What is your Favorite CB Operating Mode?

[Happy_Hamer]

What is your Favorite CB Operating Mode?

 

[C2]

How about SS?

 

[Happy_Hamer]

How about SS?

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[Red Ranger]

Packet is not listed. :thumbdown:

 

[mackmobile43]

Packet is not listed. :thumbdown:

And FM is not a legal CB mode in the U.S.A. if it matters.

 

[C2]

Spread Spectrum...

I use all the channels at once LOL

 

[Happy_Hamer]

And FM is not a legal CB mode in the U.S.A. if it matters.

Well,

1. Australia uses FM for their CB
2. MURS is considered CB and is FM
3. FRS is considered CB and is FM

MURS: Frequently Asked Questions

FRS FAQ

 

[mackmobile43]

Well,

1. Australia uses FM for their CB
2. MURS is considered CB and is FM
3. FRS is considered CB and is FM

MURS: Frequently Asked Questions

FRS FAQ

And lets not forget ''FM'' is the legal cb band of the good ole ''UK'' where it's illegal to operate in ''AM'' mode.

 

[74IN]

Drunk.

 

[bit_pit]

Just as an clarification..... in Australia there is AM/SSB as well.
We have the standard 40 AM/SSB on 27Mhz the same as the good ole USA.
And we also have 40 channels FM (soon to be 80 I am told) on 477Mhz, however 2 of these channels are data only (for Farmers mostly, telemetry for Water levels, gates etc.) and 16 or so for repeaters.

 

[Moleculo]

I used to consider SSB my favorite CB mode, but I got weary of having to chase other radios around with the clarifier to communicate. It's not that big of a deal when you're just talking to one person, but it gets old with 5-10 people. There's a SSB CB net locally on sunday nights, and I just couldn't take it anymore after about 10 minutes. The other problem is all the AM "only" operators with clipped radios, over modulation, major splatter that switch over to SSB without learning how to operate on that mode. Now I just hang out on AM for CB and enjoy the hilarity of it all. And I don't have to chase all the off frequency radios around to communicate.

 

[Dude111]

When i used to talk on my CB alot i prefered either AM or USB ..

USB sounds better than LSB and i had noticed when talking to MANY PEOPLE that this is true!

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

depends

AM for the locals. LSB for listening to skip that comes in from Australia,Belgium,The Netherlands,Germany,Great Britain,Scotland/Ireland,Canada,Maine,Montana,some cornfield,etc... I wanted to try FM when I owned my 2100 but no one seemed to be on there. At the company I work for,we have FM radios in our trucks that work off of a repeater. No static and every one has to take their turn on keying up the repeater.

 

[IMD262]

Anyone here doing PSK31 on 11M ????

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

When i used to talk on my CB alot i prefered either AM or USB ..

USB sounds better than LSB and i had noticed when talking to MANY PEOPLE that this is true!

Then your radio needs an alignment. The two sidebands are exact mirror images of each other. Neither sounds better than the other on TX nor on RX if the radio is aligned properly in both the RX and TX circuits. I suspect one sideband is shifted a little bit from center in the IF section. That will cause a difference in sound quality. That can be readily demonstrated on a ham radio with an IF SHIFT control to move the signal slightly in the IF filter's passband.