Tom Ring wrote:
wrote:
Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?
You should go for your license. The additional privelages are quite
worthwhile. I will warn you that there are still quite a few inbred
hicks that got their ham tickets, unfortunately. The good thing is most
of them seem to be extra class, and are mostly older and will be gone
soon. It's a leftover effect of requiring Morse ability as opposed to
operating knowledge.
tom
K0TAR
Boy it's fun what a little trolling can do to my peers. I'm also an
Extra, and licensed for 29 years.
Code is worth what it can do, but has had less and less to do with the
hobby for decades. It's a great hobby within the hobby on HF, and was
the core of EME for years. It still is to some extent, but advances due
to moving up in frequency as well as computer based modes as low as 6
and 2 meters are making it something used for EME as much for fun and
stubborness as for usefullness. SSB is a very popular mode on EME now
among the big guns.
CW is dead as far as being needed. It's a great thing to have as a
skill, but is now as needed as spark.
The person who said they could key an HT to send CW was stretching it
way beyond reality. Ain't gonna happen, any more than someone will make
a spark transmitter by keying a big bunch of wire they wound in a coil
when trapped in their basement by touching it to the hot side of the
drop in their fusebox.
tom
K0TAR