[Elecraft] High End Operators?

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Sigh...

"High End Operators" is an obsolete citizens band radio (CB) pejorative
term I have not heard in a very long time, almost forty years.

The term came about after the 1977 CB expansion from 23 channels to 40. The
first 23 channels allotted, except for channel 23, came from the 1958
conversion of the 11 meter ham band to CB use. Until 1977 all the CB
equipment stopped with channel 23.

"High End Users" became a pejorative for a while after FCC opened channels
24-40 when users would call and make contact on channel 19, and then
transfer to channel 24 and above, deliberately showing up owners of older
equipment who could not follow or listen.

That gradually went away as the newer 40 channel CB sets became common.
Many retained their older 23 channel sets and left them permanently on
channel 19 to listen for emergency road calls, while using the 40 channel
sets for everything else.

I don't know why anyone would want to use (or reuse) that term, "high end
users". Repurposed bullsh*t is still bullsh*t and still stinks the same.

Back in the 70's before modern cell phones, I knew a lot of hams who put CB
sets in their wive's cars, so they would not get stranded without
communication.

My boat anchor Collins 75A3 receiver and Johnson Ranger transmitter have 11
meters on them. Before 1958, 11 meters was shunned by hams in favor of 10
meters. Little surprise the FCC repurposed it.

73, Guy K2AV