So let’s put your CB lingo translation skills to the test: “I just passed a pregnant roller skate feeding the bears.” This phrase may bring a hilarious picture to mind, but it does a have meaning. Your Convoy Buddies use codes and special jargon (often a little bit on the humorous side) so that they can communicate better and faster while using fewer words.” As stated in one of Midland’s original CB manuals, “If you’ve listened to CBers talk before, you know we have our own special style and language. Used mostly by truckers, CB lingo was created to keep conversations short on open air bands. As CB radios grew in popularity, a culture was born. Suddenly people on the road had the capability to converse with one another and with that came CB jargon. This is im sure you will agree a little short sighted on the part of our government deptments as Tv and other users are rapidly moving to satilite, infer red, microwave, UHF and other mediums.Midland Radio Corporation, proud maker of telecommunication products, originally started manufacturing Citizen Band (CB) radios in the early 1960's. The main reason for trying to move away from the AM bands was because the secondary harmonics are very close to that of TVNZ's channel 1, along with a great deal of hospital and other radio equipment. Hi Ray i beg to differ on the faze out, but wont get into it, of course the band still functions and unless they were prepaired to recall all the equipment, which the govenment can do with the public radio service, under it's constituional bylaws, however they never will, the cost and uproar would be enormous, then natruly the system will still work, however it has become increasingly difficult to purchase an SSB 40 channel 26mhz transceiver on the retail market in recent years. Hi Gay-zin thanks for the reply, not sure how many UHF operators you will find among motorhomers but its worth a listen. Also flick around the channels, quit often mobile groups will be on a different channel, ch24 is a calling channel not a chatting channel. The problem is that we tend to listen but not talk, we have called on channel 24 AM but had no response. It resurfaced some years ago due to pressure from various groups and is used by Recreational, and Commercial groups. ) has not been fazed out it still officially exists with 40 channels AM, LSB, and USB.īack in time there used to be an UHF CB allocation but due to lack of use/equipment it faded away. If you want to know more please let me know otherwise you will find us, Honky Tonk Inn around on channel 11 or 24 until someone decides to turn there CB on and say "Hey Rusty, where ya goin"ġ1 metre CB (26 Meg. This has been done to encourage use of the new UHF CB band, which if we were to change to, is far superior, cleaner, clearer and has a better range, not to mention smaller antennas which is good for tall motorhomes. Keep in mind that the old AM net work has officialy been fazed out by the "radio Frequency service" the government dept that controlls radio and TV transmission in NZ, a dept of the dept of Economic Development. Yes the other main channel on AM CB is known as the Natioanal calling and emergency channel, what was CH 15 on the old set's now CH 26 on the new AM sets Well turn the CB on and have a natter as you pass, it adds to the fun and makes new friends. We once folled 3 other motor homes from Waihi to Tauranga, going to the national rally, all had CB antennas and i could'nt get a call back from any of them on any channel 11, 14, 26, 15 scan -nope zip. We all wave and im sure we think "wonder where they have been or wonder where they're off to. Well if we all keep our set's turned off, because thats our view, of course there wont be anyone there. Interestingly ive never made contact with abother motorhome yet !! on the move or otherwise, which I have found very disapointing.įolks ive spoken to with CB's in there motorhomes have said "oh i never turn it on, there are never any other motor homer's on there" I dont know when the NZMCA addopted ch 24 as a recomended channel, but when we joined the association 3 years ago we were told 24 was the one to use. In the world of CB channel 11 is known as "F" band due to the common and over use of expletive's beginning with F, from those in the trucking industry.Īs some of you have rightly pointed out, its a good way to give and receive traffic info from the truckies and keep in touch with others. Since about 1979 truckies have had channel 11, previously this was channel 2 on the old 7 channel net work, as we progressed to 12 and then 40 channel AM CB in NZ in the late 80's the truckies kept there duplicate frequency, as those with old sets could remain on what was channel 2 to them, yet still chat to those on the new sets ch 11.
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