good cb conversation

That's the good stuff...not alot of it left though. I run local here in the South Carolina Lowcountry, and the convo sounds like a high school locker room. Unless I'm talking to local pals or a scalehouse, mine is usually squelched out.

 

I wished CB still had good coversations to talk about instead of all the racial slurs/cussing you hear now. If only the FCC still monitored the airwaves on CB.

 

Agree with you, that is the only reason I only use it when I do my long distance trips to get the bear report, and even then your looking for a conversation and for some odd reason people get offended just to start talking, geez.

 

Never had a chance to drive a big truck, just p/u but used to spend a good bit of time on the road between Fla and SC, and then in SC. Finally got the wife to agree to a motorhome so I have to share the road with you all. Any suggestions I'll appreciate from anyone - used to have a lot of CB conversations with truckers and it made the drive a lot shorter. Dusted off my old Uniden and a tiny GE radio that talked pretty good and trying to decide how to mount an antenna on the MH. It's fiberglass so I have to use a NGP rig, maybe save my beer money and buy a new radio with SSB but not sure how much it's used these days.

 

You can go for hours in some areas and never hear a peep on the radio.

Others you would not want the family to hear.

 

Very true, I just got back from a trip to Indianapolis to see family....the whole time was a mix...I did manage to have one semi decent chat with a trucker around the I-57 and I-70 portion of Illinois about ham radios and how you don't need a ton of watts or an amp if you have a good antenna....in a few other areas the radio as dead silent whereas you'd expect to hear chat...heck even blew thru a speed trap and no one bothered to shout out a "bear report" (I got lucky and didn't get pulled over..I slowed down though)...and yet this morning around 9 am in Indy a few black folks were having a convo on 19 and some white guy butts in and says "no one wants to hear a ###### this early in the morning". Guess he was feeling all macho from behind his radio.

 

That has happened many times when no one announces the bear report that is the reason why I have my radar detector just in case no one makes a report.

 

Many times I've driven hours upon hours with nobody ever speaking, I even thought my radio had broken down after doing numerous mic checks and finally somebody answered back.