When talking with other Radio enthusiasts, one question which frequently arises when talking about CB Radio is why HAM Radio operators feel so strongly about CB Radio users.
There seems to be a clear divide between the two camps with a lot of HAM Radio users looking down on CB Radio users with disdane, labelling them as 'idiots', 'fools' and other more colourful terms which can't be used here.
Even some CB Radio users would agree that its easy to see why the UK 40 FM Channels gets the name 'Muppet Band' and we all know the level of stupidity that features on the CB Radio quite often but it is far to say that for some HAM Radio hobbyists feelings do indeed run deep and in some cases just as much between the CB Radio camp and their counterparts in the HAM Radio fraternity.
On one Radio forum there is one HAM Radio user who has posted reports of threats to himself and his family including doing unspeakable things to his dog and threatening to 'burn out his car' because of a comment he made on a YouTube video
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He reports in the forum that a group of CB Radio users banded together and over several weeks received death threats from each of them. There's not much information about what his comment actually was that could inflame such deep feelings of anger but it goes to demonstrate that tempers can run high on the matter.
It is fair to say that getting into CB Radio is incredibly easy. They are cheap, very easy to obtain and require no training or special licences to use. Add to that the availability of high power amplifiers and equipment that can be relatively easy to modify to get on to other frequencies which would normally be reserved for licensed users and the opportunity for misuse is too much for some.
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