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Before the internet chat room, us oldies had CB radio.

I refer to all types and bands of CB radio, FM, AM, USB, LSB etc...

Is CB radio dead in your area ???
Are you still on it ????
What was your handle ??
Anyone got any stories ????


My handle was "The Professor"

Met many bints through it.
Just had a clear out and found my old rig. Hygain 5 with a 300 watt burner.
May set it up for a laugh ........ "1 4 for a copy"

Stavros

Tim at work admitted he used to use it and his nickname was "Black Stallion".

We have ripped the shit out of him mercilessly ever since. Both for using it and being called Black Stallion.

Hope this helps.

Stav

RichardPON

On the side...... breaker on the side!

Quality!

cossie04

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I`ve got one sitting in my shed, a Fidelity 3000 (I think) which had the extra 40 channels on mid-band. Used to use it when my mate did lorry driving, my handle was `mystery man`

S2martin

Side...Side...let me slip let me slide let me cum in..side

rs_daz

Fire my old mans Uniden 100 up years back

Even channel 19 was dead lol

mad dog younge

HI MATE .MY HANDLE WAS ROAD WORRIOR.STILL GOT MY COBRA 148 WITH ALL THE BANKS .F4T BOY HAD EVERY GOOD RIG GOING .WE ONLY WENT ON TO TAKE THE PISS OUT OF TRUCKERS

carl_f

my dad uses it for off roading in his land rover but dont no many people that use it

Speedy Gonzalez

we have CB's in all our tractors and in the bosses Discovery still use them too its easier than stopping all the time when they wanna give us a bollocking!

rstoughy

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LOL,

Used them years back

Got 3 of them sat in the garage

Alan s1

I got one sat in the shed for my Disco but need to get it looked @ 1st as it was a m8s and some things wrong with it

Would'nt use it alot realy unless im out playng off road But when im Marshalling Off Road with the AWDC ect i have 1 of there radio's as there on a differnt set

rsvan

still got mine in the shed, its proper dead on there now

PROMETHEUS

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still got mine too and 2 twigs lmao. "sweet revenge" on the back of a red cortina

Mrs T

i would like to think i wasnt that old

but my nickname was "little oddbod"

PROMETHEUS

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ohand some guy had "Eliminator" on a red Capri, A black Capri, "Fallen Angel" Blue Cortina Kathleen, and so on

These days Fords just get called "that piece of crap" (unless its cossied)

James-W

What's your handle,
Am the smokey tail grabbin' yo ass!

Magic Numbers

Sad cunt!

Treen

Oooooo.. I loved mine. Had a mag mount on me dads car at first.. n had to sit in it to chat... then got a pole summit (that interfered wiv the neighbours telly) so I could have it in my bedroom.

1-4 for a copy

where's ya home 20

Fancy an eyeball

Gawd.. how sad were we...lol

RS500/364

I got 6 or more in my one
also used to meet the girl at the corner of the end of the shops
DIDNT TELL THEM I COULD SEE THEM FROM MY WINDOW SO NO MINGER MEETS !!

Eagle

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so much fun with a zetagi B550 ...
add a lincoln and upset the local kids by jamming their radio control cars
why put radio control on 27mhz


even funnier is the old codgers with their boats use 35mhz you twits

RichardPON

Sad?

Everybody had these in the 80s! Just a part of growing up around that time, and a bit of funny nostalgia.........

Having said that, trying to pull women in a club by telling them you drive a Merc - now THAT is the height of coolness

Fil

next door had one, back in the late 80s, used to fuck up our B&W portable iTV n the kitchen, until some one stole his antenna

Eagle

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still got mine in the van ideal for listenng to the older style portable phones

!mouse-oxford!

LOL, i have a team euro basestation with the uk and mid band on it plus i have a voyage vr9000 with all modes and been moded to do a bit more.

I use an antron 99 antenna and have a rm kl 400 watt linear

There is about ten of us that use the uk channel 25 when we get time to go on but the main of us also use the 555s on usb.

ppl call me robert on the uk cb band as a handle and my call sign for long distance / over seas dxing is 26 GM 00, thats on , FM, AM, USB, LSB.

my brother lives some 12 miles from me and as they have now even done away with the licencing fees for the use of cb radio in the uk all you have to pay for is the leccy to keep it on, nice cheap way to stay in contact with my family with out paying by the min to have a chat over a phone.

Ive been into cb radio since i was a kid and cb will never die for me but like ppl have posted here, most places are dead for cb.

I think if places in the high street like dixons/currys started selling cb's as a cheap way for ppl to stay in touch with each other rather than pay as you go phones more ppl would buy and use it but as you dont see them in all shops most ppl dont even know about the cb radio and the fact you can use it for more or less free.

D7AKE

My handle was "Dennis the Menace"

God that brings back a few memories

Had a big fuck off mag mount ariel on the top of my car

How sad

SapphyMike

I had one back in the day lol.

Rotel 220, 240, Harrier CBX (with mid band), Baby Midland and the Amstrad with the annoying beep LOL

Never had a burner, but had a big aerial and a reverb box lol.

oh the joy

SapphyMike

very unlikely!

Its hard (read impossible) to have a private conversation on a CB.

rstoughy

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My 2nd CB was a Harrier CBX also had a Silver rod in the back garden on a 10ft scaffold tube

Bungle

I've still got one my handle is carlsberg always has been, I bought a cb for the car off someone on here cant remember who sorry,

If any of you are lorry drivers im sure you'll know the busiest part of the country is nottinghamshire always some fooker on down here

MAD DOG YOUNGE Sell me that cobra

!mouse-oxford!

Not bein funny m8 but if i wanted a pvt convo i wouldnt have it over a phone let alone a cb, i would go and talk face to face.

Im talking about everyday chat over the cb not airing you deep dark secrets for all ear wiggers to listen to.

The thing is if every1 stoped using phones to talk to there family/friends locally and used cb the gov would make cb ilegal to use again cos they would loose to much money in taxes.

If every town had a big cb store more ppl would use it, the same as when you see a new food in the shop and think i will try that or see a new mobile phone on tv and think i want that.
If cb was pushed in ppls faces it would be just as popular today as it was in the 80's

SapphyMike

yea, butl cb's dont have built in mp3 players, camera's and cant be taken outside and the ones you can take outside dont have a long range and wouldnt be too popular with the kids.

cb radio WAS a good idea back in the day. i dont believe it is now.

SimonT

I used to do pirate FM radio back in the day.

great fun

!mouse-oxford!

If they were put back in the public eye back on shelfs everywere ppl would buy and use them, not just youngsters but older ppl too.
it can cost upto about Ł600 for a good cb/side band set up or as little asŁ20/Ł30 for old 2nd hand cb stuff and then all you pay is for electric to run it and i dont think a radio with a 4 watt output will use much leccy.

It dont mean ppl have to do away with there mobile phones/mp3 players/camera's or landlines, just some lowering of the bills they get from using there phones when they could have a chat for more or less free over the cb.

Dave McB

i found my old Cobra 148 radio in the cupboard yesterday.

Still used it til about 98 or so.

Iv got one of them plug in the wall amps as well. weighs a ton, and forgot what half the channels were

Daviet

i remember we got hold of one
used to drive about in the car noising folk up until we got chased by about 30 cars one night when they finally sussed it was us that had an aerial inside the car
what a laugh we used to have .

ours was a rotel i think it was and was modded so could get 120 channels instead of 40 i remember that so they couldnt switch frequency to get away from us

Nath

Any original AM users on here.

I know Eagle use to be on it as we know a lot of the same people. We were talking about this a few years ago.

I still remember wiping out everyone else round Reading with a 1kw mains burner, sigma4 32ft aerial, superstar360 and the good old ham international big punch mikes that use to make you sound well bassy Still remember a guy called Mick from the DTi who tried busting me for the burners and using everything other than the legal 27 meg fm. I did play the game ....I paid the licence fee

Had loads of other rigs as well as the superstars sister the 148gtl dx, loads of Hams, stalker, the list goes on. Last time I hooked one up it was a few years ago and nobody was on there. Killed off by modern technology at a guess

Could do with a good old fox hunt

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Well I set it up and found no one for 3 hours locally.
Quite a few italians on USB though.
Left it switched on whilst doing some decorating and then a couple of
old ladies were having a chat.
Turns out, I knew them from all those years ago.

As I thought, the net and mobile phones have killed it all off.
REACT are still on there too....Sad bastards

Was fun for two minutes, back in the cupboard it goes


Matt J,

REPOST You must be bored or enjoy recycling

PhilM

I've been known to sit on 27.555 USB at work, can't remember what the 737's put out wattage wise, but it's a few hundred.....perfectly legal too, the aircraft has a radio license, if I can tune it, I can transmit on it

topaz

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