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CB CH9; Emergency Frequency
Topic Started: Thursday, 8. March 2012, 11:30 (2,928 Views)
Radio Pixie
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I was thinking last night: what every happened to Ch9? Is it still being used somewhere? Manufacturers still producing rigs with "CH9" or "EMG" buttons, unless they think past associations of Ch9 helps to sell them! (Or is it another switch to be duly modified, lol.)

In the heyday of CB radio, and before mobile phones became popular, Ch9 for emergencies was a useful facility. But does anyone, anywhere in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world still uses/monitors Ch9 as an emergency frequency (either on the Mid Band, UK Band or otherwise)? Or has some recent stories you wish to share with a CB communication related emergency.

Cheers

Dave

73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado :)

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I don't think anyone monitors Ch.9 in the UK, unless there are one or two individuals out there.... Though, no doubt, if you key up on it there is the chance that some self-appointed self-righteous and self-inflated twerp would issue a Stern Warning! :D

I can't speak for anywhere else but somehow I can't see Europeans going for it either, though it possibly survives in some places of the USA. Australia does have ACREM which, I think covers CB Monitoring as well as other forms of radio but let's be fair, cell-phone coverage in the Australian Bush and the Big Red is a bit sketchy!

Even back in the halcyon days of the late 70 and early 80s, Channel Nine was a bit of a joke in many places. It was a shame, because in some areas people did have decent organisations and volunteers offering something close to a "Proper" service, and no doubt helped many people and potentially saved lives. But all too often it was populated by wannabee NASA Controllers who were seriously impressed with their own (imaginary) self-importance...

I recall hearing long "Shift Handover Reports" on Channel 9.
  • This is Emergency Monitoring Station ABC, closing down at shift end and handing over to Station DEF. Hello Station DEF, are you standing by to take over on my mark? My report on the status for the four hour period ending 10:00 this morning is: Blah Blah Blah. Road conditions in the Region are Blah Blah Blah, the Weather forecast is blah blah, we are expecting an event of so and so at such and such location I am wearing the green underwear and had a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast how are the piles today and how did the missuses operation go yesterday I am going to the pub for lunch so I might see you there later anyway . . . Gosh, aren't we IMPORTANT !
They could rabbit on for ages, but God help anyone ELSE who inadvertently keyed on the Nine.
  • THIS IS FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY, YOUR CALLSIGN IS NOTED AND YOU'LL NOT ONLY BE REPORTED TO THE POLICE, THE POST OFFICE, THE HOME OFFICE AND YOUR MUM, BUT ALSO THE FBI, CIA, SAS, and INTERPOL, THE KREMLIN, THE POPE AND GREENPEACE.
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2 replies and 67 views so far.

So this thread is as defunct as Ch9 by the look of it :-/ I kind of knew that as I was typing, but you never know what goes on elsewhere. May be a better thread would be: Has CB every been a lifeline to you or anyone you know?

There's always some mini Hitler that will take things too far, so I know what you mean Steve. I'll heard been said about Raynet as well (rumours of course).

Olga doesn't help SD :dog:



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Well not exactly life saving but i pulled a lad and his lass of the beach at seaton carew back in the 70,s he had decided
on a romantic night and got well bogged down, i heard his call on the 9 purely by chance and the trusty old landy pulled
him clear before the tide came up :)

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Well not exactly life saving but i pulled a lad and his lass of the beach at seaton carew back in the 70,s he had decided
on a romantic night and got well bogged down, i heard his call on the 9 purely by chance and the trusty old landy pulled
him clear before the tide came up :)

SD
I bet he was a bit miffed!

The only thing pulling him off was a Landy!!! :rofl:
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Ditto, not a matter of life-n-death, but a Tale from the late 1970s when there were quite a few CBs around but it was still a "small family" and 95% Mobiles prior to the boom of 1981/82. Very few Homebase stations, and the majority of Ops were probably late-teens / 20-somethings with a rig in the car.

A call went out on the 14 at about 23:00 saying, "There's a 10:34 on Channel 9". I tuned to 9 and there was a rather distraught father asking for help as he'd had a row with his young daughter and she'd run off. I think the kid was about 12 and strange though it may seem to some people now even as recently as 1979 people worried about a 12 year old out by herself at 23:00. (No doubt nowadays she'd be just getting into the stride and on her second bottle of vodka prior to going to the first party of the evening)

A couple of dozen CBers volunteered to drive around and keep an eye open . . . and she was discovered about half an hour later sitting in tears at the entrance to a pedestrian underpass. The Dad was duly contacted and came to collect her, apparently much to the relief of both of father and daughter.

That was the first, last and only time I ever heard the Ch.9 used for anything even close to the original intended purpose.
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26 Charlie Tango 050

I think the channel 9 could work OK still, (if done properly and not "quote Steve" ex NASA contol freaks :D )in rural and small village type areas but in big citys nobody would care or have the time, most would say aint ya gotta mobile or some might say whats CB and channel 9 ^o)
Edited by Nubster, Friday, 9. March 2012, 12:56.

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Back in the late 80s a young girl (around 10 yrs) went missing and a search was set up to find her via a distress call on ch9 by a friend of the family who had a cb.
She was found safe about 3 hours later when she called home from the safety of her grans house but it was a well organised search that was orchestrated by a ch9 call... :cheers:








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During the approx 6 weeks of beach clearing during the Sea Empress disaster on the Welsh Coast, CB channel nine was quite widely used by some of the emergency services who responded. It seems that members of St Johns, the British Red Cross, WVS and even the Sally Army [bless them for all of the tea, butties and pasties that kept us all alive down at Bridgewater East] had CBs in their own vehicles and in any case we had nowhere enough operators to go round on the amateur side of things. Yes there were some idiots about playing colonel blimp, but in the main the CB operators played their part and did it exceptionally well - mainly on channel nine. Some of them had their first taste of Amateur radio as well, as we had to take breaks to eat etc and so they stood in for us at times on the alternative frequencies. Quietly overlooked at the time of course but not forgotten!

My most amusing memory of this little episode was watching one of the beach masters, a very large American Gentleman complete with his very large very oily and sand caked boots, standing up on the roof of a very nice near new green 4+4 parked on the beach and jumping up and down with a large radio in his hand trying to achieve "height" and a decent connection. Miffed him no end as when I arrived mine worked with no problem - even more miffed when he realized that the battery in his handheld was flat :)

I still have some old photographs of this little incident laying about somewhere. Also have one of the monk out on the island wheeling a seal off in a wheelbarrow to get it cleaned up.

Cheers.

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26 Charlie Tango 052

Thanks guys for your stories!!

I remember CB often to be used to search for missing people. I suppose today that you would just send a picture and/or a message via mobiles, facebook etc.

Good point of Martin, Nubster. Ch9 probably would work better in more rural areas.
73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado :)

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Difficult to believe now a time before mobile phones and Internet connections. A telephone in your own home was a luxury and we never had one until I started work and did the deed. Phone box on the corner almost always had people waiting to use it. This would be about the same time CB radio became legal, 1981.

I used Ch9 myself early one morning when my dad was taken very ill and required an ambulance. The reponce was instant and one arrived very quickly indeed. This incident prompted me to have the phone installed.

We had 'local' Ch9 monitors who, at the time, did a good job and had a certain amount of respect for doing it. In a very short time however, like CB in general, it started to fall apart with more and more idiots getting there kicks by playing up and disrupting anything they could.

Not a chance these days. People don't seem to care anymore.
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We stepped back into the eighties only last Thursday. Going Southbound on the A1 chatting on 19 to some truckers discussing re-routing around the roadworks on the A14 we were "unfortunate" enough to run along the section of the A1 between Beds and Cambs and it really was a blast from the past. Foul language, insults, threats, splatter across three channels and lord help us the dreadful "music" from way back in the days when when some US hillbilly wailed on about the good old boys on CB. Switched to VHF for the rest of the run. At least someone was using the channels. It is pretty dead on all 40 FM channels here during most of the day, but a good alternative when the 2m repeater is occupied and I want to call home.

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About 20 years ago I recall ch9 was being used for informal comms between taxi drivers at a town a few miles from here (might still be for all I know). Only time I ever assisted anyone myself was from them calling on Ch19 (lost in the hills and had a handheld - it got into the local paper at the time which actually had a small CB column each week then) and once (long before mobiles) got assistance myself many years ago after going off the road in the early hours in heavy snow (work out yourself where I'd been till that time - I was 19 :D ) again using ch19 as no one listened to Ch9 by then - certainly not out in the countryside anyway) - my dad still recalls being awoken by some guy phoning on my behalf:


... phone rings at 1.30 a.m

Dad: (blearily) "Hello?"

CBer: "Hi, it's Flying Sausage here"

Dad: "....eh?"

Once he'd worked out it wasn't some drunk ringing up (put yourself in his position - some guy rings your house in the early hours claiming to be called "Flying Sausage" :D ) he came and towed me out and I got home. So thanks to you "Flying Sausage" whoever you were !
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26 Charlie Tango 052

Cheers John for sharing the story. I have to admit I forgot about this thread, so glad it's been reopened :D

Best wishes

Dave
Edited by Radio Pixie, Monday, 23. April 2012, 20:57.
73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado :)

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Enjoyed that John thx!!!
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i used to be a member of react uk back in the day
all gone now
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there you are !

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Hi Omar

REACT is still there, but not like during the peak of CB in the 80's:

http://reactuk.btck.co.uk/

Best wishes

Dave
73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado :)

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A lot of the 4x4 clubs operate a 4x4 respose in times of severe weather etc to assist emergency services. A good proportion of them use the CB, although maybe not ch9, to communicate. I know the police used to monitor ch19 as they'd hear about an incident on the road long before the first phonecalls started happening but now there's only a fraction of the lorries that used to carry cb's.

Have used ch9 a couple of times up here, once for a major gas leak several miles out of town and once for a drunk driver.

The first caused chaos in the morning as a major road was closed as a gas main had disintegrated and the drunk driver was several times the limit.
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Its like what I siad in one of my post on this thread, it still seems to work or should I say seems to work better in the sticks outer town more which is shame really we should have it all over espcially mobile cos that could be more usefull if you was driving in the middle of no where no signal on your phone or the battery is dead on it,(be surprised how many dont relise the battery is going flat or there is loads of dead spots with signals on phones ) and it happens OH CR*P I've broken down what do I doget on the CB and call REACT or whoeveris running a emergancy service ATM and another thing as quoted by V8 "but now there's only a fraction of the lorries that used to carry cb's." why dont they fit them in lorry as standared when brought new like they put satnavs in vehecals new then perhaps CB might get used more proper and also create and thiving CB selling buissiness in this country ;) :D

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