11 meter is very quiet?

[BC Coyote]

I don't go any where near the lower end of CB

I usually avoid the regular 40 all together, especially from my base. Too much noise and too many idiots down there.

Channel 6 (The toilet bowl) is the bane of the 11 meter band. There's days the splatter from there makes it all the way up into the freeband, more than 500 KHz above 6 !! Lots of splatterboxes on steroids down there LOL!

 

[S&W357]

Try a West Mountain Radio CLR Speaker to make your incoming audio much better. I use one on my AT6666 and one on my Icom. Lots of good info about them on this forum.

 

[BC Coyote]

I've heard really good things about that CLR speaker ! Not sure where I would find room to mount it in my RAV4 though ! It was hard enough finding a place to put the radio (which ended up on the dash).

 

[whiteastro]

Just joking, I don't go any where near the lower end of CB

I kind of figured you were ! The lower end of CB is like sucking in Air Pollution unless you get into the lower Freeband ! LOL

 

[whiteastro]

Try a West Mountain Radio CLR Speaker to make your incoming audio much better. I use one on my AT6666 and one on my Icom. Lots of good info about them on this forum.

Two of those are on my real near Wish List and maybe a third for my other mobile if they work out as good as I hear they do. I've had them bookmarked for a while now but Retirement income gets in the way.

 

[whiteastro]

I've heard really good things about that CLR speaker ! Not sure where I would find room to mount it in my RAV4 though ! It was hard enough finding a place to put the radio (which ended up on the dash).

Sometimes you have to get creative. My Chevy Cobalt is rather small but at least most of the time I don't carry passengers so I can spread out.

 

[whiteastro]

Channel 6 (The toilet bowl) is the bane of the 11 meter band.

Now there is a name I can relate to ! LOL I've been scanning FM on my little Thomas radio and the ( Toilet Bowl ) is the only channel that breaks the squelch.

 

[BC Coyote]

My Chevy Cobalt is rather small but at least most of the time I don't carry passengers so I can spread out.

We're a one car family, so I have to fit the girlfriend and kids in there somewhere as well........

 

[whiteastro]

We're a one car family, so I have to fit the girlfriend and kids in there somewhere as well........

Yeah I remember those days of giving up your dreams for the family. Hang in you'll make it. Being 73.5 YO comes with it's hang-ups also. The mind is willing but the body and wallet say NO. LOL

 

[S&W357]

Being 80 YO has its hang-ups as well.

 

[whiteastro]

Being 80 YO has its hang-ups as well.

I'm sure of it as your health heads South. You have to think about the good you have and not dwell on the bad. I watch my 93 YO mom struggle with health issues and think. ( Some Reward for working Hard ) Ya just gotta keep Plugging along !

 

[Eldorado828]

The 11 meter band conditions were pretty awful this evening. I still managed a few contacts but it was definitely sub-par in comparison to what it's been lately.

 

[BC Coyote]

Yeah it was terrible conditions here today too...........

The one advantage of bad conditions is that the locals tend to reappear on the radio. Many of them vanish when DX takes over the band !

I keep telling my locals I need them to stick around, otherwise when the solar cycle is in the doldrums in a few years there'll be nobody for me to talk to !
I have maybe 12 or 14 locals within 100 miles of me, but many of them are rarely if ever heard. There's only a handful who are on the air semi-regularly.

 

[unit_399]

AM CB has dried up around here. If it wasn't for DX you would hear nothing on AM. I use to run to Scranton PA and could hear locales chatting on AM and now Nothing not even a radio check.

AM Cb is getting stronger here. Mostly on 27.445. Several stations in the Med and surrounding towns now, and over 2 dozen in our area on ch 20AM every night. The local mujeres cackling away. Nothing daytime because skip is everywhere. The central government relaxed the rules for getting a CB license the 1st of this year. No more tests. Just pay the fee and you're good to go. A good opportunity for someone to make some pesos, as the demand for CBs is way up. Used to be a lot of used CBs (mostly 23 channel sets) on Mercado Libre, but that's dried up.

Yesterday was Colombia's DX day. My signal into the US was really strong because I was barraged with replies whenever I keyed up. Some days I can hear a lot of US DX, but I call and call and never a reply. Strange.

Funny thing yesterday. When I first keyed up, my signal was over 200 watts low. I went around checking everything and no probs. Looked at my meter, and someone (????) had switched it from peak to average. I don't remember doing that. Senior moment, I guess.

J.J. 399

 

[BC Coyote]

AM Cb is getting stronger here.

AM CB is totally dead up here on the west coast of Canada. The last time I heard a local on AM was almost 20 years ago now, and there hasn't been any kind of regular local AM network since the late 1990's !
Local sideband is still a thing though, probably due to it's better range in the rugged terrain we have.