Another CB victory

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <331A9A14.5467@tiac.net> Allan Jones writes:

> 	But now *I* am interested and want to know if a scanner can be used
> as/is interchangeable with a CB. I have used(for very short times)
> several high-priced hand-held scanners and would defintely carry one of
> those around. I even thought about it before because an owner of one of
> said hand-helds demonstrated how he used it to "know" where the local
> police were setting up radar-camp that night! So just wondering if a
> scanner is essentially a CB? I believe some products are both, true?

As long as it covers the bands and has appropriate resolution, a scanner can be 
used to receive CB broadcasts.  I have an AR1500 1000-channel scanner that I 
sometime use for this.
 
Take note of the SWR subthread, though.  An aerial must be tuned for optimum 
performance and the stubby whip supplied with most scanners is at best a 
compromise.  I'm thinking along the lines of a stealth CB installation.
 
Anyone in the UK got similar experience?  I've heard that the truckers pass 
traffic information backwards on the M1 southbound, at least.  What 
channel/frequency/modulation is used in the UK?  I know John Coughtrie always 
has one in each of his cars - he left the mounting in the car he sold me.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club