yes still got a set comes in very handy when being escorted oddball
Quite a few truck drivers are moving over to amateur radio and the 2m/70cm band. That is because they can get to use repeaters and talk to people over a greater range. For example, our local repeater covers the whole of humberside and as far west on the M62 as J28. One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby. The people mostly using that one are truck drivers and van drivers.
In addition to that, no music playing swearing ■■■■■■■■■.
You do have to have an amateur radio licence but the entry licence is easy to get and the 10W power limit for that licence class is sufficient at VHF/UHF.
waynedl:
you CAN still be done the same as a mobile phone user
No you can’t because the law specifically excludes 2 way radio because if it didn’t, the Police couldn’t use theirs. The only thing you can be done under is DWDCA. So as long as you’re not using it at an inappropriate time, they can’t do a thing.
i use one. i freelance driver and i hate driving a lorry without a cb because i drive on the a75 and the a55. do u uk drivers use fm or am. us paddys use am and channel 19. if uk drivers use fm what channel do yous use■■?
The range is getting worse these days. I can get out about 3 miles or so with a magmounted Orbiter (the long one with the spring) but some of our tippers I struggle to hear half a mile away. Our quarry is surrounded by tall trees and with the wash plant acting as an obstacle this is to be expected. Our lorries have those fibreglass sticks bolted to the rear of the cab. Tough, but almost useless.
milkchurns:
i use one. i freelance driver and i hate driving a lorry without a cb because i drive on the a75 and the a55. do u uk drivers use fm or am. us paddys use am and channel 19. if uk drivers use fm what channel do yous use■■?
i’m english, but i drive for northern irish firms, so it’s AM channel 19, most Scots use the same, English usually use FM channel 19, and farmers use FM channel 7. handy when there’s a tractor in your way. 
Conor:
Quite a few truck drivers are moving over to amateur radio and the 2m/70cm band. That is because they can get to use repeaters and talk to people over a greater range. For example, our local repeater covers the whole of humberside and as far west on the M62 as J28. One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby. The people mostly using that one are truck drivers and van drivers.In addition to that, no music playing swearing [zb].
You do have to have an amateur radio licence but the entry licence is easy to get and the 10W power limit for that licence class is sufficient at VHF/UHF.
Got a linky for these
OTS:
Conor:
Quite a few truck drivers are moving over to amateur radio and the 2m/70cm band. That is because they can get to use repeaters and talk to people over a greater range. For example, our local repeater covers the whole of humberside and as far west on the M62 as J28. One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby. The people mostly using that one are truck drivers and van drivers.In addition to that, no music playing swearing [zb].
You do have to have an amateur radio licence but the entry licence is easy to get and the 10W power limit for that licence class is sufficient at VHF/UHF.
Got a linky for these
I think that’s what we used to call HAM radio?
Conor:
One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby.
If your referring to GB3YW, then the coverage is/can be from Skegness to Newcastle, and Flint to Humberside. My mate is the repeater keeper, and is a member of my club.
Ken.
Quinny:
Conor:
One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby.If your referring to GB3YW, then the coverage is/can be from Skegness to Newcastle, and Flint to Humberside. My mate is the repeater keeper, and is a member of my club.
Ken.
Whats the frequency Ken, save me looking it up lol
John, aka Zebadee, aka G1JDV
Ive got one in mine,my handle is The Wanderer
I got my first B licence for Amateur radio in 1980 and my A licence in 1984. I had the dual band 70cm’s and 2 Mtrs in my cab all the time and made a lot of friends up and down the country who I still keep in touch with.
Two of our Club members are Policemen, one a traffic patrol man. He told me that the reason that using Amateur radio or CB on the move is not illegal is because it is simplex working, you can not speak and listen at the same time which you can via mobile phone.
I have HF at home which also covers the CB band but only for receiving, there is very little activity on it but now and again a lorry driver will speak up and straight away some home base moron will start up shouting abuse about him being on "his " channel.
Recently a big housing scheme was started a few miles away from me and then the CB channels were very busy with the tipper lads.
they seemed to keep off Channel 19.
Tankerman:
there is very little activity on it but now and again a lorry driver will speak up and straight away some home base moron will start up shouting abuse about him being on "his " channel.
Recently a big housing scheme was started a few miles away from me and then the CB channels were very busy with the tipper lads.
they seemed to keep off Channel 19.
We changed from 34 to 36 in the last 12 months as we were fed up with home basers and their inane chat and foreign gibberish.
I don’t know anyone who uses 19, it seems to have a stigma of Country music lovers and stupid handles.
AM ch 19 on the A75. FM26 on the other roads usually!
zebadee:
Quinny:
Conor:
One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby.If your referring to GB3YW, then the coverage is/can be from Skegness to Newcastle, and Flint to Humberside. My mate is the repeater keeper, and is a member of my club.
Ken.
Whats the frequency Ken, save me looking it up lol
John, aka Zebadee, aka G1JDV
John.
It’s 145.7875 with 82.5 ctcss.
Ken. G8FSO
zebadee:
Quinny:
Conor:
One in West Yorks covers from south of Sheffield up to above Wetherby.If your referring to GB3YW, then the coverage is/can be from Skegness to Newcastle, and Flint to Humberside. My mate is the repeater keeper, and is a member of my club.
Ken.
Whats the frequency Ken, save me looking it up lol
John, aka Zebadee, aka G1JDV
Sounds like a song by REM 
Thetaff:
I have one ,and still use it.My handle is babba booey
No offence meant but ‘Babba Booey’ is the most annoying sound you hear on CB’s in the north eastern USA, idiots shout it constantly untill everyone looses it and screams for them to shut it 
I have a CB but rarely use it unless I am getting instructions from a shipping or recieving office that use them or if I am actually running with a friend. I lived CB radio’s when I drove back in the UK and a few of my old CB mates are on this forum.
terriers:
im actualy supprised that they aint been made illegal same as mobile phones cause in theory. is it not the same thing… not that im saying to ban them in anyway… just a thought that just struck me
Over here you can buy very expensive Cobra CB’s with blue tooth actually installed so you can use the CB mic to talk on the phone and that makes it legal.
Can cbs actually interfere with aircraft? Meant to be a no cb rule in Raf Brize, but what stops you using them beside the runway fence?
There used to be a rule in stone quarries that no cbs when blasting.
If any lorry drivers who are licenced radio amateurs are in the East Lancashire area please be free to use our repeater.
GB3RF. Output 145.775. I will be only too happy to have a QSO with you and maybe help with directions.
Since the fees for the equipment on Hambledon moor went up to well over a grand a year we have had to put the antenna on one of our members house, the coverage is not as good as before but the mast is still pretty high and covers a reasonable area.