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Cursing on CB

2NC995

2NC995

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Was reading in another thread about this...and I always hear this come up when anyone wants to get a dig in on CBers.

Granted, I don’t live on an interstate or spend much time parked on channel 19 these days, but I very rarely hear any cursing. Years ago when I spent time on the AM channels, the only time it would happen was when some annoying teenager/young adult would get on 19 trying to make problems, and he would be quickly drowned out by the locals until he gave up. As animated as the folks on 6,11,28 can be, the language is clean.

Every once in a while these days I’ll hear a foul mouthed individual on 38lsb, but not very often. Maybe if I listened to random truckers all day it’d be different. As it is, on the freqs I operate on its clean language. And despite what some people like to say, I’ve heard plenty of cursing in the HF ham bands as well.

Am I missing something?
 
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Ha - every day that I am on 11 meters I will here the cursing, it's pretty much normal for most male humans.
Maybe you don't have a beam, but with one you might hear more. Lots of logging trucks, rock haulers, etc. are in this area and they like the F-word a lot on the radio, plus others also.
 
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To be fair, foul language doesn’t bother me at all.

I just never noticed it to be the same level of problem that others do. If I spent my time listening to truckers, I concede I’d probably have a different opinion. But the rest of the band? I’m not seeing it.
 
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A few years back, we were teaching some Boy Scouts how to use 2 way radios. It was for their communications merit badge. We used CB radios and marine VHF.

There is almost no local CB radio traffic down here in the Keys. When there's no skip, the frequencies are ideal for local communications. We never had a problem with foul language on the CB. On the marine VHF, however, we heard enough of it that we decided to "deep six" use of that band. It was a shame because just about every kid down here is out on a boat at some point.
 
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We have a small group of locals here on ch20 and foul language is not a problem. If there is no skip then the radio is dead except for the few locals. When skip is running, we get it from all over the place and foul language is not a problem then either. The DX is a friendly hi how ya doing kind of thing and it is fun to see how far I can talk.
 
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Troublemakers seem to gravitate toward ssb on 11m. The mode is more efficient and people generally don't run a lot of power. You can disrupt 38lsb without much effort.

I don't hear bad language on any band that often. I expect it on 19 but haven't listened there in a long time. There are certain frequencies that are know for it. Fortunately those people have a place to congregate and as long as you stay out of their neighborhood they leave you alone.
 
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dledinger said:
Was reading in another thread about this...and I always hear this come up when anyone wants to get a dig in on CBers.

Granted, I don’t live on an interstate or spend much time parked on channel 19 these days, but I very rarely hear any cursing. Years ago when I spent time on the AM channels, the only time it would happen was when some annoying teenager/young adult would get on 19 trying to make problems, and he would be quickly drowned out by the locals until he gave up. As animated as the folks on 6,11,28 can be, the language is clean.

Every once in a while these days I’ll hear a foul mouthed individual on 38lsb, but not very often. Maybe if I listened to random truckers all day it’d be different. As it is, on the freqs I operate on its clean language. And despite what some people like to say, I’ve heard plenty of cursing in the HF ham bands as well.

Am I missing something?
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Well, one good option is to turn off the radio or go to another channel which I had to do many times when my young (7 to 11 years old) cousins were at my home or riding in my car or truck. The foul language was from the local folks and not the truckers. Back in the late sixties and during the seventies, channel 19 was the unofficial trucker's channel and most people respected that and we had our own unofficial "call and chit-chat channels". In my area (Up-State NY) our call channel was channel 11. We made contact with our person and moved to another channel so as not to tie-up the call channel.
The truckers were constantly communicating with each other on channel 19, either asking for directions, radar traps, truck repair shops, places for fuel and food, etc. etc. At times, listening to their conversations was sort of humorous because of the numerous "slang and accents". If we asked for a "break 19" it was because we wanted to know how far-out our radios were transmitting and receiving and then we moved-on to our local "chit-chat" channels.
 
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Truck driver cussin’ is short-hand for exasperation, frustration and disappointment.

(“ . . z’at so, hand? Well — don’t hold back, you're among friends — tell us how you REALLY feel about the driver of that little car”).
 

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