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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1675 on: January 21, 2025, 10:15:43 pm »
What do you mean 10 KW, that is QRP in CB land   



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What was the busted part?  I was expecting to see a shootout between the old 43 and the 4480A, maybe by some diehard 43 CBers in the USA with their 10kW amplifiers.
 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1676 on: January 21, 2025, 11:45:04 pm »
What do you mean 10 KW, that is QRP in CB land   

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What was the busted part?  I was expecting to see a shootout between the old 43 and the 4480A, maybe by some diehard 43 CBers in the USA with their 10kW amplifiers.


The driver...   Video was pretty funny.  Talks about a 400kW genset to power the friends amplifier because they couldn't get the power to the house. 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1677 on: January 21, 2025, 11:54:56 pm »
He talks a lot about safety and how they loose 2-3 people per year.   2 lost by third month of 2024 from electrocution (dead, gone,  Jesus, done, sitting at the pearly gates).

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1678 on: January 22, 2025, 12:28:34 am »
No more elements!   (*sob*)

It's a scheme devised by Bird to destroy ham flea markets. Make the new meter work without elements - less and less of them will be sold at hamfests as the years progress due to them being abused and destroyed in the field, thus speeding up the end of them and the ham flea markets.
I told my friends I could teach them to be funny, but they all just laughed at me.
 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1679 on: January 22, 2025, 03:41:11 pm »
That was a seriously low budget production (the Bird video) and they got the title wrong.  :palm:

Who has time to scroll through a 148 minute CBer video?  :o
 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1680 on: January 22, 2025, 04:57:52 pm »
That was a seriously low budget production (the Bird video) and they got the title wrong.  :palm:

Who has time to scroll through a 148 minute CBer video?  :o

I watched it.  It was chopped up a bit and had a some redundancy but overall enjoyed seeing and hearing about the project.

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1681 on: January 22, 2025, 10:17:41 pm »
That was a seriously low budget production (the Bird video) and they got the title wrong.  :palm:

Who has time to scroll through a 148 minute CBer video?  :o

I watched it.  It was chopped up a bit and had a some redundancy but overall enjoyed seeing and hearing about the project.

So yer a closet CBer starting to come out  :-DD
 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1682 on: January 23, 2025, 01:09:30 am »
I had a CB license before ham.

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1683 on: January 23, 2025, 04:04:09 am »
That program ended before my time. It could have been my time though, but I didn't get a CB until I got a car. It came with the car, actually my second car. But I got my private pilot license before my driver's license, so I knew about radios, sort of. I knew about the front panel controls and operation. The technical part of antennas and linears came later, with the car stuff and the "right" friends. LoL.

So when trying to find out if a girl you're talking to on the CB is fat or not, you ask them if they were to sit on your face, could you still hear the radio?  >:D
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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1684 on: January 23, 2025, 04:13:43 pm »
From what I remember, the CB license was some paperwork and fee.  By the time I bought my first car I was out of college and had let my ham license lapse.   The lack of a license has not prevented me from continuing to experiment with RF. 

Growing up, I didn't know any girls who were interested in electronics or radios.

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1685 on: January 24, 2025, 06:22:03 am »
10KW OK how much of that is wasted into harmonics ?
 

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Re: CB and Ham Radio Techs Love Their Bird Wattmeters
« Reply #1686 on: January 24, 2025, 02:25:36 pm »
That's not waste. That's just like lettin yer neighbors know you're home and it's party time.
 


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