Hayleylulu
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has any one put a CB in there van and as it been any good
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When we bought our mh from Germany it had a German cb fitted but as I thought I would only get calls in German I removed it.
de G4GMO
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dont buy a japanese tv then ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-zxi_Y4Xu8
No......and it's only worth bothering with if there is a small group of you travelling.has any one put a CB in there van and as it been any good
No......and it's only worth bothering with if there is a small group of you travelling.
Basically CB died a death the minute Government 'wised up' and legalised it on FM. Which just goes to prove if you want to get rid of something....make it legal and available.
Perhaps the one good thing to come out of it is the likes of 'G4GMO' have the days of illegal AM/CB to thank for helping revive an obscure minority hobby by introducing many ex-CB folk into the world of Amateur Radio.
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Question, if you can not use a phone while driving how are you going to use the Cb mike ...come back good buddie!!??
Can I ask a question....I used to be a CB..er years ago, forgotten most of it now age and senility......and yes a good idea...Unless I missed it on all the previous threads on fun about CB ....
Question, if you can not use a phone while driving how are you going to use the Cb mike ...come back good buddie!!??
Ham radio antenna's vary in size from about 1mm* to ..... well pretty huge things. *( yes, ONE MILLIMETER ! but to be fair you do need a special variation on your licence and the range is about 50 ft or so at the moment ! )
Range is dependent on band used ( trying not to get too technical ! ).. I shall limit this waffle to just two bands..
For instance, 2mtrs ( 144-145.999 megs ) might be reasonably expected to deliver around a 20 to 30 mile range depending on the lay of the land.
70cm's, ( 430 - 440 megs in the UK ) 15 to 20 miles .. On top of that there is a European wide network of handy gadets called repeaters which will easily double the effective range you can communicate over.
There is nothing magical about ham radio which makes it travel further ( though technically things 'amateur' are generally of another magnitude of quality ! ) it is more about better receivers and more power being transmitted
My own standard 2mtr transceiver ( transmitter / receiver ) runs 50 watts output power, a standard CB radio 4 watts
Receivers are hard to understand so an analogy for you
The 2mtr radio can pick up a flea rubbing its hands together at 10 paces. A CB might pic up a centipede with hobnail boots on at 10 inches
Antenna's for either band can be considerably smaller than those used on CB ( also known as 11mtrs ) The lower the frequency / band used, the bigger the antenna needed.
To a large extent it is very easy to kid the transmitter in to seeing an antenna as being larger than it physically is, so whilst size is a issue ( isn't it always LOL ! ) it is not really something that should be of undue concern.
How to get a ham radio licence.
Nowadays it is quite easy..
Folk like G4GMO had a really hard time getting through.. The city and guilds exams needed were written papers.
By the time I came along in 1980 they had just switch to multichoice papers which made getting the basic licence somewhat easier.
As Reader ( M0DWQ ) does not say what his previous callsign was I dunno what exam set he took )
Having said that, we both had to sit a further exam, this time demonstrating an ability to transmit and receive morse code at a minimum of 12 words per minute.. all a right pain for a lot of folk !!
Nowadays you can take on a very short and easy tutorial course and be licensed more or less in a couple of weeks.. The licence will be restricted but would be good enough to allow some serious fun and games !
Returning to the original post.....
I have a proposal.
As Sir Frog Person rightly says, chnl 19 ( and 14 ) are full of foul mouthed scum bags and oiks
The truckers moved off and adopted ( in this area any way ) 21 as their calling channel.
Why not adopt a Motorhome calling channel ?
Channel 1 is out, as is 9 ( emergency channel ), 14 is already gone as is 19, 21 and 22. And 40 has always been well occupied by transient users
For many years this area used channel 27 as a calling channel.
I propose those with a CB adopt channel 27 on both UK and the new EU CB channels.
Oh and the little 446PMR hand sets.. All bikers use channel 3 with no encoding.
Bikers, like motorhomers, are generally a sociable bunch and will often have a chat, so why not use that channel on that band ?
An awful lot of folk have those little radios and it would be handy if we all knew what channel we were on at the various events attended ....
Can I have a seconder ? LOL !!
It has been years since I had the chance to waffle on about my second biggest interest, so sorry if I have bored folk but at least I enjoyed typing it !
Cheers n Beers, de G4VEL ( QTHR ) ex G6HML
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I might just get a couple of whips for the mirrors and give it a go again
Boo (G8BUN)
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