On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:43:40 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Back in my CB days, I do still have the radio, I once skip talked to a guy in St. Louis Mo. I was at the time in Trenton Mi. about 25 miles south of Detroit. We talked for about a half hour clear as day. We were about 511 miles or so apart from each other.

I did have my CB radio tweaked after I bought it. Mine does put out 29 watts of power. Miss those days.


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It's much easier to get a ham radio icense than it used to be. The
Morse code requirements stopped a lot of people in the past but that
has just about gone away. The technical and regulatory requirements
are relatively easy and many local radio clubs offer free classes. I
got my first license when I was 12 years old.

With a ham license you can communicate just about anywhere in the
world when conditions are right, and the equipment options are
virtually endless. I have a fairly basic 150 watt single side band
transceiver on our trawler and have talked with stations as far away
as Japan and eastern Europe.

http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed

https://www.eham.net/newham/




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