From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a QUALITY mobile CB? 
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:22:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec7.190939.25569@ttinews.tti.com> sorgatz@avatar.tti.com  
(sorgatz) writes:

:1) Go buy a 148GTL (like the rest of the 11 m Spawn...) and hack the beJezuz
:out of it, till it slides from 25.0-33MHZ and sounds like a DSB fog horn. Then 
:add a power mic, a Roger-Beep, and echo box and freq counter (just so you can
:sort-of-tell where you are)...and voila! One genuine BIG STRAP RADIO! Totally
:illegal....broad-banded as a barn door, too loud and very distorted...plus  
it's
:completly obnoxious, thanks to the echo and Roger-Beep.

I just don't want a roger-beep, I want one of those multi-tone roger beeps  
which sends a quick four-note ditty when you key off, something that I could  
hook up to a big Astatic D-104 microphone, and a sound box with sirens,  
whoop-whoops, buzzers, farts and other fun noises.  Yeah, and a big twin  
antenna setup that lights up when you hit your brakes, and a little fluorescent  
light on top of the antennae that lights up when you transmit.  Also, a big 'ol  
Ten-Tec 1000 watt linear amplifier so I can _really_ be heard, yeah, that's the  
ticket ... :) 

Seriously, I want to know what the best mobile CB is out there, plain and  
simple.  Is there a CB out there that is built to the same high standards as  
most 2m mobile ham radios?  I know CB mods, but I'm not going to do them to  
because the FCC is _finally_ cracking down on obnoxious linear-amp users and  
outbanders that feel they don't need to learn the Morse Code to use the 10  
meter band.  Besides, you can't hack most newer ROM PLL radios anyhow.

I just learned that modifying a ham radio to T/X outside the ham frequencies,  
with the exception of RACES and MARS is illegal, so I'm now not considering a  
10m to 11m option. 

2) Go buy a Uniden HR-2500/2600, do the same as above, except skip the  
freq/PLLchip hacking step...SAME RESULT.
 
:  My question is this: WHAT ENTITLES YOU TO USE THE FREQUENCIES FROM 27.405
: TO 27.999 MHZ??? WORSE YET: DO YOU ACTUALLY PLAN TO USE THE 10 M BAND WITHOUT
: A LICENSE?

No, I plan to use 10m _with_ a license, after I master the Morse Code and  
upgrade to a Tech Plus license.  I wonder what CB is doing at 27 MHz if an  
international treaty requires ham operators to have knowledge of code to use  
frequencies under 30MHz ... is Citizens Band radio excepted? 

:  Better suggestion:
: 
:  Buy the Uniden as in 2 above...DON'T MODIFY IT!

Can you describe the radio a bit more?  Is it a PRO-series or is it based off  
the older President radios?  

:  Go study for little while..get your Novice license and move-up.   

I studied for my Technician license, and in about seven weeks I'll be  
KB5something-something-something.  (two-by-three call ... yuk!).    

:  **********************
: 73!

73!, even though I can't legally say that on the air _yet_ ....

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   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
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