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My guess is something above Ch28 AM high power and below Ch36 where the SSB users hang out, say Ch30, Ch31, Ch32, Ch33, Ch34. Edit the Wikipedia and it will become a de-facto standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_radio_in_the_United_States Ch31 (27.315 MHz) is the FM calling frequency in...

European CBs and "export radios" and 10 meter radios derived from "export radios" are typically narrow only, to fit in the 10 kHz channel spacing of the CB service. Emission designation something like 8K50F3E which means F3E FM phone modulation and an 8.50 kHz wide emission (about 2 kHz or 2.5...

28.400 then "up 10" to 28.410 etc. Easiest just to monitor 28.400 for a band opening before shouting CQ into the wind.

I've got a pretty good setup, but how does one keep the antenna aluminum elements from melting once they start arcing (time mark 0:57 in the video below)? Liquid helium closed-cycle refrigeration? If that's the case, need yet another alternator to power the antenna cooling system.

A little bit of skip rolling in on 38 LSB around noon Mountain time (1900Z) on Saturday 3/13 before the time change, but wasn't able to work any with the barefoot mobile Uniden 980SSB into a tailgate-mounted 102 inch whip. Sounded like all "big gun" base stations talking to one another. A bit...

Requested number: WDX-505 Handle: "Ham" Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA

Lots of solar power here in the desert southwest, so the QRM is abundant. My neighbor is completing his solar install this week. I put a 102 inch whip and a MFJ mobile tuner in the truck last fall, and operate 38 LSB mobile. Worked skip from New Mexico to southern and central California last...

You can download the app without having the Midland mic and use it in "listen-only" mode. The product came from Midland Europe, and as far as I know the mic isn't available from the Midland USA web page --- you can only get it in the US as a grey-market import. There are US-based "channels" or...

Meanwhile, the Yaesu FTDX101D and FTDX10 test 1st and 3rd in the independent Sherwood Engineering receiver rankings http://www.sherweng.com/table.html Kenwood is completely missing from the top 5, and Icom only has a receiver (not a transceiver) in the top 3. FlexRadio and Elecraft fill out the...

MFJ 259B I've had about 20 years, and for VHF/UHF (UHF ham and GMRS, primarily) a RigExpert AA-650 Zoom. Spend more on antennas, coax, connectors, adapters, ferrites, antenna tuners, and antenna analyzers than on the radios. Thought I had a radio hobby, turns out I have an antenna hobby.

No way you're close to being done. It is probably time to study up and pass that 25 question Technician ham license test so you can put a 2 meter FM rig in there for 146.52 MHz, along with a digital hotspot and a cheap DMR radio with bluetooth headset capability so you can get on the "Over the...

Ah. Slowmover probably has more helpful info, as he drives OTR. The K0BG.com site is geared toward the mobile ham operator in a standard passenger car or truck, but there's still a lot of good info. I have a 2 ft Firestick clone on the Class C RV (Ford E450) on a hood channel / front fender...

I'd just use the antenna as-is. Looks fine for now. 1.41:1 is a good SWR at 27.385 Channel 38. The SWR improves as you move down, and has a minimum at 27.245 Channel 25. It should be fine on Channel 19, just on the other side of the minimum. What are you trying to tune? A mag mount? A...

Hams can use the APRS packet radio positioning system to report their position and operating frequency while driving. I did a quick survey of the packet stations on https://aprs.fi/ and on http://www.findu.com/ which were using the 18-wheeler truck icon (APRS symbol "/u") as their reporting...

If you think the antenna is too short, stick on a 10 inch shaft at the bottom of the spring https://www.wearecb.com/procomm-10-stainless-steel-shaft.html and then if it is overall too long, cut the crimp-on ferrule off the bottom of the whip and shorten the whip a bit at a time from the...

Not familiar with the current Australian vernacular. What type of "ute" vehicle do you have? A 4x4 pickup truck like a Toyota Hilux, or a car body utility vehicle like a Chevrolet El Camino? Rago Fabrication here in the U.S. makes bolt-on 27 MHz CB antenna brackets for various off-road 4x4...

You'll want a "line level converter" which simulates a speaker's load on the EXT SP jack of your CB radio, and converts the speaker output to something you can plug into an input AUX jack on your car's audio system...

Are the AM and SSB measurements on a peak-reading wattmeter?

You really want the base of the antenna up at the roofline if you're that close to the back of the cab. Try getting the antenna above the roofline, or move the antenna back along the bed so it is further away from the cab. At 6 meters, the majority of the antenna is going to be below the...

29 MHz is very close to 27 MHz for a quarter wave (non-loaded) whip, which is why the 102 inch whip SWR is 2:1 at 29 MHz. It is the opposite of "very out of band", it is in-band. You only lose 11% power heating your coax at 2:1 SWR. Here's the power loss chart...