Hello Ed, Mind if I use thios e mail to help start another fuss over this stuff with FCC ? Will also start a discussion on QRZ.
Tom - K0PJG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Sieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Brian Carling, AF4K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Illegal 27 MHz dealers > Hi Brian, > > It's worse than you think! > > In the last few years, a new type of CB activity has become very popular - > the "Keydown Superbowl". > A group, or club of CB'ers will organize a meet where the participants get > together to compete over who has the biggest linear, with the most power. > Amps with power levels of anywhere from 10 KW to even 50KW are operated, > (often into ruggedized vertical antennas). > > To generate the DC required for these amps, several 72 volt railroad > alternators are daisy-chained together under the hoods of trucks (Chevy > Suburbans are popular). 7 alternator power plants are not uncommon. The DC > goes to large DC regulators, and then to the amps, mostly solid state, but > occasionally tube amps are used too. The solid state amps are typically > multiple "pill" amps - "12 pill", "24 pill", up to "128" pill or more. > Most of the amps are custom built by specialty shops, who advertise on the > web, or at select CB shops. > > The favorite channel is 27.025, the "superbowl" channel. The winner gets a > trophy, and sometimes some cash. Veterans of such skill-testing > competitions, like to show off large pickle jars filled with "dead pills", > the blown finals of their own, and competitor's amps. > > Some of the more technically talented prefer tube-type amps, with large > broadcast tubes the preferred device. 3CX3000F1, and similar are quite > popular, in pairs or quads. The amps often occupy most of the cargo space in > the vehicles, shared with the requisite extra batteries. > > So, the next time you wonder why the CB band is always open, while 10M > isn't, consider that these people have the means to make their own > propagation! The other issue is not the spectrum polution, from these > wickedly dirty often Class-C amps, but from the RF fields produced during > the competition! Never mind FCC enforcement, maybe the EPA should get > involved! > > Ed, VA3ES > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
