Operation Manual

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6. You may not use your CB to sell merchandise or professional service.
How Your CB Can Serve You
• Warn of traffic tie-ups ahead.
• Provide weather and road information.
• Provide help fast in event of emergency or breakdown.
• Suggest good spots to eat and sleep.
• Make long trips more interesting, and help keep you awake.
• Provide direct contact with your office or home.
• Make friends for you as you travel.
• Provide "local information" to find your destination.
• Help law enforcement officers by reporting drunk and reckless drivers.
Use Channel 9 For Message Only
FCC give the following examples of permitted and prohibited types of communications for
use on Channel 9. These are guidelines and are not intended to be all-inclusive.
Permitted: Example Message:
Yes “A tornado sighted six miles north of town.”
No “This is observation post number 10. No tornado
Sighted.”
Yes “I am out of gas on Interstate 95 at mile marker 121
No “I am out of gas in my driveway.”
Yes “There is a four-car collision at Exit 10 on the Beltway,
send police and ambulance.”
No “Traffic is moving smoothly on the Beltway.”
Yes “Base to unit 1, the Weather Bureau has just issued a thunderstorm warning.
Bring the sailboat into port.”
No “Attention all motorists. The Weather Bureau advises
that the snow tomorrow will accumulate 4 to 6 inches.”
Yes “There is a fire in the building on the corner of 6th and
Main Streets.”
No “This is Halloween patrol unit number 3. Everything is
quiet here.”