Subj : Re: No license operators
To   : SirRonmit
From : Mickey
Date : Wed Mar 20 2024 09:26 am

  Re: Re: No license operators
  By: SirRonmit to n2qfd on Tue Mar 19 2024 15:16:04

 > It has been a HUGE issue with the FRS/GMRS combining.
 > Years ago those channels were separate, but now they are all combined. If
 > I don't mind GMRS - which is just like CB now that FRS is combined. I just
 > get very upset when I'm trying to make contact to my local repeater and
 > (since the RX from the repeater is a GMRS channel), I can't get a return

I was a dedicated GRS user in the 70's before the big trucker thang  happened. 
We opened and closed all comms with our Canadian licenses. We only used 26.965 
MHz to 27.405 MHz freqs as they still do. I wanted to get my HAM license here 
in Canada, but soon realized that I couldn't actually 'own' one legally, and 
probably couldn't afford the money for what I wanted to do without a license.

I discovered recently, groups on Facebook, full of people wanting to use CB's 
properly. They even have callsigns given to them by Charlie Tango in England. 
Mine is 9CT033. I've talked to some nice hams on-line but also a lot of 
miserable hams that made me lose interest. Skip is still king in CB.:-)


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Mick Manning
Central Ontario Remote
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