Rightio.

This is my observation and opinion after doing a round-trip from San
Francisco to Oklahoma City. The Eastern loop took me up through
southern Utah then back down to I-40 at Gallup, NM. Coming back, it was
I-40 all the way to Barstow then the "squiggle" over to I-5 North.

Observations and 2-cent bits:

--CB was useless and basically unlistenable off of the interstate. As
soon as I got off, every town of any size seemed to have a few folks on
big (illegal I'm guessing) super loud, echo base stations. Even when I
had the volume down, they'd nearly blow the speakers out when they keyed
up. They seemed to stick to channel 6 when I was on the interstate
leaving 19 pretty free. But when I got off the I--all hell broke loose.

Kinda like this forum: For every on-target post that actually has
something to do with CB, there are 10-20 rants, attacks, loud yelling,
off-topic junk, etc.

--Truckers were pretty cool and courteous. I only heard a few using
high powered radios with echo, annoying roger beeps, etc. Talk was
usually short and if it started into a discussion, they were quick to
jump to another channel (off 19). Right on.

So overall I'm kinda sad I couldn't use the radio off the interstates.
The superloud folks were pretty idiotic too; talking in a strange,
affected southern drawl voice, mouth so close to the mic it was muffled
most of the time, and using lots of fakey laughter (to just hold on the
modulation I guess).

Question: Is anyone using 2 meters or 70 cm on the highways? That
might be a more sensible way to go in the future....

-Kahuna