Well I posted it, I am not really offended but I have heard the term by cb's who trashed ham radio operators and then setup a table at a swap.
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Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by The Gryphon, Jun 7, 2014.
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At the dawn of the cellphone age. I shocked another CBer with a "big" radio when I brought up autopatch and called home!
He couldn't believe it!
He, too, was a detractor of amateur radio---until he saw THAT! Bear in mind that none of this "detracts" from CB, it was just a fact of better technology available to the amateur even in those days!
Reminds of another story with a CB guy that was kinda funny. I was sitting out a a McDonalds one evening eating a Big Mac. This was during the CB craze of the 70's. There were more CB sets that Carter had liver pills!
In pulls in this big old Buick with twin 102" whips. He's right beside me and he listened very intently to my QSO. If you remember, 2M repeaters were often Motorola or GE tube vintage. There was no courtesy tone, and usually releasing the mike resulted in a very noticable "SQUAAAAAAAWK" squelch burst. Sounded kinda like an old police scanner. So everytime I would release the button, I got this loud "SQUAAAAWK". After I cleared my QSO, this guy in the beat up old Buick came over to me and asked me some questions about my radio.....which I politely answered. Then he asked me something I didn't understand. That was, could I get his radio to sound the same as mine. Not understanding what it was he wanted, I began to explain the difference in his AM CB and my FM 2 meter radio (which was a Regency HR 212). It was a bit before I realized that it wasn't getting his radio to 'sound' that-a-way, but he wanted me to "put in 'that "SQUAAWK!" noise so his "radio would sound real "o-fish-all"!
It took some doing to convince him that it couldn't be done--getting that same squelch burst into an AM receiver!
He was really disappointed when I finally convinced him of the technical differences! LOL!
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Ignoring the "pig" reference which as already been addressed and taken care of, "Amateur Radio Operator" means "Not a Commercial Radio Operator". An amateur may not receive compensation for the use of his station, or for sending messages ("traffic") to other amateurs for possible final destination at some civilian's home, i.e., a good will message from an active duty military member, or a ship at sea, etc.
When I was in college at Rutgers University WA2NPP, I often ran phone patches on 20 meters (14 MHz band) from our admittedly hams' dream station to McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. Our main station was all Collins S-line gear, including the 30-S1 linear, feeding a 6-element Yagi about 90 feet above the ground. Looking back, it was still a thrill to be able to keep those folks in touch with their homes or research sponsors (mostly universities) for no cost. Depending upon the time of year, it was not uncommon to maintain a path from New Jersey to Antarctica for as long as 4 hours.
Similar to active military ships, before the advent of the constellation of Low Earth Orbiting and geosynchronous satellites that made phone calls a very simple matter from almost anyplace on earth. But in 1971 and 1972, for a kid like me to be running a $10,000 "amateur" station using very strict protocols and knowing the technology, including ionospheric propagation characteristics, about the only thing that made it all "amateur" was that it was strictly a hobby, and we did not get paid for it.
BTW, yes, I'm a CBer, too, but also an Amateur Extra Class operator, from back in the days when one had to know Morse at 20 words per minute. I can still do 30 or 35, but I get blue in the face from holding my breath the whole time at those speeds
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