Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Thu Sep 15 2016 11:22 am

>-=> Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
>
>JA> I have thought seriously about adding a CB for when I'm on the road,
>JA> etc.
>
>JA> Do people still use them at all? Or just truckers?
>
>TL> I don't know about over there.  In Australia, UHF CB is heavily used
>TL> for all sorts of things, and there has been a revival of 27 MHz in
>TL> recent years, with a Facebook group dedicated to CB.  Might be
>TL> something similar for the US.
>
> Well, my wife and I are interested in the weather side of things for
> HAM,
> but I'm also interested in the CHAT side. :-) If CB's would give me
> morechance for CHAT it would be worth it. If it didn't, though, I feel
> like
> it would be a waste. :-)


Get connected with D-STAR, there are numerous nets almost every day who are
chat oriented.








                      .....Bob, VE5XEF


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