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Originally Posted by Sheepdancer
I cant imagine why anyone would want to use those radios anymore as a hobby. Sure 20-30 years ago, Im sure it was "neato" to be able to talk to people all over the country and even the world. But nowadays we have the internet where you can instantly talk to people all over the world for virtually free. Plus we all have cell phones.
I say just go ahead and open up those bands for truckers. They have more important uses for it than some radio "hobbyists"
Honestly, I cant see an amatuer radio operator passing his hobby down to his kids...
Dad: Son, come out here to the garage and I want to indroduce you to the exciting world of 10 meter. Where you can talk to people from all over world. Sometimes there is only a little static.
Son: Sorry dad, cant right now. Im on the internet, video chatting with some hot chick in Amsterdam and I think shes about to take off her top!
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"honestly", your lack of knowledge of the radio world is showing and is contained within the circumference of your steering wheel! :twisted: You only know of "10 Meters" or "11 Meters" and ONLY because you saw them in some truck stop. When your "internet" is DOWN, your CELLPHONE doesn't WORK, and your computer is DEAD, those hams will still be on the air passing vital traffic into and out of disaster areas during hurricanes, fires, floods and other events. Ten Meters is a small part of the frequency resources allocated to hams! And, no, it will never be "opened up" to truckers or the CB crowd. It is an INTERNATIONAL allocation governed by treaties, and the USA is only ONE signatory to these agreements.
Now. The real TRUTH is, CB radio has PLENTY of "channels". Forty is MORE than enough! :shock: The trouble is, the USERS cannot, or WON'T manage what they have! Birds of a feather flock together, and on any given day, you can flip thru 1-40, and with few exceptions, a FEW channels will be VERY busy; the rest QUIET as a tomb! WHY? Because people assemble where the action is. CH 19, for example. More than enough of these "followers" must have attention, so they use an amplifier because 1) they just gotta be LOUD to make up for deficiencies in their phallic region and 2) because they think that if they aren't LOUD, they won't be noticed. Yet, if people shunned the use of amplifiers, EVERYBODY would be heard (with a little courtesy like it used to be). If they were on one of the quiet frequencies, nobody would know just how
important he is! So EVERYBODY flocks to a FEW channels, WAY too many people try to be "Mr BIG", and FEWER folks get heard. They MAKE their own noises, howls, screeches and roars because they don't KNOW any better! To them, the solution is MO' POWA, MO CHANNELS and when they "get" those, they proceed to screw up those, too because they have no training, and on and on and on; more power, more screwdrivered radios, and more and more "channels" they didn't need in the FIRST place so they can booger up them, too, and SCREEE, HOOOWL, ROOOAARRRR! On and on and on and on.
Ten Meters is allocated to the Amateur Radio service, both domestically and internationally. It is not going to change! Operating on 10 Meters is simply going to getcha CAUGHT! :shock: Maybe even FIRED!!! Only you can decide if it is worth the risk!
OH, btw! Those radios you call "10 Meter" 'amateur' radios? They aren't REAL amateur radios at all. They are exactly what FCC found them to be and why they are illegal to sell--illegal to USE on CB! A
REAL amateur radio does NOT have "channels". They do not have "bands" of channels to cover ONE band! "Channels" are
marks of a civilian APPLIANCE, one that is set up previously for untrained operators.
REAL amateur "10 Meter" radios do not have rebel flags and echo and 'talkback" (a silly device if ever there was one). NOPE! Your so-called "10 Meter 'amateur' radio is a chrome-faced CB radio for an illegal CB market and is noted as such on FCC's Office of Technology site!!!!!
Insist on talking on 28 Mhz, and you will pay the price eventually!
RR