CB activity in Southern Missouri

If you can reach them you have a crowd on 2 and 21 AM in Springfield, and below you in Mountain Home an evening (and morning if they are up) crowd on 37 USB. Also 28 AM has a group but they are further southwest from you. Not like it used to be but if you patiently scan around you will discover a few. Also a group around Bull Shoals as well as around Berryville but you need a decent station and antenna in your area. A nice beam with a rotor helps but keep a good vertical for times it is needed.

 

If you have access to and use freeband frequencies try 26.915 MHz. (5 channels below channel 1).There is a nationwide club based in Branson that uses this frequency.They hold a Large CB Break every summer, it is an old school eyeball type break not a keydown competition..This summer will be the 30th anniversary of the break and is scheduled for June 15-17 2012.

http://26915club.com/upcoming.html

 

It's pretty dead compared to how it used to be. The truckers are all on the cell phone, or listening to XM radio. The base station folks are all on the computer or watching TV. In the old days we only got 3 TV stations, now everybody has cable or satellite, or they are on the computer!

 

Same up north here in Warrensburg, Sedalia, not much activity here. Not unless skip was rolling.

 

Hey guys Im around the Mountain Grove Area are there any shops around here that are close?

 

I think it is also because you have a lot of new drivers out there now. They get a radio and turn it on. Obviously they sound "new". And immediately somebody is on there running them down and trash talking them and giving them a hard time, doing the "CB Rambo" thing. So they turn it off and never even get interested in it. People aren't as courteous and helpful as they used to be.

P.S. I learned how to drive a truck running up U.S.65 to northern MO in a grain bucket. There used to be a lot of CB activity between the AR line and Springfield.

 

Im in nevada mo and theres not much activity here but skip so i just shoot it anytime i can lol