CB radio is still pretty big too (of course nothing like it was in the late 60’s-80’s). There is a pretty good sized forum dedicated to it “cbradiotalk.com”. Guys and gals love talking “skip” all over the country when the conditions are right. Some even communicate with other countries and they post YouTube videos of their contacts and communications.
I live in Memphis and on my little Cobra 25 I pick up conversations all over the country (until the sun goes down). No one seems to have a stronger radio then a guy who calls himself Motormouth Maul. You can YouTube or google him- he must have thousands invested in his set up. He runs his
radio through something like protools software and along with his natural “made for radio voice) he comes across my CB sounding like an FM station. He also uses a real radio studio mic.
I have always been interested in this stuff as well as morris code. How did ships (eg Titanic) communicate via Morris Code without wires?
I honestly thought that CB radio was totally dead. I assumed that the Internet and cell phones had made it completely obsolete. Wow.
My old ten band had a CB band on it, but by the time I had replaced it I had already fallen pretty silent.