CB Radio
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My dad used to be a CB addict......he would have loved the improvements in communication technology...sadly he died 13 years ago.
He was a Radio Amateur and had cards from all over the world...he would stay up till the early hours of the morning so that he could talk to people in Oz. The internet would have been wonderful to him.
He was a Radio Amateur and had cards from all over the world...he would stay up till the early hours of the morning so that he could talk to people in Oz. The internet would have been wonderful to him.
I had one in the mid eighties it was great, I made many great friends some I still see. When I put my dipole up my then next door neighbor said he was getting interference on his tele so I went out and bought him a box to filter it out. As it happened I didn't use my CB that night but said neighbour was at my door the next morning again saying I was still interfering with his tele. I was really fed up of the abuse and whinging by this point so late that night I took the dipole down & laid it across my lounge floor. Next morning He was back again with the same complaint The look on his face was a picture when I showed him my aerial on the floor. it turned out he had just got his first video recorder and was watching second hand tapes that had little lines running through it now & again. I used a car aerial in the loft after that so he didn't know I still had one, & he never complained about interference ever again.
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My Mum and Dad (Baker and Ma Baker) were mad on CB's when we were growing up and they met a lot of crazy friends through it 
I still love listening to some of the tales my Mum tells about the 'good old CB days'!
My Dad had a massive kingfisher arial in the garden, never remember anyone complaining about interference, I'll have to ask my Mum ?
I still love listening to some of the tales my Mum tells about the 'good old CB days'!My Dad had a massive kingfisher arial in the garden, never remember anyone complaining about interference, I'll have to ask my Mum ?
I used to use the CB radio, still have it and go on now and again (If I can be bothered putting it in the car). I did use it at home, but my antron99 blew down though and I haven't replaced it since!
NOTE: Do not hang England flags from antron99's, they fall down!
Whenever I have been on, it's just idiots playing music or drunks these days. Met a couple of now good friends off the CB though years back. We used to go 'cruising' and meeting others, was a pretty good laugh!
I'm still into my radio scanners and luckily my scanner aerial has not blown over, not bad considering it's around 10+ years old and been moved to 3 homes (My mams, dads and then my own over the years).
Anyhow, may get a CB aerial put back up though, it will be handy for the business.
The below image is naff quality, using dial up with OnSpeed and set image download quality to low:
NOTE: Do not hang England flags from antron99's, they fall down!
Whenever I have been on, it's just idiots playing music or drunks these days. Met a couple of now good friends off the CB though years back. We used to go 'cruising' and meeting others, was a pretty good laugh!
I'm still into my radio scanners and luckily my scanner aerial has not blown over, not bad considering it's around 10+ years old and been moved to 3 homes (My mams, dads and then my own over the years).
Anyhow, may get a CB aerial put back up though, it will be handy for the business.
The below image is naff quality, using dial up with OnSpeed and set image download quality to low:
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I think my dad's handle was Doc.....or maybe The Doc... because he used to fix them when they went wrong.
well my handle was scatman i think lol i met a lad called LB from ossi he was cool. and i met 2 girls who was also very nice people one from accy and one from rishton. sadly lost contact with them. i loved the cb days i say bring it all back cant beat good old comunication. 
I used to have a CB in the early 80’s; my handle was Rockin Robin, from Hanky town. I also had a DX call sign and it was Lema Delta 24.Hehe I spent many hours calling CQ CQ CQ-DX and after all that I made very few contacts, I think I still Have a couple of QSL cards somewhere, cards that other stations had sent me.
We used to have our eyeballs at the lidgett GT Harwood and eyeballs at Smokey’s back door (Green Club GT Harwood behind the police station).
Things change thou when it became legal, the air waves became clogged with kids, bucket mouthing and keying over other stations as well as playing music like Neal said.
A friend of mine who was a Ham operator from the early 60’s said why you don’t get your self an amateur radio licence, so I sat the RAE 1983 and got myself one.
I haven’t bothered with radio for some time now but I still hold my licence. My then shack is now a complete tip. Click on the link below to see some images of my then shack. Hehe
All good fun.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46450&postcount=2
We used to have our eyeballs at the lidgett GT Harwood and eyeballs at Smokey’s back door (Green Club GT Harwood behind the police station).
Things change thou when it became legal, the air waves became clogged with kids, bucket mouthing and keying over other stations as well as playing music like Neal said.
A friend of mine who was a Ham operator from the early 60’s said why you don’t get your self an amateur radio licence, so I sat the RAE 1983 and got myself one.
I haven’t bothered with radio for some time now but I still hold my licence. My then shack is now a complete tip. Click on the link below to see some images of my then shack. Hehe
All good fun.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46450&postcount=2
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Bagpuss said:
Nice one. You never know we may have met at some point. The lidgett got so busy with the eyeballs that they had to change venue. They moved to the Green Bowling Club for its eyeballs because it had a much bigger room and I think around that time everyone formed a Club called “The Hyndburn Breakers Club” but not too sure, was a long time ago.
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