CB protocol

**LandyAndy** · 19th March 2007, 07:51 PM

Hi BM
I turn mine off when I hit Bedfordale hill(Armadale).
Prefer CH40,if there are any trucks around travelling opposite directions you get all the updates for the next 100ks.Only gets annoying if you are in travelling range of trucks heading in the same direction,they can dribble on and on and on.
Always handy to know where the "blue bubble tops"are and where they are"hanging out the hair dryer"
Andrew

**easo** · 15th June 2007, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by DiscoTDI

What I cant stand is when you have conversations with wannabe truckies and they end conversations with roger that or copy that and your face to face with them.

Roger is a ligit Milatary term, Copy means get ready to write somthing down, positve or negitive is for D/Heads it's just yes or no.

**Blknight.aus** · 15th June 2007, 09:10 PM

ohhh Ratel....

4 years of sitting in an acv doing 18 hour pickets for the tankies support squadron....

how in depth do you want to go..

Roger, message recieved
Over, Ive stopped talking its your turn
Acknowlodge, Answer me damnit.
Acknowlodged, Yes. Can I get back to my coffee now?
Out, Thats the end of this conversation.
Wait, umm i forgot what i was going to say, nope this is it....

Wait, wait, wait out. I really forgot what the message was and im asking the duty officer what it was.

Timecheck. (if on todays freq) hey idiot why havent you called in yet
Timecheck. (on yesterdays freq) hey idiot change channels

Wilco, Will comply, after jaffle time, maybe.

fetch niner, you are an incompotent radio operator, get of the air and get your boss on air.

locstat, (sent to mobile units) Why arent you where I told you to be?
locstat, (sent tfrom mobile units) where are you again, I mucked up putting your x on the map

Say again, thats funny. I just went and got niner, he aint going to believe this unless he hears it first hand.

Say again slower. The duty officer cant write that fast.

Radio check, I know your out there talk to me damnit.

casevac, pretendy medical emergancy, log it ignore it

EMEFIX, or 2 bar 1, We broke the tank send the mechanics

NoDuff, send the medics, the crewies got tank lip again.

Noduff casevac, Sent the medics someone wants off the Ex.

NOTAM, All aircraft go away the tankies are shooting here abouts.

Maintdem, we want some stuff

Pridem, We want some stuff now.

OpDem, If we dont get this stuff we're putting the park brakes on and will annoy your radio operator till we get it.

the best radio conversation I EVER heard went along these lines......

A choko tankie section commander (LT) was giving his orders over the radio

call signs are always pronounced as individual numbers and phonetic lettering, eg 34a this is 3a would be transmitted as

3 4 Alpha this is 3 Alpha.

say it out loud while scrunching some newspaper at random for added realism

3a: all callsigns 31,32,33,34 this is 3a orders, prepare to copy over.

31, send over

31a, send over

31b, send over

31c send over

32, send over

32a, send over

32b, send over

32c send over

33, send over

33a, send over

33b, send over

33c send over

34, send over

34a, send over

34b, send over

34c send over

3a, acknowlodged all, orders. he then broke into about 7 minutes of uninterupted air time flowing forth a beautifully presented set of orders (which is bad ratel all transmission are ment to be not more than 15 seconds at a time) the replies

31, send over

31a, send over

31b, send over

31c send over

32, send over

32a, send over

32b, send over

32c send over

33, send over

33a, send over

33b, send over

33c send over

34, send over

34a, send over

34b, send over

3a this is 34c say again, all after acknowlodged all, orders, over.

At this point in time its worth mentioning that the charlie call signs almost invariabley had the full time staff of the sections in them.

**easo** · 16th June 2007, 01:18 PM

34c was probley half way through having a brew and a jaffle.

**longreach** · 16th June 2007, 01:52 PM

most bad language you hear on U H F channel 40,happens in the citys around aus,on the open high way, out side the citys, you don't get much in the way of really annoying bad language,some time you do,but not as bad as in the city......most truckie,hate the real dick heads,that use bad language all the time.........older truckie,turn there sets off in the citys,and only turn them on the open highway...I do,I travel about 5000,to 6000 km a week.....Brisbane is getting real bad,I turn it on sometimes get road reports on the gate way highway,or the Ipswich motorway,to see if the road is ok,then turn it off again there is to much bad language..I am not defending the truckie,I am one myself,we are not all angels........but some of us, use common sense on the radio

scrubber · 4th July 2007, 09:26 AM

the amount of crap that you here on the UHFs just puts me off using them. here in cairns on ch40 we have a resident "chicken man" squawks like a chicken for no apparent reason.....

then just recently there is a guy/woman with a deep growly kind of reaper voice.. the radio is also polluted with the people who "can i have a radio check please" every freakin minute.

that's way all my family/freinds have our own frequency

**cookiesa** · 4th July 2007, 10:04 AM

We usually don't have any trouble with the language by Truckies, there might be the odd word here and there but you expect that.

The continual dribble of profane language and insults, stupidity etc seems to be more from, no doubt unemployed bored males who are regulalry either drunk or otherwise "happy" and actually think they are funny/or enjoy annoying others

stevemc · 7th August 2007, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by scrubber

the radio is also polluted with the people who "can i have a radio check please" every freakin minute.

well give me a freakin radio check

PLEASE

ive just fitted an am and uhf and trying to get some one to let me know if there working for three days now,with no response
thats more annoying than the swearing

**cookiesa** · 7th August 2007, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by stevemc

well give me a freakin radio check

PLEASE

ive just fitted an am and uhf and trying to get some one to let me know if there working for three days now,with no response
thats more annoying than the swearing

Maybe it doesn't work...... Can't say I've heard anyone asking for a radio check lately!

LOL

tombraider · 7th August 2007, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by CraigE

Maybe we need to return to the days of licencing users, was not a big fee and you had a registered call sign. Fines were huge for those who broke protocol. And yes they did catch a lot, still remember the tracking vans that used to get around. And also remember a lot of idiots getting large ham radio sets confiscated for abuse.
There is having fun and there is being offensive. Quite often, especially in Adelaide we used to bait these idiots and send them on wild goose chases. Often it was only one radio being used by us with 2 or 3 different people changing the mike. Subtley would have them running all over town.

Oh yes... I remember those days well....

Adelaide, and Spectrum

Mate... we use to set up at Mt Lofty (prior to that abomination being built) with a 3 element beam (with rotator) AND a 27meg Homebase antenna mounted on the CAR!

When were you in Adelaide and on 27 meg? What years?

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