[Big Red Badger]

Yuppers
CBs are about done but for Truckers.
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Breaker 19

[Myrddin]

I recently picked up a new CB. It runs on 13.8 or 24 volts. AM/FM 40 channels. There are models that support AM/FM/SSB as well. I picked it up for compatibility with emergency communications. That gives me ham/GMRS/CB connectivity. My ham antennas can operate on HF including CB. Bigger antennas with better capture than typical commercial CB. My 70cm ham antenna is broad enough to support GMRS as well. I'm mostly interested in broad connectivity in an emergency. My wife is both a ham and now retired police/fire/emergency dispatcher. In an emergency, she can handle the full range of comms and on the air protocols.

[Openurmind]

“CBs are about done but for Truckers.”

And even with truckers they are becoming sparse or they don’t/can’t talk much at all. Only about one in twenty trucks even has an antenna.

And I know why, into CB and watched it happen play by play over the years. It is hard to even use a CB when you have the DX/skip clubs and HAMs transmitting at 1.2-1.5 Kw stomping all over 11 meter. And I wish they would stop because they never actually “say anything”, all they do is stomp on everyone’s radios with 1200 watts and yell where they are transmitting from in an english language you can’t even understand. Never any actual normal productive conversation or respect for others who want to try and productively use a channel without getting stomped on.

So in their efforts to keep CB alive they are actually destroying interest in CB with their over powered selfishness. They won’t even at least leave just 19 alone so truckers can actually still use it locally without getting stomped on.