Use of UHF Channel 40

Might want to change that statement Mike to
" Truckies use Ch40 all around Australia - except between Brisbane and Sydney along the Pacific Hwy. "

Avagoodn
Pezza

Check out the Communications sections in the "On the Road" section in the EO menu above.

An easy to understand section is covered in the Communications Equipment Review page.

Andrew

I agree with you wyrss, always gotta be some minority group of cretins who spoil it for everyone...

Agree with Bob,

Channel 29 is the "road channel" for the Pacific Highway (don't know why)

Stu

2 reasons, first one is that before the pacific hwy was opened up to B-doubles they all used the New England Hwy along with quite a few singles, in a lot of high spots you would pick up conversation from the New England on the Pacific and vice versa, the UHF is used for more than just general chit chat by interstate drivers, quite a lot of it's use is safety orientated and the interference from the other hwy wasn't doing anyone any good so it was decided to use 29.
The second reason is that along the Pacific you travel through a lot of larger towns, hence there are more of the abovementioned " rabbits " than on a normal run of the same length, by using ch29 it keeps th truckies away from all the garbage these clowns carry on with thinking everyone is using 40.
This is the reason ch29 is not publicised, the less know about it the more peacefull it stays, so do all the truckies a favour and SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH !

Avagoodn
Pezza

Pezza,

I've travelled a lot of this country and can count on one hand the amount of discussions on channel 40 between truckies that were safety related, unless you regard advising of a police car or radar location as safety.

Most of their chit chat is nothing more than where someone is going or where they've been.

There are times when you pick up, by accident, an oversize escort advising other semis whichis handy so you can be prepared for them especially out near the mines where the loads are really really wide.

Mind you I do switch it one when travelling up to Brisbane and it has given me a headsup of traffic problems to avoid.

Somebody should track them down - it's not difficult to do especially with the UHF frequencies and mapping software would make it even simplier. Once found either a call to the ACA or a pin through the antennal cable will do the trick.

In my experience UHF CB is totally unusable in the cities due to the average IQ of most of the users being about 20!

Mike Harding