CB 2013

[N8YX]

Haters gonna hate.

[K8PG]

No one said anything about hate ! I tossed out a box of cb radios last fall -14 of them in all -No one wanted them

[KG4CGC]

No one said anything about hate ! I tossed out a box of cb radios last fall -14 of them in all -No one wanted them

Craigslist? You can't keep a CB listed for 10 hours before you'll have all kinds of Citizen's Band enthusiasts knocking your doors down before you wake up. I had a small collection sitting around including my base from 1995 and all of them sold, no haggling.
I've got a couple of high end CRTs sitting around and THOSE, can not be given away. They have a great picture I even watched HD movies in HD on them but no person wants them now. I guess they have to go to that place where 8-tracks and cassettes sit on the park bench shaking their canes.

[kb2vxa]

"The Best CB radio is in the Landfill."

NO! NO! NO! They require proper labeling and disposal or like Joe Higgins as the sheriff in the Dodge Challenger commercial said "Yo inna heap o' trouble boy!"

[N2NH]

Very interesting. Thanks for that.

When I first started listening to CB and the freeband in 1981, there was a lot of SSB activity on channel 32-40 and of course, the freeband. The English speakers almost always used LSB. USB was reserved for channels 15 and 16.

I lost interest because they wouldn't always identify. At least with ham radio ops, you could look them up with their callsign.

We had SSB on 16, 18 and 36-40. Once in awhile late at night, you could see it on other channels. One guy unwisely tried it on Channel 19...

Never did 11 Meter FM nor was my power ever illegal and still got out great. Had my 1st Radiotelephone License to protect and I wouldn't take any chances with my bread-n-butter.

[VE7DCW]

Haters gonna hate.

Fred ...... you mean there's actually people who hate CB??

[ki4itv]

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I've got a couple of high end CRTs sitting around and THOSE, can not be given away. They have a great picture I even watched HD movies in HD on them but no person wants them now. I guess they have to go to that place where 8-tracks and cassettes sit on the park bench shaking their canes.

I had to laugh, Charles...Goodwill wouldn't take the CRT combo I tried to give them. Oh, and there's this pile of GD taper section cassettes sitting five feet away from me that I don't have the heart to get rid of and have nothing to play them on right now.
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...and yeah, I was domesticatin' so don't be hatin' ;)

[n2ize]

We had SSB on 16, 18 and 36-40. Once in awhile late at night, you could see it on other channels. One guy unwisely tried it on Channel 19...

SSB was too risky to try on any of those channels. The stakes were high and the punishments severe.

Never did 11 Meter FM nor was my power ever illegal and still got out great. Had my 1st Radiotelephone License to protect and I wouldn't take any chances with my bread-n-butter.

Even worst here. I avoided 11 meter CB altogether. In my line of work I couldn't take such risks. It was even questioned as to whether my amateur radio operations were part of an "established station". My employers checked everything thoroughly.

[kb2vxa]

"...I wouldn't take any chances with my bread-n-butter."

On one electrician job I wouldn't either, Ted Bredenbeck aka bread 'n butter was my boss.

"My employers checked everything thoroughly."

One case where good enough for government work didn't apply.

[AE1PT]

In 1983 a pronounced uptick in online chat-room growth began to draw a large number of our local CB contingent off the air and into cyberspace.

Folks must be pretty progressive in Ohio. The CB crowd in Florida certainly did not have computers and use BBS in the 1980s. Matter of fact, CB was pretty well done by the 80s except for bucketmouths and bullies. Overall, the prime of CB was in the mid to late 70s, and most sensible people had either drifted away or gotten their Tech licenses and shifted to repeater culture.

What killed CB was its own popularity, and a contingent of bad actors and behaviors that all too soon became the norm.

There are times that I miss the social scene that accompanied CB in the 70s...