Just got back in CB Radio after 23 years

edber2011

Flying Eagle wrote: »

Hi . I have a President Johnny 11 40 channel CB radio, I live in Tipperary in southern Ireland. My problem is i can only seem to hear American Truck drivers the whole time. I have been trying for 2 weeks now , i have the CB in my car and have driven to the top of a mountain even. Is there any CBers left in Ireland or am i the only one. I have yet to make contact with anyone on the CB. What am i doing wrong ?

you are doing nothing wrong,cb is mostly done on single side band,i.e ssb upper,tune to 27.555ssb and listen there and you will hear the skip if its there.i also live in tipp and was a trucker so i can tell you that mobile am is dead.my living arrangements dont allow me to put my antron99 into action with the jumbo anymore but i had great times during the last solar cycle when the skip was in.my callsign is 29-cb-320

onemanshow1974

Flying Eagle wrote: »

Hi . I have a President Johnny 11 40 channel CB radio, I live in Tipperary in southern Ireland. My problem is i can only seem to hear American Truck drivers the whole time. I have been trying for 2 weeks now , i have the CB in my car and have driven to the top of a mountain even. Is there any CBers left in Ireland or am i the only one. I have yet to make contact with anyone on the CB. What am i doing wrong ?

Im from Laois. Channel 19 am frequency band D.
Might here u sometime on it..

onemanshow1974

Anyone from the midlands with CB Radio we may get a Club going...

onemanshow1974

Flying Eagle wrote: »

Hi . I have a President Johnny 11 40 channel CB radio, I live in Tipperary in southern Ireland. My problem is i can only seem to hear American Truck drivers the whole time. I have been trying for 2 weeks now , i have the CB in my car and have driven to the top of a mountain even. Is there any CBers left in Ireland or am i the only one. I have yet to make contact with anyone on the CB. What am i doing wrong ?

The onemanshow here just got back into Cb radio in May of this year very quiet im on channel 19 d band but im on fm and my wife is on am but I couldnt hear her on am on my set and when i switched to fm i could here her loud and clear unless they mixed the buttons up at the factory.
Im from Laois might hear u some time the more the merrier...:)

god's toy

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Mobile phones and texting killed CB.

It's funny, 'CB' on Mobile is hopping! Been testing a few 'CB' apps on android and they work well... apart from the fact your talking into your phone of course and not a real CB!, in every other way people behave just like it's the 80's all over again.

Oh and yes the nut jobs are out in force on those apps too just like days of old.
You can chat cross platform EG Android -IOS BlackBerry and Windown phone/PC

One thing I do like about those apps is the handy PTT idea, Like you have your friends all online anyway and so you just select your 'channel' and chat to all at once or select just one for a private chat.
Nothing like the real days of old but it's very handy for just quickly picking up the phone and asking your mate a question without having to ring or text em!

onemanshow1974

We just met a few guys up here at the slieve bloom mountains in laois. Those guys are big into it and reckon sideband is the way forward.. I put an add up on Donedeal in laois look it up CB Radio Club. Just got a cobra 148 i think thats the model it would be nice to see more come on stream. Tim...:)

gbee

Had you it on earlier today? Great ground wave, UKFM BOOMING, and I mean BOOMING, 4W travelling the world.

darkmaster2

England, holland and germany were flying in today alright. I had so many qso's, unreal. Best contact was with a guy in Belfast though. He was coming in 5/9+10db to my station Mallow, Co. Cork. Very unusual to get Skip that short on 11m.

Also, lots and lots of SSTV activity on 27.700.
Here is a facebook group if anyone wants to join up, you are more than welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/391856380866717/



Great fun!

onemanshow1974

My set is just 40 channel am/fm is Uk fm different frequency or the same as Ireland. Im upgrading to side band during the week because I never here anything on it at all here in laois so im up grading to sideband. U say ukfm is booming. I have different bands abcde I just leave it on d channel 19 but theres a guy in birr thats big into it so he will give me a few tips when i get the sideband set...

gbee

UKFM is different from Europe [Irish]. There is some overlap but not too much.

http://www.freebanding.co.uk/cb_frequencies.htm is a list of the EU and UK frequencies. The EU would be D Band on your radio.

Frequencies mostly in use yesterday: UKFM 19:25:30:31:34:38

watty

The UK FM overlaps seriously with Irish Community Radio Licence.

gbee

watty wrote: »

The UK FM overlaps seriously with Irish Community Radio Licence.

What is this? I don't know, Google says it's community radio but they are 97 through 106 or so.

watty

Wrong kind

Comreg now call it WPAS!
http://www.comreg.ie/radio_spectrum/search.541.874.10024.0.rslicensing.html

Following consultation with the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCIi), ComReg has established that the proposed service is not a broadcasting service and does not therefore come under the bci regulatory regime. this is reflected in five key characteristics which define wireless public address systems and place it outside the broadcasting space. these characteristics are:

Spectrum will be allocated on a non-exclusive and non-interference basis in a frequency band not used by BCI sound broadcasting contractors.
The system is to be used for unabridged wireless retransmission of audio from a public address system that is associated with a public event.
The service will only be available on a non commercial basis (for local community users).
The service will not be available for reception on standard domestic broadcast receivers.
only equipment in the band 27.6 – 27.99 MHz that meets the requirements of the r&tte directive will be permitted for use on the available 35 channels within that band.

So UKFM band gear can only be used here for Transmission on a WPAS licence.

Mind you I have a 1949 Domestic Receiver that can receive it!

gbee

I know what it is now, thanks.

Saturday and Sunday brings in many Churches bleeding over quite a bit, complaints come in from Central Europe. I can't hear many of the Churches but they can be heard in Munich and Bucharest.