"John Smith" wrote in message
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Ok, back to reality people!
For the "Mad Max'ers" out there, let's say the big one has hit, power and
phone lines are down....
Guess what, the truckers are still communicating...
Guess what, they can link the nation together because there are tons of
them
everywhere (not to mention the CB non-truckers/mobile/base stations out
there!)
Guess what, there radios use the 11 meter band, line of sight, ground wave
and skip are all a phenomenon of this frequency!!!
Guess what? There are MILLIONS of CB radios out there!!!
Guess what? Antennas for this frequency are a snap to construct!
Guess what, some genius sets up a plan to use this "hidden" web to get
things going! He is deemed a genius by the government-they wonder why
they
didn't think of this before!

Now, look over at the hams--there are a handful...

The price of living in a fantasy world, oblivious to the real world, is
that
others tend to mock and laugh at you...


And while your trucker friends are screaming "HOW "BOUCHA THAR, YUH GOTTA AN
OLE COPY THAR, WE TRYIN' THAR, MERCY SAKES THAR"
And if the 27 Megs band is dead? Silence..except for the mishmash of
truckers jamming each other with their "leenyars".

While those hams just move down to 24, 21, 18, 10, 7,
5, 3.8 MHZ and pass the traffic for EOC and FEMA or MARS.

CB radio is a hodgepodge of mishmash thrown together, peeked and tweeked,
squeaked and beeped ,splattering trash that couldn't effectively move radio
traffic if it smacked them in the face! They wouldn't know what to do with
it if they tried. Ha! They'd just get into a king of the hill battle trying
to key over one another!

Traffic handling in a national emergency is not just a matter of having
'them thar reddios with lotsa 'swang and far in th' war (fire in the wire),
but a matter of training and discipline. Without experience in precedence,
cataloging,
knowing what messages must be handled first, That, sir, those hams have in
abundance. It is why there are training programs within ARRL and local ham
clubs. It is why Amateur Radio was awarded funds for that purpose from
Homeland Security Dept. I don't see none of them thar "expert" chicken band
reddio types gittin' any of that money! HAHA! Want laughter? Talk to the
Emergency M

anagement folks or Homeland Security or FEMA and tell them how "valuable
them chicken banders" and their reddios and leenyars are to them. See how
hard they laugh at YOU! You haven't SEEN contempt until you try that.

"HOW 'BOUCHA THAR, THIS H'YAR MOONRAKER IN CENTRAL NAWTH C'LINA, WE TRYIN'!
WE'S IS REDDY TO PASS SOME OF THAT EE-MER-GEN-CEE TRAFFIC THAR"

Yeah, right. Your wonderful chicken band radio is full of **** when it
comes to real communications. You are dreaming, and your steering wheel and
the knowledge contained within its circumference is getting smaller and
smaller. Quit while you're ahead.

J



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Hay, if'n ya'll cun't konstructivly partecipete in this har disscusion,
haw
aboot speel-checkin it fer me?


"H J" wrote in message
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the band we truckers,took over we dont need big hf radios like keenwood
etc.we use low cost radios with big power.also the high power black
radio people are makeing there way up 28hz.the new super bowl .we
black,white folks are meeting togeter.untiy day is here on 28mhz