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How does Motormouth Maul get away with it?
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W2EKG - Wow. Snitches get stitches? Interesting choice of words. I hope that isn’t a veiled threat to anyone that would report an extraordinarily illegal operator on the 11 meter band. MMM isn't all that remote when he takes over the channel I use to talk to some friends locally from 3000 miles away. That's why I originally asked this question.
Not that snitching to the FCC would do much good anyway.
Not that snitching to the FCC would do much good anyway.
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I didn't take that as a threat but things have happened. Something about radio (ham and CB) attracts some interesting characters. Some harmless and some are bat s*** crazy.
Can you actually have 3 simultaneous "fundamental" signals ?
You sure can have more than one signal on the air at once if there is a spur in the transmitter. I once had a 450mHz radio link that developed a spur when the SWR went sky high in an ice storm. The PA section went into oscillations and developed a spur right smack dab on the input frequency to the local fire dept. paging frequency. Somehow it kept triggering the paging system. I got a call one night from a service tech who traced the signal on his spectrum analyzer and realized it was us. I have seen some transmitters that when looked at with a spectrum analyzer, the frequency output along the bottom of the screen looked like grass growing with all the spurs. LOL As long as the following stages will pass all the frequencies they will all be transmitted.
"Veiled threat," not at all, speaking in generalities of CB's outlaw subculture, it is what it is.
Maybe you should PM him on YT, or FB, inform him he's splattering, and can he dial it back?
543_Dallas – I didn’t take it as a threat either, I was really just pickin’ at him. You are right though about radio attracting some interesting characters.
I was reading another sites forum earlier and a Ham said that every chance he gets he will break off a CB antenna because he hates CBer’s. You’re right. It’s crazy out there.
I was reading another sites forum earlier and a Ham said that every chance he gets he will break off a CB antenna because he hates CBer’s. You’re right. It’s crazy out there.
W2EKG – This was the first time I’ve ever heard him. I really don’t care what he does and if it becomes a problem me and all my friends will find another channel to talk on.
When I emailed him and told him what channel I heard him on he said it was an imposter.
I really was just kidding about the veiled threat comment. I don’t have a good sense of humor and often times when I think something is funny others are looking at me wondering what kind of terrible person I am. So, it’s all good.
When I emailed him and told him what channel I heard him on he said it was an imposter.
I really was just kidding about the veiled threat comment. I don’t have a good sense of humor and often times when I think something is funny others are looking at me wondering what kind of terrible person I am. So, it’s all good.
People like him are sad. They hate they hate the CB culture so much they obsess over everything the CBers are doing when they could be enjoying radio. I hope he finds a big coiled cb antenna with a little neon light on the tip crammed through his radiator.
I hear MMM all the time here in the Dallas area whether he's on 6 or 28, but not once have I ever herd him bleeding from one channel to the next, so I find it hard to believe he bleeds on anyone else. John is very particular with the way his station sounds, which is why I find this hard to believe.
Now there are a few around, particularly some guys in the Jersey area that I have herd bleed 5 or 6 channels on me, and one guy in Georgia.
Now there are a few around, particularly some guys in the Jersey area that I have herd bleed 5 or 6 channels on me, and one guy in Georgia.
HBW - No offense taken. The Ham snapping off CB Whips I wouldn't like it done to me, he sounds like an uptight AH.
FYI I enjoy both hobbies.
FYI I enjoy both hobbies.
The guy in GA is that Skymaster aka Funky Monkey aka Dr Death aka Prozac Kid?
Can't remember right off the bat, but I will say it sounds like he keeps the Mic gain wide-open to the point you really can't understand half of what he's saying, and someone should donate a bar of soap to him for his mouth!
....But I'm sure he thinks his station sounds Top Shelf.
I've heard him bleed up and down a channel or 2. That's because his audio bandwidth has been widened so much. You can't run 20k wide and not have that happen. He's still doing far less damage than the guy with a much smaller station that bleeds 20 channels.
If the FCC was going to anything about rules enforcement MMM would be way down the list. You have no idea how many stations out there run 10kw or more watts. A few run 50kw and there are a few that run more than that. There are keydown events that have been held at the same place and on the same weekend every year since the late 70s. It's not like it would be hard to nab a bunch of big players all at once. But the FCC is too busy and understaffed. And CB is nearly dead and not much young blood coming in. Kids now days have internet, txt etc etc. Truck drivers are the only reason there are a large variety of new CB radio equipment available. So to answer the original posters question, how does he get away with it, well there are literally hundreds of thousands of violations going on. He is a needle in a stack of needles. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and he isn't squeaking.
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