local taxi firm on the cb

[dannym2710]

of a night i always pick up a local taxi firm on 38.i always thought that they used commercial radios on a different frequency, am i right or wrong? it just seems a bit odd that they are giving names and addresses out over a public system.

[Satancom]

I had a chat with a taxi driver when I got my CB, he said that you shouldn't be able to pick the taxi radio up on it. Its a bit odd that you can pick them up.. will have to check mine

[bvudzichena]

To the best of my knowledge, there's legislation about that in the UK.

There are "taxi bands" in VHF midband, VHF highband and UHF specifically for taxis.

They are not allowed to use CB frequencies.

Report them to OFCOM.

We had a similar thing here where a local businessman decided to link two of his shops using "marine CB" frequencies (you guys use 27Mhz for your CB's, here we use 27MHz on land and 29MHz on water, but most 4x4s that 'sometimes' tow a boat also have 29MHz rigs in them as we use channel 14 for convoy chat) and we reported the guy to our version of OFCOM and his kit ended up being taken away.

[duy]

marine radio is 145mgs vhf fm, well it is on the one in front me.

[PinkSeriesIII]

Taxi and other small firms where always allowed to use the UK CB channels I do not think that ever changed. , the proper outfits used Home Office approved radios on whatever frequency they ran at.
They not allowed to discussion fee's or give personal information out like people names and addresses and that is what was often used to get the local firm in my home town in trouble. The women in office used to silent key out anyone else that used the channel, and their setup bled out over 3 channels so it used to get other users backs up.
You could lead them a merry dance on a Friday night by replaying the week's before transmissions that where recorded onto a synthesiser deck Then they get all called back to base and come out looking for us.

[bvudzichena]

marine radio is 145mgs vhf fm, well it is on the one in front me.

Here most boats have a 29Mhz rig and a 145Mhz rig. Those that venture over the horizon normally have HF rigs as well.

This is a 29Mhz rig of choice in this neck of the woods.

[PinkSeriesIII]

Snippet below from OFCOM webby, this was while the licence was still in use but nothing has changed in the rules as far as I know since the deregulation. Same goes for pmr446.
Although it is permitted to use CB for business purposes (for example, contact between a taxi and its office), advertising is not permitted.

OFCOM CB RADIO SPECTRUM OF USE...
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/i...binfosheet.pdf

What is CB radio?
1.1 CB radio operates in the 27 MHz band and is a short range radio service for both hobby and business use.

[bvudzichena]

... and business use.

That is so not allowed in this part of the world.

What do you guys have going on in 29Mhz ?

[Devon-Rover]

Some of the cabbies in plymouth use Ch7 mainly for banter and just telling each other where they are and what bussiness / spaces availble on the ranks.