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BlueBirdMan
Senior Member
193 Posts |
 Posted - 12/07/2003 : 1:50:52 PM
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| Do busses (mainly in Ohio, if it matters) use reqular CB radios or closed frequency radios? |
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kd4jfd
Top Member
USA
1170 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2003 : 4:58:10 PM
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| Ours use business band licenced radios just above the 70cm ham band |
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92FrdCarp#11
Top Member
USA
1455 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2003 : 5:47:05 PM
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| When I lived in Clarksville, TN, the CBs on those buses were just regular CBs. |
Johnny
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98TomFord
Top Member
USA
812 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2003 : 6:43:40 PM
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| Actually my school - which is by Youngstown - can pick up certain radio calls by EMT workers. But majority of the time the wave we use isn't interfering with others around us so we dont' have any problems. |
My Ford Can Turn On $50, Can Your Int? ~Ford Buses - Gems To The Eyes~ |
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92FrdCarp#11
Top Member
USA
1455 Posts |
Posted - 12/08/2003 : 5:39:26 PM
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| I forgot to say that the buses in my county are on a closed frequency. |
Johnny
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Thomas Vista
Senior Member
USA
58 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2003 : 1:47:45 PM
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| Here in Palm Beach County there's a closed frequency CB. |
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Carpenter
Advanced Member
238 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2003 : 3:18:57 PM
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| We're licensed, closed-frequency...somewhere in the 100 MHz range on the scanner. We pick up drive-thru cordless headsets sometimes. The FCC allows those headsets to broadcast on our frequency short-distance without a license right out of the box...we're licensed for wide area and, if we're within a block of a fast food joint, we get it. If I had a dollar and a cent for every time I heard the "welcome to Taco Bell" bit, I'd be a very wealthy man. We only hear them if we're driving in front of the place. Anyone else hear me on this? |
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FirstStudentKid
Senior Member
USA
126 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2004 : 1:47:23 PM
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My First Student base recently went on a charter operation and we were shocked to get a range of 15 miles in good weather. (We have a closed radio that is FCC licensed and no one else is on the channel.)
What kind of range does everyone's CB radio get? |
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Rich
Top Member
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2004 : 6:24:36 PM
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15 miles... that's it?
I have been on trips where the two ways work 40+ miles away! |
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WI Handy Bus
Senior Member
USA
64 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2004 : 8:29:15 PM
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| On a good day I can be on a trip nearly 50 miles away from base and still hear them....on a bad day I can be 4 blocks away and it will come thru all static.....go figure |
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Silas J.
Top Member
USA
938 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2004 : 12:57:03 PM
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| We have no radio system, just cell phones, which don't work in the rural areas very well. |
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Carpenter
Advanced Member
238 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2004 : 4:31:02 PM
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| 50 miles at least here |
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CrazyBusDriver78
Senior Member
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2004 : 07:38:36 AM
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50 miles all around the repeater.
Its a closed channel also. |
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