"CB" on 10M.

[WRQC527]

11 hours ago, TNFrank said:

I do expect a bit of professionalism on the HAM Bands.

Mercy sakes 10-4 on that. 

Seriously though, a lot of amateur radio licensees (me included) started with CB. But some of them can't (or won't) leave the CB stuff behind. 

[Jaay]

On 1/27/2026 at 10:27 AM, TNFrank said:

I swear it sounds like a couple truck drivers talking. I don't want to be a "Sad Ham" but I do expect a bit of professionalism on the HAM Bands.

Keep in mind, MANY hams cut their teeth, on 11 meters, and just never learned how to talk properly.  I started out as a SWL or Shortwave listener, then GMRS  before getting my ham license.  Everybody on CB just turned my Stomach the way they Swore and carried on like unsupervised children, not that SOME hams don't sound like that too.

[WRYZ926]

On 1/28/2026 at 12:45 PM, Jaay said:

Everybody on CB just turned my Stomach the way they Swore and carried on like unsupervised children, not that SOME hams don't sound like that too.

You should tune into 7.200 MHz on the 40m band. You would swear that you were listening the CB channel 19 by the way those knuckle draggers talk on 7.200. There is a frequency on the 20m band they like to hang out at but I forget what it is.

[TNFrank]

This is just ridiculous. If I wanted to hear all this CB stuff I'd listen to 11M. A big problem is they also bleed over to other frequencies causing a lot of interference. 

[RoadApple]

Yep, that sounds like the wild west days of CB on 10M.   

 

[TNFrank]

I had a POTA station on 380 but couldn't hardly hear them because of the bleed over.  I thought the FCCs was supposed to police stuff like this. Not trying to be a "Sad Ham" but dang, this is just crazy.

[dosw]

2 minutes ago, TNFrank said:

I had a POTA station on 380 but couldn't hardly hear them because of the bleed over.  I thought the FCCs was supposed to police stuff like this. Not trying to be a "Sad Ham" but dang, this is just crazy.

Listening to 385 is totally optional, by the way.  Too bad about the bleed-over, though. But the likelihood of the FCC policing that is almost nil. 

[SteveShannon]

6 minutes ago, TNFrank said:

I had a POTA station on 380 but couldn't hardly hear them because of the bleed over.  I thought the FCCs was supposed to police stuff like this. Not trying to be a "Sad Ham" but dang, this is just crazy.

No, the FCC doesn’t police stuff like this. It’s completely up to us to report interference to them and interference on the amateur frequencies is just about as low priority as can be. Does your radio have user configurable band pass filtering to remove adjacent signals?

[RoadApple]

6 minutes ago, TNFrank said:

I had a POTA station on 380 but couldn't hardly hear them because of the bleed over.  I thought the FCCs was supposed to police stuff like this. Not trying to be a "Sad Ham" but dang, this is just crazy.

Perhaps folks hearing this helps provide a more realistic perspective on FCC enforcement (or lack thereof).  So many radio folk live in this fantasy land where the FCC is lurking around every frequency to catch you not ID'ing every 10 minutes...    @OffRoaderX has been pointing out the reality for years...

[TNFrank]

4 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

. Does your radio have user configurable band pass filtering to remove adjacent signals?

I'm not sure. I do have the bandwidth set to 2k instead of the 4k it was out of the box and I'm running my gain control at a 5 instead of off so it cuts down on a little bit of the background noise. I also have my RX Noise Reduction set to 4 to also help cut down on static. 

[SteveShannon]

4 minutes ago, TNFrank said:

I'm not sure. I do have the bandwidth set to 2k instead of the 4k it was out of the box and I'm running my gain control at a 5 instead of off so it cuts down on a little bit of the background noise. I also have my RX Noise Reduction set to 4 to also help cut down on static. 

The bandpass filter on my radios are capable of being adjusted for width as well as having the center shifted lower or higher in frequency. That can really help push adjacent signals down relative to the signal you’re trying to listen to. 

[beerftw]

7 hours ago, TNFrank said:

I had a POTA station on 380 but couldn't hardly hear them because of the bleed over.  I thought the FCCs was supposed to police stuff like this. Not trying to be a "Sad Ham" but dang, this is just crazy.

The fcc does not actively police said interference, they only react after it is reported, and ham users are low on the totem pole for priority. The fcc focuses most of it's attention on people using or interferring with frequencies used by the federal govt, military, first responders and airports/aircraft. So someone using a cheap handheld ham radio talking on the same frequencies as let's say singars for military causing disruptions may get a quick visit from the fcc, a cb kilowatt pirate, maybe after enough complaints and then slowly, unless it is interferring with more important radio uses or television or internet or something affecting a mass market or important use.

 

  11m bleeding onto 10 meter from kilowatt pirates the only thing you can do is report it, and wait until the fcc runs out of more pressing matters to send agents to investigate.

[WRUE951]

On 1/26/2026 at 7:30 AM, TNFrank said:

Has anyone else noticed that there's some folks on 10M around 28.385MHz that sound like they're Rag Chewin' on a CB radio? Not sure who they are or if they're even licensed but it sounds odd on a HAM Band to here stuff like that.  

Those darn Export Radios will do it every time. 

[Jaay]

On 1/28/2026 at 1:46 PM, WRYZ926 said:

You should tune into 7.200 MHz on the 40m band. You would share that you were listening the CB channel 19 by the way those knuckle draggers talk on 7.200. There is a frequency on the 20m band they like to hang out at but I forget what it is.

Ohhh I know, those guys are HORRIBLE !! I Wonder if they EAT from those openings, with all the crap that comes out ! 

[TNFrank]

I also think they're using a linear amp because I can hear it power up before they TX. They really mess with adjacent frequencies I'm trying to pick up. I made a POTA QSO from Hawaii today on 28.384MHz but it wasn't easy because of bleed over from 28.385MHz.