CB Radio. What's the appeal?

Admiral Huddy · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:32

Mat said:
Breaker on the side... breaker on the side...?

10-4 good buddy crank your handle Roger Roger...

ahh CB Radio - Loved it.. I had a great big Dipole on the side of my house. I think the legal limit was 4watts for FM?? Anyway, I modified it be about 40 Watts iirc.. can't rememebr now.. It used to obliterate everyones TV

I even had an annoying roger-bleeps

Greebo · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:34

I had a recorder mike that would record what somebody said and then when you pressed the button it transmitted it. Use to annoy the hell out of people and had truckers threatening me

"What's your 10-20" and give me a "10-13 on the M1 North" were my most used

Admiral Huddy · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:51

### ah yeah Greebo## looks down list## yeah 10??? 10?? 10?? Oh yeah Chelmsford mate.. ahh yeahh..yeahh Roger eyeball eyeball.. 10... oh **** this..

Danfoss2011 · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:59

I have SDR on my home PC just for listing in.

My old CB setup i think is in the attic. My handel was Controlfreak

ZeroSight · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:15

Back in the 80's I used to go with my Dad who is a trucker and the chatter was comedy gold. It was especially great when stuck in huge traffic jams on the motorway and all the truckers would be on there at the same time spotting totty in the cars and passing on the information. Awesome :cool:

Greebo · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:18

ZeroSight said:
Back in the 80's I used to go with my Dad who is a trucker and the chatter was comedy gold. It was especially great when stuck in huge traffic jams on the motorway and all the truckers would be on there at the same time spotting totty in the cars and passing on the information. Awesome

Yeah that used to be great listening in. You would get "look at the red bmw, she has a short skirt and you can see her knickers"

E61 Grouphead · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:31

Limpnoodle said:
candy cane................................ you there....................candy cane...............

This was my first thought

hux · 24 Jun 2011 at 17:35

Old man had a superstar 360, that was some rig one of the most popular in the us iirc, and with good reason, it pushed the most power for a standard rig, and you had 120 channels with all sorts of knobs and bits to play with fnerk.

Though he has a ham radio he hardly uses it, now the emergency services have switched to the tetra system.

I used to go to regular meets, one guy had a 3000w burner.

Needless to say he upset most of the community, he would bleed out folk that were miles away

utajoker · 24 Jun 2011 at 18:02

something ive always wanted, i a CB radio.

"mother goose this is baby bird come back"

K.C. Leblanc · 24 Jun 2011 at 18:09

ringo747 · 24 Jun 2011 at 18:50

O yes - CW McCall Convoy! That's the stuff

Yellow Goblin was the handle here. I had a list recently where I found some of the local callsigns. Sadly the usage of CBs locally seemed to die inside 2 years after I first used them.

DJMK4 · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:17

I wonder how many people are

1) Going to get theirs down from the loft
2) Going to buy a cheap one off the bay

if you do show us some vids

PermaBanned · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:24

DJMK4 said:
I wonder how many people are

1) Going to get theirs down from the loft
2) Going to buy a cheap one off the bay

if you do show us some vids

Tempted to put it on the list but i have no idea what the differences are with different equipment/aerials, and i have no money anyway

PermaBanned · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:10

Anyone been to the attic yet then?

Wicksta · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:16

I had an Amstrad 901 and a thunderpole 3 on my shed. When I started driving in 1990 or so it was good having a CB in the days before affordable mobile phones.

PermaBanned · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:36

Wicksta said:
I had an Amstrad 901 and a thunderpole 3 on my shed. When I started driving in 1990 or so it was good having a CB in the days before affordable mobile phones.

Of course, nowadays you can't drive and be on your mobile at the same time, so you know

Wicksta · 26 Jun 2011 at 18:03

PermaBanned said:
Of course, nowadays you can't drive and be on your mobile at the same time, so you know

Where did I mention using either device while actually driving?

anything-but · 26 Jun 2011 at 18:24

Gawd,memories!

Used to have one of these...

....running through ...

(big old valves in that thing)

into this!

Dx`d all over the world with that setup,mainly ran it at full power after the telly went off at night for obvious reasons.

Snaggle · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:06

anything-but said:
Gawd,memories!

Used to have one of these...

....running through ...

(big old valves in that thing)

into this!

Dx`d all over the world with that setup,mainly ran it at full power after the telly went off at night for obvious reasons.

Nice stalker .. had a few modded one in the past . Loved the sigma 4 but neighbours and locals never . used to cause terrible splatter and tvi . finaly moved to a sirio 2012 and 6 element beam which caused a lot less hassle .

anything-but · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:19

Yea,used to have it up on the top of a two story set of flats where parents used to live,looked like crystal palace from a distance

Had a superstar 360 and a cobra 148 gtl dx too,but the reception on the stalker was way better than both of them.