Hey Scott, I'm not trying to be hard on you, but your misconceptions are
woefully common amongst CBers as they make their transition to HAM,
someday you'll look back and laugh at yourself too.

and your misconception is that cbers want to make the transition to
amateur freqs. 11 meters is mostly a ssb mode though i've worked
montserrat on fm which is a rarity. cb is mostly am except for 36-39 and
in the old days 13 & 16 at least here on the island.
you sound like a typical imperial amateur. and i use the word 'amateur'
as the dictionary defines it.

A few CB'ers do want to make the transition to Amateur frequencies and they
do move on to Amateur. Thats where a lot of your stock from the late
70's/80's/90's originated from. They had a dabble on CB, enjoyed it then
progressed further. Also CB is definately not just AM, CB is anything using
the CB frequencies. Not necessarily legally used granted. CB in the UK is
FM... that doesnt make it something other than CB..