Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Thu Sep 15 2016 11:22 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
 > morechance for CHAT it would be worth it. If it didn't, though, I feel
 > like
 > it would be a waste. :-)


Get connected with D-STAR, there are numerous nets almost every day who are 
chat oriented.








                       .....Bob, VE5XEF


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