In this paper we investigate the ratio of dwelling time in control channel (CCH) and service channel (SCH) for single channel devices deploying WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) protocols. Based on analytical model for both channels and four traffic types we present tradeoffs in channel performance when CCH/SCH duty cycle is changing. Our results show that, when video traffic is absent, duty cycles smaller than 0.5 can offer satisfactory performance on CCH while running larger amount of revenue generating traffic on SCH.