CB'ers

[Paul Dean]

Folks -

I am passing this message through moderation "with caution".  It appears
to be a well thought out message, although off topic.

Please be respectful if you should decide to respond.  I'm hoping that
this does not degenerate into  your classic code/nocode debate.  We'll
have to stop that before it gets started as that is more suited to
rec.radio.amateur.policy

Thanks for your understanding.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:04:08 -0500
 Bill Coleman <aa4lr at ARRL.NET> wrote:
> On 11/22/01 12:06 PM, Carl Menne at cmenne at SEIDATA.COM wrote:
>
> >Locally
> >in the 70s , CB radios were sold by just about every hardware,
> electronics,
> >and department store; one of the drugstores was a big provider of CB
> radios,
> >amplifiers,etc. All were respected businessmen whose only desire was
> making
> >a quick dollar or two hundred. Where was the ARRL and other ham
> radio groups
> >getting the word out to the public ??
>
> Actually, that's pretty much revisionist history.
>
> Yes, there's some animosity between hams and CBers. Much of it
> originated
> with the fact that hams LOST a ham band in order to create CB radio.
> Initially, CB radio didn't make much of an impact. However, the
> release
> of "Convoy" launched the CB craze.
>
> During the late 70's, ham groups DID make concerted efforts to
> recruit CB
> enthusiasts to their ranks. Of course, this was LONG before the
> Novice
> Enhancement of 1987 or the Codeless Tech of the early 90s. Indeed,
> during
> this time, the FCC was debating a licensing structure that would
> include
> a codeless license class.
>
> Due in part to the CB craze, there was a lot of short-sighted
> anti-Codeless backlash in this period. The ARRL reversed their
> position
> on the FCC proposal, and soundly defeated the codeless idea in the
> early
> 80s. This really pissed the FCC off, since the ARRL originally
> proposed
> the idea. It's part of the reason the FCC got out of the ham exam
> business.
>
> Just a few years later, the ARRL came crawling back with proposals
> that
> lead to the Novice Enhancement, and later the Codeless Tech.
>
> If you examine most of the hams that were licensed in the late 70's
> to
> mid-80's, I think you'd find that the vast majority are ex-CB in some
> way. Many got started there, but got disallusioned with the QRM and
> bad
> manners. Now they have 20 wpm Extra class licenses and see the same
> behavior on 75m.... <grin>
>
>
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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