Communications Equipment / Radios

Acampingwewillgo wrote:
I get a kick out of everyone who thinks there is so much "foul" language on CB radio.....I've had CB radio's since I was 11-12 year's old(so lets call it 50 year's). I always have it on in the back ground when driving the motor-home(sometimes I have two CB's on) and I'm currently on a road trip 2000 miles from home. Very seldom, do I hear anyone while traveling down the interstates and/or back roads.....CB radio just isn't anything like it use to be.

You must live under a rock or at least nowhere near a large city or Interstate road.

I have been around CBs since the early 70's, back then foul mouths and "foot warmers" (IE linears) where non existent.

Over the years CBs when license free, linears became dirt cheap so now you have easy cheap "entertainment" for some folks that get their giggles by jamming CB frequencies with foul language and blead over with kilowatt plus linears.

My LAST vehicle to have a CB was my 1997 F250, drove it 150K miles and can only remember a handful of times turning the CB on only to get blasted with foul, crude language and folks heckling others trying to make legit contact with others..

Never ever in the whole time that CB had been installed in any of my vehicles have I been able to get "traffic", weather or conditions info.. That would be a combined 350K miles of driving.

That CB never made it into my 2003, 2006 or 2013 trucks.. I don't miss the noise, lack of distance and plain rude folks. Nope, that CB has spent the last 13 yrs sitting on a shelf in the basement gathering dust..

Took it to a Hamfest this spring.. NO ONE WANTED IT..

Pretty much destined to the scrap pile where the CB band should go.