[AMRadio] Illegal 27 MHz dealers

[K0PJG]

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" <esieb at sympatico.ca>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Brian Carling, AF4K" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
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
>
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