Dungbeatle Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 No you didn't :lol: A mates old man used to operate a HAM radio with the huge antena on the roof of the house and he had to have a licence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman_DJ Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Yes, you did! Licensing fees were only abolished in 1994 due to most people ignoring their legal requirements and using the radios without licenses. The cost to police it exceeded the estimated income and so they just gave trying. http://home.alphalink.com.au/~parkerp/cb.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 I will second that as I had a licence for mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tariadamar Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 yeah i have my 2 uhfs on most the time one on 40 and the other one on what ever to convoy i am travelling with usually 10. i know their is still people out their on the ham and the cb's as my mates dad is amssivly into them. i also used to have a cb in my last car as it cam ein it and was to lazzy to remove it. worked well and good for when u went to a really popular place like stocton beach switch to am and keep talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangster Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Have a think about who might be listening too, you'd be surprised. When trying to pick a channel for our use when setting up the base station in the house we listened to a few for a while to pick one that wasn't in use. You'd be surprised how far you can pick up someone's base station from an aerial on a roof tower. One late afternoon not so long ago on our channel, these dudes are going off about some boar they were chasing around this hill, there were a few vehicles involved and some handhelds, we could only hear the vehicle ones cos the handhelds must have been crap or Unidens or something. We were pissing ourselves how excited they got. Just on dark, some woman gets on and says "when are you lot going to give up being silly and come back to camp, tea's ready". Turns out they were campers on old mates place. The boar beat them. Some time ago we were out with some mates on the place where they get permission to hunt, and they had their UHF on the property owners channel, as that morning they'd said g'day and got the gist of the place from him. We were driving out to pay this cocky a visit that afternoon, when on the way in the 4wd we hear his neighbour call him up and say "I heard lots of shots last night down by the fence, do you have hunters on this weekend?" He gets on and says "Hunters? That's the last thing I'd call them, shooters are a poor description. I don't think I'll let them on again". We looked at one another and they went bright red. They don't go there anymore. As hunters, you don't talk on your hosts channel, for good reason. But it might pay to know what the neighbours, and their neighbours, channels are. Easier said than done, and word gets around. MMM, voyeurism.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo .308 Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 (edited) At harvest time a few years back we were doing some contract harvesting for a bloke out near Walgett. So everyone in the paddock is on the same channel and that included 3 header drivers 2 tractor drivers about 3 truckies, the cocky and a few blokes in utes at the time. It was about 10pm and the cocky was talking to one of us when his Mrs calls him and tells him she needs him to come home as she needed to talk to him privately. The cocky replied with "Bugger that, its 18km back to the house, just go over to channel 2 and i'll talk to ya there" (Silly bugger!) As soon as he left our channel, what do you think every truckie, header driver, tractor driver and i did? All went straight to channel 2, one of the truckies said "im going to channel 2 for a minute boys, i'll be back", we all followed. We heard by the sound of his wifes voice that it was nothing serious, she just wanted him to come home and give her a "bit of attention". as soon as they finished talking we turned back to channel 27 as fast as we could incase he tried to call one of us. Edited October 7, 2009 by Robbo .308 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Robbo, You were hoping for some juicy gossip, weren't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbudgie Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Guys, Selcall is a very handy feature on uhf's . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj7hawk Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Guys, Selcall is a very handy feature on uhf's . Yeah, because then everyone can hear you but you're not aware of it, so you think you're having a private conversation David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbudgie Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Hawk, Please tell me more and explain that to me mmmmm seems i've been under a misconception about that one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangster Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Only thing is, not all sets have selcall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo .308 Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Robbo,You were hoping for some juicy gossip, weren't you? It was a bit juicy Jock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adios Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 (edited) l Edited September 23, 2019 by Adios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibs Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Selcall - All it does is block sets that dont have your ID. You can no longer hear them, but they can still hear you. Its basicaly so you dont get a lot of useless radio chatter on your end. Its NOT a private channel system. To have a "Private Channel" requires proprity (OEM) channels (Freq's) to be installed and that needs approval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman_DJ Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 The ONLY way to get private comms is to have a unit that can use encryption. The Icom 400 Pro can do this if you buy one of two add-on cards. One card is basic encryption and the other does a rolling code. Private channels can be listened to by using a scanner. Don't even need to know the freqs if you are close enough with a current model scanner due to the "close call" feature. CTCSS and DCS will mute/ignore all transmissions that don't match the set code. Good if some idiot keeps playing music over the CB. You and your mates turn on CTCSS and you only hear each other. SELCAL comes from HF radio days when static noise only pi$$ed people off. The radio mutes ALL transmissions. When it hears it's SELCAL code, it turns the speaker back on. You can hear who ever called you plus you can hear the idiot with his music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 I have a Vertex Standard VX-426 UHF Handheld - they are made by Yaesu - its a great radio and has CTCSS / DCS Encode and Decode and it also has Voice Encryption Built In http://www.prestigecom.net.au/index.php?ma...products_id=558 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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