I don't have mine on the back but I reckon it would be a good idea and I cannot see any privacy issues or reasons to not make your call sign available to the person following you.
Chanel 40 Col as it is the truck chanel and you hear the truckies reports. Just turn down or off going through big towns or cities to get rid of idiots. I just turn down as sometimes you here traffic reports.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Friday 30th of December 2016 09:54:00 PM
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I find the problem with monitoring Ch 40 is the often quite foul language used on it. I wouldn't bother monitoring it because of this issue alone.
If you are not going to monitor ch 40 you may as well save your money and not fit it.
By all means monitor ch 18 & if you are lucky you may get Mabel talking to Cyryll and commenting on the beautiful coloured sour-sobs on the roadside. That is if you hear ANYONE on that channel.
By all means I agree ch 40 is pretty crappy in large towns & cities but on the highway it is invaluable.
It is generally not the trucks with the foul mouth, it is the juvenile DH's in towns that don't have half a brain that cause trouble on the airwaves.
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I've recorded them DH on iPhone . Played it back . If you want to upset these single cell brains ? They go off . I've recorded that too .. Eventually they stop . Must admit it was during a thunderstorm otherwise I have better things to do . Yea not just language! But anyway I've heard it all before !!
Thank you all for your feed back .
I will start by looking to take the good off of the airways and drop the rest in the B/S ,DH bucket.
Happy new year
Bring in a great 2017 on the road
Keep smiling
Col
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Hi Col I just call up which ever van it may be such as (copy in the jayco silverline ,etc,) yes 40 is the truckie chanel except for Sydney to Brisbane via the Pacific hwy which is channel 29,i think that sadley not enough vanners use channel 18,as there can be a bit of strong language on 40 /29.have always had cb`s in my trucks and cars since they first came out ,breaker breaker 10.4 was the starting point in those days,i`m an ex trucker.Wouldnt be on the road without a good CB by the way.should be a must have in all towing vehicles.
I have been using c.b radio since 1980 ,imported my (illegal) radio from the U.S.Over the years I have made lifelong friends and had some great times. sadly the idiots slowly take over until the system becomes unusable. I may dig out my old radios and see what the world on the airwaves is up to...................Rick
Hi Rick ,
Thank you for the feed back .
I'm afraid from what I can have hear so far the airways can be cleaned up a little.
However for ever one or two DH there are many more really nice helpful people .
Dig the old unit out and get back on the airways.
Keep smiling
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Even the VHF and marine HF are full of idiots who don't know protocol nowadays.
I just carry and old Uniden Sundowner UH 053 16 ch, for hand talking with van\car and mates.
(gawd. How old is that thing nowadays.)
Plus a 30-ft of flat wire to roll out and listen to HF weather from Airports
on my old Kenwood 0-30 marine transc.
Even though we have our names on rear with Ch40 . We are often called Winebagoo . So we call our selves Wenibagoo one . Mainly when talking to truckies about passing etc . The safer you can be on roads the better . On Nullabor the truckies are excellent . Notify you when turning off or stopping . They don't hang around though . I guess they have work to do . Good on them !!
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Wednesday 4th of January 2017 10:10:14 AM
On the Port Wakefield road traveling south, two truckies ignored me, so I automatically pulled over when I safely could to let them pass.
When the third one appeared I asked for a channel check, explaining that I was using a hand held UHF. This third truckie answered, and it was only a few kilometres up the road after he passed, that it became a duel carriageway.
Perhaps the truckies were happy to sit behind me, for a few kilometres, as I was doing 95 KPH at the time, and I think that it may have been in an average speed camera zone
Each truckie I talked to, and quickly let pass, thanked me Perhaps it was a coincidence that two trucks had broken radios
The problem at times . They are often not sure who , where you are . ?? Why my call identifies us on road . They don't know who Ann and Graeme or Aus-kiwi is ., Maybe just as well ? Lol
The problem at times . They are often not sure who , where you are . ?? Why my call identifies us on road . They don't know who Ann and Graeme or Aus-kiwi is ., Maybe just as well ? Lol
I did think of this, as our name on the campervan, is not large
I remember back in the old days when we actually had "proper" call signs that were issued by some government department when you paid the appropriate amount of money for your CB licence.
Yep, you used to have to have a licence for a CB and the maximum power was 200milliwatts on 27Mhz.
You sure learnt all about good antenna design in those days.
Col,
Set your Priority Scan to say Ch 18. Set your Group Scan to a limited list of numbers, 1 to 8 repeater numbers, ch 5 and 35, safety channels, ch 18 , 20 motorhomes and any other number you like. Set your Open Scan to all the 80 numbers. That way you can select which Scan you want. When in the open country we use Open Scan. In the city set to Priority Scan.
On Open Scan we have spoken to school kids driving to the bus stop, Pilots mustering cattle, truckies and GNs
As you are new to using UHF radios may I suggest that you carefully read the instructions then. listen to the others on the road and establish contact when you feel like it.
Happy Caravanning
