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07-11-2025 - 5:30 AM - Good Morning! It's Friday. The Local Group meets on Channel 23 in my town on most nights. They've been meeting there for years. They don't have a name for their group, so I call them the Local Group. Do you have such a group in your area? On CB Radio Channel 19, truckers were sounding the alarm on a local motorcycle cop on the freeway. One trucker chimed in with "He better not mess with me cuz I've got a sack of donuts, and I'm not afraid to use "em." My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
07-11-2025 - 5:55 AM - Now is a good time to talk about my descriptions of band conditions. I describe band conditions as flat today, asleep, quiet, or other terms that indicate less than favorable conditions for reliable communications. I have no interest in the science of "space weather" (electromagnetic radiation and charged particles emitted by the sun) and how it affects radio communications. I have no interest because there's nothing I can do to change space weather. I have a simplified alternative to worrying about space weather. I turn on the radio. Either the band is open, or it is not. If a solar flare is on the way to fry my radios, there will probably be bigger things to worry about. Besides, I'll just get the spare radio and power supply out of my safe/Faraday shield. We're not going to change the world, whether our radios are on or off. Have fun! Your opinion might vary.
07-11-2025 - 8:30 AM - The CB Radio band is wide awake with plenty of signals across the band. I hear one station in my city racking up the "DX" contacts. We're at the peak of the current solar cycle and, for the next few years, CB Radio will be the domain of the skip shooters. If that's you, the time to get a CB Radio is now!
07-11-2025 - 12:15 PM - Did you see the episode of Better Call Saul where Mike pulls a Galaxy CB Radio from under the car seat and makes a call, on Channel 3, with no coaxial cable connected, to the police department to check a car tag?
07-11-2025 - 12:30 - There are some strong, clear signals on CB Radio Channel 38 this afternoon. When it comes to SSB, I'm much more of a listener than a talker. One reason is that I don't use an amplifier, so my DX contacts are few and far between. And please, stop calling amplifiers "linears". Look up the word linear in the dictionary. You won't find anything close to an amplifier there. Calling an amplifier a linear is like calling a car a blue, or a red. Blue car is cool, and linear amplifier is cool, but linear by itself is almost meaningless.
07-11-2025 - 3:45 PM - While Channel 19 has been a little sleepy this afternoon, Channel 6, the "superbowl" of CB Radio, has been on fire. One operator who lives just a few miles from me has been responsible for a lot of that heat.
07-11-2025 - 5:15 PM - Over the last month, on my radio, there has been an increase in the number of people speaking Spanish on Channel 19. Could these folks be pranking U.S. truck drivers? Just because they choose to speak Spanish doesn't mean they don't understand enough English to travel the continent safely. Of course, it's possible they don't speak English at all. There's no way to know. When I was stationed in Germany, I knew enough German to drive across that country with no problems, but when I spoke to American GIs on the CB, I spoke English. Yes, there were plenty of GIs on CB Radio in Germany. Germans, too!
07-11-2025 - 5:30 PM - The movies Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy were the best things to happen to CB Radio. The movies Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy were the worst things to happen to CB Radio. I like Burt Reynolds, but he was the poster child for everything that went wrong with CBRadio. Your opinion might vary.
07-11-2025 - 7:00 PM - The Local Group has been on Channel 23 since about 5:30 PM. I'm switching them off at 7:00 PM because the Texas Rangers game is coming on. I'll catch them again tomorrow. The Rangers, too!
NOTICE: I took a few months off to work on other projects, but now I'm back!