darticus
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I know truckers use 19 but is there a most popular channel or is everyone all over? Ron
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puzzleriddle
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Probably not... Just follow the bleed over.
In my area 19 is popular for truckers and others. I live only one mile from I-85, so I get alot of action on 19. Two other channels are pretty active in my area which are: channel 8 and 23. There is almost always someone on 8 and on 23 there is the Dr. Pepper Club. It's a group of CBer's who meet every day at 10 - 2 & 4!
Channel 6 is great if you want to listen to 'skip' at dusk, and channels 11 and 17 are also popular channels.
I guess it would help to know where the op is located at in order to give a more educated answer.
Some places like Western Pennsylvania - there is not a lot of traffic - period.
The closer you get to the interstate - the more action you might find.
Listening to side band and skip - I hear a lot of action on channel 4 and on channel 40 and on channel 8.
Lately I have heard a lot of the Mexicans talking on channel 9 - I guess there is no emergency channels anymore - since most people has cell phones and there isn't too many people talking on the chicken band.
Some highway construction flaggers use the CB - ch 19 for road work and construction so they can talk between the flag crew and the truckers.
I don't know how good that would work out - because there is no mental tests that are given before a person is allowed to buy a cb radio or operate one.
The only conversations that I hear on channel 19 is truckers talking amongst themselves.
They don't like to talk to anyone they don't know.
Sometimes it is limited to just people coming or going - in or out of a coal mine strip job - locally in my area.
Some of those guys cuss and swear and act stupid.
Most will tell you that they do not want to talk - because they use the radio for work and not to jibber jabber.
So I guess if you really want people to talk to - you need to get a ham radio license and get on the two meters - where you do not have to be a member of a elite club such as the truckers thinks that they are in today.
Some places like Western Pennsylvania - there is not a lot of traffic - period.
The closer you get to the interstate - the more action you might find.
Listening to side band and skip - I hear a lot of action on channel 4 and on channel 40 and on channel 8.
Lately I have heard a lot of the Mexicans talking on channel 9 - I guess there is no emergency channels anymore - since most people has cell phones and there isn't too many people talking on the chicken band.
Some highway construction flaggers use the CB - ch 19 for road work and construction so they can talk between the flag crew and the truckers.
I don't know how good that would work out - because there is no mental tests that are given before a person is allowed to buy a cb radio or operate one.
The only conversations that I hear on channel 19 is truckers talking amongst themselves.
They don't like to talk to anyone they don't know.
Sometimes it is limited to just people coming or going - in or out of a coal mine strip job - locally in my area.
Some of those guys cuss and swear and act stupid.
Most will tell you that they do not want to talk - because they use the radio for work and not to jibber jabber.
So I guess if you really want people to talk to - you need to get a ham radio license and get on the two meters - where you do not have to be a member of a elite club such as the truckers thinks that they are in today.
darticus
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Hey Ron,
Getting a HAM license to be a Tech. which is entry level and will give you access to the 2M band as well as limited access to some others is not difficult at all. It's a multiple choice test with If I remember correctly around 50 questions or so. Been several years since I've taken mine so that may have changed a bit, but nonetheless if your willing to spend a little time reading over the material and take a couple practice test on your own for free you should have no problem passing the test to get your Tech. license.
I thought the same thing before I tried for mine. Only spent a few days reading over the material and studying only took 1 practice test and I pasted the real test the very first time without any trouble at all. If it's of any interest I recommend looking into it. It's a whole new world to learn and play in once you get in.
Token
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Good advice. However, the Technician test is currently 35 questions, not 50. And they really are not difficult at all. My wife who is totally non-technical put in about 2 hours of study and a few practice test, and passed on her first attempt. That was in 1992. She put about the same effort into studying for her General upgrade, but the practice test were online by then.
Also, the Tech license allows the holder to use all bands from 30 MHz up, with full legal limit power of 1500 W PEP on moost bands. And the Tech ticket also gives the holder all Novice allocations on HF, including 10 meter voice privledges, as well as the CW options on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters.
So, while a ham license may not be for everyone, not everyone wants one, they certainly are not very hard to get if a person does want one.
T!
kd7mxi
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Goto qrz to take practice tests and get lists of examiners
Getting a ham license is way easy (Too easy, some say). Really, it is. I'm a moron and passed my General :lol:
As to your first question: 6 is always pretty active. 19, obviously. I hear lots of chatter on 11, 22, and 32 as well. ymmv.
Just off the top of my head, around Chicago I hear a lot on 6, 11, 17, 19 (obviously), 28, 32, 34, 36, SSB on 38..away from the city and interference I've heard a lot on 2, 14, 21, 26, and 30, 95% of it all skip. Every once and a while a stray trucker will find his way onto an odd channel talking to his buddy, but there's no real pattern that I've noticed. I always have one of my base stations on 12, just kind of a personal calling channel for myself.
Channel 9 remains the emergency channel. Foreigners do not know our FCC codes and regulations,so they do what ever they want.
Like in Socal, Tijuana broadcasting radio stations operate on high frequencies, with disregard to our national border.
Can't blame some people talking on CB, like those who dont know how we work. Although they are in the US so it is THEIR duty to learn FCC rules.
bats101
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eastern ga ch 22 nice conversational network.
darticus
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As well as 146.520 mhz. 
marconi949
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In my neck of the woods it would be 27.315 MHz
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reedeb
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Back in the 80's and 90's when I lived in Maine, different groups in different towns used several channels. In mine it was 20 in Dover NH it was 14,22,29 Rochester was on 17 so on and so on. Some n ights betwwen 11 PM and 4 AM we could have as many as 100 or more on these channels some fun ,some arguing ,some singing, most just chatting.
A few would be out foxhunting [have 1 CBer go hide and the rest out looking for them]
A few would be out foxhunting [have 1 CBer go hide and the rest out looking for them]
TheSpaceMan
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In the NYC area and suburbs, there is AM activity evenings on channels 31, 14, 11, and 6, and SSB on CHs 37 through 40.
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Really? Is that local activity or skip on AM? I have only heard skip on those AM channels, but yes the SSB channels are active around NYC
TheSpaceMan
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There is a really nice group of AM CBers on CH 31, some of whom have been continuously on the band for almost 30 years! You can usually hear them in the evenings, and sometimes even into the wee hours of the morning.
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