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Old 05-10-2010, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by electronjohn View Post
Oh, yeah...there's PLENTY of CB activity. Google "CB Superbowl" or something like that. IIRC it refers to Channel 6...which is where the high-power (1-10kW & more) CB "outlaws" hang out. Almost like a car stereo battle goin' on between some of these guys.
My mom's old house backed up to the interstate in Houston. Sometimes the signals would bleed over to the stereo. Even when set to phono!

BTW I am getting reception on the high band. It's uniformly low but its there. Including the CBers still up to their old antics.

What I see (or hear) is that around 15mhz where band 3 and 4 overlap, I get good signal on the high end of band 3 but weaker signal at the low end of band 4.

I think this tells me 1 of two things. Either there is a problem in the band 4 circuit or band 4 is just anemic which is a possibility.

Of course at this point I'm still in the basement and using just a piece of wire as an antenna. So I expect overall performance will improve.

I did pick up a couple of hams in Nashville yesterday afternoon (I'm in Atlanta).

BFO works for CW but not SSB.
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