cb radio

I reckon everyone has had an occasion where they would love to of been able to track somebleepbrain for being an idiot on the radio.

Leroy

I remember in the good old days of 27Mhz that you could make a directional antenna. You would drive to one location and point it in the direction of best reception and draw a line on your map. You could then repeat this process a few times in different locations to find the approximate location.

I imagine it would be possible with UHF too although if the guy is using a repeater you would need to hear him on the uplink channel before you could undertake this process otherwise all you will find is the repeater.

Obviously the guy needs to be stationary for this to work. If he is driving around he would be near impossible to locate.

Utemad

27 meg? Yes.
UHF Within a reasonable area, but depends where he is, bush, city, open area, repeaters etc..

Simple Answer (if he is stationary) - Yes
Practical Answer - No (because YOU probally HAVE a life, and don't have the time and or money to spend on following some indiot around the suburbs).
They know this, that's why the carry on like morons.

Driving across the West Gate Bridge in Melb and on the ring road quite often can be heard some clown singing and creating havoc on the truckie chan 40.
He does it so often that he must be at a fixed location, maybe locked in his bedroom.
I am sure the truckies would like to be able to trace him, and then all drive to his place some evening.
betoota

I understand that the ACA has the ability to track locations, it actually wouldn't be too difficult if you had a few fixed locations with directional antennas.

If he is breaking the rules of the group license (that's not the right term) then they may be interested enough to do something, (but then again they may not)

simple really,,,,,,get a group of four or five vehicles, start at a central point where you thing he/she might be. fan out into circular pattern, then slowly close in, wqatching the signal strengh. as the strengh increases, turn down the squelch. you can usually get within three or four houses by doing this.
a few of us over here did it when we had a kid swearing at us all day long. knocked on his door (large antennae was the final giveaway ), had a chat with his dad, and the kid got a flogging for being such a pain.

rick.