I have recently come back to CB radio and happily surprised at the new available freqs that are now available thank you for the explanation on these over the standard muppet freqs. I have recently purchased the same radio you were using and also have a ss9900 for possible mobile use too I have an antenna indoors that’s not exactly ideal but have got out 9miles simplex fm. Have purchased one of those t2 l wire antennas and a telescopic pole for DX work plus I can quickly put up in garden and take mobile to an elevated site. Thanks again for your valuable information as CB has changed so much plus the DX scene is where the excitement is without having to be a ham operator

27.385 is the freq. my friend and I use. We both have President McKinley AM / SSB radios. His antenna is 13.716 meters in height. My antenna is 16.4592 meters in height. The distance between our homes is a bit over 9 kilometers. Even during the daytime, when the skip is rolling along we get up over all of it and communicate in good order. We have talked with one station near the airport in Mio, Michigan, in the States ,that is 72 kilometers distant. We've used our CB radios so often we had to replace the microphones with new ones.

I was into cb in the late 70s and early 80s and had a ham international mulitmode 2. We had great solar activity and I regularly got round the world on 27mhz ssb on 5 watts. The first one was the blue ridge mountains in the USA. I nearly had a heart attack, it blew me away how I could talk to someone thousands of miles away. Good days!

Thank you Fred.< wonderful simple instructions for me to understand. I’m glad you don’t talk too complicated in order for me to understand. JET 75 , 26.

OMG well i have just taken delivery from Knights a ss6900, 10amp power supply and SWR meter, i purchased a SLIM jim for 11meters of ebay and we are away, just been watching your best cb dx freq video.😃

Very Interesting Fred I have learnt a lot, what you described in this video was exactly what I was having difficulties with and I thank you for that. Love the way you explain things very clear and easy to follow. Keep up the good work Fred. 77's Black Jack Gt Yarmouth Norfolk UK

Hi Fred , thank you for sharing & great information as always . I'm monitoring those channels & frequencies & hopefully I'll finally make a contact across the pond .

Phew !! I thought you were going to give away the call frequencies for all my favourites..Oz NZ Germany both bands and US DX .... Good for beginners though...nice video don't forget guys if it is busy ....there will be at least..500 stations calling the station you are, if ONLY 50 stations from 10 EU countries are calling too.....and there maybe alot more !!!.. as north America may be calling southern states too... It's a jungle out there at times.. patience and a little skill is the KEY...

Fred, I'll look for you on 26,805 FM. It's been great working the U.K. from stateside on FM. Station here consists of a President Ronald @50W into a Maco V beam. 73!

I am in the USA in NY . the CB skip has been crazy the past few months. been getting the UK early mooring NY time. the 555 and below. even 385 LSB. I even got DX on FM to the UK . some needle bender calls from the UK. I am using home made antenna from a park on battery. end fed half wave with ground plain on the ground. fiberglass pole hold wire up. 49:1 UNUN . get a great tune. 1.3 or less. also using the T2LT coax antenna on a DX commander pole. used Moonraker RG 8X coax . 65mm plastic bottle ends cut off for coil form. tunes 1.1 SWR to about 1.5 SWR threw the bands. using the Anytone 5555N II and 20 or 50 Ah LiFePO4 battery .I just got Midlands the outher day. nice girl in Derbyshire . one near London . I herd Nottingham but did not hear me, my antenna wire is made in England . great stuff. DX commander sells it. DX 10 and DX 50. I use his 10 meter fiberglass pole and the 7 meter one as well. 73's . Boston NY/USA

27.355mhz LSB is used a lot in Australia/New Zealand for chat and monitoring.

cheers fred i have just got myself a crt ss 9900 after my failed attempt on the 42nd big net with my thunderpole t-800. really struggling to use it so far ive even had to reprogram it as the uk muppets wasn't on there. i have had a good play around today after watching a few of your videos this one has given me some hope to getting a contact now i am more educated on where your all hiding lol cheers ct4731👍

Thanks Fred I get overwhelmed with the freq choice aswell so yeah great video subject. Nice one.

Thanks for your advice and quick response 👍🏾 very useful information as always.

Have been watching for dx on FM noticed pond successes on 26.705 26.805 and yes it makes it sometimes better than standard modes

Really interesting post Fred - thanks for the upload. I just love listening to the superbowl channel, its hilarious some of the banter on there, I dont want to know what power those guys are running ! 27.555 is my goto channel on the CRT, its great to listen in. Good advice on how to have a QSO as well, would be nice if some 'amateurs' on 80m would remember that as well ;)

Thanks Fred. We may be close enough to cross waves at some point😅 . I'm in South Cambs. Cheers

US frequency band in the 11 m band ends at 27.405. I have noticed a lot of activity above it and below 10 meters lately

Here in Finland, 27.555 is still a good starting point, and the last month mid band, 30 up to 40, L S B very active. 56CT004

Nice one Fred, and as always - Thank you 👍 .385 has (over the years) gradually been approaching "Super Bowl" status in some areas, so trying to make a real QSO is almost impossible depending on where you are, and where the skip happens to be coming from. There are other SSB channels where traffic is a rarity, and as many times as it's mentioned and or discussed in Facebook radio groups, or Radio website forums for sidebanders to use a channel other than 38 (35, 36, 37, 39, 40, and 16) - nothing changes. At the least, when calling CQ on 38 (even if all you're hearing is "11111111111111..") before you unkey the mic, ask for stations to move to one of the other channels to establish a QSO. Reasons: 1. It's polite 2. your conversations will last longer than 20 seconds and 3. It reduces traffic on 38 while increasing traffic on the other channels. When SKIP is active (and we're in the new sunspot cycle, so SKIP is almost an everyday occurrence, at least for my station in Texas) you'll find more stations listening for a CQ call on a frequency other than 27.385. This method has been successful for years more often than not on the Triple Nickel, so the concept is proven. As well, you won't need a huge amount of output power to have fun. But running excessive power, is another topic for another time. Afterthought: an overrun channel 38 could almost be a Simpsons episode. Homer and family are about to take a trip. There are several different ways out of Springfield, but Homer says to Marge: "Let's take Route 5 Marge... Marge replies: "Homer, that's a terrible choice! Traffic is bumper to bumper on that road". Homer nods slowly and says: "Exactly......".

The Netherlands 27.125 FM But I am not a fan of FM modulation in the Netherlands. That's why I've been on 27,555 USB and 27,385 LSB for years.

Great video, Fred. Thank you.

27.025 (CB channel 6 AM here in the US) is often times virtually unusable in this part of the world. That and 27.085 (channel 11) on AM as well. There are way too many people running ridiculous amount of power on these channels. And over here in the US they are referred to as the "super bowl" channels. 27.385 LSB (channel 38) does well here.

27.985 Holland Rotterdam..near channel39uk haha..

Mr Fred great video as always But i believe 27.555 in the US is a mars frequency

channel 28 am 27.2850 great dx channel here in the USA.

Fred in the shed i heard your friend pual on 27.395 lsb he was booming in to rockwood,tn USA 42 miles west of knoxville,tn yesterday i have video him on my youtube channel on CB Radio SCAN Morning DX LAND UK Vs USA Nov 21,2023 tell pual look at the video this was on my quad5 on macov5000 at 20ft.

Managed Peru from UK (briefly)

Also I would get a frequency chart as well if you got channel rig. If a dx'er says qsy to 27.375, when the person try to find the frequency there might lost the contact. If he had a frequency chart,he will know it is channel 37

tbh 6,11,28 are pretty much impossible to make a contact on normally when skip is rolling here. Just too many stations with too much power blowing out the frequencies. The 36,37,38,39,40 lsb etc can work quite well, but when skips good, there are so many stations on that it's hard to hold a conversation unless both of you are the loudest ones on the channel. No way I'd ever be able to hear Europe on 38lsb here on a good day. I'm usually able to work people stateside on AM from 12-35, and working people on lsb is usually easy, but hard to hold a convo. There are usually always some guys that hang out on 27.420-5 lsb that are outside of the riff raff of the standard 40. 27.455usb is the latam call channel, always a lot of activity there, good place to hang out if you know spanish. A lot of spanish speaking us stations are there. In the US I hear mostly mexican stations running in that range running from 430-500 in usb. Of course 27555 usb is the main DX call channel, and most of the exciting stuff I hear is from 27500-27650. Beyond that there are a couple random spanish freqs like 665usb 695lsb and 715usb. Occasionally brazil up in that range as well. Very little FM, but I met a few guys in MN that run FM on ch 25 almost every afternoon. "The Japanese Superbowl" also seems to be on ch4 AM and comes thru here sometimes.

6 11 19 28 37 38 and sometimes 17

I managed to pickup faint DX from USA with my Radioddity CB-27 using a 27Mhz telescopic and on my Thunderpole TX using supplied rubber duck & telescopic on EU band Ch6 (27.025Mhz) AM. Obviously no chance of responding with only 4watt output plus lack of a decent antenna.

Good video Fred !

With all these bands on my radio i only ever use a few- never heard anyone lower than mid block. (26)

good video very interesting

channel 17 euro band AM alot of station booming in,i c a guy name popcorn 913 i think he is in usa he stream 24/7 on youtube

How you hammer the channel selector its amazing you dont knacker it up, ive knackered two by hammering them, more so on the 6900 lol

I was on 27.555 earlier and some jerk was angry about it. Just called CQDX….

Another good video Fred the shed

A great video. You really are my go-to as I am trying to rekindle a 40 year old urge! I couldn't find you on FB so hope you pick this up. In this vid, youbuse the 9600, I have the AT-5555 derivative. It looks as though you have programmed in the ".25" frequencies for the UK 40. I can only add the ".25" manually on a per channel basis. Could you share your secret please? 73s, 26CT2155

27.385 …lsb

hey fred do any VHF freebanding i wish more people will use that as well. Here in America we have MURS which isnt used much if at all.

Don't Forget 27, 285 Mhz LSB Very Active For State Side 👍👍

Hi, im in the midlands, I cant use UK40 or .555 due to severe QRM buzzing. When im mobile away from home it clears. Bizzare. 73s 26SM15

29,6200 repeater fm mode if you have one of these multi mode radios

I have the ss6900n can someone please point me in the right direction for a decent video or written instructions to program the UK FM and all the sidebands please

Hi fred does freezing temperatures affect reception using 6900v siri gangmaster out in shed have got bar heaters on wall Ariel affixed to washing pole as in rented bungalow getting a lot of noise at times any suggestions much appreciated cant get antenna higher using 10 amp power box wife tries to help but reg blind so have to keep things simple carry on the good work been a big help

A lot of phrases and abbreviations are alien to old school cb’ers whats DX means for example.

Fred i had a tiger 40a AM early 80s looking to get back into CB whats a good rig to start with am/fm usb etc freq counter as well, its no so simple now a days lol. Help me fred.........

27.775

What power do you use , standard 4watts ??

Witch one is better anytone 5555plus/n or alinco 135 DX 10 thank you

27.425LSB....477...577

Is it legal to transmit on 27.555

Anything above 27.405 mhz is NOT a CB freq.