cb radios...

[surfingturnip]

veg man callin mr fruity

[JAY PS]

Seen them in maplins with the dukes type aerial !

I used some handheld walkie talkies on holiday recently bloody great they were ,we were taking to my mates car all the way to cornwall from london and had massive range only cost £25 in argos !

[john123]

i had a superstar 360 in the day and spoke to people in most parts of the world i had a contact in australia we had some geat times

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

i had a superstar 360 in the day and spoke to people in most parts of the world i had a contact in australia we had some geat times

 

Is that not Short Wave (SW) radio?

[caprinerd]

i had a superstar 360 in the day and spoke to people in most parts of the world i had a contact in australia we had some geat times

 

Is that not Short Wave (SW) radio?

 

im sure that i had one of them when i done my G6

[Tracey]

HA HA, I had one when I was 14 and made my dad put up a Silver rod on the roof? is that what its called?

 

silver rod , do they still make thoses?

i had a thnderpoll 3 and then when i went side band i got a sigma4 best money can buy

 

Probably not, I was 14!!!

[5hane]

my dad has a few

 

i might connect one up we have one with 160 channels.. whatever that means

 

are they just plug in and go ?

[DAZZA]

Had on on the wired on a motorbike battery on my raleigh chopper about 1986

 

Trying to convince the OSF Bromley division its a fine idea and cheaper than mobile phones!

[caprinerd]

my dad has a few

 

i might connect one up we have one with 160 channels.. whatever that means

 

are they just plug in and go ?

 

normal rigs have 40 channels side band rigs carried more

[mexicostids]

got one in my truck had it years easy to fit , mine is literally chucked in runs off cigarette lighter plug & mag mount on the roof , doesnt get out too bad ( about 20 miles, depends what the terrain is like ) used to drive muckaway tipper was really handy when a few were on a job in the sticks to look out for stuff coming the other way !!

[antz]

need to find somewhere to fit it cos it wont fit where i wanted

 

so i was gonan put remove the tape holder and put it there but volvo being volvo decided to put a blanking plate behind there...held in by 4 rivets and 2 screws. its a dash out job to remove this plate

 

ill get it in there

[X FLOW EDDY]

The good old days of Chicken Box raido !!! I have had so many cb's over the years i have lost count !! Hears a little list........

 

 

Presient Jackson ( Both 5 and 6 band models)

 

Presient Lincoln Hi power

 

Cobra 148 GTL-DX

 

WKS 1001

 

Nato 40 and a 2000

 

Harrier CBX

 

The best set up i had in my old TD mk6 escort was my Lincoln with an astetic tear drop mike a KL 500 amp in the glove box and a siro hi power 4000 on the roof !!! Proper job. After playing about with cb's for long enough i thought it was time to do it propley and i am now a raido ham instead !!!!

[caprinerd]

harrier CBX nice rig i preffered the fidelity 2001 used a turner jm+2u power mike and a 6ft firestick on my back bumper with 150watt bremmies best mobile set up i ever had, on the old am i think i had an old midland of sort

[john123]

i had a superstar 360 with 100s of channels and a 500watt bremi burner and the furthest i spoke to was australia on a strenght 5 those were the days

[caprinerd]

thats a ham radio

[john123]

no its not its normal am with sidebands with a standard 4-wats output the next one up was a ham radio ie a yasu now thats a ham radio

[john_3.0s]

i had a superstar 360 in the day and spoke to people in most parts of the world i had a contact in australia we had some geat times

 

Is that not Short Wave (SW) radio?

 

27MHz CB is short wave (technically) right next to the 10metre (28MHz) ham band. Up there your very dependant on propagation conditions but i used to talk all around europe and to the US when the conditions were right.....did have 250W linear on the back end tho but you didnt normally need that much power. Used to take out the neighbours telly so had to turn it down normally!

 

Any CB questions feel free to ask me, im a comms engineer by trade

[5hane]

normal rigs have 40 channels side band rigs carried more

 

ah cool , whats a side band rig ?

 

ill find out whats its calle d

[cisco24uk]

Found this on maplins seems pretty cheap

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=45060

[pelvins]

i still have my cobra 148 gtl-dx

 

i had a guitar eco chamber rigged up through my mike

 

 

the good old days

 

 

......over

[Posse]

i still have my cobra 148 gtl-dx

 

i had a guitar eco chamber rigged up through my mike

 

 

the good old days

 

 

......over

 

 

QSk lol i remember having one years ago used to have a right laugh .FOx hunts lol

[caprinerd]

on the side

[pelvins]

we did fox hunts , they were great , we set rules that you couldent hide on private ground so it made it well hard to find a good spot where no one could find us , .......the old tricks where you would key up and they would listen to try and track you ,..... and if they were realy close,. you could cheat and take the aerial out the back and make them think that they were further away than what they was

[PIG]

i was well in to these from 79 up to about 86 lol,still have my old nato 2000sideband c.b.i brought a cobra 148 and a k40 off ebay just over a year ago.fooked if i would have one in my car tho tbh,great if there are a few of you tho doing a road trip.

or you off road in shitty landrovers with beards and hats

[countrybumpkin]

i was well in to these from 79 up to about 86 lol,still have my old nato 2000sideband c.b.i brought a cobra 148 and a k40 off ebay just over a year ago.fooked if i would have one in my car tho tbh,great if there are a few of you tho doing a road trip.

or you off road in shitty landrovers with beards and hats

 

i resent that not all land rovers are shitty some get cleaned, and i dont have a beard or a hat