Spirit Soft Systems

What is one thing that you can find in almost everyone’s car on the road today?  The item that is the most popular to now find in a car that anyone is driving is a GPS.  A GPS is a great tool to use to make sure that you know where you are going, while you are traveling on the road.  It has the capability to give you directions to any certain spot that might be around.  With the direction, it will automatically update itself to the position and speed you are driving at.  This can help you make decision while you are driving and can also help you find your way if you get lost for some reason.

In the GPS tracking, there has not been much.  This is a result because many people are now able to use them without a problem.  The less problems people have the more users friendly all other consumers will start thinking this product actually is.  The GPS is now a great business tool because many business owners are now able to use it as an Informer Lite device.  They are now able to track all of their delivery trucks or any other type of trucks that the business might own.

Another reason many people will decide to get a GPS is, so when they go places they can find the attractions that they would like to go see.  The GPS has a function that will allow all users to search for places they might need to go.  One great example is a place to get gas.  If you are new to the area you might need to get gas, but don’t know where a good place is.  The GPS will allow you to locate the gas station and then give you the directions to it, allowing you to have a safe commute in a place you do not know.

Continuing with our research into the CB craze of the mid 70s we’ll take a look at what were considered the elite antennas when it came to having a CB setup.  While the truckers may have ruled the roads and channel 19, it was the everyday hobbyist who ruled the airwaves from his home, and rule they did.

If you were on CB and really wanted to impress people with your booming voice over the airwaves you had no choice but to set up a base unit.  Not only were the units themselves powerful but the antennas that people put up on their roof tops could have given some rival TV stations a run for their money.

Choosing a CB antenna for your base station was not easy.  There were plenty to choose from and they all had their pluses and minuses.

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If you were around in the mid 70s in the United States you’d have to have been living under a rock not to know about the great citizen band radio craze made popular by the smash hit “Convoy” by C.W. McCall.  If you were into citizen band radio at all you knew that there was a certain prestige to having certain kinds of antennas, especially if you had a CB setup in your home.

For the mobile units, the ones that were installed in your motor vehicle, the antennas were rather simple and relatively weak.  They could only send and receive a short distance depending on the time of day.  In the afternoon, mobile CB antennas were lucky to reach a few miles, especially during sun spot time.  At night, if you were lucky you could reach about 10 to 20 miles, maybe sometimes a little more.

Mobile antennas came in several types.  One of the most popular antennas was the fiberglass model that hooked on the back bumper.  These antennas were very good transmitters and receivers.  Most were about 3/8 of an inch in diameter and about 2 feet tall.  Some could handle up to 1000 watts of transmission power.

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