11Metres CB Radio

So a fair few CB users from back in the 80's have decided to venture back onto CB in the hope of revisiting the hay day of CB with all the activity and CB channels full of breakers.
So they go out and buy a 40ch 27/81 CB radio and an antenna and are then saddened by the lack of users.
However, since they were last on the CB there has been an allocation for SSB use on the MID-Block set of channels, and that is where most of the operating takes place along with the use of the Freeband frequencies (illegal in UK) set between the MidBlock (old AM) and the UK FM set of frequencies.
The Freeband section also contains a calling channel of 27.555 USB (UpperSideBand) Ideally your new radio should give you frequency read out, as this is the main reference used instead of channel numbers.

So get yourself a sideband radio for 27MHz and you will find most of the activity, along with SSB nets occuring on certain evenings and weekends after the DX has died down. Mostly dedicated mobile users who park up on high ground to try and make inter-UK contacts on ssb.
Below is an example of one of the newer ssb type radios