N3CVJ asked:
When have I ever been hypocritical?

you wrote all of the following


And who would they report them to? The FCC has already shown time and
time again that they have better things to do than worry about
out-of-band CBers. I was involved in the DFing of a local 2 meter
repeater jammer a few years back. We found him in short order, even
though he was using a HT. He was reported to the FCC, and they sat on
their laurels. Not until the SAME GUY was found causing malicious
interference to the local police and fire frequencies, did the FCC
finally get off of their collective butts and do something. After it was
all said and done, the guy got what amounted to a wrist slapping. The
point is, don't expect the feds to help rid the airwaves of Freebanders.
And any ham that tries to "take the law into his own hands" will most
likely
end up full of lead......
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I want to put this to rest once and for all. It seems that many of our
ham friends here, have used the excuse that "I can work the world with 1
watt, so YOU don't need an amplifier". Well, lets set the record
straight:
Misleading statement: " I can work the world with 1 watt". Facts: You
can work the world with 1 watt, IF the ionospheric conditions are proper
AND you are on a suitable frequency band. You CANNOT do it anytime you
want, you are at the mercy of mother nature. Secondly, what most of
these QRP guys have also failed to meantion, is that their "working of
the world" was most likely via the CW mode. CW, because of its narrow
bandwidth, offers excellent signal to noise ratios, easily 10 db better
than a typical CB. If a CW contact were running 1 watt, and they were at
your noise threshold, they would need to jump to 10 watts to make the
same contact on AM. These "fantastic" claims aren't worth a nickel on
the CB band, where most of us just wand RELIABLE (Meaning at ANY time)
communications with other LOCAL stations.

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I take offense to the "holer than thou" attitude displayed by many hams
toward Cbers. They flaunt their "superior equipment" and tell the CBers,
to get ham licenses, and then are the first to complain to their ham
buddies, that the reason the ham bands are going to pot, is because of
all the CBers that are moving up there.
Ham radio and CB radio are both communications services. Both offer
their respective users with a forum for enjoyment. Each service has it's
own unique appeal that is not duplicated on the other.
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Ham radio is full of serious discussions and one can learn alot from
just listening. On the other hand though, a constant diet of
technobabble gets VERY boring fairly quickly. CBers are less technical,
and as a result, are more like talking to "regular" people. Topics are
more varied, and you can "fool around" without fear of upsetting the
"kilocycle kops", and have more fun.
Dave
C & W Communications
CB Sales and Service
(610)272-8709/(610)539-8709