Re: Re: Wannbe HAM   
     By: Tony Langdon to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 07:04:00   
      
    JD>> You dont see them as much any more.  Some still have them of course.   
    JD>> However, here in Ontario Canada, it is illegal to use them while   
    JD>> driving (Hams have an exemption (for now))   
      
    TL> It's funny how histor goes. The government back in the 1970s wanted UHF   
    TL> for CB and set aside a band at 477 MHz. However, the sheew weight of   
    TL> numbers of 27 MHz CNs in circulation forced them to adopt the US style   
    TL> service as well. Before then, this frequency range was actually the 11   
    TL> metre ham band, and older gear like the Yaesu FT-101 series came with it   
    TL> fitted.    
      
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    TL> So the question of whether CB is still in use here has a second question   
    TL> "which band"?   
      
   Well we never had UHF CB here.  27 Mhz only.  First it was only AM, and then   
   they gave us Side Band.  A lot of us stayed on USB, and of course some of us   
   just happened to get into the lower end of 10 meter .  I ran a very   
   successful net for a few years, but only on the legal channels.  Things died   
   down, in the late 80s here.  During all this time, I was trying to get my Ham   
   license, but kept failing to get the required wpm in CW.  Needed 12 at that   
   time.  Tried three times, and then they came in with No-Code, and I got my   
   Basic Licence.  Last change they made I got grandfathered in to HF   
      
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