I remember the fluorescent tube trick. I took auto mechanics in junior and senior year in HS 1970 & 1971.

We did that in the Air Force before climbing on fuel trucks to check levels for our generators on radar sites. They’d tell us they blocked out transmission to that sliver of a spot. We had a tube duct taped to a broom stick that we’d hold high up. Definitely saved us from radiation a few times.

I am in NY, USA, I had the Sirio 3/4 wave 27 ft antenna. they still make it. new version. I have talked on that antenna from NY to Scotland on CB . was Lockerbie Scotland . just got the UK the past weak in the AM. Manchester , Derbyshire ,London ,all on CB mostly SSB . and portable in a park on battery and coax RG 8X antenna. just a Radioddity QT 60 radio and 20 Ah LiFePO4 battery. sat at park bench . antenna was the T2LT made out of RG 8X .

haha what a story

i live in Crisco i had a super penetrator on the roof. I got a knock on the door and a pastor was standing there. he invited me to church.. it seems like i talked threw he pa systen. so on Sunday morning i cooled it.. did not want to inter fear with the lord

gotta love it good times.

500 watts wont dim your lights lmfao. are you smoking crack brother? I have a modern air conditioner that pulls 1500W when it runs and it barely dims the lights,

@@Runescape. RF is a bit different than AC or DC, the guy is transmitting AC which frequency is 27 MHz, so it is high frequency, sometimes if your lights or tvs or any electronics with crappy RF shielding can be affected by RF (even with good RF shielding), for example sometimes when i key up my 5 watt ham radio HT, it freezes a digital tv right next to it, that is because of a high RF field.

Oh man that is great! ha!

Hilarious!

Hehe, same happened to me too. Had an old mains powered 500 watt burner lol.

@Curtis Sherwood We've now had ' Legal ' AM, FM, SSB on 26.965 to 27.405 for a good number of years now , But that hasn't helped CB here in the UK , Legalization of AM and SSB just came to late to save CB in the UK , Sure there are a few spots around the UK where CB is used a fair bit , but on the whole it's basically dead , I say this as a CBer myself , I can turn the CB on and tune through the channels here and not hear a single voice for hours on end , Or even for days .... These days if you want to talk CB in the UK you have to go portable on high ground to get the range to actually be able to work these distant pockets of CBers ... Also the foundation ham radio licence is so easy to obtain a lot of CBers have gone down the ham route , and not bothered to come back to CB at all ... I use both , Mainly ham radio as CB is so quiet .

Sorry Eric. That’s an RM ITALY KL-60 that I purchased.

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Yep I’m sorry to bother but I’m sorry you have a great day sweetie love love miss miss too miss y’all miss miss her happy mother’s happy belated congratulations to you

thank you for the support- it does mean a lot

I hope to hear you on the radio!

No doubt! That old radio should bring a smile to your face every time you power it up.

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the kind words

CB is actually start to make a come back even with some young people. It depends where you live at.

I some a few ppl that have them at a house.

It seems worldwide that enforcement of the 4 watt limits are non existent.

I have made contacts in Australia many times on 11 meters from the US when conditions are good. (SSB)

Going outside in Australia seems to be illegal too lol

Ha, I am sure her face was bright red after that one.

My grand dad had a 4 element moonraker on a rotor and a 201a tram it would blow the windows down

The moonraker, was THE legendary antenna, back in the day,,,GREAT name for it, too,,,,,,😎

I'd love to see some modifications to the CB rules. I agree that 25 watts AM and 50 SSB would be perfect. With the diminished use of the CB bands these numbers would be about perfect.

@@FarpointFarms Perfect for what? There are hams working DX with less power than that. More power just makes them a bigger nuisance for local operators.

@@loctite222ms , true

@@loctite222ms I'm with you on as little power as possible, in fact back in late 1959 or early 1960 I had a 35 milli-Watt walkie-talkie that I talked from NW Arkansas to a guy in Nashville, Tennessee. I got the handle (milli-Watt) bank then from guys around my area. A couple years later, I had a 100 milli-Watt walkie-talkie that I talked from my house to a mobile 30 miles east of me. He couldn't believe it, so he drove to my house just to see.

hi,for me its about talking to as many people as i can,sometimes i make full use of the icom,why make things difficult,thanks 73 from Rotterdam..

I woke a friend of mine up who lived a block from me one Saturday morning by coming in over his clock radio and it was turned off! LOL

It's fun to do, however it's a GREAT example of what the Man and some other people mentioned here Your WATTAGE/POWER is ALL over the place. In other words, WASTED also poor "PROPAGATION." The trusty old Cobra 29 Classic can be a super great, extremely reliable set up if done right. I've seen them pushing 60 watts of swing. Not bad at all and tried and true,trusty Cobra model 29 Classic and all of the right accessories and Your good to go!! A Trucking Company, most, will tolerate that setup. Keep it on the Low Down!!!! If You don't always drive the same rig,screw it and save Your $$$and time. Another nice feature of this model is the N.O.A.A. weather bands. Yes,the model #29, who could forget the classic radio it truly is!!??

@@davidpringle8089 yes my neighbor a 1/8 mile away comes through on my computer speakers.

I appreciate that!

WHAT!

Aren't 10 meter rigs ran on 11 meters still illegal even if you dial back the power? They aren't FCC type accepted for 11 meter operation.

Everything illegal is fun! 😁

Agreed!!

everything illegal is fun you mean..

Everything you like to eat is not good for you lol

If you can't have fun without breaking the law, you really need to reexamine your life. Flame me if you want, but I'm right.

I picked up the road devil power mic, that has worked wonders for me locally.

@@explanger527 Turner +2 was my go to

With a good antenna, you can talk to the world!

Even into the mid 1980's React still used channel 9 in Texas and channel 19 was the truckers channel when looking for smokies, etc...

I was in CB back in the early 70s, so can agree with your comments. I'm trying to recall if the 11-meter band was originally for Ham use; I bought a used base station ground plane antenna that was apparently an 11-meter ham one, worked fantastically across the entire channel range even after the 40 channel expansion. Antenna Specialists made it, I think. Along with linears a few people used actual ham gear, like the Johnson Vikings and Siltronix 1011 series. Those Siltronix units came from the factory only able to receive 11-meter CB, but cut one wire and transmit was enabled. Many 23-channel CB rigs had a gap on their 24-position selectors, cut a wire and add channel 22A (later assigned as 24). I don't know how many radios I fixed because people tried to do it themselves and cut the wrong wire! Similar to modulation limiters where they'd cut a wire or diode to increase modulation; if they didn't break the radio in the process, they'd cause over modulation and distortion, bleeding over multiple channels even with just 4 watts of carrier RF power.

@@bobblum5973 - That is exactly why Amateur Radio operators have more privileges, we have to prove that we know what we are doing by taking examinations.

@@bobblum5973 I am also an amateur radio operator and I own some vintage ham equipment that has 11 meters marked on the dial. Lots of CB guys used ham gear to operate. The biggest downfall is that the receivers on most of that old ham equipment are not very sensitive. My Browning Golden Eagle with a neuvistor front end is much more sensitive than my Yaesu FT-101. My 101 has 11 meters right on it’s dial by the way. As far as hams being smarter in radio theory, I guess that on the average that is true. But it sure makes me mad when I hear a fellow ham spouting a bunch of B.S. on the air that he is supposed to know better about. I swear that some of these guys didn’t learn a thing when they studied for their test! But I’m also a licensed electronics teacher, so I am a bit more critical about it. And the smartest guy I know in electronics and radio is a CB guy who has no desire to get his ham license. He spent his entire life repairing CB and commercial communications gear for a large company in the Midwest. He still educates me and we are both old, and retired. 😁

@@keithweiss7899 We're on the same wavelength! I was into CB long before the big boom basically ruined it (I did the same with the Internet, before it went nuts). All the tidbits like the 27 MHz radio control frequencies on what CBers later called the "A" channels (10 KHz above 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, and 22A, 22B). Multiple services on 27.255 for CB, RC, and some sort of business band. Diathermy equipment at a doctors office was around channel 12, I think, we had one that would occasionally disrupt comms for several minutes but luckily only for a very small area near it. Oh, and I worked on someone's old 27 MHz garage door opener, and an electronic dog training collar on channel 15A! A few times I had to explain to people that, no, you can't use a guitar amplifier as a CB linear, even if someone said it would work. Congratulations on owning that Browning Golden Eagle; that and a properly aligned Tram Diamond are some of the most solid performing rigs I've ever seen.

I had a Siltronix 1011-C.

I owned several Siltronix radios, actually started out with the Swan 1011 and went up through the rest, still have one Siltronix 1011D Comanche left, waiting on so.e money to restore it along with a Tram D201 (hand wired/vox), a Lafayette 35 (wish I hadn't gotten rid of the 25B) Regency Imperial, Johnson 123, Citi-Fone SS and some others.

I ran a little Midland 13-892 on a power supply through a Palomar 300A to a PDL-ll in the early 70's. That one talked to anybody I could hear.

@@plugnalong2186 I had a Midland also, they were very popular.

That's so fucking cool.

That is good to hear about them not enforcing it.

So nice of you, I try to make videos for everyone to understand.

No, that’s actually incorrect. Smokie and the Bandit came out as a result of, AFTER the big CB craze of 1975. The song Convoy was a bigger influence. I was there.

Smokie was a result of the rise in CB not the cause.

Those were the days! Lights dimming, voices coming over the TV. SERIOUS CB setups!

I tried to tell it in the simplest terms I could think of. Glad it came out OK.

@@FarpointFarms Better than ok. And now i see all the ham guys gitn' their big words out tryin' to muck it up! LMFAO they kill me

Glad you enjoy it!

Yes it was!😃 My Dad worked for Thetford (the potra potty people) back then and he would bring home the latest and greatest RVs of the day that were R&D units for the industry. Me and a couple of buddies would camp in the driveway and yack all damn night. Good times😁

yes fond memories back then... use to meet girls on it too... made a lot of friends and stayed up all night!

Was a great way to find 'coffee breaks' (keg party), no ID required!

It was great times!!

barefoot my radio would talk 15 miles mostly boxes say they're 150 lo

Or 2:50 high probably not more than 40 on the low and 80 on the high

@@joeylowery4566 When you say barefoot, do you mean a Striker 955 or other export or a 4 watt Cobra out of the box? The 80 or so watts a Stryker will do will get you out pretty far with a good antenna with quiet conditions. My examples are more real world with static some skip.

A lot of that noise came from a fairly tall building just across the Ambassador bridge. Dude could own 85% of Detroit cb traffic any time he wanted.......lol

Funny that you say that. Me and old dean still talk every other day on 37. I live right off 94 and Southfield and he live just on the other side of Southfield service drive. We talk to guys up in Pontiac area. Really cool group of guys

Glad you liked it! Sounds like your neighbor got the point. The FCC is hard to piss off, but will lay the hammer down on you if you push too far.

meangreen69Nova - the radio transmissions were coming through the speakers in the organs and fried the electronics.

meangreen69Nova - not a f*cking liar. His transmissions were coming through our TV set. Not only the sound but would cause static on the picture every time he keyed his mic. If the organ was being used, his audio would come through extremely garbled and not understandable, through the speakers in the organs. And as I said, it even resonated through the heating element in the kitchen oven. My father kept complaining to him and he would send his son over with filters to put in line with the antenna on the TV, which never helped. We weren't the only ones in the neighborhood having the same problems. The other two houses in close proximity to his antenna (within 300 yards +/-) had the same problems with their TVs also. Again, not a liar and I don't appreciate being called one.

@meangreen69Nova back in late 70s I heard of someone with 1kw and quad beam coming out of neighbors microwave.

@meangreen69Nova not bogus at all. There was a guy where I live back in the 60's that could key up and shut down Ma Bell.

Those Stryker radios are some of the best for sure!

" You don't know the power of the dark side" bbi 50kw super bowl six.

You say that because you dont get your name called.

let me tell you something, it´s even better and much more fun then listening on HAM Band ... cq contest cq contest 5/9 tnx and so on and so on. And by the way i don´t know but is there no limitation for power in Contest. I thing there is, but is 1,5 kw not enough, no 5 or 10kw and a 6over6 msut do the job. Splattering the whole band, is this better ??? 73´s gd dx

@@jochenkrebs9685 had my HF ticket and let it expire when it came time to renew, did field day and a few other contests on my own, always liked CB and the CB crowd better... just my .02

@@jochenkrebs9685 Damn, easy there snowflake, easy does it,......shhhhh....there there now.

Roger that!

Yes, and the FCC will be glad to drag you through the Courts, and a Judge will be glad to take your Home and other assets to cover the huge fines. Very smart. 😳 Also, the interference with other ( EMERGENCY ) Radio services etc is downright rude.

@@carminemurphy1275 Don't fear the alphabet agency's. But hey you do you Scooby-Doo.

I'm in the UK Murphy, I don't give a crap

@@carminemurphy1275 and as was said earlier fcc doesnt do anything anymore.. Probably to many little crybabies for them to deal with and it doesn't interfere with things like it did years ago...Electronics and filters along with coax shielding have all improved tremendously since the good ole days...

Portland Oregon around 98-99..... Squash Fest!! Find the high ground and a whip with a 12 pill box... I win,...or I stay home and key up the TS440 and wack the Henry 2K....

I had a Cardon Spitfire back in the day, wonder if it's the same chassis as your RCA. iirc you could peak it for around 30w swing

Good to know!

There is something special about transmitting on 12 watts SSB from NC and clearly talking with a guy in Australia. It;s amazing what a little CB radio can do!

thanks for watching

Agreed. A lot of my videos address setting up a decent station. With that you can talk to the world on 4 watts.

I recently put an Antron-99 on 20ft pole and question 1) is do all these guys putting theirs up 60 ft. or more normally pull them down and put them back up to adj. them for better swrs? And 2 ) where are these guys finding these towers to put them up so high and also how can they without trees interfering while putting them up? I have an early version of the Galaxy Saturn Turbo and without putting a99 up higher, I'm very limited on height in town to use this awesome radio the way it was intended to be.

Hi I'm keying all over you! Big big radio.

they call me the midnight midnight midnight... they call me the midnight cowboy in my diesel wagon and i just got down. i miss him alot. he was the best voice on radio and his soamming would fade in and out all night.

Yeah, i always thought it was 4x too.

Yes sir, I do believe you are correct. Doubling your output power the person at the receiving station would be hard pressed to notice any difference.

You have to triple your power output to increase 1 s unit on the receiving end. So 4 x3 is 12 watts = 1 s unit and so on. You quickly hit a wall where you have minimal results. The practical choice is then a 350 watt amp. 350 watts gives you 4 s units increase. After that it gets very expensive and impractical. Your better off like the man said to invest in a good antenna, coaxial cable and a tower or method to increase antenna height. 32' high is a base line for best performance and gets better with more height. Use rg 8 or better 50 ohm coax on a base antenna. Rg 8x is only good for jumpers or mobile applications as it has high signal loss on long runs. 9913 flex is the best choice for long runs of coax but it's expensive. 213 u has alot of signal loss on long runs too. I've personally never seen a 440 vac powered amp. Usually the big boy amps are 220 vac. The reason why most amps on eBay are parts or repair amps is due to the fact that people don't know how to properly operate or set up their radios and damage them or they steal parts and put there old bad parts in and try to return them. There are several sellers that know there item is not working and just try to scam you too. If they don't know anything about the item or can't verify proper functionality expect the worse. It's not illegal to own a amp just illegal to use or manufacturer or import or export with out proper license. Tube amps are the best sounding when operating properly but there are trade offs in ease of use and cost of replacement tubes etc. The most common problem running amps is improper power supply. Use wiring that can handle the current demands. Make sure you swr is low and doesn't raise to improper levels when amp is used as it naturally will rise with increased power output.

Nice point!

No, you don't need power. You need repeaters. Several years ago, during the peak of a 11 year sunspot cycle, I made a contact with a guy in Maryland from my desk in California using a hand held radio that was putting 1W into a rubber duck antenna. I was working the 220 MHz band, going through a repeater that had a remote base on 10 Meters (29.6 MHz.) There is a lot of good stuff out there, but people need to stop just thinking that they think they know what is right. If you got rid of your CB and your automatic transmission, you would be well on your way learning how to be competent.