There is a reasonably healthy group of CB ops in my area who are not prone to vulgarity. They are helpful to each other, personable, and still get together from time to time. Some do not like dx conditions, others, like me, do.
When there is no long distance propagation it can be very quiet except for the locals who are mostly hard working employed family folks. There are the retirees, too. Three or 4 of the locals are disabled who are always looking for ways to produce a little bit more cash. Despite the stereo-typing of CB users into a bad lot of worthless no-gooders, this group by and large stand out as exceptions. The Country Preacher, as they call me locally, would not hang with them if they were less.
When conditions drop in some of them turn off their radios, others of us turn them on and make contacts until we can't. A brief 3 or 4 hr opening last night from the midwest into the southeast brought out a cacophony of voices as if the "dead" CBers I keep hearing about had all been resurrected.
Yep, modern technology has put a wireless radio in every purse and pocket. Radio has gone nowhere. It has changed and grown into multinational business making billionaires of those whose vision tapped into the potential of radio to connect the world.
CB is anachronistic, I agree, but not dead. I have helped put together too many stations to sing the last dirge.
