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I heard the Carolinas and Virginia on 38 LSB on Saturday Nov. 6 around the lunch hour Mountain time here in the southwest while doing some chores, but by the time I got on the radio mid-afternoon the band was dead. No DX since. Only QSOs the past few days have been radio checks on the...

Worked Argentina and Florida on 10m Monday morning during the commute here in the desert Southwest. 100 watts into a 102 inch whip on 28.400 USB. Nothing on 10m or 11m since, i.e. nothing Tue/Wed/Thu. Heard Hawaii today (Friday) at the end of the lunch hour on 38 LSB but couldn't work 'em.

Band opening on Saturday, but had trouble completing QSOs with the barefoot Uniden and a shortened/loaded mobile vertical. Did a lot of listening on 36, 37, 38, 39 LSB to the East Coast - Pennsylvania ,Connecticut, Florida, Canada - Ontario province, Pacific Northwest - Oregon, and nearby Texas...

By digital, you mean FT8 or AMTOR or some type of keyboard mode? Or HF digital voice like D-STAR or C4FM? (rare, I know, just wondering).

Worked central Connecticut from Albuquerque while mobile here at the lunch hour Monday. Uniden 980SSB ~10 watts to a Larsen NMO27C on a trunk lip mount, 38 LSB. Worked Indiana same ~10 watts into a 2 ft Super Flex (Firestick) on Saturday around 4pm Mountain time. 11 meter band is wide open...

Tuesday morning during the commute here in the desert southwest Ch 38 LSB was very lively with a DX pile-up. After monitoring for a bit, I switched bands to 10 meters but it sounded dead, which made no sense. Gave a CQ on 28.400 USB and got an immediate reply from Pittsburgh, PA. So the 10m...

Sunday was a lost cause for a barefoot mobile on a NMO27C antenna --- all "big gun" stations booming in here to the desert southwest. Like the fellow on an island off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula running a 5 element beam and an Icom 7300 (and who knows what amplifier). I could only work...

Heard Ontario, Canada coming in here to the southwest during the Friday afternoon commute. Couldn't work 'em. Worked Michigan late morning today (Saturday 11:30am Mountain) with the barefoot Uniden 980SSB. Band openings several times a day 5 to 10 minutes at a time.

If you have a General class ham ticket and want to play around with CTCSS/DPL and narrowband FM while waiting for President's FCC models, Stryker sells the tone board for the SR-94HPC (a.k.a. Anytone Apollo II) for $15. Requires removing a couple of surface mount silver-soldered resistors to...

Yep, that was it, the Communications Specialists SS-64 generic encoder board, programmed by DIP switches. Thanks for jogging the memory. It's out of production. The FM CB radios are junkers at the $50 price point. Most of those boards BJ Radionut found are designed for the repeater builder...

Yeah, the page is talking about adding CTCSS/PL to FM radios that don't have a factory tone encoder/decoder option. They made one custom tone board around an ATtiny 8-bit microcontroller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATtiny_microcontroller_comparison_chart and another around an Arduino, and...

Internet-connected FM hotspots in the CB service are a thing now in the Czech Republic, according to Simon the Wizard. https://simonthewizard.com/2021/09/11/czech-republic-cb-hotspots/ Amazing news from Skipper Kittsee arrived via WhatsApp about the Zello + CB hotspots coming up in the Czech...

So... the WDX website and forums already sponsors a CB club, in addition to the two ham clubs. The relevant section of the forum has the unfortunate word "contest" in the title and not "CB", but if you go here: https://www.worldwidedx.com/forums/wdx-club-contest-information.143/ you'll see you...

After October 28, get an FM rig and run FM with a 100 Hz PL tone squelch. Radio will be quiet. For AM when I want to hear radio conversations if they start --- e.g. monitor Ch 19 when mobile --- but not deal with every 18 wheeler and power line opening the squelch, I run the squelch down to...

Truck has an NMO properly drilled into the roof of the crew cab, and a 3/8x24 bolt-on on the tailgate. Typically run VHF or UHF on the NMO mount, and CB / 10 meter 102 inch whip on the tailgate with a MFJ tuner. The 102 inch whip is pretty broadband, over 2 MHz wide, so it sort of works from...

Not an OTR driver/trucker, but I usually carry a basic AM/SSB CB and a 2 meter simplex radio in the vehicle when traveling the interstate highway system. Will run both simultaneously, CB Ch19 and ham 146.52 simplex if the vehicle has two antenna mounts, otherwise one or the other depending on...

The hams only had it starting in 1947 when the 29.7-30.0 MHz segment was re-allocated from the hams to gov't. And 27 MHz was an ISM band already. So, the hams were given a piece of an ISM band for 11 years, 1947-1958, and then it got taken away. If you want to complain, go tell the gov't you...

Makes no sense. Most people run shortened/base-loaded/compromise antennas in the mobile that can't tune Ch38 LSB and Ch1 equally well, you get high SWR on one of the two band edges. Pick a FM calling frequency closer to the existing two calling frequencies Ch19 AM and Ch38 LSB. Or, if you...

Ham wide FM uses 5 kHz deviation above 29 MHz. Ham narrow FM (NFM) is about 2.5 kHz deviation. FCC Part 95 CB Service, following the European CEPT standard, will be 2.0 kHz deviation, which will fit just fine in the 10 kHz CB service channel spacing.

It makes no sense to widen the FM deviation in the CB radio service where most receivers have a 10 kHz IF filter channel spacing. You would just modulate outside the IF filter passband of the person receiving your signal and the received power outside the 10 kHz channel is lost as heat in the...