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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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@@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.
I would have to agree. I'm 72, drove trucks for near forty years starting in the early 70's and remember the booming CB day's very well. Most all trucks and many, many cars had CB's installed (factory or otherwise) as everyone knows and I strongly believe there is still a place for trucking use and hobby CB like there is for ham radio operators.
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.👍
@@drowebd The ionosphere gets charged, ionized, by particles from the sun and the radio signals in HF bands, including CB, reflect from it and travel further than expected. There are also stratospheric "ducting" effects where high and low pressure zones in the atmosphere meet and refract the signals. Mostly on higher frequency bands.
You might also hear it called bounce or atmosphereic bounce. I was sittin in southern ohio at work one night and was getting bounce from somewhere that was spanish speaking. That can let you hear and maybe talk a long way off. Definatly an interesting subject@@drowebd
@@drowebdduring periods of high solar activity (which is happening at the moment, it's like a 11 year cycle) the ionosphere does not play so good for bouncing radio waves, so you won't miss a lot until that dies down a bit 😅
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.
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 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
@@1polonium210 +31 years a licensed HAM (HAM's know Morse, Amateur's don't). I let my ticket lapse. Too many nets, contests, fraudulent signal reports, computers getting contacts (LOL) while the operator sleeps; the list is endless. I'm a CBer now.
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
Remember folks, these are his experiences, his peeves. Not everyone will "clutter the web" (paraphrase) with bias. Rural folk, recreational RVers, and freebanders still enjoy CB in mostly an appropriate manner. Retired trucker.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
I used to use my CB radio as a wannabe HAM radio operator. Back then as a 12 year old, having the ability to talk to people from Maine to the Caribbean on days when your signal would skip all over the place was a magical experience.
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 grew up in very remote Native Alaska, at Fish camp everyone had a CB radio and used call signs, it was very locally public but due to our remoteness the airwaves were all ours! Feels like an entire different life now that i live in the modern world. I am retired now and just purchased an Older RV and YES!!!! It has a CB radio in it. I haven't used it yet but have been thinking about it and found myself here on your Vid. Looking forward to checking it out!... Do ppl still have callsigns? Mine was "DeadtillNoon" because i liked to stay up late and sleep in.
I have a GMRS license but on the road I keep my CB always ready. I am a contractor and I operate a 13k lb truck in the service industry. Normally, my CB is off, but when things go awry on the road the CB is invaluable. I don't waste my time with any obnoxious types in your first two categories. I have great respect for professional drivers as they have given me valuable info many, many times!
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.
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
Listening for accidents and other types of problems and obstructions while driving is why I have one in my truck. I have been on CB since 1970 when I was commuting periodically between Coast Guard base Miami Beach and later Coast Guard base Key West and my family home in Manatee County FL.
Ham operator here and I still have a lot of fun with CB. I have many of them actually. I collect old electonics. Tube types. When the skip is good I can get out on 4 watts. But we also use them in our off roading a lot. A small percentage of us are hams and we use both so we can talk to the non hams. So I have both in my vehicles. And yep. Traffic jam? Just go to channel 19 and the truckers will let you know what's going on. Appreciate you guys. Keep rollin.
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.
Ham of 50 years, expert CW op, and both - 11m and the 'freeband' are a big part of my radio hobby. 11m and the freeband are thriving in the Midwest. 73 dit dit
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!
When on a road for a long ride, having someone to talk to makes the trip much better. Even people in cars/trucks get into the communication sometimes. But it sure helps the trip go by much better. I also heard the FCC might let FM used on the CB channels. I remember when I was using a base radio back in the 80s, One late night, a few of us were talking. We ended up going to a frequency and used FM. It was very pleasant. Now if that happens, we will surely see New Cobra radios with the option of using FM.
I got in to CB radio in the late 70’s. I had a President Grant 40 channel SSB radio in my mobile (957 Porsche) with a K40 antenna. The proportion of the 48” whip on my two seater sports car made it look like a RC car. The Grant eventually became my base station (with an Astroplane antenna. That was a time when CB was a positive and humorous conversion. Unlike today’s social media. I live in an apartment, so I can’t mount my AP antenna. I still have my Grant and several CB, ham and general coverage (tube) “Boat Anchors.”
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
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?"
If you don't have A CB in your Rig your not a trucker, your just a steering wheel holder. To many trucker don't have them and coming speeding round a corner coming down hill into stopped traffic
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.
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’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.
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.
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 .
Here in Britain, wagon drivers still use cb. Mainly tipper drivers when they need to talk to the shovel driver in quarries. You still hear people rag-chewing on the muppet band, but alot of people now use 446 pmr instead. The main users in Britain are now DXers using modified ham radios and directional aerials.
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
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.
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.
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I concur. Video uploader sounds like someone who drank the goof juice. I agree with him about the preachers, however, political folks were always the rarest on 11 meters (in my experience), but I have heard them plenty on 75 to 80 meters.
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.
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.
Any comms is good comms. I keep CB when Jeeping. Jeep clubs have all gone GMRS, which I have also, along with Ham 2M/70cm. When I hit the road with the camper, the CB always comes with. There is no substitute for CB. I can always reach someone when on the highway, and it's always good to keep one's "ears on" to know from the opposite direction...what I'm about to drive into. Offroadl: Ham, GMRS, CB, Cell On the hike: Ham, Satcom, Cell On the road: Ham, CB, Cell, Google Maps, Garmin GPS with live traffic and Weather
Thank you, this is pretty helpful. I got a free radio, and have been debating on installing it. But I have yet to hear anything useful in my tests, and this pretty much proves that Waze is a better tool for traffic info.
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?
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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.
Where i work and where i go require you to have a cb. If not, you're not going on their yard. There's a lot more than 3 types of people that use them and i thank god the ones you are talking about I'm nowhere near. From 3 am. to around 6 am its usually silent unless you have a few of the local drivers heading out at the same time. Cb's will never die out even for drivers. Every rock and sand quarry has them to talk to drivers along with metal scrap yards.
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.
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.
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?
Back in 1983, before I got my ham license, I was on CB/11 Meters. There was a local group of folks who hung out on Channel 1. I still occasionally tune down to 11 meters and most of what I hear (not close to the highway) are "CB DXers" who use made-up callsigns consisting of their telephone area code, giving each other a distorted, overmodulated "shout out." Nothing wrong with that, if they stay in band. The "SHTF" crowd is all over the internet trying to find the best radio to use when SHTF, but CB is there and is well known, and everyone knows how to use it. These guys will be totally lost on GMRS.
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.
Fourth kind: People waaaaay out there far from cell service, eg the North Maine Woods, still monitoring Channel 9 and hanging out on 19, assuming the weather is right so you're not hearing the Puerto Ricans from NYC with likely illegal setups that will never be taken down.
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 TH-cam 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🤦♂
Yes, I bought one for info on interstate traffic but realized that Google Maps gave me better information without all the foul-mouthed chatter and bickering. I tried, but gave up on it.
Greetings to all the cbers out there. CB is still alive in central Arkansas. The highway 270 radio group is on channel 35 l.s.b. y'all quit listening to the guy in this video and come up to 35 and give us a shout. Echo is clear. 73s
Most of the CB memories I had in the 60s we're very professional Rees call channel 11 in the Bay Area and it was always very professional. I was only 15 years old or 16. Not sure that's what got me into Ham Radio.
I'm a former trucker. Doing some driving in my car where it would be helpful to get traffic info. Got a magnetic antenna and fired up the old cb. Can't even get a radio check at a truck stop. How do I get info on accidents and road conditions?
There are a lot more vocatational trucks than otr. they pay significantly more too. Lots of those use cb as part of their jobs, not as entertainment. I stayed away from those big otr companies, and gained skills running niche equipment. Livestock, tankers, dump, lowboy, bulk tank feed trucks, walking floor and other types.
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 have a CB in the truck (3/4 ton Chevy) just for the gravel quarry. Recent trip from Little Rock to Houston, thought I'd listen in. Why is it that almost everyone I heard using the CB sounded like they just left Talladega after drinking a rack of Busch light? Granted, there were some helping when a traffic snarl on 59 had everyone jammed up, but damn.
If you would get a radio that will provide SSB you will enjoy the world of fun the rest of us have. I talk all around the world on my little stryker 955 and its barefoot. Get off 19 and join us. A ton of good people out there enjoying the heck out of there CBs. I have a HAM license but use both.
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.
You forgot to mention the Lot Lizards...
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??.
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.
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?
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
lol “he has a cb on hand” 🙄….
😝😜🤪😝😜🤪hahahahahaha
GAy!
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.
Do you use AM or FM on your trips, I want to add a cb to my vacation van.
@@Sam2sham I am using newer AM/FM CB radio, but most of traffic are still on AM, so AM mode only probably will do on the highway.
@@Porco_Utah thanks
Life long 11m operator and ham operator. CB is still alive and well if you ever strayed of 19AM.
I would have to agree. I'm 72, drove trucks for near forty years starting in the early 70's and remember the booming CB day's very well. Most all trucks and many, many cars had CB's installed (factory or otherwise) as everyone knows and I strongly believe there is still a place for trucking use and hobby CB like there is for ham radio operators.
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 know nothing of this field, can you share what is a "skip" and how it behaves differently when inactive?
@@drowebd The ionosphere gets charged, ionized, by particles from the sun and the radio signals in HF bands, including CB, reflect from it and travel further than expected. There are also stratospheric "ducting" effects where high and low pressure zones in the atmosphere meet and refract the signals. Mostly on higher frequency bands.
@@rhyoliteaquacade hey thanks, I appreciate the knowledge...now I need to get and install a CB in my whip!
You might also hear it called bounce or atmosphereic bounce. I was sittin in southern ohio at work one night and was getting bounce from somewhere that was spanish speaking. That can let you hear and maybe talk a long way off. Definatly an interesting subject@@drowebd
@@drowebdduring periods of high solar activity (which is happening at the moment, it's like a 11 year cycle) the ionosphere does not play so good for bouncing radio waves, so you won't miss a lot until that dies down a bit 😅
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.
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
CB became so lawless, the FCC couldn't police it so they abandoned it. The same will soon happen to GMRS.
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
wish CB was in VHF or UHF FM, I too carry them in my passenger car. as well as Amateur dual band. I use CB much more than Ham on the road. AG6JU
@@1polonium210 +31 years a licensed HAM (HAM's know Morse, Amateur's don't).
I let my ticket lapse. Too many nets, contests, fraudulent signal reports, computers getting contacts (LOL) while the operator sleeps; the list is endless.
I'm a CBer now.
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
Remember folks, these are his experiences, his peeves. Not everyone will "clutter the web" (paraphrase) with bias.
Rural folk, recreational RVers, and freebanders still enjoy CB in mostly an appropriate manner.
Retired trucker.
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.
Sad, in the 1970s it was a great way for truckers to have fun while driving.
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.
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.
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
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
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
I used to use my CB radio as a wannabe HAM radio operator. Back then as a 12 year old, having the ability to talk to people from Maine to the Caribbean on days when your signal would skip all over the place was a magical experience.
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.
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.
I grew up in very remote Native Alaska, at Fish camp everyone had a CB radio and used call signs, it was very locally public but due to our remoteness the airwaves were all ours! Feels like an entire different life now that i live in the modern world. I am retired now and just purchased an Older RV and YES!!!! It has a CB radio in it. I haven't used it yet but have been thinking about it and found myself here on your Vid. Looking forward to checking it out!... Do ppl still have callsigns? Mine was "DeadtillNoon" because i liked to stay up late and sleep in.
I have a GMRS license but on the road I keep my CB always ready. I am a contractor and I operate a 13k lb truck in the service industry. Normally, my CB is off, but when things go awry on the road the CB is invaluable. I don't waste my time with any obnoxious types in your first two categories. I have great respect for professional drivers as they have given me valuable info many, many times!
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
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
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.
Conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Keep them coming. 1A
Not on channel 19!
Listening for accidents and other types of problems and obstructions while driving is why I have one in my truck. I have been on CB since 1970 when I was commuting periodically between Coast Guard base Miami Beach and later Coast Guard base Key West and my family home in Manatee County FL.
Ham operator here and I still have a lot of fun with CB. I have many of them actually. I collect old electonics. Tube types. When the skip is good I can get out on 4 watts. But we also use them in our off roading a lot. A small percentage of us are hams and we use both so we can talk to the non hams. So I have both in my vehicles. And yep. Traffic jam? Just go to channel 19 and the truckers will let you know what's going on. Appreciate you guys. Keep rollin.
You forgot the guys who have backup radios… they only come on when it’s just a little too late to avoid a backup
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.
Ham of 50 years, expert CW op, and both - 11m and the 'freeband' are a big part of my radio hobby. 11m and the freeband are thriving in the Midwest. 73 dit dit
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.
Which one is better for emergencies? Ham or CB?
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!
Hell Yes!
@@DavidParker-jr5bd who fo you drive for or did?
That is why is is called Chicken Band
When on a road for a long ride, having someone to talk to makes the trip much better. Even people in cars/trucks get into the communication sometimes. But it sure helps the trip go by much better. I also heard the FCC might let FM used on the CB channels. I remember when I was using a base radio back in the 80s, One late night, a few of us were talking. We ended up going to a frequency and used FM. It was very pleasant. Now if that happens, we will surely see New Cobra radios with the option of using FM.
If your ever in Pennsylvania, you'll see cb radio is still very present
I got in to CB radio in the late 70’s. I had a President Grant 40 channel SSB radio in my mobile (957 Porsche) with a K40 antenna. The proportion of the 48” whip on my two seater sports car made it look like a RC car. The Grant eventually became my base station (with an Astroplane antenna. That was a time when CB was a positive and humorous conversion. Unlike today’s social media. I live in an apartment, so I can’t mount my AP antenna. I still have my Grant and several CB, ham and general coverage (tube) “Boat Anchors.”
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
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?"
Back in the 70's/80's (NZ) we had 9ch on AM- 2 watts, no hi gain or directional antenna no amp no power Mike no ssb, you guy's were lucky.
Used to cb to other countries back in the early 80s. It was very exciting then.
I've been having CB's since I was 14... quite awhile back
If you scan through all the channels you’ll find the one all of the dump trucks and end dumps and you’ll get the call outs. But we hardly ever run 19
If you don't have A CB in your Rig your not a trucker, your just a steering wheel holder. To many trucker don't have them and coming speeding round a corner coming down hill into stopped traffic
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.
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 still use cb radio home base and vehicles.I don't live my life worry about who uses and who doesn't.
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.
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.
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 .
Thats a shame. In the 70s talking on CB to truckers was a great way to pass time. I enjoyed talking to anyone when traveling.
I pull a hopper bottom. A CB is still REQUIRED by a number of places i frequent.
Here in Britain, wagon drivers still use cb. Mainly tipper drivers when they need to talk to the shovel driver in quarries. You still hear people rag-chewing on the muppet band, but alot of people now use 446 pmr instead. The main users in Britain are now DXers using modified ham radios and directional aerials.
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
Legit insight into the new workplace @ 3:25, and capacity for any organism to focus upon the ever-widening community span of events...
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 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.
It Comes In Handy For Communicating With The People Who Are On The Road With You! And I Agree It Is A Sirius Devise To Be Used Accordingly!
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.
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.
I concur.
Video uploader sounds like someone who drank the goof juice.
I agree with him about the preachers, however, political folks were always the rarest on 11 meters (in my experience), but I have heard them plenty on 75 to 80 meters.
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.
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.
Any comms is good comms. I keep CB when Jeeping. Jeep clubs have all gone GMRS, which I have also, along with Ham 2M/70cm. When I hit the road with the camper, the CB always comes with.
There is no substitute for CB. I can always reach someone when on the highway, and it's always good to keep one's "ears on" to know from the opposite direction...what I'm about to drive into.
Offroadl: Ham, GMRS, CB, Cell
On the hike: Ham, Satcom, Cell
On the road: Ham, CB, Cell, Google Maps, Garmin GPS with live traffic and Weather
Thank you, this is pretty helpful.
I got a free radio, and have been debating on installing it.
But I have yet to hear anything useful in my tests, and this pretty much proves that Waze is a better tool for traffic info.
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.
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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.
Where i work and where i go require you to have a cb. If not, you're not going on their yard. There's a lot more than 3 types of people that use them and i thank god the ones you are talking about I'm nowhere near. From 3 am. to around 6 am its usually silent unless you have a few of the local drivers heading out at the same time. Cb's will never die out even for drivers. Every rock and sand quarry has them to talk to drivers along with metal scrap yards.
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.
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.
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?
All truckers should have a cb radio
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
You forgot, cine photographers also use for long distance shooting especially for boating, helicopter, car chase scenes and wilderness films.
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.
It was social media in the old days
Back in 1983, before I got my ham license, I was on CB/11 Meters. There was a local group of folks who hung out on Channel 1.
I still occasionally tune down to 11 meters and most of what I hear (not close to the highway) are "CB DXers" who use made-up callsigns consisting of their telephone area code, giving each other a distorted, overmodulated "shout out." Nothing wrong with that, if they stay in band.
The "SHTF" crowd is all over the internet trying to find the best radio to use when SHTF, but CB is there and is well known, and everyone knows how to use it. These guys will be totally lost on GMRS.
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.
I still run a base station. I talk SSB and some AM. Lots of great people out there. A few bad apples.
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I have my cb on all the time when I’m on the road. Have a base station too.
Fourth kind: People waaaaay out there far from cell service, eg the North Maine Woods, still monitoring Channel 9 and hanging out on 19, assuming the weather is right so you're not hearing the Puerto Ricans from NYC with likely illegal setups that will never be taken down.
Lmao the irony is you have an axe to grind about people grinding axes 😅
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 TH-cam 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.
So, what are truckers using now, that CB is dead?
nothing ....
or a GPS, which sends them stuck under a bridge
Yes, I bought one for info on interstate traffic but realized that Google Maps gave me better information without all the foul-mouthed chatter and bickering. I tried, but gave up on it.
Greetings to all the cbers out there. CB is still alive in central Arkansas. The highway 270 radio group is on channel 35 l.s.b. y'all quit listening to the guy in this video and come up to 35 and give us a shout. Echo is clear. 73s
Most of the CB memories I had in the 60s we're very professional Rees call channel 11 in the Bay Area and it was always very professional. I was only 15 years old or 16. Not sure that's what got me into Ham Radio.
When I worked at a elevator we used them to load trucks tell tgem when to move amd when hauld scrap metal they used them to tell us where to go
Who made channel 19 just for truckers?
You forgot the "Skip-Shooters"...39 other channels and they just GOTTA shoot Skip on 19...nothing ground my gears more than that when I was OTR...
I'm a former trucker. Doing some driving in my car where it would be helpful to get traffic info. Got a magnetic antenna and fired up the old cb. Can't even get a radio check at a truck stop. How do I get info on accidents and road conditions?
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Don’t forget about us oversize using it with pilot cars
There are a lot more vocatational trucks than otr. they pay significantly more too. Lots of those use cb as part of their jobs, not as entertainment. I stayed away from those big otr companies, and gained skills running niche equipment. Livestock, tankers, dump, lowboy, bulk tank feed trucks, walking floor and other types.
He's talking about cb users, wtf are you talking about ?
@@wetspotswimwear1199 uuuh. No reading comprehension?
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Do truckers still use AM, or have they switched to something else.
I have a CB in the truck (3/4 ton Chevy) just for the gravel quarry. Recent trip from Little Rock to Houston, thought I'd listen in. Why is it that almost everyone I heard using the CB sounded like they just left Talladega after drinking a rack of Busch light? Granted, there were some helping when a traffic snarl on 59 had everyone jammed up, but damn.
If you would get a radio that will provide SSB you will enjoy the world of fun the rest of us have. I talk all around the world on my little stryker 955 and its barefoot.
Get off 19 and join us. A ton of good people out there enjoying the heck out of there CBs. I have a HAM license but use both.