CB Radio In An Emergency

As well as using your CB Radio to shoot the breeze with friends and associates, there are a number of more serious uses that the CB Radio can be useful for.  One of the reasons that CB Radio became so popular was that Truckers often used it to share information about traffic conditions, warn each other of traffic accidents or poor weather conditions, police cordons or speed traps and to pass important information between each other.

Since the early 1960’s an organisation called Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams or REACT for short was established by groups of volunteers to monitor Channel 9 on their CB Radios which they lobbied to be certified as the Emergency Channel which the FCC finally agreed to in 1970.

These volunteers would take it in turns to monitor channel 9 for any possible distress calls, offer a response if a call was heard and if necessary contact the Emergency Services to notify them of an issue on behalf of the caller making the distress call.


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