CB Antenna Help

As far as I know, yes. 19 is still considered the "truckers channel". However you might find it a bit quieter now than it was 25 years ago...except for when skip rolls in. No one is really to be found on the radio anymore. Except for 19 on the interstates you might catch a trucker or two.

Even channel 9 is pretty much dead...in terms of you'd be better off using your cell phone in an emergency.

 

I'm not sure about where Turbo T is, but there are still plenty of trucks on 19. You can't always get a hold of all of them, since some of them are on the phone or listening to the FM radio. Unfortunately, there is sometimes a lot of nonsense on 19 too, like advertising, or some bozo singing, whistling, or playing music. If you're coming straight across 40, you'll probably turn the radio off when you get to West Memphis, AR, lots of noise, advertising, and undercover cops selling drugs on the radio. Real circus.

Skip is when radio transmissions bounce off the atmosphere and come back down to earth in a different area.

 

Is Jinks one of my drinking buddies from RMH?

 

It's still not legal, but it happens. Some of them are even recordings, they come on and interrupt whatever was going on. The worst is "Go ahead driver, you got the truck wash," when no one called them, that's just how they try to get you to pay attention. It drives me nuts.

 

I'm in central Missouri. I'm about 2 miles from a fairly major highway and 18 miles from I-70. I didn't say no one used the radio anymore, I said it's more quiet than it used to be. Around here, you might hear a trucker on the radio once in awhile. But the last 39 channels I don't hear the neighbors or their friends.

And yes there's advertisements on the CB. There's a truck wash 18 miles from me off I-70 that advertises their truck was service every 5 minutes or so. And then I've been traveling along I-70 and heard some guy repeat he'd polish the chrome on your rims for $XX.XX. No it's not legal to do this but Uncle Charlie either doesn't care enough or just doesn't know.

Skips where the signals bounce around and the channels all sound noisy with everyone trying to jam onto them all at once. You'll especially hear people on 6 with thousands of watts of power hollering off their call signs....like "this is 593 in the Carolinas waving a big hand at y'all and I just got down".