wrote:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?

Both services have their place. I would keep the CB and install a
multi-band Ham radio such as the ICOM IC-706MKIIG or a Kenwood or Yaesu
and a multi-band antenna to match. You will find both an adventure.

Dave WD9BDZ

In article .com,
wrote:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?

I think that you asked precisely that same question (modulo one typo)
back on May 16th, April 15th, and April 3.

I think you have no serious interest in the answers you've received.

I think you're acting like a juvenile troll, and therefore receive 0
points on the Troll-o-meter (with a three-point penalty for showing an
utter lack of imagination in your trolling).

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Dave Platt wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?

I think that you asked precisely that same question (modulo one typo)
back on May 16th, April 15th, and April 3.

I think you have no serious interest in the answers you've received.

I think you're acting like a juvenile troll, and therefore receive 0
points on the Troll-o-meter (with a three-point penalty for showing an
utter lack of imagination in your trolling).

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
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boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

Does this mean you're as anal retentive as your mother?

On 2006-06-05, wrote:
Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?

Depends on how you feel about inbred hicks. If you're right at home
with rednecks, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer, CB may be your
thing. OTOH, if electronic hole theory of semiconductor physics is
more your cup of tea, ham may better suit.

Both camps can be serious as a heart attack about their equipment. My
late FIL was an avid CB'er. He had the first Yaesu I ever saw. A
$1600 model under a huge boom antenna on a rotating mast which he used
to talk skip all over the country. His boat and car both sported
illegal linears pumping top o' the line Cobras. I know he didn't know
spit about antenna theory, and probably more importantly, didn't care.
But, he knew who to ask and being able to do so on his rig is what
it's all about, right.

While I, myself, was never attracted to long discussions with truckers
about the merits of strip clubs or local gossip about the "new
waitress down at Bubba's", I knew some of the local CB'ers and knew
they were good people. CB, specially with respect to home stations,
is just another mode of communication to them. This is more true in
rural communities. The ham crowd, OTOH, by it's very nature of
requiring a basic knowledge of science, tends to attract a more geeky
element, a more literate slice of humanity. Not necessarilly better,
or even smarter, just more educated and more into the technology of
radio communications.

Try them both and then choose one or the other ...or both. Good
people are good people, no matter the media.

nb

wrote in
oups.com:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?



Which of your trucks were you thinking of updating? Your old rust bucket
truck that still runs, or the one on blocks that you call your base
station?

sc

"Cecil Moore" wrote in
m:

"Slow Code" wrote:
A microphone, a six-pack, a karaoke system, & you're a star. :-)

Yep, see: http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp/w5dxp.jpg



Have to start calling you Slim Whitman.

sc

And a big fat amen to that.
rb

"Dave Platt" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
wrote:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?

I think that you asked precisely that same question (modulo one typo)
back on May 16th, April 15th, and April 3.

I think you have no serious interest in the answers you've received.

I think you're acting like a juvenile troll, and therefore receive 0
points on the Troll-o-meter (with a three-point penalty for showing an
utter lack of imagination in your trolling).

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

A microphone, a six-pack, a karaoke system, & you're a star. :-)

Yep, see: http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp/w5dxp.jpg

Have to start calling you Slim Whitman.

Another definite advantage to CW, I suppose. With SSB there's no
telling when you might hear something that could make your head explode.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
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wrote:

Alot of people are telling me that CB is just for inbred hicks and that
I should replace the CB in my truck with a ham radio. What do you
thjink?


You should go for your license. The additional privelages are quite
worthwhile. I will warn you that there are still quite a few inbred
hicks that got their ham tickets, unfortunately. The good thing is most
of them seem to be extra class, and are mostly older and will be gone
soon. It's a leftover effect of requiring Morse ability as opposed to
operating knowledge.

tom
K0TAR

I drove an 18 wheeler for a living (28 years) and wouldn't have been caught
dead with out a CB, I've gone through attempted hijackings, wove a tractor
and two trailers through a heard of cows at 70 mph, but the warnings I
received on the radio far out numbered the near hits.
I retired aprox 20 years ago and on the way out the door chunked a log book
and a CB radio in a trash can and haven't had a CB hooked up since. RM~

PS, Actually, I could write a book on the near hits.