If you do like me and don't use google it is no problem. And use fake info here.

@@gfl1957 Stated on a Google own site. DUHHHHHHH

@@rayh592 😂😂😂😂😂 true

Well forty rogers own that

5g towers can track every move you make especially if your vaccinated...

I haven't seen a Cobra CB in years. Unless those 29 knockoffs are made by them.

My son works for a national refuse collection company. Even though he's not over the road, he puts a lot of miles on his truck daily as we are a spread out rural state. Their company regulations, backed up by an internal video recording camera, dictate that their eyes remain on the road. No CB, cell phone, eating, anything. That camera saved his hide one day. He was driving a modified Ford F-450 on a short route when he was forced off the road by an idiot on a cell phone. He kept his job without penalty because the camera showed that he had both hands on the wheel and his eyes forward as he rolled the truck into a deep ditch. He was OK but when he showed me the footage on his phone, It looked kind of funny to see him cruising along then it looked like somebody picked up the truck and dropped it. I used to work for a major orange juice manufacturer in west central Florida before becoming disabled in 1999. Back then, the OTR drivers that weren't owner / operators were complaining about new regulations regarding "distractions." The only reason that you haven't heard any FM CB'ers on channel 19 is because, up until recently, it has been illegal to transmit FM on CB. In fact, I think only President is presently selling AM / FM CB's in the U.S. This is because they have been making them for the European market for years. England is FM but their band plan uses the "A" channels that we use for toy RC cars and boats. 3A, 7A, 11A, 15A and 19A. All they have to do is swap out the PLL chip to exclude these channels and add a switch for AM, (everything is preprogrammed in now adays), and they have radios made for the U.S. market,

I'm a relatively new trucker of only 6 years but I've already been saved by my CB enough times in places like Wyoming in the winter that I'll always have one for sure

​@@pohldriver I've got a Cobra 29 classic in one of my personal vehicles. Great little unit.

You've never been to a gravel pit or driven a dump truck then. That's the only form on communication between the drivers and the loader operators and the scale house. When you have a job site full of dump trucks, that's how they all communicate also, things like where to pull in at, where to stage, where to haul away what's being loaded on the truck. CB's are very important and used all day long in my little world.

Obviously the truckers cannot just move frequencies. Need approved frequencies to talk on without a license. In the USA that pretty much is Family Radio Service. Which as the name implies is more for families. There are some licensed services that allow what you mentioned in the USA.

@@awprc yup exactly what I said!

Well put.

They can sell more 4 watt legal radios so drivers could turn them up more in power compared to ham radio

A lot of American companies like to rest on their laurels; it's the American way.

Collins, Drake, Swan, Hallicrafters, Hammerlund, National, Heath Kit, Gonset, Knight Kit....who did I leave out of a list of US companies that went out of business because they failed to diversify. Great companies most back before solid state. All gone, just like products in our homes like Zenith, Motorola, Philco, RCA, Dumont, Crosley, GE, and dozens more before 1960. Failure to adapt and cheap overseas labor and parts. People campaigning on returning jobs are just spitting in the wind cause it sounds good I guess. But most people know labor intensive jobs will never come back. In fact with robots and AI, many jobs overseas will disappear. The World is becoming overpopulated even with a negative birth rate just from loss of jobs in the future.

@@Theywaswrong Heathkit didn't fail because they didn't diversify. They had a wide range of products, including TVs & stereos, amateur radio, test equipment, computers and more. I suspect they just couldn't compete on costs.

Clearly that's the case. However, it's 2021, if you're not a pilot, AM suck dix.

Exactly, careful what you wish for people. It's all about big business - you'll see - kiss your hobby goodbye.

Maybe so but let us say in an SHTF situation something like a ZOMBIE apocalypse, an FM band radio would be a welcome addition with shortwave radio.

You got that right

Bob Clark.

Have you listened to channel 9 lately? It's become a Puerto Rican shootout channel with Bleedover six channels in both directions.

@user-kh1yg7tq4r It's been my belief for a while now that the idea of the "emergency channel" has been taken over by cell phone users. It went from channel 9, to hams using the repeater autopatch to call 911, to today where everyone can call 911.

@@oldskooldriver9379 am and ssb don't mix well

When I got my amateur radio license, almost half a century ago, CBers were considered scum of the earth. ;-) The CB band was created from the 11M amateur radio band.

CB doesn't need to be "saved." There is plenty of activity, and FM won't charge that.

Ham is flopping much faster than cb. I monitor both all the time. Cb has remained constant while ham has taken a nose dive. Ham needs to worry about ham and not about cb and Im a general class ham licensee and have held license constantly since 1996

@James C : Unfortunately, with a lot of the new (and, let's be honest, quite a few of the old), neighborhoods having C C &R's, and HOA's, in place that restrict what, if any antennae are going to be available, for those who want to use two-way radios, regardless of the frequency range, it's not going to be "coming back like the 70's and 80's". After all, back then, you didn't have any restrictions, other than local ordinances, on placing your base station antenna system wherever you wanted it to be. Some would be C.B. radio operators also found out the hard way that the power lines near their house were, and are, a "force to be reckoned with" when it comes to antenna system placement.

The beer bug got many people back to CB. I'm one of them as well.

"... if we was home"? Try "if we WERE home"...

Yes!!!!

STRYKER SR-955HP series for the win. Clean audio, plenty of power, stays on freq., has vfo and the list goes on and on. Ranger (RCI) will be poised and ready also. The new Ranger X9 is a powerhouse radio. Options will be out there. My humble opinion.

@@ronb6182 You don't need C.B.? Yet you profess 11 meter is dead?! Crystal ball maybe? You have a "ham license" do ya? Impressive! Glad you shared that with us. I say you are a liar and have zero radio knowledge or you are proof that any idiot can get licensed. Which is it?

@@ronb6182 Which ham frequency do I turn to to know which lane is closed from the accident ahead? Or that the weigh station is open, so I have plenty of time to get in the proper lane?

Yes, but also it's fm so you will be able to understand people a whole lot better

I am right there with ya - now i like to play call of duty and yell at people over the game chat instead of continuous - yeah - this and - yeah that - blah blah blah . cod - kablammy and goody2shoes - those are my 2 names in the game When i first got my HAM license - they gave me KN4GQJ - i could not even say that much less remember it - i got a vanity K7CET - got the license plate for my truck and my motorcycle

My neighbor had an old 23 channel Courier tube base station back then. It was strong you could hear it all over town. I'm pretty sure it was more than 4 watts. More like 10!

I vote for the lower channels being FM since it seems that the higher are popular for SSB

@@user-3tf67bk46u saved me a ton of typing, that’s for sure. 😉

Be careful, your making to much sense here. No seriously though, I tend to agree with you.

There is some frequency hopping going on too. FCC about 30 years behind the times.

All anyone uses the CB for anymore is talking shit.

​, maybe you do but then again the a$$holes hang out on AM, truckers running together go to the sidebands

Below channel 1 would be better, SSB Freebanders use all the Freq. above channel 40. There's a few International calling Freq. above channel 40 that FM would couse problems with.

Who do you plan on taking that spectrum away from?

@@DiggerX digger butt real deep Man .lol.

I miss my old CBer friends; Channel Master, Straight Shooter number One, Twenty Century Fox, Geno Mitchellino, Major One, Earthquake, Fat Man, and many more.

@@williamharshman9572 brother black. Chicken bone. And me junk yard dog .lol

Same here in France, FM is rarely use, too much qrm on weak signal and useless in mobile station. It works great between two base station with solid signal 😁

Fm is crappy on cb. Am reaches further and is easier on the ears. CB doesn't have the fidelity to hear any difference between fm or am modulation

So you have all downfalls of fm and none of it's benefits. Just stay on am and don't fall for this snakeoil

My opinion is that for free-wheeling vast area communications like hf ham and CB, SSB is definitely the way to go. If you have a very active channel with a few people trying to talk around each other, it just ends up sounding like a typical in-person conversation in a room. You can understand everyone even if they're talking at the same time. There's no squeal from heterodyne and nobody "stomps" anyone else no matter how strong they are. It's just louder or softer. I can see this whole FM thing just creating yet another layer of "Mud duck stuck in the mud stomp smack squish! You ain't gettin out! You ain't gettin out! This be the Mr. Magic Radio Master saying no way you gettin out from under my monster truck madness world wide FM station we back QUIEEEETTTTT" 🤣 One on one, though, yeah I can see FM being nice if it has similar reach to AM. The ability to reject AM type interference is a definite plus. Still, seems super weird to me, the idea of working skip on FM, lol. I'm too old school I guess.

Noise is noise. If the skip is in and theres a million carriers on the channel, FM isn’t going to fix or help that. With that much competing RF on the same channel, the FM discriminator won’t have a clue what to do

FM is so much better then AM, it also has a greater range and sounds better. However skip is also present on FM...for a HAM you not that smart😂

​@@VicGreenBitcoinFM is crap 😅 except at short distance between base station with solid signal. Try FM in mobile and you'll see... 🤣🤣

@@14KiloWhisky What's your definition of "crap"? If FM was crap the commercial services wouldn't have embraced it 60 years ago. It has two distinct advantages: not having to constantly fiddle with the squelch, and the ability to use subaudible tone squelches for privacy. That said, it is subject to the same propagation physics as AM or SSB.

To Mark Mayfield if I buy another CB I wouldn't mind getting an old 23 channel model with one that has channel 22A as well as channel 22. My friend had an Eico that had 22A on it. That CB was able to communicate with California from Pennsylvania without a linear amplifier.

Get that backlight fixed man! Those are excellent radios. Hard to beat a 29.

@@notsure7874 I'd like to. Just too busy runnin' to get to a radio shop. Gotta make the Benjamins.

@@markmayfield2228 No doubt. I've been burning the candle at both ends myself. Not gonna get ahead waiting around on money getting handed out right?

@@notsure7874 how do you fix the backlight? I can't find new base is, and it seems the bezel is commonly the issue. My local shop said there's nothing he can do about it. I have 3 NW radios that the backlight doesn't work on

Now that's some good marketing. :)

Tru dat

Lol

with "CD quality"

When they bring DMR or another digital voice mode to CB, they do that branding.

where I lived it was Russian taxis :)

Indeed, Hugo. My first license with call-sign IBBE305, was for 40ch/4W/AM, back in 1978. Afterward came a change with 23ch/500mW/FM, which resulted in Belgium with its many hills and valley's in an effective death sentence for the CB-community.

We had radios in the 70s that had a lot more chanels than 40. Put a little work inside of it you can get more power more modulation and a shit ton more chanels of course this was all illegal then.

10-4, *G E K O L O N I S E E R D!*

@@_-_SK_-_ Yeesh, lol.

AM & FM have similar requirements. It's only SSB that has less than 100% duty cycle.

I remember the CB craze of the 70s. People screamed for "more channels." They were given more channels. What did the people do with those channels? They kept hanging out on channel 19.

You're right 👍 it's "new" , so I need this new stuff... In my country, we don't use FM, too much qrm on weak signal...

Hmm, well, popular, ok, subjective. You are right, when local FM is where it is. SSB is the way for the CB on 11 meters. 73, 2E0FWE.

As a Brit I can tell you that we've been dropping FM into American rigs for years, however if you are going to sit on the ssb calling channel on FM then all hell will break out. When the skip is running we get US ssb blasting through the middle of our domestic FM bands. The frequencies need to be separate for different modes or the whole thing will become unusable. I've still got an old President Lincoln with FM and modified to cover the whole of 10 and 11 metres, there is plenty of room if someone allocates it intelligently.

Yeah except it's not here. So every time you try to establish urgent local communications with someone you are never going to know if they are there. It's going to be a nightmare without a huge majority user base either way.

They have a lot more frequencies too

Uhf is the way to go i think in the UK ,uses small antennas not as long as ugly 11 meters, maybe 40 chn 12.25 5watts i started out on CB in 1979 gave it up 2011 became ham operator found it boring use pmr 446 grat band just need 5 watts instead of 500mw.so uk went tge other way to you guys in the States FM is great

We're operating in reverse. You get AM/SSB...now we're getting FM. :)

@@K0LWC Just like the old "town circles" (or roundabouts) and rotary doors (which also go one way here in the other way there).

Better late than never..

Just as Europe switched to digital TV - LONG before the good ole USA came along, leading from the caboose as usual.

The UK FM channels was a good move. Reduced QRM from other countries probably made those channels better for the local users. FM sounds quite good compared to other modes. I am using it on two metres, and I would not even consider AM use there...

They where sold, but they where not legal until the mid or late 90's. All imported / modified sets in the 1980's. And that was all due to the power restrictions of 0,5W in the early days. Just a little bit more "juice" was needed :)

@John Cliff That's right, AM can be more easily detected by AF amps than FM. But RF interference (carrier signal) causing hum is the same for both modulation techniques at the same carrier strength (FM is always full power, AM is 1/4th carrier and 3/4 modulation side bands).

@John Cliff I'm from the EU. Had FM/AM radio's all my life. Almost never used AM because FM is superior in audio. And its fine for DX too. Granted i use SSB as well. But AM rarely used that mode. I think Americans gonna be pleased with FM mode finally added.

Legal ssb is only 4watt pep in the Netherlands ( 2001 until now ) The most of Europe has 10 or 12 watt on ssb. AM max 4 watts. But almost everyone uses export radios these days. Cb at home is barely usable due PLC's, solar power and cheap led lights or charges.

Is niet helemaar waar want vroeger in de jaren 70 was het AM. Dat weet ik nog. Later werdt het FM 22 kanalen half watt in 1980 legaal..AM wordt bijna niet gebruikt in verband met storing en SSB wordt gebruikt meestel in de hogere kanalen. Zover ik weet export bakkies....

Rogo Rogo 10-4 on that, I'm back quiet.

FM is worse than AM because you only have the carrier power & Zero forward output power like AM & SSB.Totally Useless & for sure on 11 meters.

Citizens Band in Canada now no longer requires a licence. But the good antennas are pretty expensive, and not so easy to set up.

As far away as Michigan!! but we don’t know where you are. lol 😂 but I definitely believe it i’ve talked over 3000 miles on a handheld 4 W battery powered Uniden with AM skip anything is possible❤❤❤

We had the Midland Radios in our taxi cabs. They had to be a foot and a half long. Good heavy mikes. We could hear the dispatcher, we couldn't hear the other drivers.

Not many truckers have C.B.s

@@MrArchiearcher sorry, 😁 you're right, I never mentioned I was in NYC at the time.

@@smokingjoe9864 When did this happen?

They may be trying to limit power output. People will be reluctant to use high power with the antennae next to their head. Having a remote antennae, such as a mobile unit entices them to increase the power.

I was speaking to someone who has some sway with new regulations in Canada and I can tell you that one reason they don't permit GMRS high power mobiles is to force people over to ham radio....Which is dumb. They HATE cb'ers.... It HAM operators who help shape the spectrum in Canada and their bias makes the situation the way it is.

Even Australia has mobile vehicle mounted UHF. What's up Canada? Come on. We Yankees may wish to talk to our northern brethren on more than two cans and string.

Or maybe it's just about control like they are trying to control your truckers.

@@davidbrock4104 yes we have uhf cb which is still a bloody mess because no consultation was done with its deployment would of been better to deliver it on its own dedicated freq rather than over lay it over existing wide band plans and making narrow band and digital totally unusable.. in the cb spectrum of UHF And it is a separate license to run a repeater system in australia My opinion on both gmrs and frs is nothing but a poor man's uhf and vhf ham radio service .. Noting that typically to operate within 50-80 watts you typically using a radio in a repeater mode with 5-8 watts allowable input within 5km of a 50-200 foot repeater site .. noting ht's typically on only achieve 1-1.5 km range, mobile radios typically have a 2.5 km radius range with overlap 5km is about 4-5km As long as the skip is running 1500km is doable on HF 27MHz.. to be honest if we applied channeling to 21-24.999 and 28-29.999 or even upto 50MHz we'd have plenty of rag chew space, fm reception has been available in Australia though it usually only reception of broadcast FM as typically back in the 80's it was common place to replace your radio with a cb due to limited space in the motor vehicle..

or that 200 gtl (i think) export lol

ElectroGaming Been using a COBRA 148GTL-DX for years. FM CB works quite well from my experience.

Export radios were junk.

It's worth adding that the extra 40 were achieved by going narrow band fm (2.5khz deviation) and putting the extra channels in the gaps created by narrowbanding. So you do get some adjacent channel issues with older 40 channel radios. They still 'talk' to each other, though NB sounds a bit soft on wideband and wideband is overdeviating to a NB radio, but you can live with it.

Similarly we have Family Radio Service 462 megahertz band. And for a small fee you can be licensed for General Mobile Radio Service for the same frequencies at considerably higher power than the power limits for AM CB radio which is only 4 Watts whereas GMRS gives you up to 50 Watts and repeater use similar to amateur radio.

​@@therealwolfspidertoo Our 477mhz CB is 5w narrowband (2.5khz) or wideband (5khz) FM and high gain antennas and repeaters are allowed. It's a free 'class' license, as long as you use type approved equipment, you don't need an individual license of any kind. Same for the old 27mhz CB as in the US. It's all free to use.

Key thing to note is that UHF left 27MHz alone and it is still used in some niche circumstances where it makes sense, I like the audio quality of UHF. Putting FM on top of your existing band sounds like a bad idea (unless you think you are going to sell more radios). What chance it will just make the whole CB space a bigger mess and less attractive?

@@geoffroberts1126 didn't use to be I rember 27 mhz had 20$ liscence in the 70s I was not adult yet so my father signed up the liscence for me thinking the fcc would be monitoring closely!! Ha ha I didn't complain cause he also got me my 1st ssb a browning baron that was hecka radio.to have as your first ssb before that I had 23 ch rad shack mobile

The good old days, FM was noisy though 😂

@@T200026 ...sure was, I think the amount of idiots made it noisier, you always got a better quality breaker on AM ...this is of course my experience ,so no offense meant before we all jump on our war horses !!!.

In the United States, CB radio has been largely superseded by GMRS/FRS (basically the same thing) radio which is currently the primary two-way radio of general consumers. In other words, this will barely be an issue as most people no longer use CB radio anymore. Heck even truckers are using GMRS more and more these days.

If the audio stages are made properly, the FM mode should be as loud as or louder than the AM side. I think on a lot of "export" type radios, the FM was an after-thought or another "feature" they could boast their radio as having, but which was not seriously used. I had an AnyTone "Smart CB" in my last car. It would do AM or FM. Talked with a ham friend who slid down to 11m and we were both amazed at the quality of the audio realized. I hope the manufacturers are quick to take advantage of the new FM feature by adding CTCSS/DCS squelch capability to these new dual mode radios.

@@grigorirasputin5020 I agree that it comes down to how far they decide to take their designs and builds as far as quality goes. Cannot say for sure they will go as far as CTCSS/DCS but you never know because these days they can build quality receivers (and transmitters) for a fraction of the cost of the older stuff. I too have a Anytone 5555n and for the price of that radio it sounds great on FM. I also run a Stryker SR-94HPC in the truck which is a common chassis you will find under a lot of different names and that radio is also stable and the FM is good quality on that radio too. If you remember the old mobile Midland 23 channel radios and even some of their early 40 channel radios they had the "delta tune" on the front of them which was another way of saying they were not temperature stable and through the years the radio manufactures were getting the hint and making improvements to stabilize them because in cars and trucks they would see major temperature swings that would degrade the receive bad enough to stand out like a sore thumb due to the IF shifting all over the place. When I would do FM mods on those older radios you would have to change out caps especially around the reference oscillators with temperature stable caps which would make them work great for FM conversions across a wide temperature range. Why they didn't take that step over adding the "delta tune" is beyond me. AM is a bit more forgiving were FM will muffle out if the IF window shifts even by 1Khz. I guess it comes down to these manufactures sticking to a standard especially with a lot of this crap coming here out of China but I agree with you that a well aligned stable radio can sound really top shelf on FM. FM and SSB is my personal favorite modes. It's funny that over in England they were only allowed to use FM CB radio rigs until somewhere around 2014 and now they can run FM, AM and SSB but what is crazier is they were always allowed to use 100 watts of transmit power on their rigs without a license! Go figure...

This isn't digital FM, it's analog FM. I primarily use analog FM - on GMRS, and amateur and marine VHF and UHF. When you have repeaters, it's hard to beat. I also have digital FM, and it's great too - zero noise, but you either have it, or you don't. It's even more so like that than analog FM. On CB I use AM where the locals hang out, or SSB to squeeze a bit more range out of it.

My bumper sticker. I love cats . Dead ones .lmao.

I love cats.lol.

CB should only permit am/ssb QRP Transmissions , taking Advantage of Skywave .

Most radios will have a selector switch, AM, SSB, FM. if one don't work for you flip a switch.

So were the 70's. :)

Duke . That's a big 10/4 Good Buddy .

If the band is dead, who's going to be buying these FM radios? Seems like a better marketing plan for Cobra would be to redesign their CB radios to operate on 10 meters and sell them to hams, especially considering we are going into another sunspot cycle.

@@lindaitken3321 Breaking News...CB radios have been "modified" for 10 Meters for decades. I have 2. One is a Galaxy 99V and the other is a RCI 2970. Both have been made TX/RX 24M-30M. And yes, I'm also a ham

@@chetklugjr626I know that Radio Shack had a 10 meter rig, but I don't see anything in QST advertising them these days.

Yes. True

They'd rather have us shoot one another. One goes to jail, the other to the graveyard. Gets two signals off the air.

Still legal on 10m i believe. The early Central Electronics 10 and 20a models had it too. Easy way to modulate without big modulators and transformers. AM receivers could hear it by tuning off center a bit. Nice idea but never caught on. AF67 was a great radio for it day

I'm only in if they make it 100kW. I want to compete with my local broadcast stations. 😁

don't you mean minimum 50 kw

Wow, DMR would be cool ! - And on the Superbowl Channel 6 thing: They use massive amplifiers with thousands of watts on one-band. Meanwhile Hams can talk farther with only 100 watts on 40 meters.

DMR sounds like complete crap. keep that digital garbage off of these frequencies.

DMR sounds fine, especially compared to D-STAR

My ranger 3500 has been modified to cover cb band. It has FM AM Upper side band and lower. Been using mostly on side band. FM is great but it's only line of site like marine band is. It's much clearer than AM USB and LSB. FM has it's pros and cons. I'm a side band person for the most part.

@@paulmazzola398 FM skips the same way as AM and SSB. It's all RF.

@@BubbaWarbucks Agreed, but with a caveat... It depends on the bandwidth and eventual spectral density of the signal. The same watt, does more with a 3khz ssb signal than a 12.5 or 25khz wide fm signal.

@@gravesclay We'll see what the deviation they decide on is. The FCC just went from 25kHz to 12.5kHz for commercial radio traffic, which works fine. Tough to accomplish that when your channels are but 10kHz apart!

@@gravesclay Also I've worked into Europe on 10M FM, and that's at 5kHz deviation.

For sure, exports have been around a long time, but I think those have mainly gone to the hardcore folks. Having all radios start coming with FM will be a long-term change over a period of years for 11 meters that will be different.

The biggest effect to this change is going to be newcomers to the radio hobby that have no clue what they're doing. I've been a CB operator for many years and most of us hardcore and long time CB operators are already using export radios that are modified and most of those radios already have FM. And yes I agree with you 100% on the power wars for those who decide to broadcast on FM. AM is more modulated based versus FM where it's more signal based. But I can tell you I still have not heard anyone making the switch to FM so it will be interesting to see what happens in the years to come.

I still have a 300 watt. One.

Say that again? Put what in FM?

@@vsmichael1 keep getting sauteed

wow, you need at least 20 watts mobile. I used 10-11-12 meters AM/FM/SSB with 100 watts (switchable 50 watts to 100watts). We were only allowed access to 11 meters with 5 watts max which was laughable. We would be all over 10 to 12 meters and some had mods for more expansion. I never heard of anyone caught doing any of this.

I've got an old portable communication receiver (Sangean ATS 803a) here in the UK and sometimes listen to the FM CB Comms using that method. So I'm guessing ppl with old CBs could be easily confused if they pick up stuff not realising it's FM.

Watts & antennas fixes that, but FM will not.

Generally 5 miles is enough for our sectors in a moving rig. IF you broadcast 25 miles out, it does not leave open air for flash-traffic incident reports inside for others to alert those closer. Things happen in seconds. You think about your own skin in dominant power, but it's misused and deadly. Kills people.

There's a thoughtless inconsiderate imbecile in Florida who seemingly talks skip exclusively on 19, a prime example of what you're talking about.

Skip isn’t dictated by am, fm, or ssb. If the band is open, it’s open. Regardless of which mode you’re using.

noise reduction button and a squelch works just as well, hahaha

It has been many years since I spent much time on CB. But if memory serves, SSB is typically used on 35 through 40. I could easily see something like that happening for FM.

Power communicate down power lines??? What decade you in?? Our gas company uses mini digital phone data transfer or a tiny cell phone style after they added one to my house my son's cell phone gathered interference since his room was backed up to the transmitting meter as he stepped to central part of house the interference stopped the meter utilizes both solar power and battery to transmit never saw the company swap batteries or transmitter in 10 years + but I believe they do cause they still want meter cleared to 3' radius around it

Maybe truckers want 19 for FM. I really don't know. Maybe make the same rule as with Ham radio. Ask if the channel is being used. If not then call for a breaker or in Ham CQ. Then there should not be interference on that channel. I remember radio Shack had a non license cb for doing Morse code on channel 14. I bet that drove CB'ers crazy trying to talk with all the beeping in the background. Even though it was on a 100 mw radio.

@@ronb6182 Def need to bring back CB morse code channel 14, but not fake AM beeping to AM reciever, true carrier pulsating and a 455 khz BFO equipped reciever, to make almost 8 qso's possible on the one channel, with open clarifier.

This really screws the truck stops that have piles of am rigs for sale. Hopefully they take one more step while the FCC rule vault is open, and include the Euro and UK channels into the band in the USA, because that is where all the radios will ship from, and not need hacking, and not ruin AM/SSB channels.

In the early1960s the FCC tried an experiment: 100 milliwatt license free operation on the radio control channels. Voice and Morse code. Despite a ton of hype from the magazines (you have to look for S9 Magazine and Electronics Illustrated) it never took hold and the one radio made for this is rare as hens teeth.

Those channels are allocated to the US military. There are sites on here that have the ones to avoid listed.

It's a little too late for that don't u think. I know what ur talking about, but truckers have been going through that crap for 45 years or more.

Yes, I'm a driver & this interference on ch 19 is aggravating.

most yards I go to have a sign up to tune to their specific channel (and it's not 19)

FM is terrible for weak signal communication. You can understand SSB and AM signals during quiet conditions that don't even move the needle. If CB is intended for short range communication only, it should have never been on 11 meters. It should have been on VHF / UHF.

@I AM the ONE Man REVOLUTION [ ccw ] then there were more

except for the people pushing a billion tx watts all over the globe.

I don’t think imports are the majority of CB radios in the U.S. - not by a long shot.

@@K0LWC Let's see, what sells more. A 40 channel Cobra for $39 or a "10 meter channelized radio" for $75 on Amazon. It isn't rocket science to figure out.

@@coheher well hopefully this move will backfire on cobra and presidential radios. They just lost my sale. If you count all the Bofang transceivers out there I would say China has a big foot in the market.

Exactly

@@coheher trucker/ham here. Na, most truckers are running basic cb's, and don't even know what swr is or means. I was running an rci2950 as a CB, only used it properly tho. Never came across a dude running hella watts near me at a truck stop (to my knowledge). I wouldn't be surprised if most big guns on 11m these days were dudes runnin ham radios..

Tone use will help a LOT. As will the digital transition once that hits in a future FCC game play

FM will result in much shorter communication distances with cb, since no repeater involved.

FM's bandwidth is measured in " kHz deviation", not modulation percentage as with AM. Overdeviation typically results in the signal being unreadable due to its bandwidth exceeding that of the receiver. Cranking the mod up on a FM transmitter results in no one being able to hear you.

The maximum frequency deviation and thus bandwidth of an FM signal is fixed by the transmitter and does not increase with increasing audio level. Driving more audio into an FM transmitter will simply distort the audio; the bandwidth of the signal will not increase.

as always

Classic..

The people who amp accross country on 6 really piss me off. Half the time its not even intelligible audio, and it always interrupts my scan.

@@Mac-tw3zu You are correct and it is a shame that a few can ruin it for many.

@@Mac-tw3zu yeah...."blah,blah,blah... I'm king this or that, you're not and I'm out..bye bye bye"....