Subj : Re: CB experiments
To : fusion
From : Bob Worm
Date : Wed Feb 05 2025 07:02 pm
Re: Re: CB experiments
By: fusion to Ginger1 on Tue Feb 04 2025 13:40:00
Hi, fusion.
> nice looking radio. only FM though so you won't be able to talk to anyone on
> SSB around 27.555 .. not that i'd condone such things (he he he)
SSB is actually legal in the UK now, license free (on purpose built radios and to 12W PEP). I guess compliance to both is minimal but I doubt many people get their collars felt unless they take the mick...
> i don't know which channels are popular in the UK (or if they even match in
> frequency.. you'll have to look it up) but let's say it's like the US and
> you want channel 19. so you cut two wires around 8ft 7.3inches (sorry m8
> lol) ..
For my area at least, yeah - channel 19. It was fiercely maintained as the calling channel back in the day but people seem to just as often sit on there chatting nowadays. Not enough traffic to warrant a calling channel maybe?
Call me a wuss but I'm not sure I'd want to key up on a home made aerial without measuring the SWR first - these days we are spoiled with nanoVNA and the like :)
