Well now I'm gettin myself one (only a little 0.5W) I was wondering which channels you find all the cruisers hangin on?!?

 

I know CH40 is sometimes chattery (wasnt last saturday) but where else?

Channels 39/40 are generally trucking channels

 

When cruising we normally stick to Channel 16, though you can use anywhere from Channel 9 - 30.

 

Channels 1-8: Repeater Channels (Channel 5 is an emergency channel for simplex use, and repeater use where one exists).

 

Channels 9 - 30: Calling Channels (Used for local communication)

 

Channels 31-38: Repeater Uplink Channels (Don't speak on the uplink channel, speak on the repeater channel).

 

Refer to the picture below to see how the repeater works.

 

 

If anyone knows I've stuffed any of this up in any way, feel free to correct me..

Picked up Ready Towing (those guys are arseholes) last weekend.

 

God I love CBs. Mine are coming on Thursday! :D

just out of curiousity, what sort of CB did you purchase Irokin?

Hoffman 505's.... there exactly the same as the DIGITECH SP3380 just with a different outside.

 

0.5W

5km range

duplex

back lit lcd

channel scan

menu function

blah blah

 

What type of CBs are you guys weilding?

GME Electrophone TX4400, quite the nice unit if you really mean business when it comes to your CB radio..

 

5 Watt

Standard 40 UHF CB Channels

20 Programmable receive only channels (465MHz - 485MHz) - Police & Firecom Channels

Built in scan function

LCD display

MADE IN AUSTRALIA

oooh power!!!! That accually what one of my mates wanted. Well one with cop scanning etc. So do you find out where mr kodak is hiding?

The police never tell you where the speed cameras are, If you want to find out though, stick to channels 39/40 when your on the highway, I do a lot of highway driving and its saved me quite a few times sticking on channel 40. As for the police channels, its more entertaining than anything else to listen to.. hearing about bogans ripping skids in some carpark and throwing firecrackers out the windows etc..

I think I'm gonna be going through a helluva lot of batteries!

 

 

Edit - I just remembered I have one of those battery chargers that you can charge normal batteries in W00T

my mate used to have his little desktop scanner (from the 80's) listening to the coppers at yamanto relaying it through msn to me (as text). There was some freaky stuff going down.

 

He didnt so much want a scanner to avoid the cops (as nice as that is) but its good entertainment!

I always listen to the cop channels when I'm outside working on my car, either that or the local channel repeater, who needs a stereo :D