The Day CB Died In Cincinnati

[kb2vxa]

As in Margret straps on her man?

[N2NH]

"I dig a pygmy by Charles Haughtry and the deaf aids. Phase one in which Doris gets her oats."

[N8XE]

What got me interested in radio was my dad's CB shop in the basement. I heard my first DX in that shop (someone from England coming in). Dad always ran a clean signal and people would bring their radios to him to adjust. He also ran QRO.

Unlike some of his friends who insisted that if you had a 100W amp, that meant dead keyed should show 100W on the watt meter. sigh...

Anyways, dad now has his license and is working on learning CW. We are hanging out a bunch in my shop working on things. Right now we are working on a D104 silver eagle that I plan to use for SSB.

Brings back fond memories.

Jason N8XE (dad is N8WXE)

[kd6nig]

The last time I saw someone try to record one of these events that I saw on youtube (I think it was probably in the first year youtube was in existance) the person doing the recording was able to record the setups, but when the person fired up their vehicle to do the actual transmit, the camera would make it all of two seconds being scrambled...and then the RF would cause it to turn off.

The video would come back after they finished their "transmission" again and the guy could turn the camera back on.

I'm guessing modern phones, etc, would do the same-the RF would just overload them.

I remember seeing setups where guys had 6 or more 100A alternators running on a belt under the hood to "power" their setups. One guy was revving his motor, "keyed down" and the camera stayed on-because the belt driving them broke and thus he didn't get his power output as soon as they stopped turning.

The one thing that cracked me up is the antennas they had on them. They made the porcupine vehicles some hams have look like nothing. The scary thing is that they likely drove them on the highway like that. Some of them would come driving into the lot where they were having the "keydown" and the antennae would be flopping around because they were not mounted very well.

[KG4NEL]

I remember seeing setups where guys had 6 or more 100A alternators running on a belt under the hood to "power" their setups. One guy was revving his motor, "keyed down" and the camera stayed on-because the belt driving them broke and thus he didn't get his power output as soon as they stopped turning.

In another life, I was involved in things like this, except it was with car stereo, and the average intelligence was slightly higher:



You could barely hear anything outside the vehicle, which makes sense - if the point is to be as loud as possible to the sensor inside the vehicle, any sound going outside is just wasted energy. Multiple-alt setups were de riguer if the class allowed it.

[kb2vxa]

I wasted 10 years of my life in Lizardbreath, the city that makes its own cheeze and the land of boom cars. I could hear them coming a mile away and followed their progress across town by the direction the noise was coming from. Occasionally I saw one pass as it buzzed and rattled along leaving a trail of nuts, bolts, and small metal objects behind. Surprisingly the biggest nut didn't fall off, the one driving it. I must admit their average intelligence was slightly higher than those who attend CB shootouts, you wouldn't catch me anywhere near RF fields that would make Nicola Tesla run for cover.

[N8XE]

So here is a question....

You take a CBer with the 6 alternators and have them key down next to someone with a boom system... what would happen? Key down and the cones pop out of the coils?

Hmmm...

Jason N8XE

[KG4NEL]

So here is a question....

You take a CBer with the 6 alternators and have them key down next to someone with a boom system... what would happen? Key down and the cones pop out of the coils?

Hmmm...

Jason N8XE

Probably. With two to four voice coils per sub, there's enough wire behind one of those subwoofer walls to build an ENIAC replica.

[KG4NEL]

Whoops.

[kb2vxa]

First of all there's no such thing as a SUB woofer, just the same diameter as home hi-fi woofers with a very flexible surround in enclosures far too small to be meaningful. That's why they pop as above, one good transient and the cone goes flying... POS. Only one good thing about them, the ceramic magnets and pole pieces come in handy for various projects.

It would be interesting to have a boom car next to a CBlaster to find out if the CBlaster blows the boom car amps first or if the boom car amps rattle the CBlaster to pieces first. Now if the boomer knows that toobz are impervious to EMP we all know who the winner will be. These things make good P-P audio outputs just as they make good modulators. (Yeah, that's Timtron.)