On 14 Jun 2005 03:37:15 -0700, "Cliff" wrote:

Remember back then there was not the cussing and name calling as what
goes on now. In ham there is not near the abusive crud going on as on
the CB freq's. Don't know why but it is there.

I wish that we didn't have to use a 10,000 watt kicker, even with a
durned good antenna, to talk to the end of the block.

Hell, we were glad when we could do that with .1 watt, and a 36"
telescopic. Of course there wasn't as much QRN on the band and those
weak signals could travel farther before being lost in the (lower)
ambient noise.


And I put it in
about the good antenna cause if you have a radio that won't get out
without a kicker, it, once put in front of a kicker, all kinds of
pitiful noises come out of it. It makes it hard to understand them and
they keep others that have decent talking sets from enjoying what could
be a really decent hobby for the price.

Human beings (especially males) tend to look at life as a series of
challenges or competitions. Think about sports, NASCAR, etc. There's
an almost irresistible drive to be the best you can be at something,
or at least better than the next guy. On CB, that sense of competition
is what drives people to run gobs of excessive power. It's not that
they actually expect to talk consistently over 200 miles. They just
want to be the only one heard in a 10 mile radius when they key up.
The big dog as it were. Being a "Mud Duck" is akin to being a physical
wimp.

Dave
"Sandbagger"