I have had my Ultra Limited for 8 months and just recently attempted to use the CB radio, no go! Can anyone tell me if in fact they do work here in aus? 

 

I have never tried mine.

The only one you will pickup will be other Harley riders playing with theirs as no one uses CB anymore 

Thankyou..

I have heard you can communicate with other harleys with the same system. I haven't tried myself.

My brother is coming up here from Sydney in a couple of weeks will try that.

As I do a bit of highway riding thought would be ok to have a listen to the truckies

It wont pick up aussie frequencies. They are still on USA frequencies that why you can only talk to other H-D's.

Hutchy is right. Interesting Wikipedia reading as well as many articles in Internet.

Could be bike never had an aussie spec cb radio (perhaps if grey import)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio

Well that's a first......USA CB frequencies different to Oz CB frequencies..... I have spent the last 40 years designing and repairing radio Comms Systems in Oz and I cracked up when I read the above posts.

SRT8 - The HD CB works fine, don't pay any attention to the above posts. Unfortunately the HD CB is HF and not UHF which is common in Oz so if you try to communicate to a UHF CB using a HF CB they will not work.

Your HD CB will work with any other HF CB radio however HF CB performance is poor in close range but terrific for long distance comms

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Sorry for giving you any wrong info SRT8. Looks like i was only half right. Glad the expert came along to set us right and to have a laugh.

Yeah, thanks for that. I stand corrected. Do all the channels align with the same frequencies in the US and AUS?

Aarrrhh, the good old days when pirates ruled the airwaves instead of the DVD store. If anyone's got a 27MHZ, SSB CB laying around in the shed, let me know, I've been looking for one for a while. 

Steelo
The OZ and USA channels are the same - exceptions are NZ and Japan and some 5kHZ channel shift offsets in Russia and Poland.

Unfortunately HF is hit and miss and has largely been dropped in favour of UHF CB.

More info below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio

Mine sure does, but the trap is the CB operates on the AM band and not the common Australian UHF band.  Pretty useless here, but handy talking between 2 ultra limiteds