CB Radio Talk

Are these Ham operators able to hear radio transmissions 24/7 or do they have to wait for skip like CBers? Just curious.

The 10 meter band has just about identical conditions to CB, so the band there is dead as well.

-drdx

It depends on the band. Maybe this will help. [Please login or register to view this link]

Cool, thanks 543FtWorth. Interesting, I never knew about that.

I see you are studying for your ham ticket, good deal, I would study more toward getting the "General" ticket, it will give you more bands in the amateur radio. The "Technician" ticket will only give you a small piece of 10m voice (not going to talk about the CW portions or VHF/UHF).
I'm guessing your looking at the 10/12m radios on the market now, there is a couple that are "ham quality" but they don't really represent the real ham radios.
I live in a large populated area so using 10m is easy to find someone on or the regulars I talk to on CB with a ticket, go up to use the band. Living out in your area unless you too have a local ham, your going to have to watch the propagation conditions to be useful to you.

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Greg

I just got a killer deal on a Galaxy 2517. I have to J29 it to 11 meter until I get my license. Skip is minimal lately, going to have to wait until the days get longer before it picks up again probably.

Thats cool Mtn Lynx! Don't you just love getting good deals on equipment. I'm looking to get a 10m by Christmas or maybe a nice dual band hand held. Just finished the last chapter in my Tech level ARRL book yesterday, now I'm just reviewing and taking sample test and waiting to see when the next test date is at my local HAM club, which I think might be next week! If its not, I'll test in December and get the "ticket" punched!

Mtn Lynx wrote:I just got a killer deal on a Galaxy 2517. I have to J29 it to 11 meter until I get my license. Skip is minimal lately, going to have to wait until the days get longer before it picks up again probably.

The Galaxy 2517 will not work for you on any ham band other than CW. If you have a Technician class license. Because it only goes to 28.305 if you have it Modded for 11 Meters. And if you remove 11 Meters it will not come below 28.765-29.205. You need to replace the mixer crystal, but you'll lose part(all?) of cb. xtal can be gotten from galaxy. A complete alignment is required after the crystal swap to get good RX performance on 10 meters.

The dude I bought it from didn't know if it was modded. Got it used, but he did say that it was in A+ condition. So you're saying that if I used the j29 jumper for 11 meters, I would not be able to jump it back to 10? I did not know that.

Mtn Lynx wrote:The dude I bought it from didn't know if it was modded. Got it used, but he did say that it was in A+ condition. So you're saying that if I used the j29 jumper for 11 meters, I would not be able to jump it back to 10? I did not know that.

No! Not what I am saying. The 2517 is a 6 Band it will not any good for a Technician class Ham. Other than CW (code). Techs can only talk on 28.300-28-500 Mhz which the 2517 can not cover. It will do 28.000-28.299 CW. 28.300-28.305 voice you can use this. But you won't find many people there. 28.765-29.205 you will need a General class or Higher to use it. And then you still won't find may people in that area. But they are awesome on 11 meters. If you make changes to the radio if can be used. But it's not easy. You need pricey equipment. That's why I sold mine.

Oh ok. I'm sorry I didn't understand. Thanks for the info, I may study for the general ham exam. Later I might get into hams. But for now, I'm satisfied with CB.

If you go to CB Tricks the specs are there for your radio and the mod to get both 11m (CB and freeband) and most of the 10m band.

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Greg