I drive a 2015 Freightliner Coronado. I am using a Browning BR 78 flat coil antenna. It seems to work well and can take abuse from tree limbs.
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11 meter is very quiet?
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I drive a 2015 Freightliner Coronado. I am using a Browning BR 78 flat coil antenna. It seems to work well and can take abuse from tree limbs.
Finally fired up the station since about late December. Conditions were great this evening. Had a good time working the west coast, California, Arizona, and Nevada.
I heard you on ch20 this evening, Codeman. I gave you a holler but I guess you didn't hear me. Maybe next time, bro.
I dunno, it was so so in SoCal today. Local guys(30miles) were faint and coming in and out. All this on 38lsb. Ch6 was popular but mostly high powered locals bye bye byeing and gettin down!!!
It was real busy on 20 yesterday, didn't hear you I will be listening for you. The other day when I was on the road I had a pipeline to you guys on AM 20 in Alabama and Georgia from Texas. Yesterday was a good dx day here in San Antonio.
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W coast dead still, its been 3wks and counting. Just when it was looking promising it takes a dump, pshhh. You e coast and midwest guys are lucky, you always get that e skip, not here. 
W coast dead still, its been 3wks and counting. Just when it was looking promising it takes a dump, pshhh. You e coast and midwest guys are lucky, you always get that e skip, not here.
YES!!! A few weeks back it was crazy. Piles up happening and skip from the east coast , Midwest and Canada happening!! Now it’s meh.
AM-19 as busy in eastern GA almost as much as TN. Which is saying something. Lots of regulars makes it a mainstay.
Only just heard about the truck driver mass shooting in AR. The JB Hunt driver said he’d have shot more than four, but he ran out of water.
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Only just heard about the truck driver mass shooting in AR. The JB Hunt driver said he’d have shot more than four, but he ran out of water.
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WB IH20 just into Alabama. MM-188. Heard two drivers receiving advice to exit 20 by or before X165 due to a flatbed having lost a load of steel on the bridge across Martin Logan Lake.
Pulled over the MC Road Atlas to get a visual but markers too far off. Ran the GPS thru some simulations and found that I’d need to get off going NB at X168 and proceed a mile to the old main highway, US-78.
Used most of those twenty miles on the plan and on how to make the decision to go OOR.
It worked well as 78 just ran us back onto the highway at the 161, maybe two miles past the wreck. 4-mile backup.
It was only as I passed MM-169 that I heard the commotion from up ahead of me. Too late to divert, (if I had a typical CB) as going out-of-route can present perils worse than a thirty-minute highway delay. Risk high and not enough time.
A few miles past the wreck I heard guys still complaining as we bought fuel near Moody. I was pulling out after buying fuel and getting my mandatory 30-minute break completed before some who’d passed me back in Atlanta were pulling in.
Instead of losing thirty-plus-minutes in the traffic backup; lost another fifteen buying fuel and sitting thirty . . my stress level was zilch. So I left that truck stop with a 35-minute head start AND a better energy level.
Ears! Gitcha some!
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Pulled over the MC Road Atlas to get a visual but markers too far off. Ran the GPS thru some simulations and found that I’d need to get off going NB at X168 and proceed a mile to the old main highway, US-78.
Used most of those twenty miles on the plan and on how to make the decision to go OOR.
It worked well as 78 just ran us back onto the highway at the 161, maybe two miles past the wreck. 4-mile backup.
It was only as I passed MM-169 that I heard the commotion from up ahead of me. Too late to divert, (if I had a typical CB) as going out-of-route can present perils worse than a thirty-minute highway delay. Risk high and not enough time.
A few miles past the wreck I heard guys still complaining as we bought fuel near Moody. I was pulling out after buying fuel and getting my mandatory 30-minute break completed before some who’d passed me back in Atlanta were pulling in.
Instead of losing thirty-plus-minutes in the traffic backup; lost another fifteen buying fuel and sitting thirty . . my stress level was zilch. So I left that truck stop with a 35-minute head start AND a better energy level.
Ears! Gitcha some!
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