CB Radio

[duster]

Hiya folks,

picked up an old Amstrad 901 t'other day, just fitted it to my old series 2a. Not many folk on in my part of the world, anyone on here still use the CB?

 

Cheers

Duster

[Andy75]

yup, still use it on channel 8, but only for off-roading / green laning / pay and play etc.

[Dave-G]

That is SO 80's :blink:

[Andy75]

It is :blink: I have a hate-hate relationship with mine, as its so old it rarely works. These days I prefer PMR, especially as it goes *beep* after you say something!

[Axe]

CB, thats a blasr from the past. Used to playing around on it. Fell by the wayside when they moved the standard channels. Half were on the old half were on the new and it got very boring. Enjoyed it while it lasted though.

[SNAKEBITE]

Fell by the wayside when they moved the standard channels.

 

It fell by the wayside for me when I discovered girls :blink:

 

Isn't easier to use a mobile? Hands free ofcourse.

[Lord Geordie]

The airwaves were full of Muppets and Kids till the dual channel came out offering 80 channels instead of the 40 but even then the trogs STILL made their way onto the new channels and that was enough for me :blink:

 

I have PMR's they ain't got the same kind of range or clarity but are more than ample for the job at hand!

 

LG

[pin]

especially as it goes *beep* after you say something!

 

I can fit you a roger bleep mod if you want it :blink:

[Andy75]

you forgot to say bleep!

 

 

bleep.

[Lord Geordie]

STOP you swine :blink:

 

Now you stirred up the Pheeb sketch from Guesthouse Paradiso

 

I will have to scratch through the DVDs to find it now.

 

LG

[Andy75]

Pheeb. One boiled egg

 

:blink:

 

bleep.

[duster]

Yes!! My Amstrads got a roger bleep as standard. Very annonying to the guy you are talking to, apparently....

Good to see theres still a few folk using it....out of the few people that use it round my way there are a couple of muppets. Handy for off-road forays though.

 

One nine, one nine, for a copy c'mon......

 

Cheers

Duster

[pin]

How sad it this, I had a rotel rig with sidebands, the lot. I used to get so annoyed with people using roger bleeps I had one which played a 5 second tune whenever I unkeyed the mic - usually made them stop :blink:

[Cranfield]

We were on holiday at a caravan park in South Wales when our kids were small, so it must have been about 20-25 years ago and it was on some quite high ground near Pendine Sands.

 

In the evenings some "youngsters" with CB radios use to park there.

I wandered over one evening to see what they were doing and they were talking to truckers in the US.

Apparently, this only occurred in certain weather conditions, but I could hear them loud and clear.

Sometimes they can only hear them, but that evening they were talking to them.

 

You needed an Interpreter to work out what they were talking about....10.4 Good Buddy. :blink:

[Dr W]

You needed an Interpreter to work out what they were talking about....10.4 Good Buddy. :blink:

 

Looks like we got ourselves a convoy!

[duster]

Anyone remember what their handle was?

[Mungler]

I was Jumping Jack Flash on the CB and Whiskey Alpha Sierra 125 on the proper radio.

 

I had a Ham Jumbo and a set of enormous amplifiers.

 

It all ended soon enough after the bloke 200 yards up the road twigged it was me he had been hearing on his telly for the last 3 months. Yes, with the amplifiers (aka "boots" on) I was bleeding over onto every television and radio set in the road.

 

Ah, memories, that must be 20 years ago

[pin]

I wandered over one evening to see what they were doing and they were talking to truckers in the US.

Apparently, this only occurred in certain weather conditions, but I could hear them loud and clear.

Sometimes they can only hear them, but that evening they were talking to them.

 

The phenomena is called skywave propagation, commonly known to CB'ers as "skip". Without going into it, it is certain conditions in the ionosphere at certain times in the lunar cycle.

 

The waves are effectively "bounced" between two layers within the ionosphere and much longer range communication is possible. Users with more powerful transmitters would more readily be heard but a 4watt CB would need just the right conditions in order to reach those distances.

 

I have talked to people in Italy with a standard 4watt rig, the practice of seeking long range communication is known as DX'ing :blink:

[SNAKEBITE]

Anorak.

[njc110381]

I had a CB when I was a teen, used to talk to my mates on it so we didn't have to make a phone call or get off our lazy *****. I give it up when most of the lads I talked to moved away, and mobiles were getting cheaper. My handle was rigwrecker, because it took me some time (and several radios) to get the hang of getting the SWR down to a non damaging level! My best radio got me a real grilling from some official numpty that arrived on the doorstep one day, as it ran almost any frequency you asked it to and being connected to a 400 watt burner travelled some way too. I once had a conversation interupted by some guy saying "this is a military frequency, please identify your station" :blink:

[Dougy]

the good old days. used to have a few eye balls down the barley shop with other CBers

used to have a home base used to push some stuff out got loads of complaints though from others cus of the burner.

CQDX CQDX.

 

Then it got me in some big bother so got rid :blink:

[Andy W]

Looks like we got ourselves a convoy!

"We crashed the gates doing 98 and said let them truckers roll.........10/4"

 

I was known as Arctic Fox and had a Cobra either a 16 or 19X then uprgraded to a Colt 120 channel with high, low and mid band, them were the days, we all use to meet at a predertimned location and then drive out in convoy usually to a country pub with headlights on, how sad is that? 1980 was the year.

[bobt]

I have a CB in the disco, usefull for organising the troops on a shoot day, yes the guns are lined up.

 

send the beaters,

 

 

and when green laning.

[dazzyboi]

I used to own 2, a base station (Midland) and a handheld (also a midland) but then there was hardly anyone on it where i lived, only the odd trucker flying past...I bought it becasue my mate had one, and it was quite fun (i was about 13 at the time). Then we just stopped using it.

[darebear]

omg. now THIS topic brings back memories. scaffy and i, racing around in his red (ok, it was more a hideous bright but dark orange) mk3 escort, with a firestick on the roof, cb with us..... meeting up with other saddo's in the car parks up and down the north east coast. anddddddddd the rest.

 

 

my handle was nirvana, and scaffy's was elmer fudd.