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Cb radio is still active.!

  • 29-08-2016 2:03pm
    #1
    aiden007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭


    Talk all over the world using your own setup,be it mobile or home base. USB,lsb still alive!


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  • #2
    martinedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Its a lot more niche than it was in the 80s. Fm/am has far more swearing than it did back in the day. And far more church services too....

    There are a load of folks chasing dx on side band.

    To say still alive is maybe a little optimistic, but the death throes haven't quite stopped yet!


  • #3
    aiden007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭aiden007


    martinedwards wrote: »
    Its a lot more niche than it was in the 80s. Fm/am has far more swearing than it did back in the day. And far more church services too....

    There are a load of folks chasing dx on side band.

    To say still alive is maybe a little optimistic, but the death throes haven't quite stopped yet!

    Fm and am are gone, ssb still alive regarding dx, locals that were on are affected by noise which I believe is new fibre optics,from it has been installed here I have constant battle with noise.
    There is people I have talked to were not aware that you could still use it.


  • #4
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Since moving to mainland Europe (Poland), I'm back in the game. Cb is extremely popular here, maybe 40% of cars have CBs.
    They come in dead handy for traffic, police sightings etc.
    A few weeks back was some amazing skip. Sat in garden chatting to some romanian farmers in their fields (about 400km away), this was on 4w AM.

    Cb units are very small now a days, size of a CD case.

    I bought the crt one, fits down side of my passenger seat, and has all the European bands on it (UK, EU, cept, polish, German) and works very well.


  • #5
    sensormatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭sensormatic


    cb is still alive fm is not great but workable 27 555 is at a low end at the moment but then it does come alive get the sets out lads were still dxing


  • #6
    5.11 Tactical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭5.11 Tactical


    Saturday gone there was a great amount of skip on 555, I was getting contacts in northern europe sitting in a car park at sea level on 12 watts.


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  • #7
    aiden007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭aiden007


    I didn't get on radio in a while, I hear there is little probagation at the moment, hoping to get sirio gain master set up this week if weather permits.Hopefully hear a bit of dx, unusual weather is taking its toll on propagation and low solar activity.


  • #8
    sensormatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭sensormatic


    skip very bad now we will still hold on for better times


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