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I called the hotel desk and asked for a wake-up call. The receptionist said “You’re nearly 60, you drink too much, you’re out of shape and you’ve never achieved anything meaningful in your life.”

good morning whateverers

 

Since we have signal for a few and I'm not driving, I've got cb questions.

Do you guys have to constantly adjust the squelch when on the road or is that just an issue since we're lowly off-roaders with an inexpensive unit? When we're on trails we don't have issues but that's generally close range and not doing 80 on the highway.

 

@Taco critter @Sweet T

They may know more, but I generally have to adjust my squelch a bunch. Especially going past power lines or a trucker that is pushing too much power.

 

Hmm... I hadn't considered the power lines being a possible issue. We've always been ham users where that's not a problem but cb is relatively new to us.

 

RF interferance from the big high power lines is normally where I get it.

 

Up date...my truck says 27 canadian units and im too hot. Waking around a nursery with the wife and soaking my shirt.

 

Well that's just stupid. I am sure that the quality of our equipment contributes somewhat, but it was like I'd have it perfect for 20 seconds and then back to adjusting it again. Didn't help that the person we could hear sounded like he was using a loudspeaker to talk.

If you ever upgrade, I call first dibs on old equip

 

What made you change from Ham to CB? Generally, Ham radios are much more robust.

 

I had an expensive CB in my Ranger and a huge whip and found i didnt adjust squelch a ton. Usually set it and forget it unless someone was shooting out a ton of power.

 

We actually have both and both Rob and I are licensed. People who we have been with lately seem uninterested in getting licensed or just uneducated in the abilities of a ham radio over cb. Since most run cb, we pretty much had to as well

We'll be with our fellow hammers later this evening

 

Yeah, that's when someone is pushing too much power.

 

Gotcha... I got my ham license a few years ago but rarely use repeaters. Our local TW group typically pics a channel and we all connect directly using that channel. Many of the local guys are not licensed...

 

Not much rain in the forecast so I warshed my truck.

 

Don't know what they are. But randos nonetheless.

 

Sitting in the eye exam room waiting impatiently

 

I cannot think of one. single. instance. when yelling at something with vicious and ill-phrased threats has not gone my way