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Galaxy DX-959;A State of Tune:Kitten legal or alligator on the loose?

10 watts max?
Thanks for the FCC link. Here's what I was talking about when I said that CB's are limited to 10 watts modulated carrier power. §*95.667***CB transmitter power.
The dissipation rating of all the semiconductors or electron tubes which supply RF power to the antenna terminals of each CB transmitter must not exceed 10 W. For semiconductors, the dissipation rating is the greater of the collector or device dissipation value established by the manufacturer of the semiconductor. These values may be temperature de-rated by no more than 50 °C. For an electron tube, the dissipation rating is the Intermittent Commercial and Amateur Service plate dissipation value established by the manufacturer of the electron tube.
 
Yes,thanks. I agree with you. I'm weighing all my options and am getting up to speed. Yes on using the least on making contacts.in CB land,I live in out in the sticks. The local contacts are between 10 and 30 miles away from me on the average. This necessitates using enough power along with good clean modulation. If and when I do go Amateur and set up a base station,I'll take all this advice into consideration. Going Amateur and being able to talk skip is my goal eventually. (y)

By all means go for it. You'll probably find amateur radio to be a whole lot more fun than CB. You get to use repeaters on UHF and VHF which aren't the same as working skip, but they do allow you to talk to people 20-40 + miles away reliably. The HF bands are where most skip is happening. As a tech licensee you'll get to work the lower end of the 10 meter band when it opens. Just remember "it's all in the antenna". You could take a 4 watt CB and hook it to an 11 meter beam antenna and talk farther than 15 miles on just those measly 4 watts.
 
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be able to use more power but you know,the CB band was established for short range communications, say,a business to it's delivery trucks within a moderate size town.
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Actually, CB is illegal for ANY business use. It was for personal use by non amateurs. Just sayin...
 
As has been stated earlier, don't waste too much cash on the radio, other than making sure it is tuned correctly. In order to make a noticable difference in signal at the receiving end, you must DOUBLE your power output, so 1 or 2 watts won't do anything. Spend the time and money where it is important. THE ANTENNA. A good, clean signal into a good antenna will make more difference then a 500 watt amp.
 
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So right on a good antenna. I thought that it is illegal for a business to advertise on cb. In the eighties we used base to service/wrecker truck comunications at a service station I worked at
 
Kitten Legal

Well I decided today to keep the 959 kitten legal(alligator in kitten's clothing). I want to experience what kind of magic DTB can do to a radio. I can barely wait to get it back!:p: P.S. I like your cat ROBB! Here's my take on it!
 

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I thought that it is illegal for a business to advertise on cb....

It was/is, just like it is "illegal" to have your antenna higher than 60 feet above the ground and to talk over 150 miles on a CB.

Like i said earlier, the CB isn't "policed" near as much as people think/say it is.
I'm not saying that it isn't policed at all, kit is just very, very limited.
Most of the policing is done by the local CBers that are self proclaimed "radio police" and the majority of the time they are "illegal" and have no idea what they are talking about.

As long as you don't cause a hellacious commotion on 11M like a guy did a few years back, you'll be OK.
This knucklehead was running big power in his mobile and decided the best spot to talk DX was on a hill by the airport.
Well, he talked a lot of DX but he also messed with several pieces of equipment in the control tower.
Things like that get both the FCC & FAA attention real quick lol

Anyway, what I'm saying is run your radio and have fun with it just don't go completely mental and start interfering with too much stuff and you'll be OK
Besides, it's not like you are going to pull up to an FCC sanctioned roadblock where they inspect your equipment to see if it meets part 95 ;)
 
The dissipation rating of all the semiconductors or electron tubes which supply RF power to the antenna terminals of each CB transmitter must not exceed 10 W.

In legalese "of all semiconductors" could be argued either "each individual", and not just total.

"Of each transmitter" does not disallow the use of multiple transmitters per CB.

Now...how to get all those transmitters to equal 1.5KW?:confused::blushing:
 
In legalese "of all semiconductors" could be argued either "each individual", and not just total.

"Of each transmitter" does not disallow the use of multiple transmitters per CB.

Now...how to get all those transmitters to equal 1.5KW?:confused::blushing:

Well,I'm interpretating that as 10 watts max power output to the antenna terminals. My 959 new out of the box would only swing 10-12 watts at 60% modulation. The Uniden Bearcat 980 does roughly the same the difference is that my 959 was throttled(strangled) back from the factory has a whole lot more horses under the hood:bdh:
 
I was just being funny before, but if I'm not mistaken, I think power dissipation is a different rating than max power output.

It's generally pretty easy to locate the datasheets for the semiconductors that list their ratings.
 
I was just being funny before, but if I'm not mistaken, I think power dissipation is a different rating than max power output.

Ok.I forgot to laugh! Oops! Ha ha! I tried reading the FCC rules on CB. Do I need technical expertise from a season veteran or a lawyer to splain it? Think I'll read it again. I had to search for the key word,'cb' in different subparts. I had DTB Radios do my 959 "kitten legal". Still ought to be an awesome radio when I get it back from him. Lol!:pop:
 
Most of the regulations set by the FCC are more to set the industry standards for production. If you want to learn more about radios, I would start learning about electronics. A good place to get your feet acquainted with some of the terms is to study those semiconductor datasheets that you can find online. Choose the PDF format.

At least learning the terminology of the working components will help greatly.

There is a very good website, I think called Learning Electronics. If not the web will lead you there, and it has lessons from the very fundamentals to the advanced.
 
If you're as enthusiastic about learning electronics as you are about CB's (which is great), it will not be long before your building your own noise toys, and pre amplifiers, and linears, and calibrating radios.

The website is called All About Circuits.
 
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