How To Use A CB Radio

In earlier articles we have discussed what equipment is required in order to get set up on a CB Radio and went over a few of the mechanics surrounding setting up and installing a CB Radio. Now we are ready to turn on our new rig and start making contact with the world!

For most, this may include some level of discouragement because you will swiftly find out that these days the airwaves are not packed with boundless chitchat on every channel and reaching other CB Radio users is a tad more 'trial and error' these days. Essentially the world has evolved since they heyday of the 80s and folk get their 'social' fix in other ways nowadays. The FM frequencies that used to be so active are now silent for sizeable bits of the day

Part of the reason for this however is that the usual calibre of radio communications since the 80s decreased to such a point that most people just gave up interest in it as a method for communicating

It is part of radio history that there certainly ought to be an excellent level of formality on the airwaves which anytime a couple of stations want to correspond there is a set of recognized formalities and standards applied to assure an effective interaction. A great deal of this originates from the military use of radio across the years and especially in maritime transmissions a significant degree of formality ought to be followed
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This is in no way less apparent than with HAM Radio hobbyists particularly on the bands which allow increased power use and consequently an improved range where operators are only concerned with serious interactions and endeavour to log every successful communications using the previously mentioned protocols



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