there's nothing inherently wrong with cb radio but that khan is all right so let's head into that
okay i've got a great video for you today i was talking to alex today papa delta 3 radio
lemur i'm on his qrz page at the moment you know everybody's got a slightly different page and
he's got a dx commander oh has he i can't know what he's got actually but anyway he calls in
every every friday if you listen on my live
a nice melody about his voice
he reminded me today that back many many eons ago i put a video out saying how
i didn't say cb was crap i actually funny feeling the thumbnail was that but basically i wanted it
to untangle the problem with cb radio so let's just let's just pretend you love food and you go
to a restaurant and i tell you that you're only every time you go out in fact every time you eat
you're only allowed dishes with cheese that's it or dishes with eggs you're only allowed chicken
all right and that's cb radio you see because cb radio the 11 meter band are on and around 27
megahertz you're stuck with it that's all you can do so for instance if the skip's in you're having
a good time and you're you're dxing and you're talking to people perhaps you've spoken to them
before in the past and everything else then it closes particularly at night and then you're left
with the four people you normally speak to within 10 miles of your location because you've got like
an imax 2000 or whatever it is on the roof and you you know you clear the rooftops and you can have a
little chat with the locals well that's it that is it where with me when the band closes on 10 meters
or when the band closes on 12 meters or when the band closes on 15 meters i've got a load
of other bands i can go for a start if i want to talk to somebody local i wouldn't use 10 meters
that is about even if an antenna 10 meters off the ground it's only one wavelength off
the ground so the 2 meter band is absolutely fantastic for local work i'm five wavelengths
off the ground at ten meters with a with two five eights phased like a v2 thousand whatever i can do
50 miles in the main just line of sight 50 miles on the two meter band or i can drop down to 40
and i can cover you know i can chat to fritz and dusseldorf i can speak to um to alex pd3rl in in
the netherlands i can go to 80 meters i can have a different experience on 80. every band has got
its own experience and by the way every band it takes years to learn them all if you're just stuck
with you with your cheese pie with your other meters that's it now i know what some of you
gonna say oh yeah but listen to ham radio there are a bunch of [ __ ] down there
um the day you you listened there might have been a bunch of [ __ ] by the way there was a
couple of [ __ ] and in costas the other day if you go to your local shooting club or fishing club
or yacht club or canoe club there'll be arseholes in there too i can guarantee if i dial into the 11
meter band there'll be arseholes there as well or as they say in america [ __ ] there's [ __ ]
everywhere in life all right not just on ham not just on cb and the other thing is if you could
put my glasses on now if you can understand this video calculating power for ham radio this one
here right if you can understand that and by the way it's it's nine minutes long you get it in the
first two minutes if you can understand that you can pass you'll be able to pass the foundation
exam it's easy right it's not hard this is the probably the most difficult of amateur radio
exam is understanding ohm's law and a power triangle and i i've got a way of explaining it
though which is like easier than them eating cereal right or out of a cornflakes packet
there is no excuse why you can't broaden your horizons stick on cb as well i was a big savior
uh tim m0urx tom m0 rmy most of my friends tim g5 tm he's still on cb
to this day you can still do that but broaden your horizons and by the way i did a 10 watt
night a couple of years ago on 80 meters i was getting all around europe on 10 watts
so just because you think oh 10 watts i couldn't i've got 100 watt radio here
i couldn't go down to 10 watts on ham radio 10 miles is fine i was talking to a guy he was an m
i can't remember where he was today island he was an island on 40 meters today i was just having
a break dining around 40 meters from ireland i could hear him you know five and three five and
four perfectly adequate i wound the power up to give him an easier trip i've got some nice receive
antennas at my place but you know it was a walk in the park for him and and he was on ted well he
genuinely was 10 watts you could kind of tell he was a wee bit quiet not quite as powerful as
100 watts but the difference between 10 watts at 100 watts and you'll learn if you did the exam um
it's only 10 db all right have you got a 10 db on your attenuator 612 something like that on your
try it find a strong signal just dial it back 10 db oh oh hell i can still hear him yeah i know
funny isn't it so and that's what happens if trying to go from 100 to a thousand
you don't really get very far right unless it's marginal you're a cw guy or an fca guy
or something like that but on voice if the guy is five and seven five and eight five or nine
if you reduce your power by ten from 100 to 10 watts nothing nothing much is going to happen
all right because a lot of cb goes we'll go well we've got 12 watts and by the way you
haven't got 12 watts most of you guys on cb i know i've got 100 watt radio if not more
alright so don't give me that baloney all right come down to 10 watts come down to 40 meters
get your foundation license and by the way within two months you go i still walk in the
park i'll do my intermediate now if you're in the uk all right if you're in uh australia or
uh america you can do your general quite easily and do you extra you just need to learn all the
questions all right basically what we're trying to do is in this hobby is um basically if you're
polite on cb we'll be polite on ham radio right i think you'll find the people that
are polite in the main in life the universe and everything and just polite people anyway all right
[ __ ] [ __ ] call them what you will as [ __ ] on cbs [ __ ] on ham radio there's [ __ ] on pmr gmrs
at your local club the next restaurant you go to [ __ ] the world is full of them all right
ignore them just be polite and have a good time and i think you'll find you'll easily
make the transition if you like cb you'll love ham radio that's my question my question that is my
statement today next video is coming up here and what i'll do this video i'm watching here i'll
put a hard link to the next video watch that tell me what you think okay all the best now
i'll see you next time and uh well enjoy your radio alright bye for now then