Just in case you forgot how to do it

[al2n]

Here is a video series for those who have fallen off the CB wagon:

http://homegarden.expertvillage.com/int ... radios.htm (http://homegarden.expertvillage.com/interviews/cb-radios.htm)

[N3ATS]

What's a transeava? :lol:

[kd6nig]

No hit counter. I wonder how many people have taken the 'refresher' course :)

I'm surprised that in the 'how to hold the microphone and talk' portion that there isn't some kind of alcoholic beverage in the other hand :)

[al2n]

Each individual video says how many views it has received. Looks like a few hundred so far.

[KU4MY]

Okay so does that make me an expert CBer now, or have I just been refreshed?

Seriously, if I still had Charles to chat with on 38 LSB, I may sell off the rest of this hammy crap. ;)

[kd6nig]

Sideband on CB versus AM on CB is like night and day. The attitudes totally change. At least from what I remember.

[KU4MY]

I find the same to be true for CW as opposed to SSB and FM on the amateur bands.

[w8nsi]

I find the same to be true for CW as opposed to SSB and FM on the amateur bands.
How about cw as opposed to SSB or AM on cb? :lol:

[KC8TCQ]

I find the same to be true for CW as opposed to SSB and FM on the amateur bands.
How about cw as opposed to SSB or AM on cb? :lol:

There was a ham who lived on Long Island, he picked up a bunck of those old walkie talkties they made years ago that were crystaled for channel 14 and had a key for sending cw. He was using them with his nephew sending CW on 11m.

I've been known in the past to send cw on 11m by holding the mic next to my key/ocillator. It really cheeses off the truckers when the "beepity beep" interupts their swear fest.

[kb2vxa]

I've been known in the past too, I'm just glad nobody who would remember is still around. :mrgreen:

[w8nsi]

Sideband on CB versus AM on CB is like night and day. The attitudes totally change. At least from what I remember.

Last time I used a cb it was just starting to change from 23 to 40 channels and I dont recall any of the rigs being ssb, only AM.

My first cb base was a 5 channel crystal controlled heathkit (back in 1963 I think it was). In one of the magazines someone had come up with a crystal box switch (23 transmit and 23 receive crystals) to make these limited rigs into 23 ch rigs. The white face Johnson was considered a deluxe rig at the time and that was a 5 channel AM rig with a broad receive. I had one of those for a mobile for a while. We hung out on channel 21. Some of the locals had a crystal rig made by a company called ROBYN.

We finally upgraded to 23 channels.

Still have two old tube type CitiFone SS23 rigs gathering dust.

[kd6nig]

I haven't been on SSB CB in....well almost 14 years. The CB survived in the car about a year after I got my Ham License my Senior Year in High School.

A buddy of mine in South SF had a nice large "base station" setup (an actual base type radio) that had sideband on it. That and the antenna on a 30' pole on the roof, and the fact he was almost at the top of the hillside helped greatly. He also faced the bay and beyond so that really helped. He had all kinds of handmade "QSL" cards (there was a different term for them on CB if I remember right). Legit setup, too. The last time I saw him the antenna was still up on the roof but the base station is long gone, the coax for the antenna is still hidden behind the desk it used to sit on. He had just got his ham license when I met him too, so we mostly used that, although his mom had a CB in the car also.

I'm sure its a lot more noise and junk now. I listen to 17 on the 857 at home on occasion but have never thought about checking out the lower and upper sides of 38, 39, and 40 (where most of those guys hung out) to see if there is even activity anymore.

Although he sold the base off, he did keep the D-104. Its still on a shelf in his living room :)

[N8YX]

Sideband on CB versus AM on CB is like night and day. The attitudes totally change. At least from what I remember.

Correct.

At one time I had a lot of friends who hung out on 11M SSB. I managed to Elmer almost every one of them into the ham ranks. We had a lot of fun on channels 36-40 over the years; had a regular nighttime sked with a buddy who lived roughly 50 miles to the south-southwest. Almost always had solid copy unless a really strong local would fire up on an adjacent channel.

This particular friend had a complete Yaesu FT101E lineup (transceiver, VFO, counter, speaker/patch, mic and amplifier). Picked the outfit up for a song while living in southern Ohio - with the intent of getting a Novice ticket. Stored the outfit in a basement and one rainy Memorial Day his sump pump failed. The resultant flood destroyed my friend's Yaesus and a lot of his other household goods... :(