HOW I tracked down this CB Radio Operator!

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[redeyegooner]

Why on earth would you want to track down a cb'er or any operator, to their home, uninvited, unless you're a complete stalker?

[RingwayManchester]

I tracked a repeater Jammer once using DF techniques. He was prolific, on every day and night for months. When he saw us sat outside his house receiving him with no
Antenna in the radio, we never heard him again.

[prizeking]

You start knocking on people's doors expect trouble not everyone is gonna take kindly to that.

[baylenthedogg]

Finally a way to find 163 mud duck In the desert. Shew

[xszl]

We did foxhunting competition every sunday on cb, back in the 80's.
I dont need fancy equipment or sdr to find someone. Its pretty easy.

[dmdmorg]

Why would you track them down, i thought CB usage was a no licence activity as long as they keep under the legal watt outage, or is more for dodgy folk being rude and over the top?

[timgtm]

Interesting Stu. Just out of interest, I’d have thought this could be used to track any TX.. including QRM?

[WXCB]

oh now that's too cool, and what do you have against harriers and antrons?

[adam-gcrq]

food for thought using a kraken SDR for tracking on your car each antenna will have to be 1/4 wave apart from each other to work properly which may be a problem on 11 meters having enough roof space. Sig Trax an app for your phone and a DF loop is a much cheaper option.

[brittanycunningham]

Will this track down someone trolling on one of those portable boefang raidos?

[kevinlloyd]

Use to do that years ago with a df loop 👍

[munja]

Why would you track CB operator? It is legal to transmit on CB band.

[claesnordstrom]

27 MHZ was a back in the day a free frenquenzy in Sweden, then came the PMR for 446MHZ. Back then i had a 27MHZ radio had alot of fun. Started study to have a cert for ham but ran out of money

[ugsisr]

DF is allot of fun no matter how you do it ir what you use..

[johnnorth]

Interesting. I am plagued by a loud and constant near locality interference across 26, 27 and some parts of 28 mhz that drives me crazy. Other local hams have suggested in may be a fauly earth on a phase of a local substation but whatever a mile away it disappears so it is definitely local. I have just ordered a cheapo AliExpress sdr to help me narrow the location. Wish me luck. M7BLC.

[aschlack]

love your show. thanx mate 73 from vk2

[pluto]

Why on earth would you probe a CB station? Just let the man do his hobby 😂😂

[gfvt]

TDoA is pretty remarkable, I used it for fun to locate an MF transmitter that our company maintained, it located it to the correct field. Some of the strange transmitters on the 40m band have been shown to definitely be on Russian military sites, for perhaps 50 years there was plenty of speculation but TDoA has put the mystery to bed. In the 1980s the Datong DF was popular and very good if set up correctly, it was a standard Doppler using electronically rotated aerials. I do remember that the popular FT290 MK1 could defeat the Datong due to synthethiser whine, so Datong provided a facility to change the electronic rotation frequency. As someone that worked for Ofcom way back I would be wary of just knocking on doors, there really are some violent lunatics about..

[theastuteangler]

I played with a CB radio with my friends when I was kid, and as kids do, we annoyed another user because we were being shitheads. He was able to tell us our location and scared the crap out of us, back in 1999. I am not a big radio guy, so I have no idea how he did this. Can you offer some guesses?

[kevlandy]

Blimey, things have come on a bit since DF loops.😳