On Sep 18, 1:40*pm, Jeff Liebermann

Personally, I've suggested that CB'ers and Free Banders be issued
complimentary ham licenses for 10 meters and let them fight it out.
I'll be betting that the CB'ers win. *Most of the "new hams" these
days are former CB'ers. *With a few notable exceptions, most are quite
nice, but also technically lacking.

I could go along with that. Let them use amateur power amps as well;
at least that would legalize their power amp hardware. Also, I think
CBers do have something to contribute in the construction of some of
those antennas those guys use; some are trash but others are fairly
imaginative at maximizing output power at that frequency. Also those
cheap Galaxy amps. Ise use one myself when I put 10m in my car.