I and the ‘Furhead install a citizen’s band radio in his car from the speedy Pontiac. I AM NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES DONE TO YOUR CAR IF YOU DO TH…
I and the ‘Furhead install a citizen’s band radio in his car from the speedy Pontiac. I AM NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES DONE TO YOUR CAR IF YOU DO TH…
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Mr Keykeeper…I am surpised at you…No mention of tuning the antenna?
Where’s your handy dandy SWR meter? I’m sure Bill must have one
somewhere…haha!!! “One Nine for a rig check…Can any breaker tell me if
I’m getting out please?”….haha!!! 🙂
@mikeluscher159 I guess I could a cold start old start. Maybe take it out
of the garage and drive around a bit. Does have current plates and
insurance on it. Insurance may be iffy.
@88GTi Don’t sound so surprised when I say that you are absolutely correct.
🙂 I have a RadioScrap SWR meter that I found new and sealed in its box at
a thrift store. I have never used it. I don’t know all that much about
tuning antennas, although I did make a nice and somewhat accurately
constructed loading coil for my AM stereo transmitter board.
@88GTi I don’t dabble in tuning of antennas. Mainly because I don’t know
that much about tuning the antenna. However, don’t scoff at me just yet, my
dad (who is a amateur radio technician) knows a lot more about tuning
antennas than I. But I may grab myself a radio license, just you wait and
see!
@mikeluscher159 If you think that’s bad… watch?v=O8YYio-uD9I It’s funny
how well I’ve got those old videos indexed in my mind and can usually cite
them quickly.
Hey Keykeeper, your camera seems to work alot better with the audio, did
uxwbill give you a new camera?
@uxwbill what min and sec am i looking for?
lol at the cup holder
@mikeluscher159 I don’t have any real interest in installing aftermarket
keyless entry or remote start on any vehicle. “It would be nice”, no doubt,
but I don’t really need it. And I’d never do anything like that to the
Cadillac, since it’s an unusual model. (The DeVille Phaeton is much less
common than the others, as only a few thousand were said to be equipped
with that option. I’ve only ever seen two others–one colored like my dad’s
and another in the Firemist color.)
What a fine lookin car that is lol
Get yourself a 5″ mag-mount with a higher quality coax and a Rat Shack 67″
whip. It’s a HUGE upgrade from the Little Wil and it’s maybe $10 more in
total. I now run a MFJ/Tram super tri-mag mount with a RS spring and 8′
whip on top, but the RS 67″ was not disappointing at all.
@mikeluscher159 Why not just watch the whole thing, and note the state of
the K-car in the background? 🙂 If you’re _really_ on a shoestring
schedule, what you want to see is right there in the first few seconds.
I trust you two retrieved the pencil hiding under the back seat?
i love this vid, cheers
@uxwbill is there like a universal channel that everyones uses?
@uxwbill thats interetsing to know! do u have idea what the range for a car
CB would be?
@walshmonster2005 I wasn’t scoffing! I just thought a man of your calibre
would insist on tuning the antenna! If you go on a radio course you will
learn how crytical it is when transmitting! I watched Bills BlogTV show
last week…You were Great! “This show has been brought to you by ‘Duck
Tape, The Smith Corona Type Writer Company and Apple for the Macbook Air
I’m using’…haha!! I really enjoyed the show! Hope you’re on the next one!
🙂
@nemoviesnews Bizarrefurhead broke the plastic one that came with the car,
so he has made another one!
@naterade21 “Furhead, clean your car!”
@CenTexVideo Did you try a 102″ whip? They seem to work about the best for
me. I’ve used wilsons (I have a wilson 1000) but I prefer the whip. Anyway
you can get elevation helps!
Nothing like a little DX coming in on a how-to video. 🙂 That’s pretty good.
@JinzoDefiler More the “CB Strangers” than the “CB Savage”…
@mrRhwalden I didn’t have a good place on the car to install it and do it
right. Plus, I was driving an antique. I didn’t want to do anything to the
car that would permanently alter it. The K40 antenna and then the Wilson
1000 I bought shortly afterward were good enough after adjusting SWR for
the middle of the band I used.
turtle turtle. GET OUTA THE WAY!!!! best line ever
breaker 19 breaker 19 we have a bbpos on the road here.
@vwestlife Bizarrehead is to lazy to hard-wire things. On the other hand,
the CB radio that was in the BBPOJ was hard-wired and fully functioning
before I removed it. The hanger bracket for the radio still remains so I
may re-install it one of these days.
Wow nice car befor i would let it go on a road trip clean it,get oil change
re do the crappy wireing and get a new (airfilter,battery,and belt so it
wont give you any prbs.
@randomrazr A lot of the range will depend upon conditions, your radio’s
power output/transmission mode and the kind of antenna you’re using. A mile
or two is not at all unreasonable to expect at any given time. Atmospheric
conditions can lead to your signal going farther, maybe even up to hundreds
or thousands of miles away. This is by way of a condition known as “skip”,
where your signal is “sucked up” and “deposited” somewhere else. Sunspots
and other behavior can also affect your range.
When I was into 11 meters, I spent a lot of money buying different radio,
finally settling on a Ranger 2950 with CW and narrow FM along with SSB and
AM. I used quite a few antennas, but the Wilson line was the best of them.
@mikeluscher159 I might check into some live blogs here and there, but I
don’t really care for the most part. Cellular phones are nothing more than
electronic leashes and something I can handily do without. (You’re not
allowed to ask that question later, when I’m changing a flat in a
hurricane*.) * props to the late Jerry Reed for that one
You sound like Retarded Dan
@uxwbill Oh that’s good, I noticed the quality is alot better. Thanks
uxwbill, and vwestlife the Camcorder Guy!
@randomrazr It’s not too hard to get started if you care to do so, although
the laws for CB use may differ in Canada. That is the very first thing you
need to check. Secondly, before ever turning the radio on, you need to make
sure the antenna is hooked up, good and not shorted or your radio will fry
when you transmit. Tune to a quiet channel, or wait for a break in the
conversation and then you can talk. Be courteous to others and don’t
transmit for too long.
@randomrazr In the US and possibly elsewhere, channels 19 and 9 have
special uses. 19 is widely accepted as a general conversation channel,
hence the reason why it was tuned in this video. Many truckers use it, as
do the people who have a CB station in their car or home. Channel 9 is for
emergency use only. So far as I know, all of the other channels (1-40, or
1-23 with an older radio) are generally usable by anyone.
@tubageek2006 Fit for a King.
@nemoviesnews i see, well is there any opportunity of a video about the
caddilac in the remaining days of the year?