What I find interesting is the number of trucks around here in my area (Rockford, IL), have 1 or more cb antenna's but no radio...
Now I understand a few people don't leave their radio in their vehicle all the time... But I think it's funny when more than half of the trucks I see with CB antenna's on the bed rails have bare so-239's hanging on the bottom of their antenna mounts (yes usually two)...
I was unaware that CB antenna's became a fashionable accessory hahaha
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"Mostly just attention whores whoring for attention." -- KC4CGC
"Don't take your ham radio too seriously." --N2CHX
Radio shack: "You've got questions? We've got blank stares...."
yes, strange but, true. remember when having a cell phone antenna stuck on the rear window was all the rage?
"Are we better off without CB?"
No, but then again I don't particularly think we are better off WITH it. It's fairly clean at least in my area, some truckers, yeah they swear but not just to swear, just talking to like minded folks far as I see. Don't hear the echo stuff so much. Not like we really NEED the frequencies with 10 meters not saturated. Be nice if more folks used the GMRS side of that service so it would be better for road/freeway conditions. (more power/external antenna, but it is licensed).
I've accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. My next crap could spell disaster.
I kind of agree with the last part. It would be nice for road/weather/freeway conditions. Perhaps keep the high power GMRS side still licensed, and maybe have it shared with the amateur service. I know if I were traveling and current travel conditions were available somewhere in the 11 meter band, I would use it, but that's about all I would use it for.Originally Posted by w6tmi
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GMRS more power? Welcome to Earth, welcome to Misfit Island, stick around a while and you'll learn a thing or three.
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I've been around awhile, and I the only thing of importance that I have learned so far, is about bushtits.
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
You learned to say no more.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Bushtit.
Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
I've learned a Bushtit has become a most popular bird on the Island..... more so than say,a Sea Gull....
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
prob said driver got tired of all the stupidity and the idiots who think echo sounds good on cb and said hell with it not even worth having the damn thing.
quite frank, I doubt i would even bother with a cb in a semi these days.
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