Here's the band plan/usage in my area (Northern Utah):

Channel 1: Flying J Scale Channel
Channel 2: Dumptrucks
Channel 3: Unidentified trucking company
Channel 4: Dick Simon Trucking
Channel 5: Unidentified trucking company
Channel 6: The Bowl (when conditions permit, otherwise not used)
Channel 7: Spanish channel
Channel 8: Unidentified trucking company
Channel 9: Mostly used by idiots for chit chat because they are not aware it's
the national emergency channel
Channel 10: Neighborhood Watch Channel
Channel 11: Mini-Bowl
Channel 12: Unidentified trucking company
Channel 13: Used to be the local call channel, now dead except when used by
truckers
Channel 14: Unidentified trucking company
Channel 15: Schneider Trucking
Channel 16: Spanish channel
Channels 17-18: Mostly dead due to splatter from 19
Channel 19: Abuse channel
Channel 20: Test channel
Channel 21: ABF Freight
Channel 22: Smith's Food King drivers
Channel 23: R/C channel
Channels 24-35: Mostly dead
Channels 36-40: SSB when the DX is in,
otherwise local truckers are heard on 38 & 39. 40 has mostly fallen to the
AM'ers, DX or not.

73,
David


Subject: above channel 30 ssb only..?
From: dont eat those big macs fatty
Date: 8/8/03 11:19 AM Mountain Daylight Time
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I'd be curious to know the implied band plan for CB in your area. Here's
how it stacks up on the West Coast.


Channel(s) Mode Notes
1-5 AM Conventional CB operation
6 AM (almost useless) "The Bowl" *
7-8 AM conventional AM operation
9 AM Nation wide emergency channel **
10-14 AM conventional AM operation
15-16 SSB Used for SSB in 23 channel days ***
17 AM West Coast Truckers Channel ****
18 AM conventional AM operation
19 AM Implied nationwide Truckers Channel
20-30 AM conventional AM operation
31 AM/SSB The AM/SSB mode "property line"
32-40 SSB SSB operation for the most part *****


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