Well thanks to all for the replies. I Googled "freebander" and now
understand something I previously never knew.

Back in the late '70's I worked at HyGain in NE during the CB craze. We
heard and knew of locals that modified their radios to work above 27.405
(Ch40) but I never imagined this would evolve into a new and welcomed
hobby. It's great now to hear conversations that, back in the '70's
were common on CB, when we all gave our calls at the end of
conversations. (I was KMD5224 and met new friends with my radio). Late
in the 70's things in the CB channels degenerated and only got worse as
time went on. I gave up the CB hobby and never looked back. Now that
freebanding has become the next phase of it, I'm thinking about joining
a local DX group down here in NJ.

Thanks for enlightening me.
--Bill

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message ...

Well I've verified further using the digital accuracy of my VR500. The
frequency I'm monitoring is 27.475 LSB and what I just heard is "618 this
is 502 in Tennessee" as the beginning of a conversation. I'm in south NJ
so would this be freebander skip??


It could be, but freebander convention is to use USB. This is not to say
nobody ever uses LSB.