Saturday's 10-11-12M opening

[N8YX]

Hopefully a lot of you got to enjoy it - Central and South Americans were booming into Ohio.

What I found interesting was that Channel 5 was absolutely, positively filled with signals - in fact, it was constant S-9 level dull roar of the type which could be found on every channel from 1 to 40 during the late '70s peak skip season that occurred at the time of CB's heyday. Surprisingly, Channel 19 was relatively quiet.

Almost too quiet.

Have many U.S. truckers finally given up on CB as a way to communicate? Further - is the CB service enjoying somewhat of a renaissance in Latin and South America?

[w3bny]

Further - is the CB service enjoying somewhat of a renaissance in Latin and South America?

I didnt know it had gone away in S.A. They have always used it as the local phone line so to speak.

[KG4CGC]

I didnt know it had gone away in S.A. They have always used it as the local phone line so to speak.

They will use anything they can get their hands on. Weren't they using hacked sat-phones to call long distance on unencrypted Navy satellites?
Maybe they were not even hacked but if you see a picture of a poor town or isolated neighborhood in parts of SA, those are not Direct TV dishes, those are phones.
Many an ingenious yet, very dangerous communications set up has originated in SA.