But who are the clowns? The hams in Utah think the hams in my area are
the keyclowns and lids guilty of bad amateur practice, while the hams
in my area think the hams in Utah are the keyclowns and lids guilty of
bad amateur practice.
At least cbers agree on what the proper CB protocols are nationwide,
unlike ham radio operators who can't agree on what the proper ham
protocols
are nationwide
.
cbers dont agree on squat, keyclown. turn the cb on and listen to the
sociopaths...I have heard people say they would burn another persons
house down and shoot their kids as they escape the flames. THAT is the
current state of cb radio...lots of fags, molesters, inbred jackoffs
with teeth broken off at the gumline. Protocol my ass, the only things
these idiots are "pro" about is threatening people, cuss fighting, and
yelling out "AHHHHHHHHHDIO, AHHHHHHDIO" on the air.
I usually don't hear any of that on cb here. So that says more about
the area of the country you live in than anything else.
I do hear it occassionally here but it was by only one person around
this whole area. Which is full of people.
He was doing it to just annoy the truckers and everyone else.
No, I don't know who he is.
I live right next to the interstate, and most of the CB transmissions
I hear are completely civil and polite.
Including the truckers' channel.
I have also nrever heard any of the supposed "10 meter cb intruders"
or freeband operators even though I have equipment capable of picking
them up,
live rightnext to the interstate where it's "easiest to hear all the
truckers illegally operating on the freeband and 10 meter ham band"
and have tried.
I am able to hear our local hams on 10 meters, simplex, who are much
farther away from me than the truckers on the interstate are.
I very much doubt that any of the "truckers illegally operating on 10
meters and the freeband" ever happened.
At least not to the degree certain people are making it out to be.
There might have been a few peopl who did, unaware, since they legally
bought their radio from legal stores (before the FCC ever said they
were illegal) and therefore mistakenly thought that it was legal to
use any of the channels on it. Since they were never warned otherwise
when the bought their
radios and they're not hams who understand all the radi laws.
To the average person, if it's bought from a legal store, it's
perfectly legal to use it as sold.
I think I was even taught that in the public schools. So it's no
wonder that's what the average person thinks.
Also, the average person legally has a ereasonable expectation that
it's legal to use any channel on it when bought from a legal well-
known store.
> known store.-
an interesting pov although a lot of say walmart radion do clearly
state on the boxes that a license is required
well, that's a little different. If it's stated on the box in big easy
to read letters (which most aren't. They're usually the very tiniest
print on the outside or the very tiniest print in the manual inside
that's still almost unradable even when using a magnifying glass),
then there's legally not a reasonable expectation that they can use
all the channels without a license.
Just some of them.
Theproblem is with most of the disclaimers being unreadable even with
a magnifying glass.
And my Motorla FRS/GMRS radio actually says on the outside of the case
"no license required".
The reasonable expectation there is that a license isn't required to
use it at all .
Actually, most of the frs/gmrs radios I've seen for sale say in very
big easy to read letters "NO LICENSE REQUIRED" and only say in the
tiniest
print virtually unreadable without a magnifyting glass, "a gmrs
license is required for use on gmrs frequencies".
One of my local tv station duopolies also did that trick.
At the required hourly I.D., they would have in very big letters and
logo taking up virtually the whole screen, the i.d. of the station
that it was NOT.
And have the i.d. of the station that it WAS in very very tiny letters
at the bottom of the screen, unreadable without a magnifying glass.
And no, it wasn't because of "my eyes".
Even kids with good eyes wouldn't have been able to read the legal
i.d. of the station it was without a magnifying glass.
It wasn't even as big as the print on this message I'm writing right
now. And my computer is currently set on the smallest print the
computer is
capable of. !!!!
This just goes to show why we need a full-time babysitter for Amateur
Radio on account of our hobby is infested with foul-mouthed toddlers aka
LIDS!
Therefore, in my personal opinion the LIDS in Amateur Radios will be
it's death, not due to Code, or Testing, or the Internet, it's due
totally to the foul-mouthed, immature people that's killing off Amateur
Radio. So Amateur Radios death is imminent!