Why GMRS Can Never Become As Bad As CB Radio - Another Reason That GMRS Is Better Than CB Radio

[@BOB12349307]

oh my god you have no clue!!

[@TheNotaRubicon]

I am sure that with all the information and data you have included to back up your claim that I "have no clue", nobody is going to point at you and laugh. Pro Tip: When making an accusation, give a least a HINT of something.. anything, to back up what you are claiming.

[@kidvision564]

Would you clue us with arguments instead of invoking God to the chat?

[@Toddstang68]

Bob, go to channel 19!

[@bigsquid420]

I think you got lost on "penetration" with dramatic pause comment. Settle down, this isnt that type of channel.

[@christamez734]

If I wasn't busy running interference in my Trans Am for my trucker buddy so we can make the monies, I would so unravel the confuckulation of this video. Do you have an onlyfans channel to speak on RF penetrative?

[@WaynePatrick]

As a non-sad ham with formerly C.B. Stained hands I enjoyed this very highly informative video. Came to refresh my memory on fars. Stayed for the whole time. Thanks Randy for what you do.

[@REXOB9]

I can envision a day, perhaps in the far future, when answers to the ham license exam includes "fars", and "mygigglehertz".

[@DDGVET4]

I can't wait. Zenu please hurry.

[@tamadeus7189]

"Starring Bubba as Johnny Reb!" And vice-versa.

[@31415as]

Sir! You have mastered the art of modern youtube and streched the bare minimum tivial infomation to 7 minutes while garnishing it only with LED lighting and a weird persona.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

..and THAT sir, is why they call me the QUEEN of all that is GMRS!

[@kidvision564]

@@TheNotaRubicon😂

[@timmclongdick]

It's why I subscribe to this channel. That and learning other actual GMRS facts and gigglehertz....

[@KD7QOW-np9gd]

@@TheNotaRubiconI too am jealous that you have more subscribers than me.

[@fondy44]

One of the neighbors bought their kids some FRS radios and they roger beep the crap out of each other. Still better than anything I've heard on CB in the last 20 years 🤣

[@AEFI261]

I hate CB because in my area. It’s just a bunch of people from Alabama screaming about hot women.

[@jimmywayneoconner9225]

You are on the wrong channels!

[@DDGVET4]

They just hate you. ROLL TIDE!

[@bigdEnergy666]

And you like hot boys... got it

[@waynehendrix4806]

I thought that's what all of Alabama did anyway. They're also doing it on GMRS. (With proper licensing, and use of call signs.)

[@Freebird_67]

That’s what make it great. All I hear on GMRS is wanabe cops and peds

[@OnAirVoice]

You speak common sense, this will go over a lot of “some peoples” heads.

[@W5KJD]

Minor correction if I may, CB skip Is a day time event and rare at night. However you are right on everything else as I understand thing. And yes I do use CB, Ham & GMRS and when I worked for the police and sheriff’s departments I used their radios which were at that time in the 155 MHz. Good video as always I enjoy watching them and I do learn from your videos as well.

[@badluckbart3424]

You're incorrect. Amplitude Modulation signals "skip" at night, when part of the atmosphere rises and the signals (which "bounce" off of it) refract further. This doesn't happen in the daytime. The CB (AM) "skip" you hear during the day are (illegally) power amplified hundred of times higher than allowed.

[@texican84american]

I’ve got a ham ticket and a GMRS license. I built my brother an antenna for CB and have built others for my HT’s. For me it’s just about working with my hands nerding out on this stuff. Been working with satellites and the phone company for years. Enjoy the video Randy!

[@marshred]

GMRS/UHF is very local and line of sight so no "skipping" long distances as with CB 11m band. GMRS is a great radio service for many outdoor activities and local communications.

[@Freebird_67]

Exactly! VERY local! Most here where I’m at are Wanabe cops and all you hear is time call outs. We aren’t in a high storm prediction area but some say they are storm watchers. Lmao. Imo GMRS is a complete joke. It’s useless for me. I’d much rather use 11m SSB Skipping and talk to Germany,France,Ect. I get way more out of it. It’s just more exciting. GMRS is just plain boring. Wasn’t even worth the $35 license imo.

[@WhisperingWillows-o8s]

That guy is hilarious I like to listen to them do the Super Bowl during the day sometimes.

[@Freebird_67]

Yeah. They don’t bother me. These soft GMRS guys though just call out times on their radios and that all you hear. Wanabe cops and peds is what I call GMRS. I’d much rather use 11m USB &LSB. SSB.

[@kboutdoors734]

I was on my CB radio today, per usual as I'm truck driver. There's a lot of idiots on there with high power ruining the sound and true effect of the radio and its intended purpose. But CB radio has benefits, especially if you know the local channels and how to tune your radio properly. As a new GMRS radio operator, I will say that I don't hear the garbage like I do on CB frequencies. So I would venture to say with the federal laws in place, the responsibility that comes with the license it will not be anything close to CB radio.

[@251_Performance]

Hey! I was on CB back in the late 80's & early 90's! WAIT A MINUTE! I'M FROM ALABAMA!🤬

[@jefffoster3557]

they need an emoticon with one tooth.

[@DDGVET4]

Did you ever stop to think. " Oh, that's right. I don't have to admit that in public?" Me, I'm from Alabama and I just don't give a damn.

[@251_Performance]

@@DDGVET4 same here...I was being facetious

[@audiomaker1]

CB is great. Yeah, there’s some trash talk but usually just on one or two of the 40 channels. You can get emergency help on the road with a CB (try that with GMRS), notification of traffic and weather issues, and sometimes information from other states (since CBs travel state to state even if the signals mostly don’t). GMRS can sound better in certain circumstances and does allow for repeater use, but those repeaters are mostly silent . So yeah, GMRS might be a good choice for a group of guys going off road, but not so much that it is worth giving up some of the CB advantages IMHO. Just learn how to use the squelch and how to change to an unused channel.

[@dguiley]

So if I put my CB on an unused channel how will I get information on road conditions? It's been pretty useless for me. The issues like high noise floor, ands guys jamming the channel from 3 states away have driven truckers away from CB. I'll bet less than half the trucks on the road have them anymore, and less use them. I've broadcast about road emergencies and nobody acknowledges. Sometimes they turn them on only AFTER they are in a traffic jam and want to know what lane to use.

[@audiomaker1]

@ Yeah, put it on an unused channel if you want to avoid road chatter and skip…basically to use like you would GMRS. Put it on 19 if you need help. Ya know, it may not be instant help but 100x more likely than calling out on GMRS. Right now with the high solar cycle, skip is annoying as we get out of state transmissions and this will continue for the next year, but I never have an issue squelching this out. I have a CB in my vehicle and honestly it’s rare that anyone is on (19), but if there is an accident or similar, truckers coming the other way will generally be reporting what to expect ahead.

[@Freebird_67]

Could not agree more

[@RFMaster6]

CB also uses SSB, and it’s a really big deal.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

Uh huh...

[@theozarkprepper9002]

Randy, your example of CB radio sounds just like most of the hillbillies in Arkansas, thanks!

[@jakemccarrey]

I’m gonna buy two licenses…just to be on the safe side.

[@Colorado_Native]

... and it allows you to talk to yourself, legally. Wow!

[@johnpush4585]

Your screen in the back and your T shirt are both pretty epic.

[@waynehendrix4806]

He's Luke's father.

[@stevenemert837]

Wait, what? GMRS has limited fars??? The horror!

[@MyPietroC]

@stevenemert837 This has been such a great thread of comments. Why did you have to bring Jane Fonda into this?

[@wrwp511robbie]

Well, Super Bowl 6 is a really bad example. Side band is a lot better. It's still Skip talking, better than the competition channel 6.

[@Freebird_67]

Exactly

[@GreenosGarage]

I agree with your comments regarding skip for CB and how it doesn’t work that way for GMRS. I don’t think the license requirement and call sign requirement is an important factor at all. “Citizens Band (CB) radio stopped requiring a license in the United States on April 28, 1983 when the FCC phased out individual licensing for CB radio operation; this change was due to widespread disregard of licensing regulations and the large number of CB users. “

[@erikferguson71]

I could see this happening in the future simply due to the overlap with FRS and the fact that bubble pack radios were manufactured with both FRS/GMRS in the same radio for years with users either not reading the toilet paper manuals that come with them, or simply disregarding the rules.

[@badluckbart3424]

Few, if any CB users in the 70s and early 80s had a license to operate. Fact is, no one I knew back then (and I was a local radio personality) even heard of it being required.

[@bigdEnergy666]

You meant GMRS can never be as cool as cb radio.

[@jimwilliams7937]

ROFLMAO okay you keep that fantasy going

[@ScorpioSin777]

I am from the south and I agree with you sir! You speak truth…for the most part. 😂

[@pavlikj]

Earlier this year, I drove from Northern Va to ABQ New Mexico, around 2K miles, most on I 40. I bought a compact am/fm /weather/ CB for my truck, for traffic chatter and notifications about speed traps. in the 3 days of travel that I had. the CB was almost silent the entire trip. no speed trap reports on the air (but Waze did that job, and did it well) only time I heard folks on the CB was if there was A traffic situation, THEN the truckers would be on the air, asking WTF is slowing folks down, and if an accident, where it was, and what lane to be in to move around the accident quickly. that was about it. yes there was the occasional "knucklehead" yapping on, but those were not on the channels that the truckers use, seems that the higher channels are where a lot, but not all, of the self proclaimed experts would park their soapbox. funny this is that I also have a GMRS handheld, and I saw that there are a few repeaters around Albuquerque. I think the owners of the GMRS repeater was a HAM operator, because of the additional rules and self imposed restrictions that he had for "Policing" the repeater channels. the owner claimed that the GMRS channels were basically having the "Just like CB chatter issues" but while there, I listened to those channels, and the traffic was very light and basically older folks in RV's chatting to each other at a local RV park not too far from where I was at. so the "Propaganda" from SAD HAMS about how anything other than a HAM radio being junk, is just that, Propaganda. most folks are using Phone apps tied into their vehicles infotainment system to get the data that used to be conveyed by word of mouth back in the 70 -90ies. GMPR is good for dedicated small group communications, and CB is a novelty that is slowly dying off as us older folks figure out what I did, that CB is not giving you the info it used to, way back in the last century. HAMS , I think, are pushing this to get more folks into HAM, but except for lonely guys in their basements trying to talk to strangers hundreds of miles away, it too is dying the slow death of disinterest that CB has. Just my two cents.

[@Don123-x8q]

Bunch of lonely old guys on Ham, sounds about right. That said, there is still significantly more activity at least on the Ham Repeaters than GMRS. GMRS here is crickets. With just a Baofeng handheld I can get some darn good coverage on the larger repeater linked systems, albeit it's a bunch boring old men.

[@SamsungGalaxy-ls8ys]

GMRS/FRS radio is great for clear, local communication and CB is great for skip/dx as it's an HF radio.

[@dorknerd]

This video is a masterpiece

[@tamadeus7189]

No one ever went broke gambling on the ignorance of the people, and you can therefore safely bet Bubba will give dragging down GMRS a try.

[@Freebird_67]

Let’s hope so

[@rigger4695]

Thanks for the great idea. Spamming incoherently on GMRS freqs is gonna be epic. 😂

[@houseofcluck]

cant shoot skip on gmrs. boringgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[@Freebird_67]

EXACTLY

[@Ogstuff]

you are amazing good sir. please and thank you

[@5914DL]

As a retired old man from the Great State of Alabama I can testify that CB is in fact the choice radio of many, many a drunk citizen of the state. I can also testify that GMRS is useless because of all the hills and trees. The 2 meter and 70 CM bands travel many furlongs and we are blessed with several good repeaters on mountain tops. BTW, the Saturn V rocket was designed and built in Huntsville Alabama. The current leader of the Evil Apple Empire is a graduate of Auburn University, also in the Great State of Alabama.

[@yogidemis8513]

CB is still going strong in my area, just need lots of Watts to ever talk to them since they override everyone who just using a regular power CB but there's a lot of them but I rather use GMRS when talking 1on1, the only thing I might hear randomly on GMRS are tow truck drivers or the main repeater which is the only HAM frequency that you can hear pointless conversions on.

[@dguiley]

High-powered CBs are definitely contributing to the ruining of the band. I believe that is much more of a reason for all the noise than skips are.

[@jimwilliams7937]

Let me see 75 m or is it 80 I can't remember but that's where we have the the code blue guys if any are still alive they all had lumbago and hemorrhoids and all kinds of problems they would talk about for hours in the morning and then repeat the weather back to each other from location to location just such exciting stuff

[@jimwilliams7937]

To make matters worse that's all they do and a lot of repeaters is talk about their radios that they talked about 300 times last month

[@kiwicory100]

Tons of Australians use CB in the outback and don’t sound like the people you highlighted. We need to do better in this country as a society.

[@jimwilliams7937]

I thought the Australian CB radio was a 400 MHz similar to gmrs,,,,

[@evocati6523]

We don't imprison people for memes though so we're doing well in that regard

[@badluckbart3424]

This country is The land of the free, and the home of the brave. Unlike Australia which is The land of British prisoners offspring and headed towards communism.

[@terrymeyer7084]

i am a trucker with both gmrs and ham license. i run a high powered cb in my 18, and i can get out pretty far. and you are correct, the cb traffic has dwindled down the last few years. there are still some us older hands that use them daily. but for the most part all you hear is those 2 clowns or the moron doing duck calls all day long. but at home, our local ham and gmrs repeaters are very active. and also a lot of 2m simplex, which is my fav.

[@NerdyByNature51]

Is there a specific frequency truckers use on ham simplex? Or just 146.52?

[@texastyrannyresponseteam794]

CB was awesome.. I still have about 60 or 70... maybe more.. 11 meter radios.. i love em.. used to build them big 8 pill heaters.. old school square body suburbans with big antennas.. i hate having to say my call sign every 15 minutes on GMRS.. i always forget anyway.. might have to build a big linear, I got a big load of Motorola and Toshiba pills in an electronics buy recently.. not sure what all is in there.. looks like enough stuff to build several good amps....

[@Freebird_67]

We need to talk. !!

[@raymondmartin6737]

Good explanation of CB today versus GMRS frequencies. 😊

[@linux_gamer]

3:07 CB radio doesn't skip at night because skipping at night is only enabled by the F2-region, and the F2-region at night doesn't refract waves in the 11-meter band.

[@Crusader7077]

In the city I grew up in as a teenager in the 80s here in California, channel 1 on the CB was full of people talking on there regularly (both base and mobile), and it was a lot of fun. I met a lot of people that talked on there. Nowadays, GMRS in my area has not replicated that level of activity, and it never will (nor will CB ever again either, and all I ever hear nowadays on the CB are people with illegally overpowered radios from other states; nobody local).

[@dguiley]

I agree and if you must try to DX with your CB, STAY OFF 19!!

[@timhood6970]

hate to disappoint you Randy, but most of that noise coming from CB, comes out of the Northern states, and yes your home state of Commiefornia as well. not just here in Alabama and Mississippi!

[@TheNotaRubicon]

If its east of Arizona and/or south of Kansas its all the same...

[@timhood6970]

@@TheNotaRubicon then how about all of the bucketmouths in Commiefornia?

[@Freebird_67]

Thank you. This smug FR is starting to piss me off with his I’m better than everyone else personality

[@mikeg.6767]

Just getting in to gmrs not impressed with it so far. Can still talk all around the world on sideband with a cb and a good antenna . But I am giving it a chance not to much action on gmrs in nj . Thank you for the video 👍

[@TheNotaRubicon]

GMRS is for talking with people you already know, like whilst off-roading or hiking - GMRS is not really for finding "action" or "making contacts" with anonymous men - for either of those you should try the Grindr app on your phone.

[@gadsdenconsulting7126]

​@@TheNotaRubicon😂😂😂

[@tamstutz921]

GMRS isn’t impressive. GMRS users even less so.

[@Freebird_67]

You’ll find GMRS sucks. It’s boring.

[@Freebird_67]

@@tamstutz921bingo. Most are wanabe off-roaders with their little toy jeeps and they have to beg their controlling yoga, mama wife to go out with his little friends to get dirty.

[@alpha6tango860]

Oh the joy of listening to kids screaming at each other after Santa brought them radio toys!

[@BryanTorok]

OMG! I have to note this day on calendar and in my diary as a day when I actually agreed with him.

[@DiggerX]

I love my CB radio, so much fun on side band, always laughing at the idiots on 27.3850lsb (channel 38), GMRS around here in the Cleveland area is a mess, everybody got FRS radio's and ruin everything.

[@javabeanz8549]

It's been a while since I knew all of the CB channel frequencies without looking them up, but I knew that was channel six, before I read the frequency. Same noise as back in the 1970's, a hand full of mouthy people with enough watts to fry birds mid-flight.

[@t_craig_rogers]

You are almost my favorite channel. Almost.

[@davidyummus6259]

I would LOVE to see Randy do a Vid on Simplex "Parrot" Repeaters AND clarify to end the debate on whether they belong on Simplex Channels or Repeater Channels :)

[@marcspaz]

Good info! I love CB as far as the service is concerned. However, the introduction of FM still doesn't sound anywhere near as good as a quality GMRS radio. It doesn't help that only 2 people I know actually have an FM CB.

[@dguiley]

Yeah I bought 2 CBs that do FM a little over a year ago, and for the most part it was a waste of monies. Since I used to haul for construction crews, at least I know which channels to harass some of those crews and I can listen to the loader and scale at he quarry nearby my shop.

[@wser682]

So you're going to talk crap about CB and get mad when somebody talks crap about gmrs you are just like some people crying all the time why don't you go have your mom make your glass of chocolate milk

[@markdyson9190]

“Fat People”…. I LAUGHED my ass off.

[@Gumby1978]

Randy, can I just call you the Wizard? U R A electronics Jeanyus!

[@ScorpioSin777]

Zenu loves you Randy. How was your Zmas?

[@jimwilliams7937]

Mount Clemens Michigan has a repeater on gmrs a group of the users have a tendency to jam it up just like they would if it was a CB conversation sometimes sometimes it's far worse than CB radio from 4:00 in the morning till noon until somebody answers key and key

[@TheNotaRubicon]

The difference between that and CB is that we can't hear it in California..

[@jimwilliams7937]

​@@TheNotaRubiconwill conceivably you could hear it in California if the networks that they attached to the gmrs repeaters are still intact the one in Mount Clemens is still a networked repeater.

[@Wesley-WSEL-698]

Waiting for that one comment to be pinned...

[@ossqss]

Oh my, I feel so diminished.... My old CB base station from the late 70's was an enigma with KAED **** (Truncated for my protections). Strapping that big base station antenna on the chimney was fraudulent, but we did save money with relative's interactive toll calls with the one ring to my cousin and then hit the radio that worked well 10 miles away, in the Pittsburgh hills. I still remember the handle "Moon Shoes" across the river that I never met. Teenagers at the time, you know> Queue up Bob Dillan> "The Times are a Changing"

[@geraldscott4302]

"Why GMRS Can Never Become As Bad As CB Radio" I love CB radio. I have an amateur HF radio (yes, I am one of those dreaded hams) modified for 11 meters (CB) that puts out 100 watts, and a whopper of an antenna. I have made many contacts thousands of miles away on SSB CB radio. I find that people are nicer on SSB CB than they are on the ham bands. I have zero use for GMRS.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

Ham radio operators are not "dreaded" by anyone - Sad-H.A.M.s are. BIG difference.

[@Freebird_67]

That my friend is exactly how I feel. GMRS for me has been completely useless and on top that a huge waste of my time and money. I’m currently TRYING to sell all my GMRS gear since I just want it out of my house. All I hear where I live are peds and wanabe cops calling out times on GMRS RPT’s. Simplex is dead quiet and not even used apparently. These idiots will pay some already rich guy to use his RPT that he’s got up on a 200’ tower..and once I found out all these people’s backgrounds in this group I immediately disconnected myself from the group. CB on other hand has become ONCE again my go to for excitement and enjoyment of talking to folks even in Europe. I was lucky to get someone to talk to me 5 miles away on GMRS and the conversation was quite drab and boring. GMRS definitely won’t ever be anything like CB. Thank goodness. You can have GMRS. It SUCKS.

[@SomeReefer]

Being a truck driver I absolutely hate CB radio. You get the mud mouths down south trying to make a radio show, and then you have the idiots up north and then there is that one asshole with his amplified handheld from colorado or wherever. Trying to hear and relay traffic info is such a pain when is all you hear is a gaggle of degenerates talking about who gave them crabs and who has the best radio or who is screwing over chumps on scam radios.

[@gregsmith1116]

What? No way. GMRS will live on if we continue to use it well and continue to pay the fees for our licenses!.

[@jimwilliams7937]

It's going to have to be done a little differently the fees don't really slow down the stupidity but they helped a little bit we're going to have to police and monitor our own frequencies that we favor and when we get an idiot in there acting like a complete fool get a recording of him or them send it to the FCC office with the approximate location or GPS readings

[@Rusted_Link]

Xenu for crying out loud it's spelled Xenu. Xenu was the extraterrestrial ruler of a "Galactic Confederacy" who brought billions of his people to Earth (then known as "Teegeeack") in DC-8-like spacecraft 75 million years ago, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs.

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

And amazingly Hollywood escaped the bombs leaving a thriving alien community.

[@Rusted_Link]

@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt 🤣

[@robertwynn7686]

I totally agree with you and i miss your background music

[@kurttuttle1817]

It can become as bad as CB. I have to agree right now it is better than CB, but to many sad grms'ers...

[@radiohobbyist13]

That's because most GMRS'ers are disgruntled hams who brought their bad and snobby attitude with them. But why? Why didn't they just stay on Ham radio instead of coming over to and trying to ruin GMRS, too? How sad, how disgusting! If it's not already obvious, Ham radio is in RUINS!!! Stay away from it. It's just a bunch of crabby old farts, full of their own perceived self-importance. 😔🤷👎

[@volvo09]

0:36 30 years ago when I got a base station CB radio as a kid thatcs exactly what I remember! "Dad, why does this channel always have this crazy guy yelling on it?" I thought it was some crime gang barking orders through static 😂

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

27 MyGigglehurts CB is as good as dead here in Au. Everyone, clowns included, moved to our version of GMRS 477 MHz CB. We have less UHF fars though as most repeaters have disappeared over the years.

[@DMS20231]

Hills and forests. Lol. Not lost on some of us.

[@Counselor77]

CB Radio went from "10-4 good buddy" to "shut up stupid". CB Radio = Useless. I'm glad you make these videos Randy keep them coming, good job.

[@Freebird_67]

Totally opposite where I live. GMRS = useless CB SSB = talking to other countries

[@RabbiJesus]

CB is terrible if you don’t like talking to people.

[@jimwilliams7937]

No I think what people are trying to say is the IQ is much lower on 27 MHz CB radio than it is on almost any other band.

[@jimwilliams7937]

Well I don't like talking to idiots that's why I stay away from CB radio I was on CB radio in the late 1960s when they had hardly any channels eventually 23 channels became the standard and then eventually 40 channels and then sideband

[@jimwilliams7937]

Well I don't like talking to idiots that's why I stay away from CB radio I was on CB radio in the late 1960s when they had hardly any channels eventually 23 channels became the standard and then eventually 40 channels and then sideband

[@allenvestal4474]

I scan ham and GMRS with my TID H3 channels here in Temple Texas. Mostly dead air.

[@TerryLawrence001]

Due to the curvature of the Earth and the line of sight phenomenon, most GMRS signal is over your head! :-))))

[@itsapittie]

I recently bought a CB radio because despite the shitshow it's become, it's still the best way to get information about road conditions. To my surprise, in addition to FM operation, it has "privacy codes" (which as we all know, aren't private). I think in FM mode and with squelch tones engaged, it might be a viable alternative to GMRS for some things. For example, staying in touch while traveling in a convoy is perfectly doable with FM/CTCSS. Of course, you won't hear all the people on AM talking about road conditions, which is the reason I wanted it, but you wouldn't get that on GMRS either.

[@erikferguson71]

I just squelch out the DXers unless I'm in the mood to listen in. Turn up the squelch and you have a pretty useable radio.. if you can find anyone to talk to..

[@dguiley]

I put CB radios in 2 of my pickups a little over a year ago and am disappointed in how useless they generally are. Between the noise floor being very high most of the time and the sheer number of people using ch 19 to DX, it has ceased to be a common platform for travel information . I estimate way less than half the trucks on the road are using CB anymore. It's disappointing really. Many times I've broadcast an alert about some hazard ahead and nobody responds. Of course, maybe I should try a different language to be more. effective.

[@shawnstarks5648]

I will stick with ham and will use am and side band. fm sucks. it is a bandwidth and power hog.

[@Slingertronic]

Haha! I love these videos!

[@mikesawyer1336]

I actually hope GMRS takes off and is major mumbo crowded... I just hope it's not abused and smucked up. Ham radio has evaporated and I miss the traffic... It's hard to talk to people when there are no people.

[@escomag]

I still have my old Midland in my truck, and I can still use it to talk to my buddy, but we squelch the shit out of it so as to not hear the crap. Most of the time we just use my Midland GXT ht's, but it's a pain if you drop it while driving.

[@mustang131radio]

How about the 10kw operators in Cali!! Feel left out on the left coast!

[@tlmwebb648]

I been wanting to try out a am fm cb haven't talked on one for awhile used to really enjoy cb great channel really enjoy it

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

FM CB is the same as regular AM CB with slightly better audio and less range has been my experience.

[@dguiley]

@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt and nobody to talk to

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

@@dguiley Depends where you're located I suppose Daryl ?

[@jasonsunray]

can you run digital text service on CB bands with all that noise?

[@UltraZelda64]

Didn't CB radio require a license and broadcasting a call sign at one point too, just like GMRS? That obviously didn't stop it from going to hell. But at least the wavelength will keep transmissions local and help cut out the crap.

[@christopherkusek1362]

like'd and comment'd - poor gmrs doesn't have a chance then, so useless and a waste of time. Wonder when the fcc will send my license refund for all the trolling I was doing on the frequencies and only heard people doing active things.

[@brucefrazier9051]

I've heard that guy rambling on my CB listening in from South central Missouri, on and on and on

[@jdanielcramer]

“Dirty Sanchez! Dirty Sanchez! Whadyallscreaminboutbreakerbreaker Dirty Sanchez” ch 6 🙂‍↔️

[@scramick]

CH 6 is the Circus Channel. Try CH 38 LSB. All full of radio checks.

[@rEdf196]

I live in Canada, GMRS is useless here. only 2 watts maximum using tiny handhelds unless your a forklift operator, Mall worker, hiker/camper and parents keeping track of their kids, It is little better than FRS.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

That is not "GMRS", it _literally_ is FRS.

[@fubarsnafu4994]

What was the name of that movie in the 70's. Had that obscure male actor in it. Him his dad and his girlfriend run a gas station or some shit like that..CB gets outa hand in town.. becomes a Payton place.. everyone in everyone's business. They break bad. start clipping antennas, smashing equipment.. anyone remember that? Seen at the drive in as a kid and just haven't seen it since.

[@StrogKILR]

I don't know if Citizens Band is the movie you're thinking of, but now I have a bunch of new movies added to my watch list.

[@coldandaloof7166]

Where I live GMRS is dead quiet. No repeaters, very few simplex users. Just usually a few kids talking in town. CB is still king in SE Ohio. But you have to go freeband.

[@MrJohndeere3720]

i hear more people fighting on CB then just normal talking.. lol

[@AF-fb8yi]

I think a lot of people make this claim not based on the technical feasability but because of the idiots and rule-breakers on it. I just listened to an hour or so of yammering between 2 guys on a local GMRS repeater debating whether Digital modes (specifically P25) are permitted by the rules. While they are correct in that there's nothing explicitly forbidding digital (in plain non-obscured text) only encryption... I am of the understanding it's FM or short data bursts... name a radio that is Part 95 certified that does P25... ? Is there one? This was a linked repeater system, they were across the country from me based on the conversation but no actual evidence since they never once during the hour long conversation stated their call signs. It has begun! Stupidity replicated across a vast repeater network, who needs great propogation conditions when they just use the internet? Ah the good ol internet, a megaphone for stupidity!

[@ahabdacapn661]

What ruined local CB in my area are those who take a 4W license free radio and strap on 100-600W. cheaper radios pick them up on a band up to 6 channels wide at times, centered on different freqs, not just ch6. Nothing but inane banter between anonymous men, music, and roger beep fights. I moved to GMRS, although fewer have it where I am.

[@Hero1395]

Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help!

[@TheNotaRubicon]

Most wont get it, but I do. Well done sir, well done.

[@garretlewis4103]

Maybe “some people” have a GMRS radio that identifies as a CB radio?

[@robbyarng]

Killroy was here.

[@SocialistDistancing]

The super bowl. LoL. Bucket mouths. GMRS will never be like CB, for so many reasons.

[@m.rakovan3782]

Gee back in the day to operate a CB radio you had to hace a license from the FCC but over time they drop the licensing requirement . This could happen to GRMS, not saying it would but it is always possible .

[@jiminsav]

That's a big 10-4 good buddy.

[@matthewjaco1485]

Cb is dead as an OTR. Nothing but trash talk. That being said the GRMS repeaters in my area are very well regulated. None of that trash talk is allowed!

[@single_cam9199]

How is cb useless? Theres people actually talking on it and using it

[@dguiley]

high noise floor, and too many people talking nonsense from 4 states away on ch 19 so it isn't useful for travel information.

[@W5KJD]

@@dguileyAll you have to do is turn the Squelch up, you know just like you have to do on any FM radio such as on GMRS which is completely useless when traveling.

[@aok4128]

In my area, CB radio has been taken over by foreign language users.(Hmong).

[@eastdoors]

CB radio sounded just as bad back in the early 1980's 😢😂

[@Dazdigo]

FRS will turn GMRS into CB.

[@lawdogdaddyusa1255]

Yes you are correct about the range. I disagree though about the rest. They dont sell linear amplifiers on Tik Tok, Temu or whatever by the tens of thousands. The may be less radios but these cheap junk radios are going to ruin Gmrs and ham unless the government gets control on it.

[@stanleybest8833]

You don't help the average newbie at all. A 4 watt CB listens to static, and can talk 75 miles in a lot of situations. It's much more natural than any squelch. A SSB CB talks hundreds of miles, except continents, so you're not alone on any ocean. I use the FRS as a 7 mile toy, but have turned down GMRS consistently. Keep your squelch.

[@ssrrocks22]

I have been a radio operator for many years. They said much the same when Ham radio would become just like CB was in the 70s. after removing the code part of the test for a license. That wasn't the case. GMRS has its place just like ham radio and CB. I highly doubt GMRS will replace CB. CB had its heyday back in the 70s. The only reason we hear so much about GMRS today is because of the cheap Chinese radios on the market today. Most people imhave talk to all says the same, they wouldn't spend the money to just talk a few blocks. A couple of Bofaung radios might be ok in a camp grounds but with cellphones, GMRS has very limited use even with repeaters.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

That's really weird because I regularly use my GMRS HTs (including Baofengs) to talk several miles (no repeater) and use the mobile GMRS radio in my Jeep to regularly talk even further.. It is also normal for me to talk with people over 100 miles away via any of the several GMRS repeaters in my area. I guess i'm just doing it wrong .. But thanks for letting us know that you've been a ham radio operator for many years - we would have _never_ guessed.

[@bendeleted9155]

In some parts, you may be right, but I live in the hills overlooking a vast valley of slums where most of my family and friends live and I couldn't talk any of them into getting a CB, an amp and a 8.5ft antenna to keep in touch with each other, but I DID talk some of them into getting GMRS radios and mag-moumt antennas. I can even talk with some of them simplex on my Yagi. Two of the repeaters of use to me are busy, and two others aren't, but work great. Seems like GMRS already did replace CB.

[@walkman1269]

My Baofeng regularly reaches 3 miles. It's a hacked ham radio transmitting on GMRS too. I am in the slum's in the valley and talk to the overlords above mostly strange men and sometimes children.

[@jwm6314]

@TheNotaRubicon I'm still not convinced. His username isn't a HAM callsign.

[@TheNotaRubicon]

You must have missed his profile pic..

[@rckgnzls]

It already is