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CB RADIO MODS TRICKS INFO

TALL TOWER...FULL POWER!!
Elevation 1240'

CB RADIO LISTENING ON CHANNEL 38 LSB TO THE SOUNDS COMING FROM THE MILKY WAY GALAXY

*INTERGALACTIC CBers

USE YOUR CB AT (38) 27.385 mhz LSB  AS A DEEP-SPACE COSMIC RECEIVER
SOME OF THE BACKGROUND HISS YOU HEAR WHEN NO SIGNAL
IS PRESENT IS PARTLY FROM JUPITER, AND THE MUSIC
LIKE SOUNDS ARE FROM THE BACKWASHS
OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY.
*NOTE: 20db Gain CB Antenna System Required.

CB RADIO SHOP

Push to talk (Disconnected)
VOX PTT Has Been Discontinued.



CB RADIO ANTENNA REVIEW TRICKS-MODS!

NOTES: From A 1st Class CB Operator

Long Barrel CB Beam On A 60+' Boom With
A Small Aluminum Tower For Center Support.

The mother of all CB radio beams
Built with a light weight aluminum TV tower (three sections) for the center boom that extends on each end up to 60+' long. We have 11 elements for the C.B. Radio band. Interchanging elements is fairly easy with the antenna elements muffler clamps mounts and a tilt over tower. The present position (movie image) shows 6 widespaced elements on the CB Radio Channel 38 = 27.385 Mhz LSB USA with the boom length adjusted at 50', the gain is 21db 70x power input with the boom set at 60+' with 13 elements and the bandwidth is only one channel wide. The Rohn support tower does twist in high winds with the 13 elements. The Beam is pointed south-south east from our location toward the horizon looking directly at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.




The beam I like and have used is the Big Gun 2 Cubical Quad with 14.5db gain.

The quad works the same as the Yagi only it does receive both horiz and vert (it you have it vert position it will also receive at lower gain hoziz signals) or the 1960's model hy-gain-Telex CB Big gun 2 had switchable horiz and vert. They look quite complex but if you have some aluminum, check around on the internet they are lots of designs showing you how to build them..The first quad was built for a station in Quito, Ecuador high in the mountains where the weather was so damp the yagi type low imp. antennas shorted out quite often..The quad loop antenna is high imp. and works great on the CB Bands. Here are few pointers from my notes that will help you fine tune your quad.. taper your wire size loops Starting From the back reflector make it 10ga, driver 12ga, 1st director 14ga, second director or front wire loop make it as thin as possible without it breaking...A four element Quad is the best all around size with a 3 element has 9db gain a 4 element has 12db gain, a 5 element has 12.1 so its not worth making a five element quad.. Quad antennas have a narrow bandwidth, a 4 element just barely covers the CB Band and making one with more elements narrows the bandwidth even more..Co-ax from the radio matching the quad loop driven element..To test this.. your High impedance CB Quad if properly matched to the co-ax should reject signals directly from the rear and not from the corners. Also receiving signals should be directly in front of the quad and not from the corners.
The CB Quad exhibit higher source impedance's at 100 ohms, the use of a 1/4 wavelength matching section of 70-to 75-ohm coax between the antenna feedpoint and the 50-ohm coax run to the shack will bring the terminating impedance to about 50 ohms giving a good match for the CB band.
The most often used spacing between the elements for the commercial CB quad is 6'..The ideal spacing for a 4 element long barrel 27mhz quad CB beam would be 10' on a 30' boom.




Alien-UFO Engineering..CB Antenna Super Scanner Old Or New Model.

Most of these now have bad cable-relay boxs and a control switch box..The three antenna elements & frame and the co-ax from each of the three elements is all that will be needed. Keep the old co-ax if possible splice them all together with your main 50 ohm co-ax to your radio this will make you a all direction ground plane. For a direction antenna remove all of the old 50 ohm RG58 co-ax, replace it with a homemaded co-phase harness built out of one RG59 co-ax 1/4 wave length for the front direction element(the signal will go in this direction), and two 1/2 wave RG59 for the two back elements this will make the two rear elements appear longer and will block the rear signals..Splice the two 1/2 wave coax into one PL259.. Connect a PL259 on the 1/4 wave coax and connect both PL259's to a common female tee coax connector and with a barrel connector to the 50 ohm coax going to your radio.... Signal Engineering™ Thunder 8 XB™ base-marine CB Antenna Nice looking antenna..I tried to improve the performance also built one just like it, but never could do any better than the factory unit..Performace was equal to a 1/2 ground plane at best and i gave it that rating because you could switch out local noise.



Co-Phase Three 1/4 or 1/2 wavelength base antennas!!

All active antenna elements directional ground plane.
An Anttron 305 or antron A99 a-99 and others like this the bottom half of the antenna is a matching device and the top section receives signals and are just about impossible to stack or phase them together...Before stacking any ground planes let me say if you want to save yourself some money and have a little more gain use a 3-4 element beam.

Requirements: Three CB ground plane antennas wavelength 1/2 (anttron 305, antron A99 a-99 antenna are a 1/2 wavelength antenna, but are very diffcult to stack), three coaxial cable assemblies of RG59 soild co-ax. Cut lengths.. Two-- 17' 9' 3/8" splice together into one PL259 connector and one-- 29' 7 5/8" install PL259 (the RF signal goes in this direction).. One common female tee coax connector with one barrel connector to connect 50 ohm coax to receiver, this makes up the co-phasing hardware..Install upto a 18' triangle.


WORKMAN™ SUPERSTAR™ DM-5000 TORNANO ECHO
MICROPHONE WITH COMPUTER INTERFACE

Was designed to give the operator not only Tornado Echo effects but also allows the 'injection' of a sound byte directly into the microphone by using your computer soundcard audio outputs. The echo effects are controlled by two wheels on the backside of the mic, one for the number of times the audio is repeated and one for the speed of the effects. This model has a portal on the back to adjust the audio output level as well as the volume or level of the built in talk back. This microphone has been known to lose the recording for no apparent reason (maybe weak battery) but could be recorded again and seem to work alright.


New RF Limited EC 2018A™ Xtreme Echo Mic

This is the latest echo mic from RF Limited™. Its a studio Quality Mic thats hard to beat and is really a turbo echo to the extreme! In addition to the features of the EC-2018 Turbo, it has Cyborg™ Robotic Voice, Alien Voice™, Endless Echo™, Stadium Sound™, and Double Talker™. RF Limited™ has done a lot of research to keep the RF feedback (looping) out of this hand echo microphone.

This is the most EXTREME CB MIC you are going to find.  We are using this mic in our mobile, and it is awesome.  With this mic, you have all the bells and whistles for your cb... 

This is the latest and best echo mic from RF Limited. As the name suggests, it's turbo echo to the extreme! In addition to the features of the EC-2018 Turbo, it has Endless Echo?, Stadium Sound?, Double Talker?, and a richer tone quality that can be best described as studio quality. To best describe the Double Talker? effect I have to mention the VC-300DX, or the Mobilemax. It is the same as their Slapback effect.

Like the EC-2018 Turbo, the EC-2018XTR runs off of a 9 volt battery. I strongly recommend a stable power source from a 9 voltage regulator replacing the 9 volt battery (feeding the +12 vdc voltage from the radio via wire inside the microphone cord). Any respectable CB Shop can do this fairly easy.

The most common wiring available is the 4-pin Cobra/Galaxy/Uniden/Magnum, although it can be wired to any radio on the market today. I've also tried one on a Uniden PC66L rig. It definitely has a studio quality sound on this rig. I've also used one with a Magnum S-9, setting the mic and the radio internal turbo echo to different settings in order to create a different sound effect with, awesome results. The mic is so clean it works well in conjunction with other echo boards.



Sadelta Echo Master Plus Chassic Mods-Tricks

The Sadelta can be modified in so many ways to improve the audio by removing the base microphone and installing a relay with a electronic hand microphone for more control. For longer delay keyoff sounds add a 10 mfd 25 volt cap on the transmitt pin for some radios. Replace the audio-echo sound slide controls with audio tapper controls, nitro light them and the two meters. Replace the 9 volt battery with a 9 volt regulator. If you don't like a hand mic replace the base mic with a commerical heavy crome goose neck with a pro microphone, several ham radio types can be found. Corba maded a wireless hand mic that i used to remote operate a sadelta echo base with a few tricks. A Sadelta base was designed to operate wide open to be loud-loud with no mods..Any 9 volt battery operated echo microphone can be maded voltage stable by replacing the battery with a 9 volt regulator this way once you set it they are no more drifting by the battery voltage dropping and your echo going crazy every few days. You can always bring the voltage up to the hand mic from the extra unused wire in your mic cord from your radio.






VC-100™, VC-200 and VC-300-DX™

I've owned all three of these and used them for years they worked fine on legal power CB Radios....Echo Repeater voice scrambler (VC-100) and the little secret was it could be used to descramble all types of communications (because of this it was remove fast from the market), echo, roger beeps, compressor, record and talkback in one. Or how about the VC-200 and VC-300-DX, with it’s melodies, key up record play back, roger beeps, echo, compressor, and talkback in one.

Palomar VC-300DX Voice Recorder Built For CB Radio

The VC-300dx’s digital recorder allows the operator to record audio through the radio’s microphone. Once recorded and stored in the VC-300dx’s memory the message can be replayed over the air as many times as desired or until the message is erased, I used this feature with a "short key up burst" with my captured alien sound thousands of times. The Operator can also use the new “back-at-Ya” feature in conjunction with the digital recorder. The “back-at-Ya” feature automatically records and saves any received transmission at the touch of a button. The recorded message can then be transmitted back over the air immediately. Record and replay anything you hear on the airwaves at the touch of a button. It also has an audio mixer that allows the radio operator to mix inputs from recorded messages with the microphone. Give your transmissions a studio broadcast sound with fades, mixes and recorded background music. The echo repeater feature of the VC-300DX alters the transmitted audio by incorporating everything from a slight reverberation all the way to a full repeating slapback echo. Echo time and volume controls give the operator precise control over the amount of reverberation and depth added to a transmission. The VC-300DX has two end of transmission ‘roger’ beeps that can be selected from the back panel and turned on or off from the front panel. The selected sound will automatically play over the air at the end of a transmission. I purchased mine from www.copper.com and it was the only one i ever seen or even heard of so it was a very limited rare edition and it worked great.

ASTATIC™ MOBILEMAX 2000™



The Classic MobileMax™ generates two distinctly different types of echos. Echo reverb and echo slapback™ effects with 9 different E.T.S. (Roger Beep - Courtesy Beep) sequential multi tone sound burst. A 6 second digital key up recorder. External speaker is needed for the talkback feature to work. There is an input jack on the rear of the unit for the receiver speaker output to be directed to the external speaker through the MobileMax™. A nice working horizontal LED bar graph displays the correct modulation level.The MobileMax™ is a true DSP (digital signal processor) system using 14-bit analog to digital and digital to analog converters. The classic mobilemax 2000 [first edition] is the one most people want. The echo repeater-recorder box works ok with legal power, and its mounted with Velcro to the radio (don't let the metal case touch each other to keep from RF Looping).
NOTE: All new MobileMax processors made after August 2001 have only one ETS Tone (Roger Beer) and a 28 second recorder that replaces the classic model with a key-up 6 second recorder and the selectable roger beeps..This was a Big mistake by Astatic!! Because of this sales went to zero, and is no longer maded.

D & J MODEL 20 A UNUSUAL ECHO SLAP BACK REPEATER



Model 20 echo repeater from D & J Electronics was truely a wild CB Radio echo repeater box I used one for years. With all its faults of feedback from high power RF I will still rate this echo box as one of the best sounding ever and still is today. 01/10/2009: Today listening to skip from South America theres a model 20 going full blast. I don't think they ever built one exactly the same, every one that i've looked at had different parts. My model 20 had plug in chips with goverment surplus experimental echo-sampler-processor unmarked parts and a strange speaker wire for the 12 vdc power, the black wire with a white striped is for the 12 vdc +. No roger beep was in these units, they had a full blown repeater slapback echo audio with deep speech compression that sounds like no other echo unit ever made and to this day when I hear one in skip land it gets my attenion.

---Question Asked About The Model 20

I was searching for rewiring info for one of these D & J model 20 echo boxes and found your site.

Hello, The model 20 is a great echo box and is well worth the time to modify it for your CB..If you don't have a understanding of echo boxs and complex mike wiring you might try a CB Shop or a friend that does..As far as paper work, if you ever found a diagram it would probably be different as i've never seen two alike, you will notice when you open the case it looks like half the parts are missing..These were maded for older type CB with switching relays, Its no problem to mount a little 12 vdc relay (Radio Shack) inside the box to work with modern CB radios..Only a few model 20 maded did have this relay installed on the board. If your running any kind of RF power the echo unit will squeal (RF feedback) this can be fixed by bypassing RF to ground on all the wires coming in and out of the unit. A straight low 600-1k imp hand mike from the older Uniden CB radio works very well.
Sincerely,
Dr Ph.D
CB Channel 32 AM

MY FIRST ECHO BOX BUILT IN 1959

This homemaded echo unit was used for several years.
SIMPLE PARTS: 25 feet of water hose with a speaker at one end and a microphone at the other end..When i filled up the water hose with water the audio delay would be faster. Hmmm sound travels faster in water than it does in the air. This unit was copyed to make the famous wall of sound a few years later in the music industry.

1961 CB radio echo box proves that gravity waves contain
information and   shadows  could go faster than light!

a newer version echo box was constructed by me using two speakers with a tooth pick glued across the center of each speaker cone with a screen door spring connected to the tooth picks. One speaker work as a speaker and the other as a microphone receiver this was a big improvement over the water hose. This design was later used in the tweety Bird echo box. Also i noticed that gravity waves contain information and   shadows  could go faster than light in our test set-up..

Time Machines Are Impossible?

Late 1960's and 1970's was the big advancement in echo time delays this was a spin off from the goverment space rocket, communication, Super Secret future-past time travel machine research programs with millions of dollars being spend developing the digital time delay storage chips that we find in our modern CB Echo box's today.

Trouble Shooting CB Echo Reverb Audio Repeater Box

One of the most frustrating problems that often occur when adding power microphones or external Echo Repeater effects boxes to existing radio installations is RF feedback or looping (Squealing). RF feedback is caused when some of the transmitted radio energy is able to find it’s way back to the microphone input of the CB. Even if your radio didn’t have any problems before, adding a audio Echo Repeater effects box can start an RF feedback problem if your radio and antenna system are not installed properly or in good condition. Make sure that you have good, solid ground connections on your radio and antenna, that are free from corrosion. Also make sure that your antenna coax is in good condition and not pinched or shorted. Have the SWR (Standing Wave Ratio) of your system checked. Preferable, it should be 1.5:1 or better. Also there is less chance of RF feedback problems if the Echo box chassis is not connected to the metal chassis of your CB radio or vehicle. Mount the Echo Repeater box to a non-metal panel or use double-sided foam tape (I have mine mounted with industrial strength Velcro). If you connect an external speaker to the Ecxho box with deluxe talk back, it is possible to get audio feedback (squeal) if the talk back volume control is turned up too high.


Alien Audio For Your CB Radio Receiver!

We all know from the pictures of little green men that Aliens have no ears so how do they hear? Listening to all the noise and audio being transmitted over the CB air ways is down right confusing, it can't be human... Those signals must be from a UFO. We decided to built an Alien-UFO Engineering Audio sound receiver to decipher those distorted signals. This is a stand alone that plugs into a Magnum S-9 (Best radio right out of the box maded it has all the bells and whistles. No other radio has all the mods fixed right and ready to go like the Magnum S-9 with the lighted blue knobs). For parts we used two CB 1000 711 extension CB speakers, a sub-woofer, model 709EX nitro alien green Laserlight graphic equalizer with a sub-woofer output and a computerized spectrum analyzer.


40 CHANNEL CB RADIO FREQUENCIES
(Lake Cumberland CB Freq Are Shown In Green)

1) 26.965 MHz 9) 27.065 MHz 17) 27.165 MHz 25) 27.245 MHz 33) 27.335 MHz
2) 26.975 MHz 10) 27.075 MHz 18) 27.175 MHz 26) 27.265 MHz 34) 27.345 MHz
3) 26.985 MHz 11) 27.085 MHZ 19) 27.185 MHz 27) 27.275 MHz 35) 27.355 MHz
4) 27.005 MHz 12) 27.105 MHz 20) 27.205 MHz 28) 27.285 MHz 36) 27.365 MHz
5) 27.015 MHz 13) 27.115 MHz 21) 27.215 MHz 29) 27.295 MHz 37) 27.375 MHz
6) 27.025 MHz 14) 27.125 MHz 22) 27.225 MHz 30) 27.305 MHz 38) 27.385 LSB
7) 27.035 MHz 15) 27.135 MHz 23) 27.255 MHz 31) 27.315 MHz 39) 27.395 MHz
8) 27.055 MHz 16) 27.155 MHz 24) 27.235 MHz 32) 27.325 MHz 40) 27.405 MHz

How are the construction sites, CB Shops, and truck stops
doing all that advertisement on Channel 19 !!

CB Wizard™ system is an unmanned CB radio transmitter
designed to automatically broadcast ad messages

The CB Wizard™ is a CB transceiver that allows users to record three ad messages up to 18 seconds long and can be transmitted every 30, 60, or 90 seconds. To avoid interfering with other CB users, the device monitors CB transmissions on the selected frequency and when it detects a lull, a ad message is automatically broadcast..The CB Wizard™ has an effective communication range of 1 to 4 miles. • Although advertise messages can be played on any band, channel selection for the CB Wizard™ should be customized to a specific area or intended audience (channel 19 is the most commonly used CB frequency).. CB Wizard™ Systems range in price from $4,000 for handheld units to $7,000.

Unlike traditional Highway Advisory Radio (HAR), the use of CB radio frequencies does not require a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permit.
Disclaimer:(The above was posted on a state govt. site i don't think your allowed to halfway advertise on CB Radio even though its been done since the early 1970's)

Truck Stops aren't going to payout $4,000 dollars for a CB.

HERE IS WHAT THOUSANDS OF TRUCK STOPS DO!!

Have a sweet talking female waitress with a high pitched voice
every ten minutes broadcast an ad over a CB Radio.

In house high tech CB shop could make a super cheap clone of the $4,000 CB with a few cheap parts like The Radio Shack™ 20 second digital voice recorder 276-1323 or any CB type DVR (Digital Voice Recorder) will do, with a free trial Ham radio repeater PC software by EchoStation and you'll need RigBlaster Plus usb hardware to connect the 100 millwatt CB Walkie talkie. This software-hardware can be used for a computer controlled HT hand held CB by way of a laptop (Older windows 98 laptop with USB will do fine) ..

This was the most simple on the air set up of all.. A CB DM-5000 Echo microphone with a 20 second ad message recorder-playback. The waitress would walk by listening, no one using the CB channel she would click the microphone (instant on the air truck stop advertising on channel 19) "investment less than $50.00"..



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The reviews posted here are by the webmaster who's CB handles over the
last 50 years have been Dr PhD, Unit One Six,Senior Stationality,
Cherokee Charlie and CB Shop.

Lake Cumberland Area!! Echo SlapBack !!

We Monitor Local Channels
(19) 27.185 MHZ AM
(22) 27.255 MHZ AM
(32) 27.325 MHZ AM
(38) 27.385 MHZ LSB USA



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