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Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 70
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 23, 2020 - 8:54 pm: | 
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Not one post since the 7th of feb? I remember when this site was crazy with activity, dozens of posts a day. were a dying breed. can you imagine if we had internet back in the 70s when CB was king?
73 to all.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 71
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 24, 2020 - 7:19 pm: |
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Its to bad that there is no posts here for weeks. Just a few years ago this place was a buzz of activity. I do notice that when the sporatic E skip comes in there is a lot of traffic on the radio, both AM and SSB. Thank goodness for that. If anyone hears 567 northern Minnesota, that's me. I freaquent 38 LSB. 73 to all.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 2376
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 24, 2020 - 8:52 pm: |
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im still here
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
454 [dx numbers]
38lsb
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Spun
Junior Member
Username: Spun
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 6:57 pm: |
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A lot of people are here, just lurk. Forums are not what they use to be 10+ years ago, thanks for Facebook and all the other social media platforms.
73's
99 Georgia (38LSB) |
Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 704
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 28, 2020 - 8:45 pm: |
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Your right, As for me I have been in the hospital for surgery. Catch you all later . |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2450
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 2:53 pm: |
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I'm still here.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Tech858
Moderator
Username: Tech858
Post Number: 586
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 3:43 pm: |
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I'm still here
Tech858/Jim
MM0TXO
Wavin' a hand from Scotland
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Chosen_one
New member
Username: Chosen_one
Post Number: 9
Registered: 8-2018
| | Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 5:12 pm: |
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Here!
CEF #1021
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Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 705
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 8:25 pm: |
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You know with the way radio's of today is made and everything is going with smt surface mount tech. there is very little mods can be done to radio's like we use to do. I would guess that is another reason why at times this site would seem to be a little slow. |
Gage
Intermediate Member
Username: Gage
Post Number: 249
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2020 - 8:48 am: |
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I don't post much but still check the Forum out.
Also I have bought one beam and three radio's plus some other thing's from Copper great people to deal with. |
Assaulter
Member
Username: Assaulter
Post Number: 64
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 12:40 pm: |
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I'm still around! |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 2380
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 03, 2020 - 9:27 pm: |
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im still around too. with the corna virus going around and on lockdown .other than work im home alot more and been trying to check in alot more again
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
454 [dx numbers]
38lsb
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Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 708
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, April 18, 2020 - 2:07 am: |
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Hello, everyone, Dale, That is what the entire country is doing. Well, those that have any common sense. Except for some of the college kids that went on spring break and I wonder if they have any sense at all now. LOL |
Ke0koy
Junior Member
Username: Ke0koy
Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2018
| | Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 10:28 am: |
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I was one of those people who strongly supported staying home as i have at-risk relatives, in fact, i ruined a few friendships advocating staying at home. But as this thing progress, admittedly, i have some questions.
Why, if this is so contagious, did it not take over the whole world between November and March when we were not locked down?
Why are almost half the people being tested already showing antibodies when they didn't even know they had it? Did you feel cruddy in January? Me too.
Why are the elderly still dying in nursing homes when under the strictest of lockdown?
Why did the CDC numbers on pneumonia deaths suddenly plummet this year? Is coronavirus curing pneumonia now?
Why, if they know it acts like malaria and binds up hemoglobin, are we not treating it similarly? The fat cats buying stocks in antimalarial drugs before they tell people how good it works?
Why does my states' governor want 40k tests a week before opening businesses when, to date, we have not yet tested that many people in total?
Why is it ok to go to walmart but its not ok to go camping?
The Kennedy Center gets 25 million in covid relief and immediately donates 5 million of it to the DNC. My issue is that they gladly accepted your covid relief tax dollars for political gain. WTF?
Why is everyone crying about being out of work when there are so many help wanted signs out there?
Why are people using "so we don't run out of ventilators" as a reason to slow this when ventilators aren't working?
Why are we giving people that make +100k a year ANY stimulus money? I get by on less than 10k a year just fine! Maybe they should stop living lavishly and save a few bucks, don't you think?
2/3 of small business owners say if this continues more than 4 months, they wont reopen. How many people will tanking the economy kill?
This isnt going away so why not keep the vulnerable (that now seem to die only from coronavirus) locked down and let this run its course through the healthy?
When the fastest vaccine ever made took 4 years to properly create, what defines "when this is over"?
I'm all for stopping the spread of this, don't get me wrong, but at some point we need to reevaluate our plan. Millions have it, many millions more already got over it without knowing they even had it. Its too embedded in society to think we can stay at home and kill this off when people in NY are blowing by on their bicycles wearing nothing but big smiles. If EVERYBODY in the entire world doesn't self isolate with 100% sincerity, this will keep going around and around nice and slow ~ just like the socialists looking to get free money want. Slowing it down isn't stopping it.
Anyone who wishes to attack me for this post should start by telling me your definition of "when this is over" and follow up with their plan to save all the small business owners like me who didn't see a dime of that shady stimulus plan. |
Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 709
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 8:59 pm: |
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Well, because people do not wear mask and wash hands it will only spread worse. This I believe will never leave us and I believe like the flu and the common cold it will be always something we have to live or die with. I have seen here locally people not wearing mask coughing not covering their mouth . Then I find out that they have the virus and they infect many other people. They do not have a cure for the common cold or the flu and I doubt there will be a cure for this virus. Also I have seen young healthy people get this and die. Like I had said in my last post common sense goes a long way if people have any and will just use it. For years when I use a gas pump handle or door handle I sanitize my hands and do not touch my face. You do not know if the people that use a gas pump handle or door handle have ever washed their hands. One time I forgot to sanitize my hands and I got deathly sick for a week. I don't forget now. |
Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 75
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 12:23 pm: |
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I was just wondering where everybody was. I have no idea why of how this turned into a Corona virus discussion. That was a left turn.
Anyway im a licensed ham operator and there is been lots of activity on the lower HF bands but as most here im really looking forward to 11 meters opening up. CB is where i got my start back in 1974 and i been hooked on radio ever since. I am really looking forward to cycle 25. Hope to hear from some of you when the band finally opens up.
73 to all.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Ke0koy
Junior Member
Username: Ke0koy
Post Number: 22
Registered: 12-2018
| | Posted on Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 1:33 pm: |
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You missed it a week ago. There was constant skip in the us from new york to texas into the midwest that persisted for about 5 days. I heard a little last night too, but didnt try making contacts. Mother nature has been lifting her skirt lately so get that radio turned on! |
Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 76
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 6:45 pm: |
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What im looking forward to is DX. The US skip just dont do it for me anymore. Im talking Europe in the morning and the South Pacific in the evening. But thanks for the info. Hopefully cycle 25 gets rolling soon.
73.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 710
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 9:50 pm: |
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I started radio in 1965. I remember those GOOD OLE DAY'S well. That is when we had to have a license to operate on 11 meter (CB). We use to set up from 11:00 pm to 6:00 am in the morning to make our long distance contact's. Also back then there were no trash talking or cussing or filthy speech on the air wave's. Back then is when FCC enforced the law's well. Boy have time's changed. So for this post where is everyone. Thanks to GOD since 1965 I am still here still hooked on all my radio's and scanner's. Waiting for the long distance communication condition's to come back and looking forward to making a contact to any and all of you when possible on the radio. I still do 11 meter but I am a ham operator and I communicate on the HF,UHF,VHF band's and I do DMR as well. On HF I don't have an amplifier so I have to wait on good condition's for long distance communication's. So, to all on this post I wish everyone the best and may GOD BLESS |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2460
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2020 - 12:39 pm: |
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I also started on CB when a license was required, and I truly miss those days. Of course, I was still in grade school, so everything was still magical and fresh.
I remember when the FCC dropped the licensing requirement for 27 MHz. CB radio but kept some of the arcane rules like no communications over 155 miles, etc. I thought to my 12 year old self, "How are they going to enforce THAT?"
Fast forward to the year 2020 and the FCC has finally lifted the rule about talking over 155 miles on CB legally. Why bother now? CB is not what it was in the early 70's.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 711
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2020 - 1:20 pm: |
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By the way Tech 833, I was 10 year's old when I had started. My dad was into radio and scanner's and shortwave. So my Dad got me started into radio's of all different kind's. |
Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 712
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2020 - 1:16 pm: |
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True 833, I think the FCC made a mistake in what they had done not to require a license. Now 11 meter is like the Jerry springer show. ANYTHING GOES |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2461
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2020 - 3:08 pm: |
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I think the big mistake was going to what the FCC called "license by rule". Sounds good on paper, but not practical in the real world.
When the CB band required a license, you could still operate temporarily and legally by using the letter K followed by your first and last initial then your zip code. Remember that?
It is my opinion that CB was fantastic in the 70's and into the 80's when almost 1/2 of the cars on the road had CB radios in them, and almost every truck had one. Many base stations were on the air, especially at night. Channel 9 was monitored over about 80% of the US by REACT members or individuals who just did it for their own reasons. It was really neat how it all just worked.
I'm not so sure that dropping the license is what caused the major shift though. I think people in general are different now. I think cellphones and facebook (and it's similar internet social networking) caused a lot of people to change the way they act, think, and live. Even the worst scoundrels on CB in the 70's were a lot nicer than the typical chat room participant or YouTube commenter today.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 713
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2020 - 9:38 pm: |
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Your exactly right. We had a county react also. But everything you said is right on. |
Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 77
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, May 09, 2020 - 10:02 pm: |
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Lots of US skip today. I drove up to the cabin today and put my trusty 2970n2 in the truck. There was lots of activity on 38 lower. Maine to Colorado and all in between. Cant wait for DX to start rolling in from europe and Australia.
73 to all from 567 northern Minnesota.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Watt
Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 79
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2020 - 12:20 pm: |
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Hope all is well with everyone.
DX is the next best thing to being there.
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Milkman21218
Advanced Member
Username: Milkman21218
Post Number: 673
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, August 29, 2020 - 9:19 pm: |
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I'm still around somewhere. I think!
Izzy
CEF#502
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Lonestarbandit
Intermediate Member
Username: Lonestarbandit
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2021 - 9:26 am: |
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I'm still here though I have been MIA for probably idk 15 years lol getting back to the hobby again if copper can get some stock in a 2950cd and a maco v58 and assorted pieces lol. I'll never sell my equipment again. This is the 3rd time buying the same stuff. ESPECIALLY I will NEVER sell my great condition Turner Plus Three again... Have you SEEN what they go for now??? |
Centurion
Junior Member
Username: Centurion
Post Number: 19
Registered: 7-2020
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2021 - 3:37 am: |
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I have been in 11 meter also since the license days even worked with some people in my area to bring back the Rush and react systems on channel 9 now all 9 is a mess of Skip from south of the border but i do still enjoy skip and have a SSB set up 73s from 498 in the peach fields of Georgia! |
Scarecrow
New member
Username: Scarecrow
Post Number: 3
Registered: 1-2021
| | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 12:30 pm: |
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hey. i'm a recently registered member. not new to cb, but rookie to forums as i don't participate in social media. WOW what a dinosaur. i do text, and i have an email that my pay statements get sent to though. lol
i greatly appreciate the knowledge and help and general polite conversation this site has to offer.
keep it up guys, and its GREAT to see that an AWAKENING is finally starting to occur regarding this viral manipulation of the masses for monetary gain.
i've said from the start of this to people, STAY STRONG, be PREPARED. |
Doctor_boozo
New member
Username: Doctor_boozo
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2021
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2021 - 7:27 pm: |
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I am still here. Working on erecting my a99 for 10/11 , just have to get a few parts.
CEF795 |
Hawkeye
Member
Username: Hawkeye
Post Number: 79
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 8:29 pm: |
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I am still here |
Charliebrown
Advanced Member
Username: Charliebrown
Post Number: 748
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 27, 2021 - 6:01 pm: |
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I am always here reading. I enjoy this forum because it has of course the best TECH'S and best member's of any site. Very respectful and educational. I am a General class Ham Operator and I enjoy 11 meter. Here in my local area we use 27.3650 as a Christian Channel Very respectful channel no filthy language of any kind like on other 11 meter frequencies. I am 66 years old and back in the day when you had to have a license to operate on 11 meter the FCC was very strict, no filthy talk of any kind was permitted. If it ever happened we reported it to the FCC. My 11 METER LICENSE NUMBER was KEC1228 My dad was KDQ5774 Those were the good ole day's. |
Scarecrow
New member
Username: Scarecrow
Post Number: 6
Registered: 1-2021
| | Posted on Monday, March 29, 2021 - 8:15 pm: |
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I also come here to read and learn things.
Very informative for a novice like myself. |
