[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 37, Issue 10

[Brett gazdzinski]

Maybe people don't know/remember, but CB used to be
civilized way back.
I got into radio with a 100mw radio shack CB 
'base station' one xtal tx (ch 14) and tunable receive.
I was excited to work some older guys in the area,
they were about 45 years old and ancient!

No foul language, and everyone had a license and call sign,
as I did when I got a 5 watt Lafayette rig.

There was the older kid down the street with a beam, and likely
a crappy amp as he got into peoples TV sets...but no foul language.

Even today, there are places where its polite and nice on CB,
in the country, in say Tennessee, when I went through on 40
to go to New Orleans after the big storm, nothing but nice 
stuff on CB.
Soon as you hit the east coast, it was like a sewer...

Brett
N2DTS