I'm deep into the CB radio community here in SF. If you want to go CB, you have to do it right. So you need to get a proper antenna (the K40 and the Wilson 1000 are my favorite), make sure your CB has clean power and route the wiring in a manner that minimizes noise. Once all that is complete, you need a SWR meter to tune your antenna to its optimal setting.

I've had a CB rig in every single car i've owned except for my Saabaru. The main reason for not having one (yet) is I haven't found an ideal mounting point for the antenna. The easiest solution is a magnet-mount whip on the roof, but in my opinion the application and appearance look ghetto as hell.

If we all have properly installed and tuned CB's, our setup with sh¡t all over FRS based radios. Although the clarity will not be as good as the FM based FRS transmissions, the range of AM based CB transmissions is incomparable to FRS. If you're a CB nerd like me, you'll know that on a clear afternoon when the air and weather is just right, you can actually communicate with people from Hawaii and even Europe via the 'Skip' phenomenon associated with amplitude modulated frequencies.

 

Heedz had a CB antenna clamped to his yakima roof rack on his old Legacy. It actually looked better than youd expect. However, on my wagon it would certainly look out of place!

 

But the 102" whip antenna I had on my lifted TJ was awesome both in looks and usefulness even when I had it tied down to the front bumper so I wouldnt whip people or cars driving around town

 

lol of course, but a 102" whip doesn't need to be tuned because it's long enough to receive a complete amplitude wave. The whips that need to be tuned are the shorter antennae that have to compensate be calibrated to capture at least a half modulated transmission accurately.

Real talk though, if enough of us truly commit to having a 102" whip on our Subies, i'm so down for that lol.

 

I was thinking about putting a k40 on my roof rack and putting together another rig. I loved having a cb in my truck. I think it would be awesome if everyone had them for cruises. No more phone tag with people coming late.

Shoot I might even be able to talk to my friends back in Michigan if I get another rig. Even though its illegal to use them to talk that far, lol.

 

All this nerd talk going on about wavelengths and all. You guys would drool if I showed you the 4000 watt USB HF transmitters I work on, not to mention the 173' antennas I climb!

By the way for you communications geeks, the Coast Guard on July 12 will be sending out Morse code messages on 518kHz in celebration of the last Morse code message sent back in the late 90's.

See you all Sunday!

 

I was up on the mast of the 87 today and I thought to myself, "what if I could fit all of the boats electronics in my car?!".

 

Really dude? Ladt Morse code use by what?.... Coast guard only? Or does that include nationwide by military too? Either way, thats crazy tho. Thats a long time

 

45 mile an hour head on car accident on graton road rd sunday night. thank god it wasn't my suby but needless to say I won't be pressing on a clutch anytime soon until I can stand up by myself. I was looking forward to attending the my first drive

 

Hey guys I'm going to be at TBOC all day today. If you're bored stop by and have done food and beer.

 

So since we met ladt time on oir regular meet, wich was the 29th of june, this Saturday will be 2weeks, are we meeting up this weekend? Nd the drive on Sunday?

 

It's a celebration of maritime Morse code used by ships back in the day. It's called "Night of nights", and the Coast Guard was asked to participate because we use high power transmitters. We will actually be sending messages to some participating ships in New Orleans on Friday night

So you were in the accident too? Sounds bad.

A meet and drive in the same weekend is a bit much. Let's stick with the drive and possibly meet the weekend after to get back on track with the schedule.

 

I thought so too but Luis was asking thats why i asked

 

Which 87 are you on? Im heading to the Aspen in a week actually. If youre on the Tern or Pike, keep an eye out for my wagon (or an EAR out since Im fairly loud)

 

I'm on the sockeye so ill definitely be around sector!