CB Radio Etiquette?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:02 am
So I went and bought those 1watt handheld’s that I posted about a few days ago and I am very happy with the range.
Plugged them in and found very little activity on any of the channels (which is good for me, I guess. ) but I did notice channel 1 had these two guys chatting for quite a while on it just talking about news and stuff.
Anyway while I am listening this other guy comes in, who is obviously not from Australia and these other two guys start abusing him, swearing at him calling him some very colourful names.. then later on these same guys are all friendly to a truckie that starts chatting to them.
Is it illegal to abuse people in this sort of medium? Or is just another medium (sort of like IRC, I guess?) and is there any way to track people who abuse others?
Also, I noticed (from there conversation) that they were quite a distance from me (in the hills somewhere – I cant remember)… can I hear this because of the repeater stations around the place? And how can I know if I can speak back to them? I tried, but it was as if they were just not getting the signal? I put it down to only having 1 watt of transmission power, so it doesn’t reach the repeater?
And one last thing (I promise )… A lot of the conversation came grouped together .. as if two people were having a conversation real time.. and then it would stop for a bit.. before another chunk would come through.. Is this is a coincidence or do repeaters do chunks of conversation at a time?
Plugged them in and found very little activity on any of the channels (which is good for me, I guess. ) but I did notice channel 1 had these two guys chatting for quite a while on it just talking about news and stuff.
Anyway while I am listening this other guy comes in, who is obviously not from Australia and these other two guys start abusing him, swearing at him calling him some very colourful names.. then later on these same guys are all friendly to a truckie that starts chatting to them.
Is it illegal to abuse people in this sort of medium? Or is just another medium (sort of like IRC, I guess?) and is there any way to track people who abuse others?
Also, I noticed (from there conversation) that they were quite a distance from me (in the hills somewhere – I cant remember)… can I hear this because of the repeater stations around the place? And how can I know if I can speak back to them? I tried, but it was as if they were just not getting the signal? I put it down to only having 1 watt of transmission power, so it doesn’t reach the repeater?
And one last thing (I promise )… A lot of the conversation came grouped together .. as if two people were having a conversation real time.. and then it would stop for a bit.. before another chunk would come through.. Is this is a coincidence or do repeaters do chunks of conversation at a time?