Are we better off without CB? We have FRS....

Whether these rigs were cobbled together by them or some other chicken choker doesn't matter, neither has the sense God gave a goose. If you look beyond the shootout to see where they come from you'll see where the money goes. Back home you'll see a tar paper chicken shack, beat up double wide, or some other Welfare housing featured on Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Yard Of The Week.

Back in West Creek out in the Pine Barrens there are no Chicken Banders, but along with our famous Jersey Devil there exist our version of hillbillies, the Pineys. Come Christmas some of those yard decorations get rearranged, I spotted this rather interesting display.

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Originally Posted by KC9SQR

I was really wondering about RF power but you bring up a good point actually...
While I agree it's incredibly stupid to run that much power especially that close to ones self and others..

But you kind of wonder, this person has to have some smarts to be able to set up such a system and not kill themselves even on accident... So I sometimes wonder about their level of intelligence when I see stuff like that.. I wouldn't even want to be where the camera person is or within probably a mile of that place if I knew what was going on hahaha

I wonder does this person possess the ability to build such a system capable of such power? If so then how do they not know what is really going on with those levels of RF power..

Do they just simply have lots of money to buy stuff pre built and just got lucky not killing themselves with it installing it?

Or do they just have so much money that they paid someone else a pile of money to buy, build, and install everything for that person and it's just a matter of time before they take the cover off of one of those amplifiers and an effect similar to a squirrel touching more than one lead across a transformer happens when they touch the wrong part?

The things that make ya go hmmmmm

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I was thinking more in terms of "what's the purpose ?"... Okay, so you spend a load of money and get some big assed equipment, stuff it into a vehicle, drive into some parking lot, strap on some big antenna array, rev up, key down and hope that someone hears you over the other guy, and then it's all over. I just don't get it. i don't see any fulfillment. I'd rather have a 100 milliwatt radio and use it to exchange useful information with someone than have 50 killowatts or a lots of Jigawatts just so I can key down...

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Originally Posted by KC9SQR

I'm wondering how much power it takes to do this :wtf:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBsQy0TbPr0

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I think what they should do is, each of the drivers get into their vehicle, get the engines warmed up, move the cars to where they face each other about 4 feet apart, and then key down.

Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

I think what they should do is, each of the drivers get into their vehicle, get the engines warmed up, move the cars to where they face each other about 4 feet apart, and then key down.

Problem solved.

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This... I want to see this go down hahahahahahahaha

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Originally Posted by n2ize

I was thinking more in terms of "what's the purpose ?"... Okay, so you spend a load of money and get some big assed equipment, stuff it into a vehicle, drive into some parking lot, strap on some big antenna array, rev up, key down and hope that someone hears you over the other guy, and then it's all over. I just don't get it. i don't see any fulfillment. I'd rather have a 100 milliwatt radio and use it to exchange useful information with someone than have 50 killowatts or a lots of Jigawatts just so I can key down...

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What's the purpose, money is the purpose, thousands of dollars change hands based on who was heard.

These are the same guys that built street racers and took them to Edgewater Dragstrip back in the '60's and '70's; it's the same mindset but, instead of the vehicle moving fast to get to a certain point, the vehicles are stationary and the radio signal does the moving.

The "T-Bird / Bluegill" team out of Chicago are "Celebrities", because they attract a audience, they demand an appearance fee from the group holding the function just for showing up.

Oh, BTW, being in one of those trucks is like being in a Faraday Cage with a tiger in the back seat.

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All this CB talk and my neighbor's activity has me wondering if I should dust off the old Cobra 148GTL and play around a little. Back in the day I had a Washington with the bells and whistles and a few associated accessories. I sold all that off. Placed an ad on Craigslist and had it sold in under 12 hours. Got $400 for it all.

Still have the Cobra 29 from my trucking days. Every once in a while I'll hook it up to my 10m beam (with a tuner, of course) and talk to the guys waiting to cross the border.

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Still have the Cobra 29 from my trucking days. Every once in a while I'll hook it up to my 10m beam (with a tuner, of course) and talk to the guys waiting to cross the border.

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You talk to aliens? Who Gnu?

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

You talk to aliens? Who Gnu?

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Yeah, from Tau Ceti Alpha 2