[SMCARA] CB, GASP!

[Carlos Velazquez]

Well, I hope I don't loose mine over this either:

There's something call smart phones. They run apps and even on a web browser can show your location on a map with the traffic conditions around you and the whole country. 

Carlos

Who couldn't resist...

Sent from my 📲

> On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:23 PM, smcara-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:17:45 -0500
> From: Dave Q <quickskys at gmail.com>
> To: "smcara at mailman.qth.net" <smcara at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [SMCARA] CB, GASP!
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> Hope I don't loose my HAM license over this but....
> 
> I travel to St. Louis a couple of times a year.  95 -> 295 -> 64 into STL.
> 
> Fairly often there will be a back-up and will end up sitting in traffic for
> several minutes or a couple of hours.
> 
> Never had my Icom 880 in my truck on a trip yet.  So just wondering if
> enough people/truckers have ham radios in their vehicles to find out what
> is going on instead of just sitting there wondering.  I hear truckers on
> the repeaters occasionally but don't know how common they are with truckers.
> 
> Or would investing in a CB be worth it?  Looking at a Midland 75-822 40
> Channel handheld.
> 
> 73
> Dave - W3DLQ