"Shovelhead" ....what else?.......

 

boostjunkie- - - - - when I had my 03- - - now I just need to get a new CB!

 

I guess mine would Phox Mulder,
mainly just use it on long road trips to avoid the "brake checks", listening mainly, not a lot of talking.


phox

 

Amateur Radio Operator

We can talk from 1.6Mhz on up to the Ghz range. I have talked to folks in over 150 different countries and somewhere close to 50 from the truck.

It's a fun hobby. Get to meet all sorts of folks.

 

The "Junkman"

 

a google search turned up THIS example of a HAM radio.

 

 

Rediculous,
As mentioned before Amateur Radio or HAM is using different radio equipment over a broad RF spectrum. To use ANY of the bands you must take an examination and receive your license from the FCC. There are 3 classes of licenses currently. They are: Technician, General, and Extra class. The technician level gives you priveleges on 2 meters VHF (146MHz), and 70cm UHF (440MHz). The general class gives you the same as technician but with added priveleges in HF bands which is good for world wide communications. Extra class gives you additional priveleges on HF because the operator is not as limited with their frequency range. The General and Extra class licenses DO require the learning of morse code at a speed of 5 words per minute. This is pretty easy and does not take long to learn. Amateur radio has a lot of different events to participate in as well. Usually every weekend there is a contest of some sort. The license is good for a 10 year period. I received mine in 1998 and I am a General class licensee.
Christov
kf4zpx

 

I never turn on the CB except for a direct reason, a truck with a problem, an accident, is the scale open, etc. When I did use it in the past, but now 20 years ago, I used "Fly By Nite"

I am a ham operator. My license says Advanced which from what I understand has now been upgraded to Extra. I have been quiet on the bands for some time now. Amateur helped break my marriage and sort of let it go after the divorce. I never got around to installing hf in the big truck. It is sitting on the bench where I eyeballed it one day but never got to it.

For those who are interested in radio, ham is the only way to go. Used to run a TR7 in the cab with a supertuner and 42 foot of wire over a flatbed. Could talk anywhere with it. Put out about 200 watts. A couple of times talked to the Antartic base while on the road. Used to hang on 40 meters on it think 7240, most of the bunch were in Kalifornia. WA6GGB was the big guy, dead now. My call is WD4AGG "always grabbing gears"

Might be of interest to campers and hotshot haulers. A horizontal wire running the length of the trailer a few feet over the trailer or load, works great, loads with a tuner, gives base station performance. Had a friend, he mounted the fifth wheel on teflon, inductors for the ground and wiring, made a tunable dipole of the whole rig. I never tried it, he swore by it.

 

I had a step dad that used Flash when he was hauling gas.

 

I use to go by broken wheel. Given to me back in the 70's by guys in my 4x4 club. Lost a wheel off my Scout while fourwheeling with the club.

Now it's just tankeryanker because of my job haulin gas.

One of our drivers got dubbed Sparky after he had a crash & burned up the whole truck & 9600 gals of gas.

 

sweeeeeet!!! i love that song!

 

I am known as Tiny.

 

I talk on UHF VHF and HF channels all the time. UHF will get you about 150 NM and VHF is good for about 200 NM or so and depending on the day HF is good for who ever is on the other end. As far as the handle goes, REDNECK.

 

My name is/was Greenhornet, that was in my old 97 gasser that was green, and fast as heck. I reckon I'll stick to the same thing in my new CTD, just havent gotten around to putting my CB back into the truck. I also used to use a VHF for hunting, and am probably not going to be putting that in my new truck, too many troubles if you get caught with it.