why New Zealand & Australian CB freq don't match

[OK2BCK]

Hello, I've been searching for the answer everywhere - how come is New Zealand CB on such strange frequencies? I'd love to hit 'west island' on 11m but that wouldn't be legal..
Anyone knows any background info on why this has been decided this way and why only NZ and Japan are down around 26MHz?

 

[JayMojave]

Hello Jan: Wish I had the real story on all this but I don't. But I'll take a guess at it tho.

I am sure the air wave authorities had good reason to put it were it is, as not to be the same as the US CB Band, other internal country concerns, ect.

Just listen in on 38LSB and you will hear em in there, While doing some antenna testing one evening on 38 LSB, with a stock CB radio, talking to locals and doing antenna comparison testing, we had a few stations from New Zealand break in and ask what we were doing and running. I first thought it was someone playing with us, but the signal fading was real, and so were the stations in New Zealand.

You can hear these south western pacific stations quit a bit during the summer evenings.

Jay in the Mojave

 

[robertmac]

Maybe it is because Crappy Band is a cesspool of crap and they want to move it as far way as possible from UHF where there are people that want to use true radio for relatively close communications.

 

[KB7MIB]

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My guess is that New Zealand and/or Australia didn't want their respective HF CB'ers talking to each other over that distance. IE "shooting skip". Just a guess though.

 

[nd5y]

New Zealand apparently has two 40 channel groups of 26/27 MHz CB channels. The upper group is the same as the US and Austrailan channels.
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[OK2BCK]

Hi Tom,
I was unaware that there is another, upper 40 channels here on CB. In fact I've never seen 80 CH 11m radio anywhere here, only those on UHF.
That's a good news, thanks for finding this out, I should have check out RSM website myself really.

Cheers!

New Zealand apparently has two 40 channel groups of 26/27 MHz CB channels. The upper group is the same as the US and Austrailan channels.
Citizen band radio | Radio Spectrum Management
ACMA - Citizen band radio stations

 

[JayMojave]

Hello Tom: Great Post, I didn't know either about the other CB Band of frequencies, thanks a million.

Hello MIB: Yeah that's ball park of what I was thinking.

Hello robertmac: Suggest De-Calf in the Morning, maybe some more exercise, getting out more often.

Jay in the Mojave ... Just down the road ah ways from the fillin station.