Could FM CB supplant FRS?

[OkieBoyKJ5JFG]

The unaltered stock radio in my truck does 6 watts AM and almost 8 watts FM according to both a cheap CB meter and my SW-102H. It kinda makes me question the quality control of the manufacturer. I don't really rely on it for anything important, so if it fails, it's not that big a deal. I transmitted on it once in a traffic jam to ask if the next exit was open, but otherwise I just listen to 19 when on the highway. I participate in horse events and quite a few horse people have CB in their vehicles, which is why I have it. I've had no occasion to use it on FM, but I'm curious how much range I could get traveling in a convoy.

 

[K9KLC]

The same could be said for the HF HAM bands. Listened to 7.200, 14.313, or most of 80 meter lately? No better than 11 meter, and they (legally) use linear amplifiers also. Most with much more power than the average CB’er.

Interesting post and thanks. In 1971 I went to work for a TV/Radio repair shop and we used CB radio callsigns and all to dispatch the van, when out and about. I had honestly never heard cussing on the radio "UNTIL" I went to the owners house and was listening on a Collins 75 A2, somewhere down in the 80 meter band I heard some of the most foul things I had heard in life, let alone on the radio. (I was only 16 at that time and we just didn't use those words in our environment). Simply saying CB only is trash isn't always 100% correct. Perhaps not using that language on any radio medium would be a better thing to do.