Yup, if it wasn't for CB the retail market wouldnt have done so well in
the past. Today we have no newcomers to buy things prefering to zero in
on computors which is what the ham community is also doing tho to a
lesser extent since age prevents change somewhat.
Coffee breaks are now in vogue except for the few who miss the
perceived statue they once attained and where others can pile in with
grammer punctuated by swear words. But that is the same all over
America we are a split society and continue to grow that way knowing a
few bad apples will always overcome the britest in the barrel.

Owen Duffy wrote:
Gary KW4Z wrote in
:

...
rejection or level of noise with some was tremendous. I wouldn't take
anything away from Ham's building their own antennas and feel that's
the best way but I do miss the jumps in design account of the CB Boom
of the 70's.
...

I don't know how many of our new 6 hour hams I have worked on 40m who are
using a Station Master (a 11m half wave with a base parallel tuned matching
network) fed with 20m or so of RG58C/U and an ATU on 40m, and
astonishlingly, VSWR is less than 1.01!

We owe a lot to that CB technology!

Owen