Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club

The Club owns and operates two, 2 meter repeaters. 147.16 output 147.76 input, with a tone of 88.5 has an autopatch for members use. This repeater is located on the top of the Grays Harbor Community Hospital-West. The Hospital is located on a hill in Aberdeen, Washington just 2 blocks East of the Aberdeen, Hoquiam city limits.

Ocean Shores, Washington repeater on 146.90 output 146.30 input has a tone of 88.5 also. There is no autopatch on this repeater. The repeater is located on Saddle Mountain, near Ocean Shores, is open to the public.

WE REQUEST THAT ALL AMATEURS USE GOOD AMATEUR RADIO PRACTICE AND ALWAYS STAY WITHIN THE RULES OF GOOD TASTE AND THE F.C.C.

There are more and more complaints about the use of "CB lingo" on the
ham bands, such as ten signals, 'on the side', 'on the flip
side,' 'I'll modulate at ya' and a whole lot more. When these
complaints surface, as they did recently in an article on eHam.net,
the pro-CB crowd immediately attacks those against the CB lingo as
being Old Farts, unable to accept change. My concerns are several on
this subject.

First, CB does have its own 'language.' That language has been
around now for nearly forty years and has become a CB tradition. It
is used by nearly everyone who has a CB radio, whether they are new
to that hobby or old timers in it. Many adopt the fake southern
drawl automatically when they pick up the microphone, but even
without the drawl, the language remains.

What I find incongruous is as these CBers enter ham radio, their
attitude appears to be ham radio should not have its own language,
but should adopt CB's. They become very angry when we try to point
out to them that we, too, have our traditions, and they won't let us
keep them. Why would this be fair? Why would they think it is OK to
corrupt ham radio? Why do they think we have to sound like CB in
order to be enjoyable?

Could be several reasons. The first is, as we have proved, they are
not interested in learning ham radio or its traditions anyway. They
don't want to learn CW, they don't want to learn electronics. All
they want, when you get right down to it, is more frequencies on
which to talk, instead of their forty channels and the freeband.

We could suggest they are simply too lazy. Well, maybe. Or it is
simply arrogance? Or they, perhaps, honestly believe talking like a
CBer is the correct way to talk, and will communicate better on the
ham bands?

Or is it more like something else in our world? Many Americans will
not see this but those of us who live in the Southwest, or in
Florida, have seen a similar approach to immigration. They don't
come to join; they come to convert. Here in the Southwest, we find
we who were born here, speaking English, are now learning the lingo
of the land is Spanish. The Mexicans have come and, like the CBers
on the ham bands, have converted this to Mexico. They don't want to
adopt the ways of the new land to which they came; they want to bring
the old land's ways with them.

So it appears to go with CB. They want to delete our ham radio
traditions and make it feel like, taste like, sound like, CB radio.
They are too lazy or too arrogant to adopt a new lingo and a new
style of operating. They can't join; they can only corrupt, only
dilute.

As they destroy our traditions, they get angry at us because we are
angry at them for doing so!