Finding CB nets?

[zonejrsector9]

Just looking to see if there are any CB nets in Northern Arizona or if anyone has any tips for finding or starting CB nets in my area.

 

[rf_patriot200]

Just looking to see if there are any CB nets in Northern Arizona or if anyone has any tips for finding or starting CB nets in my area.

Why?

 

[Freemor]

Maybe because CBs are a lot of fun and can be a rewarding hobby.

While I've never heard of a CB net, that doesn't mean they don't exist. My interest has always been skip chasing and thus I'm less interested in local traffic. Please don't let anyone tell you "CB is dead". it is far from dead. especiall right now during the solar maximun.

 

[slowmover]

Just looking to see if there are any CB nets in Northern Arizona or if anyone has any tips for finding or starting CB nets in my area.

Might describe what’s meant. What is a . . . ?

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[soberbyker]

Maybe because CBs are a lot of fun and can be a rewarding hobby.

While I've never heard of a CB net, that doesn't mean they don't exist. My interest has always been skip chasing and thus I'm less interested in local traffic. Please don't let anyone tell you "CB is dead". it is far from dead. especiall right now during the solar maximun.

While you are correct, for DXing CB is alive and well, but for local chit chat and traffic reports, it pretty much is, in my area.

 

[slowmover]

While you are correct, for DXing CB is alive and well, but for local chit chat and traffic reports, it pretty much is, in my area.

Need DSP. (NRC). And better antenna system. Tech advances have upped the CB game. You’ll hear and get heard better than by current experience. Skip has things screwy, but I’ve no problem keying up and getting responses on the road using an Anytone Q5 and 7’ SIRIO pair on a plastic FTL.

Put this at the radio coax end, also.
DRX-901 speaker. You’re missing as much as half of what’s to be heard.

Put the 94HPC on the garage bench. Inverted-V for whatever it can do. Get a tweety-bird key-up for fun. Add a DSP Speaker to update. Obsolete performance without update.


There isn’t much truck traffic coming N out of Phoenix on IH17 due to the difficulty of the climb. But IH40 is a major route for cross-continent. One could park at Little America in Flagstaff and work a radio all day with trucks driven by Americans.

Get LOS parked with a 108” on a triple-mag over the descent headed east and it’d really get interesting. That’s where one might find locals and regionals looking to check in.

Same advice about radio. Q5 or QT60 is an unparalleled bargain.


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[dave3825]

Just looking to see if there are any CB nets in Northern Arizona

Why?

Because everyone has different tastes and interests. Some like listening to ambulances. Some like taxi and buses. There are even those who enjoy listening to people order food at the drive-thru. And there were those who would listen for blue light specials at K-Mart.

 

[cavmedic]

Always a net on the Bowl

 

[Blackswan73]

Many years ago there was a side band net on channel 55 upper in my area. It was on 55 to eliminate the general CB population, which couldn’t access that freq. we had members on that net who were fifty miles away from me. I don’t know what the CB channels are like today, but back then you couldn’t get a word in edgewise on any regular channel unless you were running a kilowatt, let alone conduct a net.

B.S.

 

[KANE4109]

Fortunate that, in my area, there is a long running "event" that LOOSELY resembles a net... every night at around 8pm on channel 20 or 21..(I forget). I think they have a "roll call" of sorts... but it is kind of like an "organized/orderly rag chew". At least it is SOMETHING!!!!!! And it has been there for years!!!!!!

 

[slowmover]

Fortunate that, in my area, there is a long running "event" that LOOSELY resembles a net... every night at around 8pm on channel 20 or 21..(I forget). I think they have a "roll call" of sorts... but it is kind of like an "organized/orderly rag chew". At least it is SOMETHING!!!!!! And it has been there for years!!!!!!

Is that T-Bone & the beer drinkers on AM-19 clustered near X65 on IH45? I’ve heard him from Maine to San Diego back before Skip became a bear this cycle. Can pick them up from Cleveland across to Katy, usually. Downtown is in the way coming up from Galveston, and sometimes I’ll get them coming south from Huntsville, but usually nearer.

He’s a good man for getting work done. I picked up a BNC connector from him once. Stuff the CB shops won’t have. Has a shop but works mobile.

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[slowmover]

Many years ago there was a side band net on channel 55 upper in my area. It was on 55 to eliminate the general CB population, which couldn’t access that freq. we had members on that net who were fifty miles away from me. I don’t know what the CB channels are like today, but back then you couldn’t get a word in edgewise on any regular channel unless you were running a kilowatt, let alone conduct a net.

B.S.

You’re in the right part of the country for mobile and base operators. Next door Ohio seems to be the center of all things radio. I always hear great rigs (almost a norm) when I’m up there.

Down here they frown you tell them to spin that VFO (ha!).

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[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Always a net on the Bowl

You mean channels 4,5,6,7,and 8?

 

[KANE4109]

Is that T-Bone & the beer drinkers on AM-19 clustered near X65 on IH45? I’ve heard him from Maine to San Diego back before Skip became a bear this cycle. Can pick them up from Cleveland across to Katy, usually. Downtown is in the way coming up from Galveston, and sometimes I’ll get them coming south from Huntsville, but usually nearer.

He’s a good man for getting work done. I picked up a BNC connector from him once. Stuff the CB shops won’t have. Has a shop but works mobile.

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Exit 65 is up near FM 1960 @ IH45 on the way north end of town. I can't say I know the handle.

 

[merlin]

CB has nets ?
That one I never heard.

 

[cavmedic]

You mean channels 4,5,6,7,and 8?

foooooooooo tennnnnnnnnn, world wide, world wide, world wide, world wide, wavin a hand and I just got down.

 

[wtp]

CB has nets ?
That one I never heard.

in the 80's i was known as the frog on lower 37 in bergen county NJ.
a bunch of us would get together almost every night.
green station wagon and would jump on and off the air due to being a security guard.
so i would guess they are still around.

 

[zonejrsector9]

Why?

Why not? There are FRS, GMRS, ham, MURS nets. Even some CB nets I’m aware of but none in my area, hence the question.

Plus for friendly chatting, passing traffic, emergency preparedness, sharing common interests, etc., it can be a really good tool.

CB has greater reach that most of those services, save for ham, so I’m back to why not?

 

[zonejrsector9]

Just looking to see if there are any CB nets in Northern Arizona or if anyone has any tips for finding or starting CB nets in my area.

Might describe what’s meant. What is a . . . ?

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Best definition I could find was this, but generalize for not just ham:

“an "on-the-air" gathering of amateur radio operators. Most nets convene on a regular schedule and specific frequency, and are organized for a particular purpose, such as relaying messages, discussing a common topic of interest, in severe weather (for example, during a Skywarn activation), emergencies, or simply as a regular gathering of friends for conversation. “

From Wikipedia Amateur radio net - Wikipedia

 

[zonejrsector9]

Fortunate that, in my area, there is a long running "event" that LOOSELY resembles a net... every night at around 8pm on channel 20 or 21..(I forget). I think they have a "roll call" of sorts... but it is kind of like an "organized/orderly rag chew". At least it is SOMETHING!!!!!! And it has been there for years!!!!!!

With skip, I’ve heard the Alabama net too on Ch1. They run every night. 8pm seems to be a good cutoff over here for skip though the east coasters can tend to go pretty late too.