Colorado B.S. Thread

Old guy fight!

 

WOW! I think that is the first time I have actually been officially included in the old guys club.

Thanks, Alec. Thanks a lot.

 

As the youngest member in this thread it's my responsibility to make everyone else feel old. (Even though I have the aching body of a 40 year old)

 

Flying these and using FM, HF, UHF & SATCOM for Comms corrected me on the folly of CB's.

 

I tried to register but I am getting an error on the page where I try to do the ASR online filing.

 

CB is HF

 

https://apps.fcc.gov/coresWeb/publicHome.do

 

Actually it's UHF.

 

Sounds like a "friend" i know.

"He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed."

 

Idiots.

 

OK. I am registered for the 4/20 test.

 

You might want to go check your learnings.

HF 3-30MHZ
VHF 30.-300MHZ
UHF 300.-3000MHZ

CB is at 27MHZ

 

Bet you are.

 

Well I signed up for something, I think. I hope I dont wind up working for the government like Alec.

 

HAM license is good for 10 years. I can forget a lot of things in that time.

 

The real problem (I think) is that CB modulates the amplitude of the signal whereas HAM modulates the
frequency.
Remember when FM radio came out and kicked the snot out of AM?

 

Are you going to sneeze?

 

Bet u never did that ona flight tho. If u did, bet those strap packs were replaced shortly there after

 

For sound quality, for distance thew AM stations still pounded it out there. The biggest deal for the legal user it the 4w CB compared to the 75w that we are allowed as a licensed user/abuser. The line is really blurred for the person who runs a quality CB with an amplifier (not legal), then it comes down to the network of repeaters.

I've never hear anyone over 50 miles using simplex 2m. While I've made contacts with the CB/ssb over oceans.

I just don't knock either, never know when one or the other might be better in getting emergency communications out.