Here’s a good link providing more info on CB use and limitations.
CB is noisy and limited in range.
However, something is better than nothing.
Some Emergency Services monitor CB channel 9.
However, police, fire and ambulance operate on frequencies specifically designated for their use.
This thread is for discussing alternate means of getting reliable news and communicating with fellow freepers.
CB does not fulfill those purposes.
As a side note on CB, I have found that stations running high power amps (illegal) usually are making DX contacts on channel 38 lower sideband (SSB). I personally have a general ham license and run an all band, all mode mobile unit with a screwdriver antenna on my vehicle. I also keep an old sideband CB with a separate 102” whip just to cover that band, too.
A modified 10meter radio will get it done, after the WROL arrives of course.
‘CB does not fulfill those purposes...’
I agree that CBs are far from ideal, but there are plenty of them out there and can help network.
I’m thinking that Jim Robinson should have a mailer option. If the internet is disrupted, we write in and request the mailer that can load us with various info after this plan is thoroughly hashed out. Could tag a contribution for the mailer perhaps.
That way people who are ‘late to the game’ can get regular ‘field manual’ updates such as radio frequency games.
Yes, the word ‘game’ is perfectly legal in almost any banana republic [rather than in-your-face subversive code books] — ‘find that radio frequency’. A code game.