[Phil]

Actually, 27.185 is and always has been channel 19. CB is not gone nor illegal. The FCC did not outlaw CB when they stopped issuing licenses. They never "ended the service". They stopped issuing licenses because there was never any purpose served by it. I don't understand the animosity. If I want to know what is going on in traffic I tune my ham rig to 27.185 and listen. There is no hope of getting any information from ham radio where traffic is concerned. We have approx. 40 repeaters between the various VHF/UHF bands in this town and probably a total of 20 minutes activity per week. I don't have any desire to transmit on CB, but have no problems with the few who still do. Now that the insane crowding of the pre-cellphone days is long over, CB is probably actually useful as it was intended. It is dead because, for the most part, it has been replaced by the cellphone.
73 de,
K1FB