Miata Mailing List: January 2000, Message #3441

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While caravaning with approx. 50 Miatae through KY and TN last July, I was
the only one without a CB.  I think they were talking about me behind my
back.

Ron and REdFox
Bowling Green, KY

Matthew J Hill wrote:

> Just curious.. how many Miata owners out there have CB radios for use in
> their cars?  What is the big advantage of a CB radio?
>
> I think it would be neat to be able to talk to people in passing Miatas
> and other cars... instead of just "the wave."  But I have no idea how much
> a CB costs, if it works well in the Miata... I remember they used to be
> all the rage about fifteen years ago, before cell phones became popular.
> Now you don't hear so much about them anymore.
>
> Do people still use these things?  I don't want to spend time and money on
> one if all I'll be able to do with it is talk to long-haul truckers.
>
> Do you need any sort of licence, like you do with HAM radio, or do you
> just buy one and start playing with it?
>
> --
> Matthew Hill                    Wappingers Falls, New York
> matt@megahertz.njit.edu         1999 Emerald

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Ron & RedFox ‘99L
MCA#53297

Ronald A. Veenker
Vette City Miata Club
Bowling Green, KY


As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again,
I sat there thinking about life.  Was it nothing more than a bunch of
honking and yelling?  Sometimes it seemed that way.


Got red?