Ham gear on lower side band 38

[Captain Kilowatt]

I agree 100% Gary. Back in my day there were lots of Yaesu FT-707's on the air as well as lots of Kenwood TS-120's and this was starting around 1980. This is not to even mention the FT-101's or Siltronix/Swan 1011D's and a plethora of other amateur gear.

 

[w9cll]

I agree with BJ, they make the band better

 

[Tallman]

Well you know the signals are cleaner!

 

[543_Dallas]

BJ hit the nail on the head. The smarter guys will pick up an HF rig but the.....no sense in name calling......keep buying billy big rig export shit and sweep tubes by the dozen.

I used to not recommend an HF rig to a cber because the AM audio was poor without some work but the modern rice box can make good AM. No swing, roger beeps or other crap. If you really have to have the toys and beeps put it in a project box and put it inline with the mic.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

BJ hit the nail on the head. The smarter guys will pick up an HF rig but the.....no sense in name calling......keep buying billy big rig export shit and sweep tubes by the dozen.

I used to not recommend an HF rig to a cber because the AM audio was poor without some work but the modern rice box can make good AM. No swing, roger beeps or other crap. If you really have to have the toys and beeps put it in a project box and put it inline with the mic.

I have recommended an HF rig to many CBers. It's the AMmode I don't recommend regardless of what radio they use. LOL SSB all the way on 11m. AM on 80m is fine however.

 

[ExitThirteen]

While I personally won't run HF rigs on 11M, I don't have a problem with people running them there. I'd much rather have people run HF rigs on 11M any day of the week compared to those junk "export" radios. "Export" radios just make me cringe. But, it's about their personal preference, I suppose.


~Cheers~

 

[543_Dallas]

I have recommended an HF rig to many CBers. It's the AMmode I don't recommend regardless of what radio they use. LOL SSB all the way on 11m. AM on 80m is fine however.

I stay away from ssb. I heard some guys using it on 14.313, 7.200 and various frequencies on 75m. Filthy bunch of people.

 

[ExitThirteen]

I stay away from ssb. I heard some guys using it on 14.313, 7.200 and various frequencies on 75m. Filthy bunch of people.

That is EXACTLY the reason why I don't run on 38LSB... it's a cesspool on that frequency with all the echo, roger beeps, overmodulated radios, class C splatterbox amps and such. I run SSB 95% of the time, but you'll never find me on that frequency.


~Cheers~

 

[sunbulls]

I used a Johnson Valiant on AM for short time while I lived in Florida, mostly on 10 and 40. I must admit there was a few times I got on 11 with that boat when the band was open. Sweetest audio on the band, at least I thought, especially after I did one of HLR’s famous HiFi mods. I decided it was too heavy to move when I left Florida and sold it for a song. Big mistake…

 

[Tallman]

That is EXACTLY the reason why I don't run on 38LSB... it's a cesspool on that frequency with all the echo, roger beeps, overmodulated radios, class C splatterbox amps and such. I run SSB 95% of the time, but you'll never find me on that frequency.
~Cheers~

Almost like Channel 6 AM?

 

[2315 Robert]

38lsb is why I wanted to get my ticket(not to mention all of the fine folks in my area on channel 28). Yes there are some folks in southern ca and pheonix area that I could never hear again. Having a CB that sounds good on 11m is fun to maintain Grant, 148, or Texas Ranger 696F(odd because that is a Galaxy board.) Should almost be a prerequisite for getting your ticket. Last Saturday was a blast on the west coast. I agree that export radios don't do well on 11m LSB. Have had so much fun on 2m and 70cm I have done nothing with my general other that collect a few older HF rigs. No problem with folks that run HF rigs on 11m unless they bring the 2kw with it. Think I mentioned that in the past. 73's.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I put a Heath DX-60B on 11m a few times I will admit. I installed a coil on a switch in the HG-10 VFO that lowered the frequency from 10m. I had a guy come on and berate me for splattering him on the next channel and I was using a Colt 1000 on ch 16 LSB at the time. All legal except for frequency expansion. The idiot lived about two miles away line of sight and I had a Wilson Shooting Star so no wonder I was hitting him so hard. He was on ch 15 which was a local yokel hangout and came up and started throwing carriers on us and bitching abut the splatter. I jumped up to AM with the Heath and cranked the modulation up a bit until that little 6DE6 modulator started to scream and asked him how he liked it now. I told him why he was getting splatter and that I run a clean station however I was quite capable of REALLY giving him something to bitch about. The other guy and myself continued to talk on AM for a few more minutes and I kept checking ch 15 and the idiot was constantly trying to hear the person he was talking too and trying to get him to move lower. After a minute or two I stopped and switched to ch 15 and told him to go ahead and move but DO NOT ever pull that stunt again or I would bring out the BIG guns on him. LOL I had no big guns to bring out but he didn't know that.

 

[Tallman]

Some times a good bluff works just fine.

 

[Christophe Barbe]

Hi Everyone,
This thread has a few days, but I thought i'd answer too.
So the question is : " My question was , why would ham guys WANT to run on 27 mhz "
Oh that's simple, at least in my case.
I am a HAM, i do own HAM gear, i started on CB band back in the 80s when i was a kid.
I had CBs, sold them when I got my HAM ticket and my first HAM gear, a Kenwood 450.
I thought i would not need no more the CB gear and made some money that i needed back then. That was early 90s.
Now few years ago I stumbled on some guy dealing with President Grant radios (PC999 not the nowaday SMD crap) and selling them here in Central Europe, these being truckers' favorites because of their reliability, no drift issue, ease to repair and so on.
I joined, i now have a President Grant which sounds awesome and enjoy nostalgia and some other CBs i found.
CB is an other world, ethics are different than on HAM bands, it has it's own fun factor, i could not be without the HAM bands, but i could not be without CB radio.
Plus, there seem to be som renewal of CB, looks like you find more "interesting" folks than ever before on CB, and I find really very very nice guys when doing skip from Central Europe to France (my mother country).
So here it is, this is my 2 cents, the way i think and feel about CB and HAM.
Both are radio. Both are fun.
Oh, and a detail: i see that talking to guys in France, lots of them are talking on HAM radios not even CBs. I don't bother, they at least contribute to the sales of HAM gear which has more power and better selectivity than CB, moreover, more functionality.
So, bottom line: everybody have fun!
73 de HA7WX / 109/14AT733 / KP733

 

[Rick330man]

I heard that 11m is still a ham band in Japan. Is this true?

No but it was one of the last hold-outs along with South Africa to give it up.

No ham. Just sushi.