Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : TONY LANGDON
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Thu Sep 15 2016 09:24 am

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JA> I have thought seriously about adding a CB for when I'm on the road,
 JA> etc.

 JA> Do people still use them at all? Or just truckers?

 TL> I don't know about over there.  In Australia, UHF CB is heavily used
 TL> for all sorts of things, and there has been a revival of 27 MHz in
 TL> recent years, with a Facebook group dedicated to CB.  Might be
 TL> something similar for the US.

Well, my wife and I are interested in the weather side of things for HAM,
but I'm also interested in the CHAT side. :-) If CB's would give me more
chance for CHAT it would be worth it. If it didn't, though, I feel like
it would be a waste. :-)



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