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Hope this helps everyone! Greetings all. The new 80 channel UHF network has been released by the Government with implementation on the 27th of May. Your 40 channel radios are still ok so do not disrepair. Very basically what they have done is put a channel in between the existing channels to make up the 80 channels. There are 77 channels in the new network that are available for use. Channels 61,62and 63 are allocated for use in the future. Channels 5 and 35 are only to be used as emergency channels so please do not use them for chats they are monitored 24/7 by volunteers to help us all. Channel 11 is a call channel only used to initiate calls only. Channels 22 & 23 are for data transfer only. Channels 61,62 & 63 are not to be used. Reasons later as they are better explained. The following are designated for specific purposes. Ch 10 used Australia wide as 4WD and convoy channel. Ch 18 Travellers channel ( 20 is no longer used for motor homes they are now on 18) Ch 29 Road channel on Pacific Highway between Brisbane and Sydney. Ch 40 Australia wide road channel mainly truck channel (expect lots of profanity in city areas from the trucks if you are in the sticks just mention their mothers and it might help ) Ch's 31 to 38 and 71 to 78 are input channels for repeater stations and 1 to 8 and 41 to 48 check these channels before using them for general coms. Cheers to all from the travellinkyds .

Hi all, A foot note to The post from Rod. It's no longer legal to import 40 channel UHF CB's into Austrlia. You may continue to use your 40 Channel UHF for a limited time, I seem to recal it is something like 5 years, so you will need to upgrade at some point, even the little hand helds you have. I'm sure plenty won't espicuallly those hand helds we all carry for hiking and other jobs like reversing. Another channel that is worth knowing about is 30 . This is used for broadcast by UHFCB in conjunction with EWN to broadcast emergency information in the event of storms, floods, fires and such like. Cheers, John