coaling tower for steam around the Akron area till about 1958.

Here is a different one which shows what the one in Akron looks like (more or less) from a 90 degree angle. Notice the CSX Diesel passing under it where the tender would stand during loading.


Guys, I was up that way in spring 2003, and again in 2005... I don't recall the towers you speak of... The site may have been redeveloped at some point... Any way to be sure of what the site looks like now?

[kb2vxa]

First you have to find the site and frankly I doubt Akron Junction exists now, but an OT familiar with the railroad might know where it was. On the other hand if you want to see a working tipple you have to find a working mine like this one. Just remember this is a tipple, not a coaling tower but close enough for government work.

[n4aud]

Heh, that's just up the road from me in Pike Co. KY, where my grandfather was born. I thought it looked a lot like home. That is, indeed, a tipple. Belt going up into it at an angle and coal cars or trucks drive under.
It looks exactly like one that's about 10 minutes from me.

[kb2vxa]

Gee, I wonder why THAT is! :think

[KC8TCQ]

Interesting history on Coal Tipples

http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/search.cfm?searchfield=LCSubject&searchterm=Tipples

Here is one outside Marion Ohio
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1092/966943348_4e64a80977.jpg

Here is is from overhead it is north of Marion off of US 23.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/webdoc/Coaltipplemarionohio.jpg

[n4aud]

Gee, I wonder why THAT is! :think
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