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Ready to sell all my equipment
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When a company I worked for threw out older Icom IC-U400's I learned very quickly that I could sell these as "CB" radios in your area. They were bought up very quickly and I made some quick cash. Good thing for flat rate boxes too. I would sell one fully working radio and a second parts radio in a set. These were programmed for UHF CB use in Australia. I hope some of those are still in use as this was about 15 years old and the only reason they were being replaced was to standardize on the Icom IC F-2020 model instead enterprise wide.
Yes, do not let a couple of people get you down. Might even be an interesting Radio Direction finding project for someone. People are not as bold in person.
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A couple people in our area had the same issues. One guy sold his equipment but is active on GMRS. Very different class of people on GMRS and ham
Another problem is I go by my old handle that I had on here that was Comptech. Well a lot of times I will here what sounds like Comptech, but is really contact, then the local A=a**holes start laughing at me for being completely deaf in one ear and 50% in the other. Never once do the think they are so over modulated that they sound like a high powered slurring drunk.
kny2xb
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Per Eleanor Roosevelt:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
In this case, looking @$$hole$ in the face [actually in the speaker], then walking away, changing channels, etc
Many 73 to you
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
In this case, looking @$$hole$ in the face [actually in the speaker], then walking away, changing channels, etc
Many 73 to you
I too was heavy in the CB band mobile. Spent $$ on high $$ equipment and had it all set up for shooting skip and never could make a contact. So 1 day decided to throw in the towel and sold all my equipment and decided to go with GMRS and got my license and radio and I'm really enjoying it. At least GMRS is monitored by the FCC. Anyway I've made a few local contacts. I've got 4 repeater's programmed in our radio .
So go get your license and make new contacts and enjoy it.
So go get your license and make new contacts and enjoy it.
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Not all local CB is trash. Our CB community was a wasteland back in the 1990s, but the morons either all died off, moved away or lost interest.
We have a wonderful community of approximately 20 CB enthusiasts who all help each other out like family. If someone falls on hard times, a crew of us shows up to help. Someone's antenna blows down? We show up and fix it.
Somebody needs equipment? I have a small museum of radios and antennas I have amassed. I, and others, will put people on the air.
There is very little foul language, no fighting or bickering and we have all taken pride in getting to know each other.
In fact, the last time I was cussed out or treated like crap was on GMRS and FRS bands, where every idiot and their kid has a walkie talkie and acts like a butthead. I've found some real low IQ harassment and trash on those bands.
I am sorry that you are being treated with disrespect. Do not let those people get to you.
We have a wonderful community of approximately 20 CB enthusiasts who all help each other out like family. If someone falls on hard times, a crew of us shows up to help. Someone's antenna blows down? We show up and fix it.
Somebody needs equipment? I have a small museum of radios and antennas I have amassed. I, and others, will put people on the air.
There is very little foul language, no fighting or bickering and we have all taken pride in getting to know each other.
In fact, the last time I was cussed out or treated like crap was on GMRS and FRS bands, where every idiot and their kid has a walkie talkie and acts like a butthead. I've found some real low IQ harassment and trash on those bands.
I am sorry that you are being treated with disrespect. Do not let those people get to you.
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I've tried GMRS, and encountering the idiots and kids with walkie talkie was no fun. I was setting up an antenna and attempted to make contacts, only for some smart mouth punk to cuss me out and threaten to kick my butt.
Clearly he's never seen me in person, but I digress.
Other times I've attempted to talk I've either been heckled by kids or treated like I was bothering people. I can see GMRS as an option for emergency communication, but I've found it to be no place for fellowship or random conversations.
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GMRS was never intended for random communications like CB or ham radio. It was always intended for family use, and before the changes, small businesses. The CTCSS/DCS codes were what made it useful for many people, compared to CB.
Not surprising that was what you experienced. It is what happens to most when they try to use it like ham or CB.
wtp
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free banding.
and you tell you friends to move to another channel like T 5 (tee five) and that just means stay off the air for five minutes take five.
and then go to a prearranged channel, sure they will find you but then you go to T 7.
and you tell you friends to move to another channel like T 5 (tee five) and that just means stay off the air for five minutes take five.
and then go to a prearranged channel, sure they will find you but then you go to T 7.
We had modified radios and could slide between channels. Local group of morons used to screw around all over then go to ch 35 so we would go between 34 and 35. We would start on lower sideband, then to upper sideband. Even some FM. All with heaters (linear amplifiers) going. We would circle the group since we all had cars making it impossible for them to communicate. They all lived in the same town. They eventually started to play nice.
They are all talking tough guys behind the mic and, well you know, when face to face. Been there, done that.
BTW,
Nice shirt. Its a shame what happened to Rick Allen.
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I agree, and that's why I find it absurd when people suggest getting a license and using it instead. There are a few of those suggestions within this thread.
To each their own, but I don't care for it.
FPR1981
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Yep. They either won't face you, or if they do, it's suddenly all a misunderstanding. And on the topic of Rick Allen, that poor guy has been through so much in his lifetime, my heart goes out to him.
wtp
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i would also like it if Mr. 54 became a ham and his friends also.
and i would like to be around when the guys hear him say "everybody go to ch 41".
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and i would like to be around when the guys hear him say "everybody go to ch 41".
(27.415)
As said before, consider getting you ham ticket. I just got into DMR. you can get a relatively cheap handheld and hit your local repeaters. Get a DMR hotspot and you have access to talkgroups all over the world. It's much more refined then CB for sure. And its crystal clear
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Its truly disgusting, there as some real low life POS people out there. I have to shut my CB off several times a day due to this crap as well. I’m currently going for my general class ham license, I think the HF ham bands are much more civilized from what I’ve listed to so far. I’m not a fan of tests and licenses but I’m starting to realize that is might be the only answer. It’s truly shocking just how many nut jobs are actually out there. I don’t encounter them much in the real world so it’s easy to forget just how many insane people really exist. It seem like a large number of them are on CB radio. Honestly I’ve been away from CB for many decades and I just got back into it. It seems like the lunatic to sane ratio is worse today then it used to be on CB, but maybe my tolerance just isn’t the same as it used to be? Hell maybe I’m just becoming that miserable old geezer that I made fun of when I was a kid🤣
