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From: cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio.packet,rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: low power license free packet?
Summary: Packet Citizen's Band
Keywords: Allocatitng Citizen's-Band space for packet radio
Message-ID: <210@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 17:22:56 GMT
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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I think that this is an excellent idea, and would be marketable mostly to
sub-personal computer (i.e. C64, Atari-800) people rather than CB people.
It would take a lot of work, though, to revive a social clique of buletin-
board systems which has turned almost entirely to <14yr olds.

However, CB's in the $40-60 range are usually automobile radios (correct
me if I'm wrong in your part of the country) and would require a further
complication: a power supply.  Not much to a HAM, who could build one out
of a few rubber bands and a paper clip, but most people would have to buy
one.  Minor point, still.


Now, a question: I was once told that the sunspot period relative to CB
radios is about 40 years, and that we are now on the upside of the curve.
I was told that this means in about 10 years the range we will get from
C.B. will be at least quadruple what it is now.  Is this true?

			Christopher E. Piggott

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