Back in 2018 a tornado hit my house and took out all my antennas. At the time, here in the Champaign/Vermilion County Illinois area, there were quite a few base stations active on CB. I think it was Channel 24 where most of them hung out. Then there were quite a few SSB operators on 27.645 LSB, usually mostly active at night. Now that I have a 10/11 meter radio (Radioddity QT-80) in the RV with a Wilson Trucker 2000 antenna mounted on the ladder in the back, I hear NOBODY. Not even truckers on Interstate 74 just like 3 miles north of me.
Did everyone just fade away, or is my setup just not very good? I can get pretty decent skip sometimes, like out to the west coast and up into Canada, and I have worked a couple of European stations on 10 meters. Not busting any pileups, but I'm just a portable with a whip competing with base antennas and arrays.
So what's up? Anybody still around? Have truckers just gotten away from CB entirely?
Did everyone just fade away, or is my setup just not very good? I can get pretty decent skip sometimes, like out to the west coast and up into Canada, and I have worked a couple of European stations on 10 meters. Not busting any pileups, but I'm just a portable with a whip competing with base antennas and arrays.
So what's up? Anybody still around? Have truckers just gotten away from CB entirely?
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