"Brian Kelly" wrote in message
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"Bert Craig" wrote in message
v.net...
FYI, folks here are QSX when they're monitoring
the frequency. I rarely hear the annoying "I'm QRT and on the side"
anymore,
thank goodness. :-)

I was involved in trying to use CB for it's original intended purpose
in the mid-'70s in 23 channel days. Specifically for comms for a
municipal Townwatch group of 135 citizens 95% of whom had no interest
at all in hobby radio and just wanted reasonably decent local
neighborhood mobile comms.

You just can't legislate propagation. Even if all the users complied with
the 155.3 mi. limit, the QRM from legal comms in distant places makes local
work difficult, if not impossible. I've experienced a S7 noise level from
distant comms personally and the guy in Germany came in clearer than someone
across town. When the band's open, 12 Watts will work the world.

The disgusted group would have fallen apart
if I hadn't moved the operation up onto a VHF business freq to get
away from the CB crud. Cost a bundle but they're still on that freq.

Good "heads-up" move.

Every once in a blue moon when I've had absolutely nothing better to
do with my life I've gotten on 27Mhz and looked for intelligent life.
On the rare occasions when I've actually found some it lasts maybe
five minutes at most before the bozos blow it off the freq.

Sorry to hear that, Brian. Do you operate AM or SSB? I've had good luck on
channels 36 through 40 using SSB.

YMMV . . !

It sure does.

w3rv

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73 de Bert
WA2SI