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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:47 PM
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Has the Internet killed CB radio fun?
Or did CB radio fun just die?

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SweetZombieJesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:49 PM
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1. I think the 70s ending killed CB radio fun
10-4 good buddy.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 03:56 PM
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2. HAHA
I remember as a youngin' screwing around on the CB that was just in the 80s...and early 90s. My buddies and I had them beside our beds as 12-15 year olds....at 2:00am you'd here.

"Trev to jer, I swiped some smokes and gin from my dad, meet me at the park"
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:30 PM
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3. It wasn't the Internet
I suspect that shortwave sets got cheaper. Regardless, as noted above, CB was a short-lived fad, over long before anybody had even heard of the Internet.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:31 PM
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4. Too much skip
There's something seriously wrong with the ionosphere. I had my CB on during my BC trip and I couldn't hear a damn thing except skip from Florida and Texas unless somebody was 100 feet away from me.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 04:32 PM
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5. I encountered the same problem when I had one in my jeep
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