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11 meter is very quiet?

Quieter than a dead mouse here.

Well, around here is having a receiver sensitive enough to tune right down to the background noise of the Universe. (That’s a New Mexican Radio).

For the rest of us, Recons Dog snores/whistles at a dB detectable with neither transmitter nor antenna employed . . . yet can be received.

Your dead mouse flatus is a direct lightening strike with thunder.

Pay attention! Time for a tune-up.

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Some chatter on 19 and some bozo on 17.

I did respond to a radio check and the other person was excited that someone responded. He wasn’t too far but he came in pretty good. He sounded new to the hobby...greener then me! Another person into CB!!!


Didja lob a live hand-grenade “technical” question at him?

Otherwise it ain’t “brotherly-love”.

(Okay. Got it. You’re saving that for THIRD time contacted).

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Talked 90 miles north on am 28 this morning it was so quiet. I usually dont hear much skip until late afternoon when conditions are quiet like this and then its usually the islands south of me.
 
Took more than two days at my reduced pace to remove and then reinstall the big truck gear in an all-new conn-figger-a-shun . . . but sure didn’t hear anything here at home.

Hell, I was lucky to get a radio check from a passing big truck.
And that was while pushing 75W.


A few days of shake-down (no exaggeration in a big truck) and it’s mo bettah quiet.

Heard a little on side-Band here and there.

The real news is how I jump when voices startle me. Out of nowhere. Out of (dare I say) silence.

There’s silent and DEAD SILENT. A SPECTRUM, right?

Always nice ones efforts seem to pay.

Am “done” per what’s at radio end of rig for now, but coax “needs” to come out again.

And find a few more hidden places to bond cab from underneath.

Then the Snipe Hunt (them Es-Er-Bees) can begin again in earnest.

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