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You'll need a special VHF radio for that kind of traffic tracking on Forest Service Roads in BC, and there are specific usage patterns you must follow: https:/

You'll need a special VHF radio for that kind of traffic tracking on Forest Service Roads in BC, and there are specific usage patterns you must follow: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource-use/resource-roads/radio-communications https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/natural-resource... A CB radio doesn't help much with that, but it is just another means of possibly getting contact with others.

Scoundreller 5y ago
Ahhh, I remember it being possible on one of the Baofeng’s that can do almost anything. Transmitting may require licensing, but listening should be fine.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  That's an excellent point - using the channel maps at the site I linked to above, there is nothing to stop someone with a scanner keeping informed of FSR traffic. Just one other point: on an FSR an average person's general sense of traffic "right of way" is generally wrong and can result in some terrible accidents far from help. To wit: the bus crash involving UBC students outside Bamfield.
  - soperj 5y ago
    Pretty sure that was UVic students.
    - cf100clunk 5y ago
      Yes, you are correct.
- vel0city 5y ago
  Citizen-Band "CB" is a pretty specific type of AM radio limited to a number of defined channels around 27MHz. Those Baofeng radios are VHF/UHF (140MHz/440MHz) FM radios, not "CB". If you had a Baofeng, and your buddy had a CB, there is no good way they would be able to communicate. These radios can operate in a wide range of frequencies with various levels of legality. But yeah in the US and Canada its generally legal to receive a transmission...other than maybe old cellular phones but that's another complicated mess.
  - cf100clunk 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure the parent wasn't commenting on tracking CB radio, just the FSR VHF traffic I mentioned.
    - vel0city 5y ago
      I think so as well, but it looks like they had their terminology confused. They used the term CB originally, then talked about using a Baofeng. I'm just pointing out that CB is something very different from VHF FM. Many lay people see a radio with a handmike and think "CB".
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Scoundreller 5y ago

Ahhh, I remember it being possible on one of the Baofeng’s that can do almost anything. Transmitting may require licensing, but listening should be fine.

cf100clunk 5y ago
That's an excellent point - using the channel maps at the site I linked to above, there is nothing to stop someone with a scanner keeping informed of FSR traffic. Just one other point: on an FSR an average person's general sense of traffic "right of way" is generally wrong and can result in some terrible accidents far from help. To wit: the bus crash involving UBC students outside Bamfield.
- soperj 5y ago
  Pretty sure that was UVic students.
  - cf100clunk 5y ago
    Yes, you are correct.
vel0city 5y ago
Citizen-Band "CB" is a pretty specific type of AM radio limited to a number of defined channels around 27MHz. Those Baofeng radios are VHF/UHF (140MHz/440MHz) FM radios, not "CB". If you had a Baofeng, and your buddy had a CB, there is no good way they would be able to communicate. These radios can operate in a wide range of frequencies with various levels of legality. But yeah in the US and Canada its generally legal to receive a transmission...other than maybe old cellular phones but that's another complicated mess.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  I'm pretty sure the parent wasn't commenting on tracking CB radio, just the FSR VHF traffic I mentioned.
  - vel0city 5y ago
    I think so as well, but it looks like they had their terminology confused. They used the term CB originally, then talked about using a Baofeng. I'm just pointing out that CB is something very different from VHF FM. Many lay people see a radio with a handmike and think "CB".
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