"Radio Amateur KC2HMZ" wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:01:22 GMT, "Bert Craig"
wrote:

I have an understanding of what CB WAS supposed to be for as well as what
it
HAS evolved into. (...and I don't mean the out-of-band lids with the
illegal
amplifiers either.)

Well, then you must mean the IN-the-band lids with the illegal
amplifiers. Not to mention echo mikes, electronic noisemakers,
and...well, just listen down there and compile your own list.

You know, Ryan...I've been very very fortunate in that I've rarely
encountered the hordes of lids on the CB. I'm usually on ch. 38 LSB or ch.
40 USB and most folks I've had the pleasure of chatting with have been
pretty good ops. (By AR standards.)

I personally have no want to bang my fist down on the table and proclaim
that "that's not what it was originally meant for." That's what it's
become,
plain and simple. Don't like it? Then get your fmr. comrades to kick it
up a
notch or two wrt enforcement and stop it...

I wholeheartedly second the motion!

After all, they do work for us.

or admit their boo-boo (CB on HF
and they can't respond to a natuarally occuring phenomenon, hihi.)

I think they already have

Nah, you'll get all kinds of excuses wrt how unwieldy and expensive VHF gear
would've been back in 1958. But you know what...the manufacturers would've
worked that ou and historically ALWAYS have. That really wasn't the FCC's
job, it was, and still is, the job of the manufacturers.

, and I think that's part of the reason why
MURS was created, thus putting no-license radio on VHF where it ought
to have been put in the first place.

Partly, yes.

and try
to take a little advantage of the situation.

On the other hand, there's no enforcement on the MURS frequencies
either. Around here (Buffalo, NY area) they already sound like the 11m
band, complete with illegal power levels and toilet-mouthed jerks,
many of whom can also be heard on 11m.

Enforcement? Where's the beef?! Oh, it went to pay for that $400 hammer or
that $1,200 barracks toilet bowl.

Then there's the marine VHF band...

Ouch, low blow! ;-)

73 DE John, KC2HMZ


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73 de Bert
WA2SI