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Check your info. It is Amateur Radio that has been a reliable resource for filling in for downed communications infrastructure for 100 years. When the phones, the computers, the cell towers, (AND the CB radios only talk for a couple miles),don't work, it's the hams that man the disaster centers...

like 2 ships in the night talking via radio, that's why we pay for phones and internet, it's a sure thing Sorry, but phones and internet are NOT a "sure thing"! Let a disaster occur and see what happens. It's why Amateur Radio has played a vital role in emergency comms from its beginnings...

Well, the poster that responded to my comments was knockng hams, so I responded in kind. Like you, I don't make it a habit of listening to CB. There is simply nothing there to stimulate me. No offense meant. Do I use CB? Yes. I turn it on when there's a backup on the road, listen to which...

*********************************************** 1. But the reality of amateur radio is that it is primarily an old mans hobby. One of the popular CB myths used to try to legitimize, downtrod, and equate that band to the very REAL and legitimate hobby that made CB radio possible...

I certainly don't mean to be harsh as I said to begin with. I know hams(?) who are allegedly (well, their ticket says so) "Extra" Class. Legally, they are, but I know good and daggum well they are no more qualified than my daughter's Rotweiler. IOW, they couldn't figure the length of a dipole...

I don't mean to be harsh. I WELCOME you one and ALL to Amateur Radio, will do everything I can to make a new ham's experience the best it can be! But I see so much of this new attitude of---Nobody-wants-to-expend-any-effort--until ya have to wonder where the aspiration to the superlative is any...

Did you EVER sit down and read the Basis and Purpose of Amateur Radio? Did you actually read ANY of the theory required to obtain that ticket or did you simply memorize the answers to the questions? It is evident even over on QRZ that this IS the case, even OBVIOUS that Amateur Radio is...

Purely as info, you should know that it ain't kosher to run the ham equipment on CB. Illegal, ya know! IF you get the ticket, it is best to keep the two activities separate. Should you happen to catch FCC's attention and they learn that you are also running ham gear on 27 MHZ, it is likely to...

It is reasonably easy to understand that modern convenience can be taken for granted. That is how the kids see their Ipods, cellphones, and computers; it's just an means to an end---and a narrow end at that. The ONE thing I haven't been able to reconcile is text messaging. Here's a kid...

My local Radio Shacks never quit sellin' them---surprisingly. And, btw, rumor has it, Radio Shack is going back into the ham radio market along with putting its parts bins BACK into most all their stores according to store managers I've talked to! :D This rumor seems to be true! 73 CWM

Works "ok" but! You will be disappointed at 40 and 75 Meters. It is just THAT: a compromise. And a compromise means you have to give something up. And that, unfortunately, is performance on the lower bands. On 20 and above, works OK! CWM

If you've ALREADY been warned and STILL keep on................ Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 ) ) In the Matter of ) File Number EB-07-SF-051 Martha S. and Miguel G. Campos ) NAL/Acct. No. 200832980001 San Jose, California )...

Agreed. However, I think one would have to have lived in that era when people were more inclined to obey authorities and agencies such as FCC. Folks FEARED FCC and, the feds could not have envisioned that it would be any different in 40-50 years, nor that their budget would be cut drastically...

Not really. It wasn't the practice of talking "skip" that was the issue. At that point at which the change was considered, FCC had noted the huge numbers of operators and as concerned about the space, not the distance rule. After all, after any expansion of the rules, operators could STILL...

Actually, while amateurs did object, it was NTIA that objected the most. :D CWM

I will compete with you any day of the week, setting up any radio station from CB, commercial, to military, to ham, beginning with figuring how long the antenna needs to be using the formulas for same. That includes verticals, dipoles, beams with matching networks, and mobile antenna not...

CWM Talk about being "stuck in the mud"! Your ARRL anti-CB propaganda is getting a bit old!!!! I'm not a member of ARRL. I am telling you the actual reasons AND the truth of the matter. All one has to do is make a reasonable comparison between the two. CB: 40 channels AM and...

Why? CB Radio is, and always HAS been intended for short-ranged, personal communications. It was created in an era when cellphones, computers, fax, email were only in a Dick Tracy cartoon (anybody remember that?) It has been replaced both officially, and in the public eye, as an out-of date...

Item # 5: They are STILL making miscreant operators refrain from operating on such repeaters. I would point out that repeater operators CAN prevent others from operating on THEIR machines if they want to. a. tone encode by giving the tones only to the ones the owner wishes to allow to...

Methinks somebody's "bird" (watts) is sick!!!!! :D :shock: :shock: :D