Channal 19 on the CB is the trucker ch.

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:32 pm

Does anyone know whether or not it is legal to play the radio at work cause my boss claims it isn't?

Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Greatstone, Kent

If you mean broadcast radio then no it is not illegal to listen to in at work. Some place have conditions in employment contracts due to the distraction of the radio, but that is a thing to take up with the individual company.
If you mean a scanner that is listening to bands other than (not an exhaustive list), broadcast, CB, Ham. Then yes this is illegal.

If you can get some more info from your boss (ha ha, look at the dictionary definition of boss), post it up and see what answers you get back.

Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 84

Its not illegal to listen to the radio, its just that your boss has may have had the standard letter from the PRS (performing rights society) to let him know that they will charge him an arm and a leg for the privalage of letting his employees listen to- Radio 1/Radio 2/Classic Gold (yawn....)/BBC local radio..(bigger yawn)-for a whole year.
Maybe if you start a collection towards the cost, he will let you carry on listening.....

rob

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:03 pm

ch 19 is not the trucker ch but the mobile info ch which includes cyclylists and those on foot.

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:26 pm

we at kent police JZ/weald area HZ/shepway area, are still on analoge UHF and not even trunked, and talkthrough is always open so can hear both sides of the conversation,

and traffic TD (m20 motorway) are on vhf still,

tetra is installed and going up in the next 5 weeks or so, and not even aloud to take the tetra sets home unlike the analogue motorolas but i spose tetra sets cost a wee bit more

Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:17 am

Dragstar wrote:

I live in South Bucks. Anyone know if there is many people on CB in this area. It would be great to get chattin again.
Dave

I'm in Aylesbury and considering getting back into CB radio after a lapse of 25 years.

Are you still interested?

Félim M3HIM

Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 1373

Hi Félim,

Check out:

www.citizensbandradio.org.uk
www.transmission1.co.uk
www.thunderpole.co.uk/forum/index.php

You might note that the last post before your one in this thread was posted in June 2005... Dragstars post was Mon Sep 13, 2004

This website is dedicated to PMR446 and unfortunately has very little activity even in that regard.

You will get a MUCH better response about CB related activity on the above mentioned forums.

Have a look at the Thunderpole Google map of CBers (and don't forget to add yourself!

)

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:11 am

2H2UZ wrote:

Hi Félim,

Check out:

www.citizensbandradio.org
www.transmission1.co.uk
www.thunderpole.co.uk/forum/index.php

You might note that the last post before your one in this thread was posted in June 2005... Dragstars post was Mon Sep 13, 2004

This website is dedicated to PMR446 and unfortunately has very little activity even in that regard.

You will get a MUCH better response about CB related activity on the above mentioned forums.

Have a look at the Thunderpole Google map of CBers (and don't forget to add yourself!

)

Thanks. I have an interest in PMR446 too and only posted the message in this topic because I saw someone else in my locale looking for CB activity. I am already a member of the other forums (maybe not Thunderpole, I'll have to double check).

As for the age of the postings - better late than never.

Regards

Félim