I started as CB kid back in the 70s and got my ham license when I was 14. CB used to require a mail-in license with an actual call sign but when so many thousands of people got them in then late 70s they got rid of that requirement. CB transmissions were supposed to be short (5 minutes). They were supposed to direct to another station-- no broadcasting. No music. That's what AM and FM radio were for. It wasn't originally for commercial businesses-- that's what land-mobile service is for. The service is supposed to exist for ordinary people of any kind to have access to two-way radio communication on a fair basis. With cell phones the whole thing is kind of obsolete. But for specific people who can still make used of it (and trucking is a perfect example--especially in the many places a cell phone doesn't reach or if you're in a major storm of some kind--it's a life saver!) Those same "tinfoil hat" types are on the Ham bands too. Since you have to pass a test to be a Ham and you are assigned a call sign and people can find you the Hams are a more behaved bunch. But I still miss the old "Breaker Breaker one nine anyone out there got a.....???" And someone would respond that they had a ..... and it went on and on. Be safe.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
Started as a kid in the 1970,s then in the early 1990's got a no code tech license then learned the code passed to General then advanced class but still use cb on the road
@@HoustonStreetChaplainssorry, but even Jesus isn't excluded from having to follow the rules on the CB or the ham fanatics will get a boner and bitch trip you over it.
Im an 18 year old diesel tech for a fleet in indiana... I would say a good 60% to 65% of our drivers dont have CBs anymore. Ive got a little uniden and a 2 foot whip on my pickup, i would love to see more people get back on. I dont see how you could be a trucker and not want to communicate with fellow drivers. This part is debatable but i dont think it even has to be crucial information, it is just nice to pass the time on the interstate as long as youre not saying stupid shit
Amen brother. I can’t believe I get out on the interstate and drivers don’t have their radios on. The few that do are always trucks that don’t have def systems. Those guys still run the radio.
@@spencerjohnson4656 I’m around truckers all day everyday. Guys are good dudes, but to be honest, I literally don’t think they know how to properly use the squelch in conjunction with the rf gain to cut out the excess skip that has been rolling in the last couple years, and because of their ignorance they just have a “I don’t wanna listen to that crap on the radio” and simply shut it off rather than adjust it properly. You can’t teach truck drivers much of anything. I’ve tried.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
OlD boomer here..... I've got a Cobra 29 LTD classic hooked up to a 102" whip antenna mounted on my chimney for a base station. It gets interesting when the skip gets active. Drive safe.👍
I am a Ham radio operator (general license), and I have added a CB to my truck and one in my Ham shack because CB is good way to track traffic on long trips to West Texas and to stay in touch with local operators in case of inclement weather and local emergencies. I do not like idle chat or rants of any kind on radio, but I appreciate the chance to monitor comments, notices and conversations on long trips on 2-M, 1.25-m, and 70-cm Ham bands and on CB. I wish more CB operators would consider earing at least a Ham technician's license, as their participation in local/regional emergency communications groups would be most welcome. 73 KI5KET
I am 4 wheeler, and Ham radio operator also. always use CB CH 19 when I drive long distance along I-15 Calif to Idaho. leave them ON most of the time, it is very useful when weather get bad, accident ahead, so on. I think every truck should have them, even should be required by Law. large RV trailer over turned on down hill on I-15 in Utah mountain road covered with Snow and ice. I heard most of the two lanes were blocked ahead on CH 19. it is safety item.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
@@HoustonStreetChaplains As I previously said, take your preaching to another channel ! Nobody wants to listen to it but you. I hope somebody involves you in their Fox Hunt and pins your Coax.
My house is ~100 yards from the interstate, and back in the mid-late 1980's I'd always have a CB in my bedroom to talk to truckers as they come through (much less crowded than it is now). Those kind of people existed even back then, and we'd have to go to channel 12 or 23 to have a normal conversation. The funny part is they never knew I was in my house; they thought I was a fellow trucker. 🤣Sometimes I entertain the thought of getting back into it just for shits and giggles.
They say cellphones killed CB, but as a teenager in the early 90s before cellphones were really a thing, nobody in my little town was using it that way. For the few of us who used it at all it was basically a social club, just shooting the breeze with friends and random people. I think that's where it's at its best.
Don't lose hope, the proper cb'er hardly talks, keeps the channel clear, and listens, or leaves it highly squelched or off until a situation demands it. Also the 4 legal watts is the right amount of power for about 3 miles ahead, 3 miles back.
I put one in my Jeep, even though I know the off-road/4x4 people prefer GMRS now. Got mine (President Bill II FCC AM/FM/NOAA) mainly to LISTEN, not talk or for idle brainless/inconsiderate chit-chat. Specifically, I got mine for these reasons: 1. Listen to truckers on the freeways in case there is some sort of traffic slowdown or such, IF that's possible because as you say, there's WAY too much rude/inconsiderate trash-talkers on 19 to hear much legitimate talk/info. And they don't keep it SHORT, then get off -- they go on & on tying up a channel. 2. Listen to the NOAA weather channels -- definitely something I wanted on my CB in case of inclement weather coming. Got caught in a Colorado snowstorm (twice) I wasn't expecting back when I did NOT have a CB...it would have helped if I had known a storm (or a tornado, flooding, etc.) was expected. 3. If I'm in a convoy on-road or off, and I can STILL use CB if someone else has one to keep in touch close-up. Or, can just use my FRS hand-held (and loan one to another person) for very close distances such as that. 4. Finally, in a SHTF situation and if cell phone towers are down, I can try to (again, just LISTEN) find out what happened, either via my CB Base Station (President McKinley II FCC AM/FM/SSB/NOAA) in my apt or the via mobile CB out in my Jeep if I'm NOT at my apt. So for me, I though going CB was was worthwhile enough. ;-) Just wish the FCC would crack down on the cheaters (including the Super Bowl fools), BSers and other airhead/DFs who are messing-up CB today. AND, "revive" Channels 9 & 19 to keep them CLEAR as most people (apparently) have NO respect for those 2 channels anymore. Fo example, one fool here is CONSTANTLY on channel 9 -- coming in loud & clear -- jabbering on and on in SPANISH and ALWAYS seems to be on 9. HIGHLY annoying and he never shuts up. Also, I'd like to see every state's DPS/EMS system monitor channel 9 as it used to in case we want to report an accident or some other emergency. From what I've gathered, CB is kind of making a comeback, as now radios have FM band added -- great for clearer close-range use (like convoys on/off-road)...so it seems people are buying enough CB radios for the manufacturers to keep making them and taking it further by adding FM. But really, I'd like to see the trash on CB tracked-down and fined/jailed...they have NO business being on the air and as you said, the REST of us don't want to hear anything from them at all. -- BR
I listen to your colleagues in the late evening, early morning when traveling East for trade shows. The boys help keep each other awake with conversations in the post-midnight frame. Not as often today, but still takes place. I just listen and don't interrupt; after all, I'm just' a minivan.
Started CB in the early 90's before cell phones when I started driving. Back then most local Police and Highway Patrol still monitored Ch. 9. Problem I have with CB today is the idiots on Ch. 6 and 11 bleeding the entire band with junk radios pushing 30k watts and just trying to cause interference. A local friend of mine calls them the hog farmers. I do really enjoy shooting skip on side band and freebanding to get away from the noise. I am also a Ham and 10m is the ticket right now with the solar cycle warming up. None of that garbage just good cons world wide. Talk to Europe and South America all the time. 73's
We use them daily running bulk materials so if you see a dump truck, end dump, belly dump, side dump, bulk trailer they got their ears on all across Oklahoma from ch1-21 but 1,4,and19 is what we use locally
I was number 3 back when I still had them in my vehicles. I'm not a professional driver on the road. I eventually gave up on the CB since I never heard English any more.
I still like CB Radio If I see accident of a papa bear or a baby bear or stuck at a toll bank. Or traffic jams. Keep short or brief Tell information on road or receiving info on Highway
There are also radio enthusiasts (radio nerds maybe?) who still use CB. They like tinkering with and learning about electronics, antennas and radio in general. Some will move into Ham Radio after spending some time on CB while others are not interested in getting a Ham Radio license and find CB is enough.
Back in the day I had a cobra with the new 40 channels and yes single side band. What would you recommend to use in my highway only four wheeler? FM, GRMS, FRS? Just something that won’t break the bank and keep me informed.
I’ve been fascinated by cb/ham radios since k was a kid. When I was 20 I built my first base station added an amplifier. I’m 38 and I have loved it ever since.
I bought a tool box for my truck last spring I found on FB Market and the guy threw in an old CB radio with an antennae that fits on the box. It's not installed yet, got other things to do to the pickup truck first, but eventually I'll get it installed. I do remember very well the days of the 70's when CB's were the roads salvation to communication. But the last time I had one in the early 2000's , it was hard to listen to with all the cussing and raging going on taking up the airspace. I only turned it on when it was necessary to get road information. Maybe that's why I'm not in a hurry to get this one installed! "Breaker breaker one-niner, anyone got their ears on?"
Hello from Québec 🇨🇦, I use cb as an outdoorsman traveling on narrow logging roads where logging trucks need to call their mile (km) marker going in or out, avoiding head on collisions. I receive sooo much static or rambling, mostly from the southern states, on ssb, boosted tx power, skipping. 7:42
Wife and I do a lot of road trips and I put a radio in our vehicle so we could get information about wrecks, road conditions, ect. and I have to absolutely agree with your assessment. Haven’t heard to many conspiracy theorists, but definitely plenty of “preachers” that I don’t know what language they’re even speaking. Always had a radio in my truck as a younger man back in the mid 90’s and there’s a huge difference in how it’s used now. I don’t even know if law enforcement monitors the cb if you would need to get ahold of them for something. I’ll always keep one in every vehicle I own just in case, but I don’t know I’d call it as useful as it used to be
Genuine question from a non-trucker: if CB radio is less popular now than it was back in the Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit days, is there some other form of (internet-based?) voice chat that truckers now use instead while they're on the road? If so, what exactly?
My grandfather used the cb radio like Elon musk using Twitter. He had a 82 peterbuilt cabover truck. He ran between stockton ca and Atlanta Georgia. He had a stock broker in Atlanta. He had suitcases apon suitcases of paper stocks. He promoted stocks he bought. And that trucker died a multi millionaire.
Very interesting perspective, lots of hobbyist users which is what I use the 11M CB radio for here in EUROPE, and I regularly talk to stations from all across the world when the conditions are active (Skip talk) on SSB. I can hear American truck drivers on channel 19 here in the UK sometimes but they are overpowered by the jammer stations that you mentioned (The desert mud duck ect) and it is a shame. 73.
Cb's are used every day bye pnw logtruck drivers,and anyone who works in the woods! It's hiw you know were a fully loaded truck is at so you can get out of the way! Or dump truckers for the same way or going in & out of quarries!
I can remember back when all of us CB'ers had to have a license (and yes, even I had a CB license back then too, (KAPD 9331)), and also when CB'ers had their own little groups which stayed on their own designated channels for their particular local areas and only got up on channel 19 (the Truckers Channel), or channel 11 (the Pilot Cars channel), once in a while when they wanted to chat with a trucker or a pilot car. Some of the times a Trucker or a pilot car would drop down on a local group's channel when they were in a specific area just to ask questions or chat with somebody specifically. Generally everbody got along just fine and had lots of fun and many coffee breaks. Generally all hours of the day or night (at least until around 1 AM when everybody got tired and went to bed). Over-all ,you could find most local groups just chatting with each other on the CB Radio or down at the local cafe or at another CB'ers house having a Coffee Break, while chit-chatting (commonly called Chewing the Rag, or Rag Chewing), together and just sitting around enjoying each others company and/or playing family oriented style games around the Bar-B-Que Grill in the back yard as a small neighborhood get together group. I'm not saying that a CB'er didn't get angry once in a while and out of anger and abused the CB Radio band, because they did. It just didn't happen very often, and when it did, the abuser usually got on the radio when he or she had calmed back down and appologized for his or her actions and bad conduct and all was forgiven. They didn't just keep on abusing the channels and everybody else out there continuously like the ones on CB Radio now do. Everything was just fine and dandy that is until that movie "Convoy" came out. And then the CB Radio Band and the CB Radio Channels quickly went to Hell In A Hand Basket. Chaos errupted upon the channels and broke out everywhere across the band and the country. There were CB Radio Abusers everywhere. The CB Radio Band has gone down hill ever since because of the CB Radio Channel Air-Wave Abusers. It's also become nothing more than a bunch of Power Hungry, High Power abusers shooting long distance Skip DX's with High Output Powered Power Amplifiers which is illegal on the CB Radio Band anyway. Right Now I've got a GMRS License, and I'm studying for my Ham Radio Technicians license. And yes, I've still got most of my CB Radios and my other CB equipment. In fact, I just spent the whole day today building a Base Antenna mast out of metal pipe and other scrap materials. Hopefully, I'll get my base antenna back up tomorrow or the next day, or at least by the end of the week.
I don’t mind the people he’s complaining about. I don’t like that they’re on channel 19. There’s 40 channels on CB and everyone knows if you tie up channel 19 you’re inconsiderate. Nobody wants to listen to an inconsiderate person and many of us just turn you off. It’s okay to make contact with people on channel 19, just take the conversation to another channel. If you’re preaching, announce your intention and tell everybody to meet you on another channel.
I need some trucker info… looking to offer solar charging stations for big rigs.. how many rigs are actually outfitted for solar out there? Is there even a need ? Just doing research. Starting in California
Anytime someone is so aggrieved that they have chased away all their friends and family and have resorted to shouting their spiritual opinions loudly into the void i can make a very accurate guess on who they voted for.
19 and 16. Up where I'm from. Short and simple. Warnings of road hazards, a quick hello or folks warning others of smoking brakes or tires coming apart. Most of our coms are VHF now.
It’s amazing, the CB can be quiet as a mouse for hours but as soon as you hit a backup, people get off their social media, phones, or whatever else they are doing to try and find out what’s going on. Those same people are riding down the road with smoking brakes, flat tires, loose straps, or no lights on the trailer and are too busy making CZcams videos, or pod casting with their feet on the dash to be bothered with the trivial shit of trucking…They are probably the same ones that don’t pull forward after fueling, or taking their 30 minute breaks in the fuel island. It’s a brave new world out here🤦♂
can't imagine how bad it is now, I was last otr in 2014 and it was pretty much as you describe then! How's the parking at knight these days? Stay safe out there.
The big thing is if the CB was used for what it should be there would be no more of those big multi vehicle pileups. I am retired but I still have my radio on in my pickup truck when I am traveling. But yes, there are also those that are sitting at home with a power amp just saying stupid stuff just for the purpose of pissing drivers off.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
Great video, I keep my cb off until like in this situation I need to know road work and traffic/weather situations I use my cb often to communicate with asphalt plants on site "haul A.C oil" I keep my cb off for the reasons of road rage. I have enough stress threw out the day to listen to guys yelling at each other. We have enough with cars being upset that we move slower and can't see around us. Now truckers are against each other so I just keep it off most the time. I understand the frustration of a new generation that drive 80,000lbs vechicals like a honda civic but it would be nice to hear guidance from experience not rage. We're all in it together. Be safe out there.
We use channel 40 477 UHF FM CB here for a road channel. Still handy to talk with other drivers and get road hazard reports or holdups. I've taken other routes from CB info. But on the repeaters you regularly have some joker causing a nuisance making the repeater next to useless. 27Mhz AM/SSB is still a Australian standard, but mainly for SSB (skip) enthusiasts. Not used for general public road communications anymore.
Do you think that the GMRS (licensed by FCC) would be better, or do you use them? Do you know of other truckers that use those channels for what you were discussing? As relevant highway communications?
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
CB used to be fun back before cell phones became common place. Sometimes I'll install one for long, long road trips and I usually have to turn it down when the language goes too far south for my kids to hear.
i remember around 1976 when my dad and mom got cb radios. It was alot more disciplined. Remembering stopping at a choke and puke to take a 10 100. smoky reports etc.
Went OTR in 1994 and to this day, I still have a CB radio in the truck. I even spent a number of years with two installed simply because I wanted one on 19 while I was chatting with other drivers on a different channel. Didn’t need to tie up 19 with long winded conversations. But, also didn’t feel comfortable not having 19 on in the background. It played a vital role before cellphones became the norm. A lot has changed over the years. People will ruin everything eventually. Be safe! Peace out!
It seems that import radios are on thearise a lot of friends and truckers have these import radios. I wonder if they gonna have an alternate to channel nineteen
@@darrelldundee5045 there are many other channel options. Society has pretty much trashed 19 and truckers behind the wheel have a hard time communicating on that channel or get tired of listening to some mouth running 1.21 Gigawatts as he’s so desperately seeking attention. Even if it is negative.
Dude you know 99% of the times you can go all day without hearing a single chirp on 19. When we find someone to chat with its rare and fun. Chillax bubba.
Cell phones aren't the undoing of CB. Tell me; if you're riding "down the road" and you want information about road conditions; or whatever; What good is your cell phone? Who are you gonna call? Your mother in Cleveland? You gonna call ther trucker ahead of you? Oh; you don't know his phone number... That's where CB shines... CB might not be like it was in the '70s, but it's still a very useful tool.
@@martyham10 just get a phone holder and stick it on your windshield. If you have the app running you don’t need to mess with anything and it vocally tells you where cops and hazards are. It’s hands free and you don’t even need to look at it. Not complicated brother.
The 4th is the lot lizards calling out to anyone that needs some commercial. My step dad took me with him on a few trips. We went to a truck stop in New York City, he said I can listen to them talk all I want but don't say anything to them.
And the lord says thou shall keep the pedal to the metal! 10-4. I remember this trucker on the CB told this beaver to keep her Kotex a fillin and the wheels spinning!😂😂😂😂. The shit I used to hear on the CB ba k in the day.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
I leave mine on except when sleeping, I give updates, I listen for updates. I talk over just about anything out here, pushing 600+ watts, but I'm not a dick about it, flip the switch and I'm doing about 50watts and reaching the opposite traffic, giving them updates
Where are these folks ? Before I got out of driving, I had a cb and it was always on (channel 19). I literally could drive an entire shift and heard absolutely no one , Except . Base Stations, I heard lots of Base Stations. Seriously, I could drive out in the middle of nowhere or into any major city and I heard absolutely no one . Except Base Stations . I did see lots of trucks and very few had cb’s and those that did , They had them turned off .
It's been a while since I have been on the air, I thought all gospel preachers had died off by now. I used to hear them back in the 70s clogging the airwaves. Guess things never change that much...
"There is another." The ones who consider themselves DJs and do nothing but play music over the air for hours on end. And don't even get me started with "11111111111111111 guy". Thanks for the vid, and be safe out there. Roll on, Driver. UDX-786, out in the sticks, we're clear. Bump, bump.
In Australia we don't seem to have the religious preacher types there are a few old timers running ham rigs and leg warmers . All of our highway comms is on UHF ch 40. Lately with the sunspots there are a lot of Sepos on 38 and 35.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell.... ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
I used to agitate the old people on "Side Band", back in the late 70s. 37L. I wish I had recorded those. There was one particular guy who I later heard, was told by his doctor to stay off the CB because of his dangerously high blood pressure, due to anger and anxiety. I often wonder how much I had to do with that.
You forgot the losers that don’t work, smoke weed ,all day and live in their mothers basement oh the are out there I know some of them those are the guys that just start trouble all the time cause they never left home and can’t deal with real life situations
I agree with @manidig. I started in the early 70's. However, I stopped using them when I joined the military. I would like to get back into it, only on a different scale. I would like to use the hand held cb's with SSB now. I agree, channel 19 should be used for trucker's, and people on the move, and usually conversations over 5 minutes you would respectively go to a different channel with exceptions given to truckers. We would leave channel 19 for short conversations, and respect the truckers. Being 2024, I have no clue , will take your word for it, would like to get into it. Reasons? Well, let's just leave that reason out of it. Doesn't matter as long as it's done with respect and fcc regulastions. Now that I'm looking into hand held, gosh, technology has changed so much.
You forgot to mention types 1 & 2 are usually running a linear amplifier. Speculation being that their voice is so important, more people should hear it [lol.] All of it screws it up for others. Have you thought about the GMRS service?
I miss traveling with CB. Never trucking, but in decades past spent a lot of time on the road for one reason or another. Radio is way more convenient and reliable than cell phone. It’s too bad it sounds like CB is dying off.
I got a cb radio a couple years back because of all the highway miles I was racking up. Haven’t even turned it on for over a year due to all the junk traffic on the air. In eastern Ontario I’m hearing a guy from Mississippi yammering on constantly and I can barely understand a word he’s saying. The preachers are fewer here but it only takes 1 to jam up a channel. It’s a great tool in principle but rendered useless because of a few self-important dick holes. Gmrs radios have a decent range for what I want. Might just see what that offers.
Seems like they would still be a necessity for truckers seeing how you don’t have one another’s phone numbers. It would be nice if they could figure out a way to block individual radios out so you could mute the preachers and other idiots.
I don't usr CB like I used to anymore now that I have my GMRS License I've had since 2017 I only use GMRS unless I take a long trip then I use cb to keep up with traffic tie ups where old Smokey is hiding where eat-'em-up joints are or where I can get some go go juice etc.
I drove trucks back in the late '90s early 2000s and I barely used a CB radio. It was the same back then. I got tired of guys just yammering on about how they were the expert of everything and by God they were going to let you know about it. Also the people who wanted to talk for mile and miles. I worked for US Xpress and a guy travelling the same direction as me wanted to start talking. We (mostly him) talked until I just had to take a pit stop just to get away from him. I physically felt tired after talking to him. Most of the time I just rode with the volume turned down. Just incessant nonsense. Mostly dumb people who thought they were smart.
And when all the junk in space starts colliding and phones and internet don't work no more, my neighbors will be lined up to use my Cobra 25 . . . How much should I charge per minute 😁
Life long 11m operator and ham operator. CB is still alive and well if you ever strayed of 19AM.
I started as CB kid back in the 70s and got my ham license when I was 14. CB used to require a mail-in license with an actual call sign but when so many thousands of people got them in then late 70s they got rid of that requirement. CB transmissions were supposed to be short (5 minutes). They were supposed to direct to another station-- no broadcasting. No music. That's what AM and FM radio were for. It wasn't originally for commercial businesses-- that's what land-mobile service is for. The service is supposed to exist for ordinary people of any kind to have access to two-way radio communication on a fair basis. With cell phones the whole thing is kind of obsolete. But for specific people who can still make used of it (and trucking is a perfect example--especially in the many places a cell phone doesn't reach or if you're in a major storm of some kind--it's a life saver!) Those same "tinfoil hat" types are on the Ham bands too. Since you have to pass a test to be a Ham and you are assigned a call sign and people can find you the Hams are a more behaved bunch. But I still miss the old "Breaker Breaker one nine anyone out there got a.....???" And someone would respond that they had a ..... and it went on and on. Be safe.
I had a license for a while.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
Started as a kid in the 1970,s then in the early 1990's got a no code tech license then learned the code passed to General then advanced class but still use cb on the road
@@HoustonStreetChaplainssorry, but even Jesus isn't excluded from having to follow the rules on the CB or the ham fanatics will get a boner and bitch trip you over it.
@@HoustonStreetChaplains What was Jesus CB handle?
Im an 18 year old diesel tech for a fleet in indiana... I would say a good 60% to 65% of our drivers dont have CBs anymore. Ive got a little uniden and a 2 foot whip on my pickup, i would love to see more people get back on. I dont see how you could be a trucker and not want to communicate with fellow drivers. This part is debatable but i dont think it even has to be crucial information, it is just nice to pass the time on the interstate as long as youre not saying stupid shit
Amen brother. I can’t believe I get out on the interstate and drivers don’t have their radios on. The few that do are always trucks that don’t have def systems. Those guys still run the radio.
@@chadrides914 yup i just dont understand how you would choose to be a full time trucker but then to not even have a cb, dont make much sense to me
@@spencerjohnson4656 I’m around truckers all day everyday. Guys are good dudes, but to be honest, I literally don’t think they know how to properly use the squelch in conjunction with the rf gain to cut out the excess skip that has been rolling in the last couple years, and because of their ignorance they just have a “I don’t wanna listen to that crap on the radio” and simply shut it off rather than adjust it properly. You can’t teach truck drivers much of anything. I’ve tried.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
@@HoustonStreetChaplains amen my man.
OlD boomer here..... I've got a Cobra 29 LTD classic hooked up to a 102" whip antenna mounted on my chimney for a base station. It gets interesting when the skip gets active. Drive safe.👍
Sad, in the 1970s it was a great way for truckers to have fun while driving.
I am a Ham radio operator (general license), and I have added a CB to my truck and one in my Ham shack because CB is good way to track traffic on long trips to West Texas and to stay in touch with local operators in case of inclement weather and local emergencies. I do not like idle chat or rants of any kind on radio, but I appreciate the chance to monitor comments, notices and conversations on long trips on 2-M, 1.25-m, and 70-cm Ham bands and on CB. I wish more CB operators would consider earing at least a Ham technician's license, as their participation in local/regional emergency communications groups would be most welcome.
73
KI5KET
I am 4 wheeler, and Ham radio operator also. always use CB CH 19 when I drive long distance along I-15 Calif to Idaho. leave them ON most of the time, it is very useful when weather get bad, accident ahead, so on. I think every truck should have them, even should be required by Law. large RV trailer over turned on down hill on I-15 in Utah mountain road covered with Snow and ice. I heard most of the two lanes were blocked ahead on CH 19. it is safety item.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
@@HoustonStreetChaplains As I previously said, take your preaching to another channel ! Nobody wants to listen to it but you. I hope somebody involves you in their Fox Hunt and pins your Coax.
My house is ~100 yards from the interstate, and back in the mid-late 1980's I'd always have a CB in my bedroom to talk to truckers as they come through (much less crowded than it is now). Those kind of people existed even back then, and we'd have to go to channel 12 or 23 to have a normal conversation. The funny part is they never knew I was in my house; they thought I was a fellow trucker. 🤣Sometimes I entertain the thought of getting back into it just for shits and giggles.
They say cellphones killed CB, but as a teenager in the early 90s before cellphones were really a thing, nobody in my little town was using it that way. For the few of us who used it at all it was basically a social club, just shooting the breeze with friends and random people. I think that's where it's at its best.
Don't lose hope, the proper cb'er hardly talks, keeps the channel clear, and listens, or leaves it highly squelched or off until a situation demands it. Also the 4 legal watts is the right amount of power for about 3 miles ahead, 3 miles back.
I put one in my Jeep, even though I know the off-road/4x4 people prefer GMRS now. Got mine (President Bill II FCC AM/FM/NOAA) mainly to LISTEN, not talk or for idle brainless/inconsiderate chit-chat. Specifically, I got mine for these reasons:
1. Listen to truckers on the freeways in case there is some sort of traffic slowdown or such, IF that's possible because as you say, there's WAY too much rude/inconsiderate trash-talkers on 19 to hear much legitimate talk/info. And they don't keep it SHORT, then get off -- they go on & on tying up a channel.
2. Listen to the NOAA weather channels -- definitely something I wanted on my CB in case of inclement weather coming. Got caught in a Colorado snowstorm (twice) I wasn't expecting back when I did NOT have a CB...it would have helped if I had known a storm (or a tornado, flooding, etc.) was expected.
3. If I'm in a convoy on-road or off, and I can STILL use CB if someone else has one to keep in touch close-up. Or, can just use my FRS hand-held (and loan one to another person) for very close distances such as that.
4. Finally, in a SHTF situation and if cell phone towers are down, I can try to (again, just LISTEN) find out what happened, either via my CB Base Station (President McKinley II FCC AM/FM/SSB/NOAA) in my apt or the via mobile CB out in my Jeep if I'm NOT at my apt.
So for me, I though going CB was was worthwhile enough. ;-)
Just wish the FCC would crack down on the cheaters (including the Super Bowl fools), BSers and other airhead/DFs who are messing-up CB today. AND, "revive" Channels 9 & 19 to keep them CLEAR as most people (apparently) have NO respect for those 2 channels anymore. Fo example, one fool here is CONSTANTLY on channel 9 -- coming in loud & clear -- jabbering on and on in SPANISH and ALWAYS seems to be on 9. HIGHLY annoying and he never shuts up.
Also, I'd like to see every state's DPS/EMS system monitor channel 9 as it used to in case we want to report an accident or some other emergency. From what I've gathered, CB is kind of making a comeback, as now radios have FM band added -- great for clearer close-range use (like convoys on/off-road)...so it seems people are buying enough CB radios for the manufacturers to keep making them and taking it further by adding FM.
But really, I'd like to see the trash on CB tracked-down and fined/jailed...they have NO business being on the air and as you said, the REST of us don't want to hear anything from them at all.
-- BR
Are you in South East Michigan? I hear somebody yammering Spanish nonsense on channel 9 here.
@@creaslin No...West TX...but they're everywhere nowadays, aren't they.
-- BR
TY. Clicked on this video, after finding CB radio in a box at home. I don't even remember when I bought it, over a decade ago.
You forgot to mention the Lot Lizards...
I listen to your colleagues in the late evening, early morning when traveling East for trade shows. The boys help keep each other awake with conversations in the post-midnight frame. Not as often today, but still takes place. I just listen and don't interrupt; after all, I'm just' a minivan.
Started CB in the early 90's before cell phones when I started driving. Back then most local Police and Highway Patrol still monitored Ch. 9. Problem I have with CB today is the idiots on Ch. 6 and 11 bleeding the entire band with junk radios pushing 30k watts and just trying to cause interference. A local friend of mine calls them the hog farmers. I do really enjoy shooting skip on side band and freebanding to get away from the noise. I am also a Ham and 10m is the ticket right now with the solar cycle warming up. None of that garbage just good cons world wide. Talk to Europe and South America all the time. 73's
We use them daily running bulk materials so if you see a dump truck, end dump, belly dump, side dump, bulk trailer they got their ears on all across Oklahoma from ch1-21 but 1,4,and19 is what we use locally
CB is still useful. Any fairly long range radio has a good function of things to south. It has a longer range than a GMRS radio without a repeater.
Merci pour l`info
I was number 3 back when I still had them in my vehicles. I'm not a professional driver on the road. I eventually gave up on the CB since I never heard English any more.
I still like CB Radio
If I see accident of a papa bear or a baby bear or stuck at a toll bank. Or traffic jams.
Keep short or brief
Tell information on road or receiving info on Highway
There are also radio enthusiasts (radio nerds maybe?) who still use CB. They like tinkering with and learning about electronics, antennas and radio in general. Some will move into Ham Radio after spending some time on CB while others are not interested in getting a Ham Radio license and find CB is enough.
Back in the day I had a cobra with the new 40 channels and yes single side band. What would you recommend to use in my highway only four wheeler? FM, GRMS, FRS? Just something that won’t break the bank and keep me informed.
Ha! 😆 Appreciate the info and humor
I’ve been fascinated by cb/ham radios since k was a kid. When I was 20 I built my first base station added an amplifier. I’m 38 and I have loved it ever since.
I bought a tool box for my truck last spring I found on FB Market and the guy threw in an old CB radio with an antennae that fits on the box. It's not installed yet, got other things to do to the pickup truck first, but eventually I'll get it installed. I do remember very well the days of the 70's when CB's were the roads salvation to communication. But the last time I had one in the early 2000's , it was hard to listen to with all the cussing and raging going on taking up the airspace. I only turned it on when it was necessary to get road information. Maybe that's why I'm not in a hurry to get this one installed! "Breaker breaker one-niner, anyone got their ears on?"
Hello from Québec 🇨🇦, I use cb as an outdoorsman traveling on narrow logging roads where logging trucks need to call their mile (km) marker going in or out, avoiding head on collisions. I receive sooo much static or rambling, mostly from the southern states, on ssb, boosted tx power, skipping. 7:42
You forgot one... What about the mud duck in the desert and a couple of them high powered airwave users that clog up the channel 19 band??.
Wife and I do a lot of road trips and I put a radio in our vehicle so we could get information about wrecks, road conditions, ect. and I have to absolutely agree with your assessment. Haven’t heard to many conspiracy theorists, but definitely plenty of “preachers” that I don’t know what language they’re even speaking. Always had a radio in my truck as a younger man back in the mid 90’s and there’s a huge difference in how it’s used now. I don’t even know if law enforcement monitors the cb if you would need to get ahold of them for something. I’ll always keep one in every vehicle I own just in case, but I don’t know I’d call it as useful as it used to be
Genuine question from a non-trucker: if CB radio is less popular now than it was back in the Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit days, is there some other form of (internet-based?) voice chat that truckers now use instead while they're on the road? If so, what exactly?
My grandfather used the cb radio like Elon musk using Twitter. He had a 82 peterbuilt cabover truck. He ran between stockton ca and Atlanta Georgia. He had a stock broker in Atlanta. He had suitcases apon suitcases of paper stocks. He promoted stocks he bought. And that trucker died a multi millionaire.
Very interesting perspective, lots of hobbyist users which is what I use the 11M CB radio for here in EUROPE, and I regularly talk to stations from all across the world when the conditions are active (Skip talk) on SSB. I can hear American truck drivers on channel 19 here in the UK sometimes but they are overpowered by the jammer stations that you mentioned (The desert mud duck ect) and it is a shame. 73.
Hey you didn’t mention it as dedicated hobbyists. I got my first license in 1976 I think for CB radio. I’m still into it all these years later
I've been having CB's since I was 14... quite awhile back
Cb's are used every day bye pnw logtruck drivers,and anyone who works in the woods! It's hiw you know were a fully loaded truck is at so you can get out of the way! Or dump truckers for the same way or going in & out of quarries!
I can remember back when all of us CB'ers had to have a license (and yes, even I had a CB license back then too, (KAPD 9331)), and also when CB'ers had their own little groups which stayed on their own designated channels for their particular local areas and only got up on channel 19 (the Truckers Channel), or channel 11 (the Pilot Cars channel), once in a while when they wanted to chat with a trucker or a pilot car. Some of the times a Trucker or a pilot car would drop down on a local group's channel when they were in a specific area just to ask questions or chat with somebody specifically.
Generally everbody got along just fine and had lots of fun and many coffee breaks. Generally all hours of the day or night (at least until around 1 AM when everybody got tired and went to bed). Over-all ,you could find most local groups just chatting with each other on the CB Radio or down at the local cafe or at another CB'ers house having a Coffee Break, while chit-chatting (commonly called Chewing the Rag, or Rag Chewing), together and just sitting around enjoying each others company and/or playing family oriented style games around the Bar-B-Que Grill in the back yard as a small neighborhood get together group.
I'm not saying that a CB'er didn't get angry once in a while and out of anger and abused the CB Radio band, because they did. It just didn't happen very often, and when it did, the abuser usually got on the radio when he or she had calmed back down and appologized for his or her actions and bad conduct and all was forgiven. They didn't just keep on abusing the channels and everybody else out there continuously like the ones on CB Radio now do.
Everything was just fine and dandy that is until that movie "Convoy" came out. And then the CB Radio Band and the CB Radio Channels quickly went to Hell In A Hand Basket. Chaos errupted upon the channels and broke out everywhere across the band and the country. There were CB Radio Abusers everywhere.
The CB Radio Band has gone down hill ever since because of the CB Radio Channel Air-Wave Abusers. It's also become nothing more than a bunch of Power Hungry, High Power abusers shooting long distance Skip DX's with High Output Powered Power Amplifiers which is illegal on the CB Radio Band anyway.
Right Now I've got a GMRS License, and I'm studying for my Ham Radio Technicians license. And yes, I've still got most of my CB Radios and my other CB equipment. In fact, I just spent the whole day today building a Base Antenna mast out of metal pipe and other scrap materials. Hopefully, I'll get my base antenna back up tomorrow or the next day, or at least by the end of the week.
I'm mainly a Ham user, but at my job I woek delivering as a rural postal carrier, and most of my customers use CB. I'm looking to get a cheap one.
I don’t mind the people he’s complaining about. I don’t like that they’re on channel 19. There’s 40 channels on CB and everyone knows if you tie up channel 19 you’re inconsiderate. Nobody wants to listen to an inconsiderate person and many of us just turn you off. It’s okay to make contact with people on channel 19, just take the conversation to another channel. If you’re preaching, announce your intention and tell everybody to meet you on another channel.
I am not a truck driver, but do travel with an RV. Have thought about putting a CB in my truck to know about roads and police activities ect.
I need some trucker info… looking to offer solar charging stations for big rigs.. how many rigs are actually outfitted for solar out there? Is there even a need ? Just doing research. Starting in California
Anytime someone is so aggrieved that they have chased away all their friends and family and have resorted to shouting their spiritual opinions loudly into the void i can make a very accurate guess on who they voted for.
You forgot the guys who have backup radios… they only come on when it’s just a little too late to avoid a backup
You left out one , the guy with noise toys running a lot of power. CB is sit a very useful tool I think it should be in every truck on the road.
19 and 16. Up where I'm from. Short and simple. Warnings of road hazards, a quick hello or folks warning others of smoking brakes or tires coming apart. Most of our coms are VHF now.
It’s amazing, the CB can be quiet as a mouse for hours but as soon as you hit a backup, people get off their social media, phones, or whatever else they are doing to try and find out what’s going on. Those same people are riding down the road with smoking brakes, flat tires, loose straps, or no lights on the trailer and are too busy making CZcams videos, or pod casting with their feet on the dash to be bothered with the trivial shit of trucking…They are probably the same ones that don’t pull forward after fueling, or taking their 30 minute breaks in the fuel island. It’s a brave new world out here🤦♂
I hear people all over the world every day on CB radio. There is more to CB than channel 6, 17, and 19, and AM. SSB is where it is at.
Don’t forget the skip talkers and the locals in a few areas
can't imagine how bad it is now, I was last otr in 2014 and it was pretty much as you describe then! How's the parking at knight these days? Stay safe out there.
The big thing is if the CB was used for what it should be there would be no more of those big multi vehicle pileups. I am retired but I still have my radio on in my pickup truck when I am traveling. But yes, there are also those that are sitting at home with a power amp just saying stupid stuff just for the purpose of pissing drivers off.
Be ready guy you think your cell phone will never shut down always need a back nothing wrong with keeping a cb on hand.
He has a CB on hand
I still use cb radio home base and vehicles.I don't live my life worry about who uses and who doesn't.
Conspiracy theories seem to be gaining legitimacy lately.
It's about 6 months between conspiracy theory becoming conspiracy fact.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
Great video, I keep my cb off until like in this situation I need to know road work and traffic/weather situations I use my cb often to communicate with asphalt plants on site "haul A.C oil" I keep my cb off for the reasons of road rage. I have enough stress threw out the day to listen to guys yelling at each other. We have enough with cars being upset that we move slower and can't see around us. Now truckers are against each other so I just keep it off most the time. I understand the frustration of a new generation that drive 80,000lbs vechicals like a honda civic but it would be nice to hear guidance from experience not rage. We're all in it together. Be safe out there.
The great thing about CB is the limited range. Just turn it off. 20 miles later, the agitator is out of range.
We use channel 40 477 UHF FM CB here for a road channel. Still handy to talk with other drivers and get road hazard reports or holdups. I've taken other routes from CB info. But on the repeaters you regularly have some joker causing a nuisance making the repeater next to useless. 27Mhz AM/SSB is still a Australian standard, but mainly for SSB (skip) enthusiasts. Not used for general public road communications anymore.
Conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Keep them coming. 1A
Not on channel 19!
That is why is is called Chicken Band
Do you think that the GMRS (licensed by FCC) would be better, or do you use them? Do you know of other truckers that use those channels for what you were discussing? As relevant highway communications?
doesnt have the range
A lot of oversize convoys. Escort vehicles use FRS or GMRS. They're OK with short range and clear channels. I monitor those frequencies.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
CB used to be fun back before cell phones became common place. Sometimes I'll install one for long, long road trips and I usually have to turn it down when the language goes too far south for my kids to hear.
i remember around 1976 when my dad and mom got cb radios. It was alot more disciplined. Remembering stopping at a choke and puke to take a 10 100. smoky reports etc.
I have a CB radio in my house and in my car
Twitter is the CB Radio of the Internet :)
I don't now how I managed to find this video but thank you it was fun to watch
I’d argue it’s more like 4chan lol
Went OTR in 1994 and to this day, I still have a CB radio in the truck. I even spent a number of years with two installed simply because I wanted one on 19 while I was chatting with other drivers on a different channel. Didn’t need to tie up 19 with long winded conversations. But, also didn’t feel comfortable not having 19 on in the background. It played a vital role before cellphones became the norm. A lot has changed over the years. People will ruin everything eventually. Be safe! Peace out!
It seems that import radios are on thearise a lot of friends and truckers have these import radios. I wonder if they gonna have an alternate to channel nineteen
@@darrelldundee5045 there are many other channel options. Society has pretty much trashed 19 and truckers behind the wheel have a hard time communicating on that channel or get tired of listening to some mouth running 1.21 Gigawatts as he’s so desperately seeking attention. Even if it is negative.
Still alive and kicking here in the Philadelphia suburbs. Most people on in the evening.
Dude you know 99% of the times you can go all day without hearing a single chirp on 19.
When we find someone to chat with its rare and fun. Chillax bubba.
You forgot, cine photographers also use for long distance shooting especially for boating, helicopter, car chase scenes and wilderness films.
Im 15 (born 08) and im just starting with cb what mhz do you use 69mhz or 27mhz? (Im from sweden btw)
Cell phones aren't the undoing of CB. Tell me; if you're riding "down the road" and you want information about road conditions; or whatever; What good is your cell phone? Who are you gonna call? Your mother in Cleveland? You gonna call ther trucker ahead of you? Oh; you don't know his phone number... That's where CB shines... CB might not be like it was in the '70s, but it's still a very useful tool.
Google maps or Waze will tell you where cops or wrecks are… so there’s that
@@prkrsmth This is very true; but here's the thing: You're driving a truck a 60 MPH; are you going to mess with google maps? I don't think so.
@@martyham10 just get a phone holder and stick it on your windshield. If you have the app running you don’t need to mess with anything and it vocally tells you where cops and hazards are. It’s hands free and you don’t even need to look at it. Not complicated brother.
@@prkrsmth Thank you for this... Regards, Marty
The 4th is the lot lizards calling out to anyone that needs some commercial. My step dad took me with him on a few trips. We went to a truck stop in New York City, he said I can listen to them talk all I want but don't say anything to them.
I have my cb on all the time when I’m on the road. Have a base station too.
Whenever I hear #'s 2 & 3 off goes the radio, you forgot the radio shop guy from Cali who's constantly advertising his shop
All truckers should have a cb radio
And the lord says thou shall keep the pedal to the metal! 10-4.
I remember this trucker on the CB told this beaver to keep her Kotex a fillin and the wheels spinning!😂😂😂😂. The shit I used to hear on the CB ba k in the day.
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
Lmao the irony is you have an axe to grind about people grinding axes 😅
I leave mine on except when sleeping, I give updates, I listen for updates. I talk over just about anything out here, pushing 600+ watts, but I'm not a dick about it, flip the switch and I'm doing about 50watts and reaching the opposite traffic, giving them updates
Where are these folks ?
Before I got out of driving, I had a cb and it was always on (channel 19).
I literally could drive an entire shift and heard absolutely no one ,
Except .
Base Stations, I heard lots of Base Stations.
Seriously, I could drive out in the middle of nowhere or into any major city and I heard absolutely no one .
Except Base Stations .
I did see lots of trucks and very few had cb’s and those that did , They had them turned off .
It's been a while since I have been on the air, I thought all gospel preachers had died off by now. I used to hear them back in the 70s clogging the airwaves. Guess things never change that much...
the new FM rigs are good for tuning out those fools
"There is another."
The ones who consider themselves DJs and do nothing but play music over the air for hours on end.
And don't even get me started with "11111111111111111 guy".
Thanks for the vid, and be safe out there. Roll on, Driver.
UDX-786, out in the sticks, we're clear. Bump, bump.
No excuses on the bowl
In Australia we don't seem to have the religious preacher types there are a few old timers running ham rigs and leg warmers . All of our highway comms is on UHF ch 40. Lately with the sunspots there are a lot of Sepos on 38 and 35.
38 in Melbourne bayside is pretty entertaining 🎉
Jesus Christ is the only true savior for the world. The blood of Jesus is the only substance pure enough and holy enough to wash the sins from your heart. Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and 3 days later he arose from death. Jesus has defeated death. You no longer need to worry about death, Jesus Christ has conquered death and the grave. Repent and believe the gospel and you will be saved from the fires of Hell....
ROMANS 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved.
@@HoustonStreetChaplains I feel sorry for your loss of perspective it's a shame. Better luck on your next incarnation. 🙏
I used to agitate the old people on "Side Band", back in the late 70s. 37L. I wish I had recorded those. There was one particular guy who I later heard, was told by his doctor to stay off the CB because of his dangerously high blood pressure, due to anger and anxiety. I often wonder how much I had to do with that.
Very interesting
Community organizers make tones of money.
You forgot the losers that don’t work, smoke weed ,all day and live in their mothers basement oh the are out there I know some of them those are the guys that just start trouble all the time cause they never left home and can’t deal with real life situations
I agree with @manidig. I started in the early 70's. However, I stopped using them when I joined the military. I would like to get back into it, only on a different scale. I would like to use the hand held cb's with SSB now. I agree, channel 19 should be used for trucker's, and people on the move, and usually conversations over 5 minutes you would respectively go to a different channel with exceptions given to truckers. We would leave channel 19 for short conversations, and respect the truckers. Being 2024, I have no clue , will take your word for it, would like to get into it. Reasons? Well, let's just leave that reason out of it. Doesn't matter as long as it's done with respect and fcc regulastions. Now that I'm looking into hand held, gosh, technology has changed so much.
Don’t forget about us oversize using it with pilot cars
I'd put my money on a vxd trucker here
"What lane is closed"? Left lane? ...okay I'll get in the left lane.
You forgot to mention types 1 & 2 are usually running a linear amplifier. Speculation being that their voice is so important, more people should hear it [lol.] All of it screws it up for others. Have you thought about the GMRS service?
Novice question here, which channels are the clearest for testing messages for first hook ups so that we don't interrupt the main channels.
None
@WoodHippy1971 what about side band cb?
IM A RADIO HOBBIST, HAM, GMRS and MURS.
I miss traveling with CB. Never trucking, but in decades past spent a lot of time on the road for one reason or another. Radio is way more convenient and reliable than cell phone. It’s too bad it sounds like CB is dying off.
Who made channel 19 just for truckers?
I got a cb radio a couple years back because of all the highway miles I was racking up. Haven’t even turned it on for over a year due to all the junk traffic on the air. In eastern Ontario I’m hearing a guy from Mississippi yammering on constantly and I can barely understand a word he’s saying. The preachers are fewer here but it only takes 1 to jam up a channel. It’s a great tool in principle but rendered useless because of a few self-important dick holes. Gmrs radios have a decent range for what I want. Might just see what that offers.
CB is still useful but I avoid it because of the useless traffic on it.
Seems like they would still be a necessity for truckers seeing how you don’t have one another’s phone numbers. It would be nice if they could figure out a way to block individual radios out so you could mute the preachers and other idiots.
I don't usr CB like I used to anymore now that I have my GMRS License I've had since 2017 I only use GMRS unless I take a long trip then I use cb to keep up with traffic tie ups where old Smokey is hiding where eat-'em-up joints are or where I can get some go go juice etc.
I like keeping national calling on ham radio, I can potentially see using cb but to worry about those 3 types of people would irritate me.
Everyone is looking to start their own little Cult, Preachers and Conspiracy Theorists a like.
Dial 1800 help...you or any one have a right in a free country...go to Korea
I drove trucks back in the late '90s early 2000s and I barely used a CB radio. It was the same back then. I got tired of guys just yammering on about how they were the expert of everything and by God they were going to let you know about it. Also the people who wanted to talk for mile and miles. I worked for US Xpress and a guy travelling the same direction as me wanted to start talking. We (mostly him) talked until I just had to take a pit stop just to get away from him. I physically felt tired after talking to him. Most of the time I just rode with the volume turned down. Just incessant nonsense. Mostly dumb people who thought they were smart.
And when all the junk in space starts colliding and phones and internet don't work no more, my neighbors will be lined up to use my Cobra 25 . . . How much should I charge per minute 😁