About BigRadios.COM
BigRadios.COM was started by me 443 back in 1998. From 1995-1997 I had a site called "The CB Radio Site" which was an accumulation of links basically for other CB resources on the net. In 1998 I met some people on the radio who turned me on to the world of the SuperBowl and CB Competitions. I had no idea what was going on on Channel 6 (27.025). I had heard all the "Big Radios" as the truckers called them during the day on Channel 6 but wasn't sure just how the heck they were able to be heard so well, while everyone else was "down in the mud".
I knew about amplifiers etc, and large directional antenna arrays, but had never seen anything bigger than a Texas Star Sweet Sixteen (DX1600). I never would have thought that you could build a huge amplifier and antenna array on a motor vehicle!
I went to my first keydown in Tyler, Texas. It was amazing. It really blew my mind. And my freinds on the "regular CB" didn't believe me.
I was working at an ISP at the time and had the ability to setup a website for free. So I decided to setup this website to share this hobby of "being louder than the next guy" with the rest of the world. It was a huge success. But after a while I grew tired of maintaining it with all the mud slinging going on between the amp builders etc. It got so bad that I had to regulate the Marketplace, and read every email before it was posted. It was a daunting task. So then it didn't get updated for a long time.
In September of 1999 BigRadios.COM was featured in a Magazine. It was Popular Communications. The writer of the column, Ed Barnat, had written an acrticle where he responded to a reader of Pop Comm about the mobiles on Channel 6. People who read the magazine and who were active in the Channel 6 world sent him emails to correct something wrong he had stated. He stated that there was no way that the CB'ers on Channel 6 were mobile. They turned him on to the BigRadios.COM site so he could "see for himself" that he was wrong. He came to the site, watched the videos and was amazed.
He then contacted me via email and inquired about featuring BigRadios.COM in his magazine column "CB Scene" in Popular Communications magazine. We worked together to get an article that I and others approved and it was a done deal. After the article appeared in Popular Communications magazine internet traffic to BigRadios.COM more than doubled.
Finally, in 2005 I have decided to bring the site back to life. Will it do as good as it did before? I doubt it. At the time BigRadios.COM was introduced to the web there wasn't a lot out there like it. It was a rare find for the CB'er who happened across it from another site or a search engine.
I would like to give very special thanks to the original members of BigRadios.COM especially Shadow and 1-800 Toll Free for helping with getting the site off the ground in 1998 and helping maintain and update it along the way.
Enjoy the site!
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