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13-04-2007, 23:08
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
Thanks for the link Jambutty. I drove a preganant roller skate back then.
I dont ever remember those 18 & 19 codes but there was a 13 code (insults).
Were you a breaker too?
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14-04-2007, 10:37
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
I was a breaker but wasn’t a prolific ratcheter. Once you get home from work the CB wasn’t at the head of the list of things to do.
I spent most of my air time DX’ing at weekends. I was Jambutty for that but Green Flash for domestic copies. My ‘wrapper’ was a Short Nosed Henry (Ford Escort) and it was green.
I had a Black Shadow side band rig with 80 channels and a 10w kicker for DX’ing. I used to have a silver rod but the local council made me take it down so I put a DX twig in the loft but it wasn’t as good for long distance copies. A 25w burner to compensate upset my neighbours with TVI.
Once FM came in I sold my AM rig and gave FM a whirl for a while but it just wasn’t the same. Too many ‘planks’ so I called it quits.
I’ve still got my old FM rig, Turner power mic, ATU, twigs, PSU etc. tucked away even though CB is unlikely to ever come back.
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14-04-2007, 12:11
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
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Originally Posted by jambutty
I was a breaker but wasn’t a prolific ratcheter. Once you get home from work the CB wasn’t at the head of the list of things to do.
I spent most of my air time DX’ing at weekends. I was Jambutty for that but Green Flash for domestic copies. My ‘wrapper’ was a Short Nosed Henry (Ford Escort) and it was green.
I had a Black Shadow side band rig with 80 channels and a 10w kicker for DX’ing. I used to have a silver rod but the local council made me take it down so I put a DX twig in the loft but it wasn’t as good for long distance copies. A 25w burner to compensate upset my neighbours with TVI.
Once FM came in I sold my AM rig and gave FM a whirl for a while but it just wasn’t the same. Too many ‘planks’ so I called it quits.
I’ve still got my old FM rig, Turner power mic, ATU, twigs, PSU etc. tucked away even though CB is unlikely to ever come back.
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ive heard and read that the cb frequency is being closed down so it will be elegal to use them the new cb frequency is the ones is the small radio transmitter that you get from comets/currys ect but they are thinking to give1watt power instead of 500mw
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14-04-2007, 17:29
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
All my gear AM & FM got nicked in a burglary in '86, and the cheeky lads came back within 7 days for the ariel. I had an AM Cobra with high and low band on either side of the 'straight 40' as well as a legal FM 40.
They were happy days - not surprised at the frequency close down - replaced by boards like this and chat rooms - technology/time marches on
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13-06-2007, 22:17
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
I had a Cobra too, although the exact spec is lost in the mists of time. I was home based in Hazzard county, went by the handleof Bookie's Runner and did the Martholme Grange thing and an eyeball at a pub on Thwaites Road. Sweet heaven the Tshirts with everyone's handle...., the orangeboom, the lack of deoderised bodies it's all coming back to haunt me. Will have to go and lie down now 66's & 88's, 10/10 till we do it again.
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14-06-2007, 09:20
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
I had a Sommerkamp TS788DX (Coffee Warmer) 100w output and continuous frequency coverage from 26 to 30 Mhz. This probably was an introduction to amateur radio which in a way spurred me on to enrol at Accy college for the City and Guilds Radio Amateurs Examination in 1985 and then in 1988 I passed the morse code test and obtained the full amateur radio licence.
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04-07-2008, 20:43
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
hi folks, new to this site so i hope i ve got the right place, i use to be on the cb radio back in the 80s when i was 13 (now 41), use to have a superstar 360 fm with all the mods, super super low to super super high, and running 200 watts, loved the am cb days i wish it would come back, as i made so many friends, communication is not the same today, as you dont meet up with people you talked to, any way what is the score on the cb radio, is it still active ?, or is it all gone.
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04-07-2008, 20:53
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
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Originally Posted by ANNE
Awww the old Aunt Mary now that brings back some memories. Mostly good but some not so good.
We had one of the best set ups in Preston.
It helped to pass on those lonely nights when Mick was at work and Kids were in bed.
Some times I would still be sat there mike in hand when Mick came home. When I couldn't be bothered to modulate i would be sitting on the side ear-wigging.
Youve spoke to the best. Now speak to the rest.
Take care coz i care bud.
We left, we right, we up, we down, we in we out, we gone.
10.10 breaker, break, your gone.
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You can still see the rawbolt holes in the house ...
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04-07-2008, 20:54
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
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hi folks, new to this site so i hope i ve got the right place, i use to be on the cb radio back in the 80s when i was 13 (now 41), use to have a superstar 360 fm with all the mods, super super low to super super high, and running 200 watts, loved the am cb days i wish it would come back, as i made so many friends, communication is not the same today, as you dont meet up with people you talked to, any way what is the score on the cb radio, is it still active ?, or is it all gone.
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You interested in a Cobra 148 GTL DX FM with twin output transistors and active cooling
Or how about a couple of Hygain 5's with switchable squeeky bleep.
All with UK 1-40 modded using eproms written by myself
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04-07-2008, 21:09
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
An old AM cber died this week. Some of you may remember 'Pirate', a SuperB taxi driver, who was a regular attender at the meets of Khyber Good Buddies at the Sett End.
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04-07-2008, 21:28
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
I met my hubby over the cb radio, over 25 years ago
Loved it, had a colt 444 with high and low band.
Sadly when it went legal it didn't seem the same
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05-07-2008, 19:41
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
thanks for the over of the 148, but i have just brought a cte galaxy 1275 homebase radio, as i have heard the skip is back in.......loverly,
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05-07-2008, 19:54
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
just a short message to forceten, i met my wife over the cb radio about 25 years ago too, and you are right, when it became legal, the excitement of it was not the same, lets make mobile phones illigal,lol
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06-07-2008, 10:49
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
I dabbled a bit, but was a bit like JB more things to do, my handle was 8 Ball, that was because I was Chairman of the Lancashire County Pool Association at the time
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06-07-2008, 18:30
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Re: Any old AM CB radio users out there?
10 - 4 for a copy. Have you got your ears on Van Gogh?
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