Seems that they used the word Amateur CB Radio, when they should have drooped the word Amateur, myself and another radio op tried to make them understand that CB is diffrent to Amateur Radio and they are not the same.
Hi Bill, I thought the same thing about their use of "Amateur" but I was totaly shocked to see how bad CB has got, while I don't talk on UHF anymore I do quite often listen to the crap going on with my handheld when driving home.
I hear the b******t on Ch7 & other repeaters always thought they just mouthing off & big noting themselves, like when you hear some guy saying he was going around to such & such's house to beat them up etc, but watching that news report has really shocked me.
What ever happened to the good old days, back when you & I used to muck around on HF AM? yeah sure there were a few meatheads on air, but 99.999% of their talk was all bluff.
Bring back the RI's I say, they then could track some of these lunatics & shut them down, I now never have the radio on when I have kids in the car as you never know what they will hear
I give the kids some UHF handhelds to play with & I always use CTCSS on them as you never know what some dimwhit will say to them
I hope you are keeping safe Bill, in all the years I have known you I have always thought you were one of the goodguys
Michael