A dedicated 4x4 channel on CB.

mostin58 said:

Thats handy to know, it was the morse that put me of doing it

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It's a piece of **** getting intermediate Ofcom wanted to dump the licence requirement completely But the old codgers who hold the licence whinged and bitched so much. That they split it into 3 groups. beginner, Intermediate and Advance (Full)

IIRC beginner (Foundation class) allows you to use upto 10W Interemediate allows you to use upto 100W and full licence allows 400W.

redhand said:

IIRC beginner (Foundation class) allows you to use upto 10W Interemediate allows you to use upto 100W and full licence allows 400W.

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Yeah, that's about right. The 400 watts by the way is peak envelope power (PEP), a measure of output power of a single sideband transmitter. It equates more or less to 150 watts DC input to the final stage.

There are some special purpose licences which allow up to a kilowatt for "moonbounce" experiments.

Well I found out my Midland 98 set will not transmit and only receive this weekend. Amazingly frustrating as thumbs up or down from the window isn't great communication.

ptt has a wire off or plug into set has a wire off

Freelaner said:

ptt has a wire off or plug into set has a wire off

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What's a PTT? Thanks for the advice.

Funkykipper said:

What's a PTT? Thanks for the advice.

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push-to-talk

the button on the mike

Well we used the new channel for our laning trip today.

No one else on it though

110woman said:

Ok...don't shoot me down here in flames - how do you talk to someone on ch 19 that you don't know ?- I take it you hear someone talking to someone else- do you just interrupt or what ?

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CB etiquette requires no formal introduction on Channels 19 and 14.
To interrupt a conversation an on any other channel it's normal to utter "On the side" during a break in the conversation. Old timers will remember "Q S K"

Greigboy said:

I also used the side bands and had a laugh speaking to folk all over the world.
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Used to have fun with Sidebanders by pretending to be from different countries

Sorry

110woman said:

can I just say hello instead

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Yup

tacr2man said:

The decline of Cb radio is understandable, when it was illegal , the sets had a really decent range, and with sideband, a burner , and a suitable aerial , you could get Pittsburg , Italy , or even Denmark , with skip, as it goes in about 600mile "bounces".
Then they brought in a legal system , but changed the frequency's, and went from AM to FM , which did bad things to range.

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See above

suew said:

Well we used the new channel for our laning trip today.

No one else on it though

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Don't think it'll be as popular as it was back in the 80's, but who knows

What about PMR's? I have a couple of motorola t6222's on, I think, 433Mhz. Are they any good for laning or just finding the missus intown?
Get some funny looks from the chavs when whipering into your collar

livers said:

What about PMR's? I have a couple of motorola t6222's on, I think, 433Mhz. Are they any good for laning or just finding the missus intown?
Get some funny looks from the chavs when whipering into your collar

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They're ok if you're all in convoy - or you can get yourself a proper set of UHF radios - i normally carry half a dozen in the Landy - useful for improtu convoys with none CB folk or if a CB breaks or for recovery of cars on the side of the road.



By the sounds of it though, CB in effect led to IRC channels on the internet which in turn led to chat rooms before they all got shut down for being filled with pedos. Not being as old as most of the people on this thread, I grew up chatting to strangers around the world in IRC and chat rooms

Although I am now a radio engineer too

If forums like this decide on a channel for our community and we all adhere to it, we have a greater chance of picking up traffic. I'm from Devizes but am harvesting near cambridge, if you're down this neck of the woods look for a lifted V8i Discovery, blue with a large yellow aerial swaying about at the rear of the roof! I'll keep it on 16 and hopefully run into some of you

Take it to the masses and spread the word. The more people use channel 16 the more traffic will flow through it.

Afraid the only channel that sees any use in North East Lincs is 19 where the muppets play music and drunkenly swear at each other, not that there is anything wrong with such behaviour, except on the airwaves.
I normally sit on 10 and 145.500MHz, but if a national 4x4 preferred channel was being touted, i would do my part.
Anything to get more people active on radio.

M0YAA said:

Afraid the only channel that sees any use in North East Lincs is 19 where the muppets play music and drunkenly swear at each other,

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Just like the good ol days

CQ CQ CQ DX

Perhaps it could be the LZIR channel aswell?

I usually sit on 19 on a journey unless I'm in convoy cause the truckers are good at passing on travel news but suppose I can scan 16 anorl

We use channel 10 mostly when out laning .. but last weekend we used 16 and to be honest it was much clearer!

I guess there's fewer people on anyway, but that they never deviate much from 9 (mine starts up on 9 when first turned on) 'cos there's so little need for that channel to be kept clear any more.

Go 16 !!!

The higher up the 40 channels you go the less interference you get from the likes of foreign stations bleeding through from AM or SSB, its usually particularly bad in the summer months with Russian taxi's.
Ch7 is the regular 4x4 channel up here, but I generally use ch35 if I'm out with my mates as its well out of the way.
Ch16 is also pretty close to 19 so you'll no doubt attract attention of the half wits who sit on Ch19

My missus whines at me for leaving the CB on 19 when Im driving around, apparently it "ruins the music" when people start talking, or (more often) it starts hissing out static.

She just dont appreciate it!

Tiercel said:

My missus whines at me for leaving the CB on 19 when Im driving around, apparently it "ruins the music" when people start talking, or (more often) it starts hissing out static.

She just dont appreciate it!

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If i have my friend and her kids in the car i can't leave it on anyway.
Amateur radio may be more technical and stuffy, but at least the kids can listen to it too.

I would recommend that 16 be the preferred calling channel, once you make contact agree to move to another channel so to leave 16 free for the next person. Much like 19 used to be. When finished back to 16.