TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: amateur_radio
to: JIMMY ANDERSON
from: Kent Timm
date: 2016-09-14 22:57:00
subject: Re: Wannbe HAM

> I have thought seriously about adding a CB for when I'm on the road,
 > etc.
 > Do people still use them at all? Or just truckers?

Truckers still use them, but it's not like the 70s or 80s when it was busy.  I
do have a CB in my car on a quick release mount so mainly it's just in when I
get on the highway or the mood strikes me to take it.

If the band is open you hear quite a bit of DXing going on, and a lot of
nonsence, but it can't be fun to listen to at times, and some times just...
bad...  channel 6 and 11 seem to be the most used on AM, and LSB on 38 for DX.

--- RA2+ FMail
* Origin: HoloDeck BBS telnet://kentsoftware.com London Canada (1:229/728)
SEEN-BY: 57/0 130/505 512 135/376 153/250 226/20 100 317/2 393/68 633/0 267
SEEN-BY: 633/280 281 410 412 640/384 712/620 848 770/0 1 100 330 340 772/0 1
SEEN-BY: 772/100 210
@PATH: 229/728 426 123/500 153/757 250 770/1 712/848 633/280 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.