Was reading through all the threads and I realised one thing....
Once upon a time life with a CB was simple. You'd get an antenna, screw it into a magmount or a mirror mount, throw it on the car, hook your CB up to wherever you could get 12V from and off you'd go, happy as a pig in muck listening to all the truckers and ragchewing with someone up the road ahead as you both drove to wherever you were going. Or you'd bolt a base antenna to your chimney and good to go and get whatever contacts you could get.
And then we amateurs got involved, bringing all our theory and best practice and started to make things serious and complicated bringing in stuff that contesters and DX chasers need to be worried about, not a guy who just wants to talk to random people as they're going about the country.
I look on this board and the antenna/mobile section of other CB forums and wonder if we've taken some of the fun and mystery out of it that made it so enjoyable to many people. Looking at my own posts where people have thrown a rig in their car and are having a good time I've realised that pointing out the shortcomings of it and how things could be done better was maybe something that shouldn't have been done and that it may have tarnished the fun they were up to that point having.
And for that I apologise.
I think in future I'll restrict to offering that level of advice to those who've come trying to resolve a problem and the odd few on here who I know are really interested to that level.
Once upon a time life with a CB was simple. You'd get an antenna, screw it into a magmount or a mirror mount, throw it on the car, hook your CB up to wherever you could get 12V from and off you'd go, happy as a pig in muck listening to all the truckers and ragchewing with someone up the road ahead as you both drove to wherever you were going. Or you'd bolt a base antenna to your chimney and good to go and get whatever contacts you could get.
And then we amateurs got involved, bringing all our theory and best practice and started to make things serious and complicated bringing in stuff that contesters and DX chasers need to be worried about, not a guy who just wants to talk to random people as they're going about the country.
I look on this board and the antenna/mobile section of other CB forums and wonder if we've taken some of the fun and mystery out of it that made it so enjoyable to many people. Looking at my own posts where people have thrown a rig in their car and are having a good time I've realised that pointing out the shortcomings of it and how things could be done better was maybe something that shouldn't have been done and that it may have tarnished the fun they were up to that point having.
And for that I apologise.
I think in future I'll restrict to offering that level of advice to those who've come trying to resolve a problem and the odd few on here who I know are really interested to that level.