Could This Really Happen

[KA4DPO]

Every now and then I tune across the bands just to see what’s happening. Last night while tuning across 27 MHZ I came across one of the most entertaining QSO’s I ever heard. It was like I tuned into the Hillbilly Crack House show.

These guys were so drunk they could barely talk but managed to weave at least three obscenities into every sentence. One guy was telling the other how he was running a KW with his 6 pill amp but thought he could get more if he switched from a 20 amp to a 30 amp power supply. The other guy began telling him that he didn’t need more than 25 amps to run that “modulator”.

While this high tech discussion was going on one guys wife (ostensibly), was yelling obscenities in the background and they would periodically yell at each other to shut up. You really had to be there but this was like the Tobacco Road Radio Hour. It was hilarious in a really crude way.

Now the scary part is that since CW testing is gone and the average seven year old can ace the written test are we going to see this kind of thing on our bands in the near future? God help us if these two bozos ever decide to get a ham license.


John..

[N0IU]

Gee John, you have been licensed for over 25 years and you are asking COULD this really happen on the amateur bands?

Give the dial a spin counter-clockwise to 75 meters and then ask if this could happen!

Scott NØIU

[NE6AO]

think abt the very expensive prices of ham equipt and the price of beer and most will buy more beer than spend a grand or more for a rig,and add that a rig is a little more complicated to run,and building or buying an ant will also weed the ranks ,with an unknown percentage that try to get on the air the bands are dead anyway as far as daytime conds are ,my prediction is that most wont get on the air,and if they do most will be ignored if they show disrespect or dont go along with the traditions in ham radio,thank God for VFO's you can always spin the dial as has been stated here more than once.what time and freq and mode did this happen anyway?most cb here onthe west coast for the most part seems harmless enough,but it appears that most of the cb pwr guys are located in the midwest and south.

[KA4DPO]

6AO, apparently these characters have enough money to buy leenyars. I understand that spinning the dial removes them from my speaker however, if enough of this were to happen the FCC might decide that our hobby is a liability rather than an assett.

[W7ACT]

Read the VE7KFM Thread on this form or do a search on K1MAN and read about his escapades, just to name a couple of winners in this category.

For your information they have already arrived.

[AC7K]

Well, I think the costs involved with Amateur Radio will deter the Chickenbanders from hoping aboard... something tells me that setting up an HF station is a little more complicated than the average Cber is willing to go for...

Eric

[KA4DPO]

Quote[/b] (KE7EDW @ Jan. 21 2007,13:43)]Well, I think the costs involved with Amateur Radio will deter the Chickenbanders from hoping aboard... #something tells me that setting up an HF station is a little more complicated than the average Cber is willing to go for...

Eric

I'm not so sure of that Eric. Used equipment can be had for probably a lot less than some of these characters have invested in their current CB setups. Putting up a no radial vertical antenna isn't real hard either. This is a genuine concern.

[K7MH]

Quote[/b] ]Well, I think the costs involved with Amateur Radio will deter the Chickenbanders from hoping aboard... #something tells me that setting up an HF station is a little more complicated than the average Cber is willing to go for...

Don't be so sure! Many of them are already using pretty decent ham gear.
This is however, another "end of the world" thread which is getting a little old.

[W4RLR]

If the "hillbillies" you describe want to get on the amateur bands, they can get on eBay NOW, and purchase the equipment dirt cheap and get on the air. What makes you think that these illegal operators would let such a small thing as an amateur call stop them. If anything, they would NOT sit for a test to gain a call sign, whether the code testing was in place or not. The difficulty or lack of difficulty of the Technician, General, or Extra exam bothers them not one bit. They will just buy a radio and take to the air.

The abolition of Element 1 will not affect the "civility" of amateur radio one bit. Only those who wish to be legal and operate in the amateur bands with a call sign will take the tests. The others of which you speak would probably tell you... "Call sign? We don't need no stinking call sign!"

So much for your theory about dumbed down tests and no code requirement being the death of amateur radio.

[KA4DPO]

Quote[/b] (k7mh @ Jan. 21 2007,13:53)]

Quote[/b] ]Well, I think the costs involved with Amateur Radio will deter the Chickenbanders from hoping aboard... #something tells me that setting up an HF station is a little more complicated than the average Cber is willing to go for...

Don't be so sure! Many of them are already using pretty decent ham gear.
This is however, another "end of the world" thread which is getting a little old.

I'm not so sure this is an "end of the world" thread as much a possible glimps of things to come.

I remember when the FCC established the Citizens Radio Service on the 11 meter band. It started out well intentioned and the users were well behaved and abided by the rules. By about ten years after it was established there were many many operators on the west coast who didn't bother applying for licenses. The FCC knew they could never police this thing so they threw in the towell. Granted, CB is still with us but it has become a real sewer at least hear in the southeast.