skip was rolling....

All too true...I guess it boils down to just what you like to do...sorta like comparing watching Football or Baseball on the TV...some rather watch football, others rather watch a baseball game. One thing about CB when DX is rolling like it has been lately, is it's almost impossible to carry on a simi-long conversation with anyone in DX because your contact tends to fade in and out, plus you have all the other stations fighting to get their name called, to the point about all you can do is have someone call out your numbers, and that's it...(this is the short lived "thrill" of CB-DX), so like a Cocaine Junkie, you have to keep trying to get your name called by as many people as you can!...Not mush more to DX on the CB than that...

Now I will be the first to admit that gets old after a while, but usually DX dies out once the Sun go's down, and then you can talk to your locals as long as you want without being interrupted if you want.

I don't have anything against HAM operators, after all, it's basically just CB Radio on a larger scale...What I do have a problem with is the HAM's who think their the "Airway Police" and go out of their way trying to Police all the bands including 11 Meter...which is the main reason HAM radio just turns me off the idea of getting into it...Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware those type HAM operators are few and far between, and there's people like that on CB also if not worse, just boils down to which sport your more into..."HAM" or "CB"...

 

And you are correct about the "Airway Police type" (actually they are called Official Observers or Amateur Auxiliarys) they volunteer their time supposedly to be helpers or band advisers, but some do come from the law enforcement ranks and as such, this titled gets misconstrued. Others have always wanted a law badge, and as such; not having had what it takes, decide to become a Auxiliary again misconstruing what he/she is suppose to be monitoring on the air thus reacting to it in a less than professional or respectful manner; to include dealing with cb operators!

For instance, let's suppose you are operating on the 20 meter band (usb) and inadvertently wound up on 20 meter (lsb), and because operating on lsb 20 meter is considered not to be a good radio ops practice and or you could create unintended interference to other stations operating next to this sideband then, the Official Observer or Auxiliary Member, should politely steer you in the right path.

As for me, even as a young Buck Sergeant in the US Army, and when I spotted a lower ranking soldier behaving or conducting themselves in a improper manner, I would not immediately jump down their throats, but try to logically find out the problem and provide proper guidance.
Back to radio, I do all I can to introduce and recruit more younger people into this hobby. There needs to be a purging in ham radio and this will require more good truckers, women and young people of all ethnic groups! A much different picture than what we have today. So go ahead, get that new Gordon West Technician Study Guide, you will never regret it and if you have any questions, I will answer them to the best of my ability. Aim High!

 

I hear you there. I do ham and CB but I have neither the time nor the desire to sit and play radio cop on the air. Especially when I work and raise a family. The ones that do play radio cop are probably the old cranky farts that are retired/fired/laid off and have nothing better to do with their time.

Now of course if i am trying to work DX and your amp causes so much bleed over from CB that it invades on the 15 M band (as such happend here) then yes I will be pissed and I might go out and hunt you down....but other than that as long as you aren't bothering me I really could give 2 cents less what you do.

 

If I'm on the radio, and bleeding over onto another band (Like a HAM Band), most likely I'm unaware of it since I don't get on those bands to begin with...But if a HAM operator turned on a CB, and politely informed me about the problem, then I would have no problems either cranking my stuff down, or moving away from that persons station...On the other hand, if said Hammie came on to the radio being a jerk with a "His crap don't stink" attitude, and starts threatening me in some fashion, then the gloves come off, and it's every man for himself!

A couple of years ago I was on I-40 between Little Rock and Memphis on my way to Manchester TN. for a annual CB Break, and was talking on channel 28 to a guy, when this trucker got on the channel and just started making all kinds of racket, trying to cut my lips-off, because apparently I was close enough to him I was bleeding down on 19...Guy didn't say "Hay can you back off the power some, I'm trying to talk on 19" or nothing, just started being a jerk...Little did he know, I was about 4 or 5 car lengths behind him...

Figured he was probably running something like a 4 pill because he was rattling my box when I pulled along side of him...Anyway...Once I got right up next to his door, I volted my 16 pill up to 20v's and Keyed down and went "BAM-BAM-BAM-" over and over till I got around him...

16 pill driven with a 1x4 @ 20v's comes out to somewhere around 6400w's (MY Bird meter only has a 5000w slug in it, and it was pegged)

Never herd another word out of that guy....

"Pay-back is a Beach!"