Official/Unofficial GMRS Road/Travel Channel

[marcspaz]

2 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

I do a bit of off-roading and I dont know of any other off-readers that run any tones, unless/except when in some kind of large event.
Many that I know, myself included not only do not run any tones, but also scan all frequencies in case someone is calling for help.

 

Pretty much everyone I know personally... we all use the exact same methods.

[OffRoaderX]

1 hour ago, marcspaz said:

Pretty much everyone I know personally...

are they/you guys in a noisy area?  Where we go there is usually zero radio traffic other than the few other off-roaders nearby.

[marcspaz]

23 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said:

are they/you guys in a noisy area?  Where we go there is usually zero radio traffic other than the few other off-readers nearby.

 

Occasionally a troll in the valleys will pop up when we are on top of the mountains, but even that is rare.  Unless there is a big event where we have 600-800 vehicles sharing 3,000 acres, everything is very quiet. 

 

[H8SPVMT]

GMRS used at the last couple of events I have attended with 200+ Jeeps have been quiet using only simplex.  Maybe the mountains have something to do with that also.

Still using CB's too on another event and the same lack of interference.  Other than that fella yellin "A-U-D-I-O" when we reach the mountain tops anyway....

[ian3211]

That mountaintop troll is too much.

[WSFB816]

Trying call Walgreens truck driver back to veayeven bad two fucking cell phone and headphones 

[Hoppyjr]

Trying call Walgreens truck driver back to veayeven bad two fucking cell phone and headphones 

Had a few cocktails before posting?

[nokones]

Rugged Radios has licensed several VHF and UHF Business Radio Service frequencies for use in Northen and Western Arizona, South Eastern California, and Southern Nevada for off-roading use with permission. These freqs are used without any tones.

While off-roading in the Kofa Wilderness Area a couple weeks ago near Quartzsite, I noticed 3-4 of their VHF channels were busy with quite a bit of traffic. We did notice a lot of Side X Sides in the area. I haven't tried monitoring the Rugged Radios UHF channels because the group I was with uses GMRS 16, with DPL, and I usually don't like scanning with the same radio because of the traffic by our group.

I also noticed some off-road traffic on one of the Itinerant VHF freqs. inaddition to the Rugged Radios VHF freqs. I was a little surprised that VHF freqs were bring used by other off-roaders instead of GMRS freqs.

I'll have to make any attempt to monitor the other Rugged Radios UHF freqs. to see if those channels are being used.

I use to hear CB AM traffic on Ch. 16 while off-road, but haven't heard anything lately on the CB while off-roading.

 

[SteveShannon]

On 2/1/2025 at 2:07 AM, WSFB816 said:

Trying call Walgreens truck driver back to veayeven bad two fucking cell phone and headphones 

The person whose GMRS license posted this message (Darre Fisher in Lynchburg, Virginia) is a petite lady who teaches at a Christian pre-school.  I suspect someone else used her name to obtain a GMRS license or looked up her license and used the public information to register here. Another similar poorly worded post appears elsewhere on the forums.  
The poster appears to be desperately attempting to call a Walgreens truck driver back.  Hopefully this gets straightened out, but I don’t think there’s anything we can do to help.

[amaff]

Maybe they hope the Walgreens truck driver is on myGMRS

[SteveShannon]

5 minutes ago, amaff said:

Maybe they hope the Walgreens truck driver is on myGMRS

The other post sought frequency information:

 

 

[amaff]

31 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

The other post sought frequency information:

 

 

If you say so. I'm glad you seem to have their decoder ring because that is some word salad

[Hoppyjr]

Maybe they hope the Walgreens truck driver is on myGMRS

…..“Looking for love in all the wrong places….”

[Hoppyjr]

Oops!!! Self-edit, gonna steer clear of politics.

[SteveShannon]

9 minutes ago, amaff said:

If you say so. I'm glad you seem to have their decoder ring because that is some word salad

Well, I’m assuming some things based on squinting just right and experience with friends’ Siri transcribed sms messages. I really don’t know.

[nokones]

On 12/1/2023 at 10:29 AM, WRXB215 said:

@nokones Not sure how applicable it is today but it's quite impressive how you remember all that stuff. 

I guess remember stuff like that because I never did drugs and the Van Clubs in Southern California were using CB Radios way before it became popular and we were into traveling all over towing our Ski Boats.  I was a member of the Van Spectrum Van Club which was almost as big as the West Coast Van Club

The Van Club I belong to had their own private CB channel that no one else had access to before the 40 channel CBs were introduced. We would call it the Adam Channel and used it locally, but when we traveled outside our local area we would normally use the trucker's channels because we were towing boat trailers and we needed to hear the Smokey Reports because of the 55 MPH speed limit for towing trailers in California.

[Lscott]

On 2/1/2025 at 10:13 AM, Hoppyjr said:

 

…..“Looking for love in all the wrong places….”

 

Or selling some.