Are you a model railroader fonman? You seem to have knowledge in the hobby. Just wondering.
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IS CB REALLY DYING OUT ???
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Are you a model railroader fonman? You seem to have knowledge in the hobby. Just wondering.
Get your Ham ticket! The tests are way easier than most people think, and it will transport you to a whole new world of radio options.
When it's all said and done its a great radio hobby rather its 10 meter 11 meter 2 meter and so on. Its only numbers. They all have their good points and bad points. Good operators and bad operators. It's about having fun and talking DX. 11 meters should never die its an icon of the radio communication hobby. even for those who graduated to the higher ranks or those who skipped it all together.
Ham'ers have FCC rules to abide by if they want to use anything other than 11 meters. On 11 meters there is a blatant disregard of whatever rules there are. As a result,everyone who wants to have a clean,orderly band has to put up with the filth that is being propagated. I gave my father my first cb I ever had back on the eighties after I moved up to a Galaxy 2100. After a period of time my father gave back the cb radio to me saying that there was too much filth on it back then. Lack of reinforcement of rules and a lack of morality means a debasing of everything. I often winch at most of the CB'ers transmission's content and often I choose to turn the volume down as a result. Mankind can be so much more than he is now.
I've started a couple N-scale layouts. Then we end up moving and tearing down the trains and the antennas. Eventually get settled and start again. That's about where I am now. Starting again. LOL.
My N scale layout. Not trying to get off topic. Give me a pm if you ever want to talk trains.
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LOL!! True, but a large number of us Hams started out as CBers!
Recently heard that they are coming out with an app that will allow smartphone users to talk to each other phone to phone without cell towers! The higher ups think this could be useful in emergencies. I agree, and it could immediately turn millions of cell phones into direct "walkie talkies". This would open up the possibility of local "chit chat", just like we had in the early days of CB!
they have had that for a year or more already (using the cell towers of course but you can still talk locally if you make a local room) .check out an app called "zello"
its a virtual walkie talkie with push to talk forums .theres all kinds of rooms .cb rooms,skip talk rooms, general chit chat .i gave it a listen for awhile ,more young kids then anything cept in the cb rooms .
its a virtual walkie talkie with push to talk forums .theres all kinds of rooms .cb rooms,skip talk rooms, general chit chat .i gave it a listen for awhile ,more young kids then anything cept in the cb rooms .
He's talking about an app that would make your phone an actual transceiver. Your thinking about a simple IRC type program, worlds of difference.