Clearly there's many in this group with a lot of CB experience, and while I did drive around with a CB in my car as a goofy 16 year old back when Papa Bush was president, there's a lot I don't know.
First, what significance do the channels have nowadays?
I can clearly see that 6 is "Bruthas runnin' multiple Kilowatts," but some background would be interesting. I've sold some of these guys my Eimac YC-156 MRI machine pulls at TRW, so I know they run some serious hardware. What the hell are they saying? Are they simply just trying to DX like hams do, or are they up to some major conspiracy?
9 of course is the "911 is a joke" pseudo-emergency channel. Does anyone really monitor this one for people in trouble anymore?
And, 19 is the trucker channel, which has in fact come in handy when you want to know why the freeway is stopped.
But what about the rest of them?
Part II, Amplifiers. I know a ton about tube linears, but not so much about transistor amps. I'm really curious about the... uhm... "cheap and dirty engineering" employed. If anyone here is willing to cop to being an amp-building expert, I'd be grateful if I could ask a bunch of questions.
Simply, what is a good "commercial" model that uses one or two uh... "pills" that would be a good design to copy on the workbench? (I'm thinking you have to have at least two, and/or multiples of two, to be Class AB and therefore truly linear.) I'm familiar with the Granberg designs in the Motorola Engineering Bulletins, but I'm betting there were many out there that ran the fewest components possible to save a buck or three.
I swear I'd only be applying this knowledge to 10 meter apparatus!!!
Thanks,
Jason W6IEE
(Looking forward to letting the smoke out of a few poor transistors.)
First, what significance do the channels have nowadays?
I can clearly see that 6 is "Bruthas runnin' multiple Kilowatts," but some background would be interesting. I've sold some of these guys my Eimac YC-156 MRI machine pulls at TRW, so I know they run some serious hardware. What the hell are they saying? Are they simply just trying to DX like hams do, or are they up to some major conspiracy?
9 of course is the "911 is a joke" pseudo-emergency channel. Does anyone really monitor this one for people in trouble anymore?
And, 19 is the trucker channel, which has in fact come in handy when you want to know why the freeway is stopped.
But what about the rest of them?
Part II, Amplifiers. I know a ton about tube linears, but not so much about transistor amps. I'm really curious about the... uhm... "cheap and dirty engineering" employed. If anyone here is willing to cop to being an amp-building expert, I'd be grateful if I could ask a bunch of questions.
Simply, what is a good "commercial" model that uses one or two uh... "pills" that would be a good design to copy on the workbench? (I'm thinking you have to have at least two, and/or multiples of two, to be Class AB and therefore truly linear.) I'm familiar with the Granberg designs in the Motorola Engineering Bulletins, but I'm betting there were many out there that ran the fewest components possible to save a buck or three.
I swear I'd only be applying this knowledge to 10 meter apparatus!!!
Thanks,
Jason W6IEE
(Looking forward to letting the smoke out of a few poor transistors.)