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JohnO

Veteran Expediter
Jeff Jensen's article on CB's was informative. Jeff, do you ever take a day off?

Before I started expediting last year it had been decades since I last used a CB radio.

What is the channel number for emergency weather feature?

What other channels are useful to remember and for what reason.

Thanks

John
 
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RichM

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
John Good to see you posting,guess things are OK. I don't know of any special weather channel just the ususal CH 19. In eastern Canada for the provinces of Quebec,New Brunswick and Nova Scotia they communicate on Channel 1.
 
ATeam

ATeam

Senior Member
Retired Expediter
Many CB radios sold today include the NOAA weather bands in them. When the switch is on "CB" you can dial into channels 1-40. When the switch is on "WX" you can dial through a handful of NOAA weather channels (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration, a government entity. Most of the time, NOAA weather information can be heard on one channel only. You dial through the channels to find the continuious broadcast that covers the local area you are in. You can see these settings on most CB radios on display in any truck stop.

Many NOAA-capable CB radios include a feature that even if the whole radio is phyically turned off, but your NOAA knob is set on any channel other than zero, if the NOAA issues a tornado warning or some such thing, a VERY LOUD alarm will sound to alert you that a warning is then being issued.

It's a nice feature, we think. If we're asleep in a truck stop and a storm moves in and a tornado warning is issued, we want to know about it. If we are driving across Wyoming and high wind warnings are issued, we want to know about that too.
 
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JohnO

Veteran Expediter
Rich, thanks for the info.

After radical prostatectomy March 30th they performed biopsy and I am now CANCER FREE! So I’m following recovery as mapped out by surgeon and feeling stronger each day.
Now that I’m CANCER FREE my plans are to follow through with purchasing my own used truck. Once I get clearance from Dr. plans are to resume driving. Middle of the summer seems about right.

Phil, thanks for the info.

I checked my Cobra 29 LTD Classic which doesn’t offer NOAA weather bands.

I do own a Sangean DT 300VW pocket radio < http://www.ambientweather.com/tddt300vw.html > that does offer NOAA weather bands, AM/FM, TV audio channels 2-13 and a host of other functions that will fill void. I’ve included it on previous runs and will do so in future.

October 2002 while backpacking with 3 friends on Appalachian Trail in Georgia and North Carolina we would listen to playoffs and World Series in the evening on the TV channels.

John
 
LDB

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Sterling and Kenworth also have the weather channels in their radios, at least in the one of each I bought.

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Tennesseahawk

Tennesseahawk

Veteran Expediter
I have an emergency scanner/ weather band in my old international. It's worth putting into the truck we're driving. Tho we have both Sirius and XM, I don't think you can get the accuracy a weather band gives, especially out in the boonies.
 
outwardbound 2

outwardbound 2

Expert Expediter
i'm driving a 2001 c120 the factory panasonic raido has a wether band it's the only thing on the radio that works well. ate my tape and won't give it back. doesn't get am worth a darn and fm chanels only with in 20 of the station if i'm lucky
 
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