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over a year ago
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hey there good buddy, does any one remember thee good old CB RADIO. This is how i met Mr. Frisky,on an eyeball 24years ago. good times.
10 10 till i catch ye again lol. |
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had several of them, started on Am with SSB etc, but when the goverment of the time made FM legal and licenced my parents made me go legal, they did not realise what i had was technically illegal, (i was about 14 at the time)
So what were your handles, mine was Renegade
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Oh they where the days, i do have nightmares still about a guy i nearly met, i say nearly cause thankfully he had his "handle" on the back of his leather jacket and i could do a quick runner
Little digit was my handle lol |
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flash from the past. I used to grab handles and twenty folk on a old am cobra. Fukt all the tv receptions at the time , then went to an fm maxcom. Think mobiles have parked riggs up and home barns. Anyone remember 'convoy' ? |
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"flash from the past. I used to grab handles and twenty folk on a old am cobra. Fukt all the tv receptions at the time , then went to an fm maxcom. Think mobiles have parked riggs up and home barns. Anyone remember 'convoy' ? "
convoy was great, film based on the song |
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I remember that the whole family was into it at one point, my handle was jelly baby could have only been about 9 or 10...
Then I got back into it when I was in my teens and went under electric dreams...
That's when I started to meet people and parents did not like it so they tried to make me not use it by dismantling the aerial... but a coathanger worked just as well in the back of it lol |
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I must have had a fair few CB sets over the years. The AM radios were the best. Once it was legalised everyone seemed to get into it for a while and every town had a CB shop. Like so many things its popularity dwindled with the coming of the internet and mobile phones but CBs still have their uses and are still made. I've got an old Midland in my old Landrover that's still working well. |
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Remember them well. I was Green Machine, using an old Cobra.
I was pretty late on in the scene and within months, had got a mobile phone, so as soon as I changed cars after that, I never bothered to re-install the CB rig and it all went to a box in the attic.
What it did do though was to inspire me to do the City & Guilds course and become a licenced (VHF) Radio "ham". That was fun, but if you think that CB handles at "eyeballs" are for anoraks, then you should hear radio hams get to gether..."I say, Charlie-Echo-4-7-Bravo" have you heard about old "Alpha-India-9-2-Yankee"? I gather he's now seeing "Whisky-Kilo-8-3-Lima"...blah blah...it was too much, I had to get out lol lol... |
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"I remember that the whole family was into it at one point.
That's when I started to meet people and parents did not like it so they tried to make me not use it by dismantling the aerial... but a coathanger worked just as well in the back of it lol "
most of my family was on also, i always mind my mum saying " dont go arranging to meet anyone , cos they are strangers and u dont know them. then around 13 or 14 my pal and i started eyeballing people, travelling on buses for miles. minding tho you couldnt send a photo or anything over the airways so we used to tell each other what we would be wearing, my pal and me would give total different description incase we had to walk right past. oh the good old days.
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My handle was billy the fish .. Dont know why ! I remember me mate had a Amstrad 901 CB , Thought it was great cos it had LED's on the single meter..
Had a massive silver rod on the house, but mother made me take it down , so i just put it in the down comer off the roof..
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"Had a massive silver rod on the house, but mother made me take it down , so i just put it in the down comer off the roof..
Happy days "
soumds like a 16 or 18ft dipole, i had one as well, took it down when we moved house in 1989, left teh bracket up though for some reason, i cannot remember why.
That Bracket is still on the house i drive past it every day
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i used to have a Fidelity CB3000FM Homebase unit with side band fitted with power mike & 100 watt bunner silver rod arial we used to have bba round most weeks as people could hear me over there tv's or not beable to watch there tv's in our area
 i used to speek to nutty tart off hear on the cb when i was a kid |
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I (Kaz) also had an Amstrad 901 and a Premier Homebase. My handle back then was Caramel and I met lots of friends on the CB in the early/mid 80s! My dad wasn't too impressed when I showed him the size of the arial I wanted putting up outside the house! We had a CB club too. Good good times....
Kazx |
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"I (Kaz) I met lots of friends on the CB in the early/mid 80s! My dad wasn't too impressed when I showed him the size of the arial I wanted putting up outside the house! We had a CB club too. Good good times....
Kazx"
my dad didnt like them much, my mum was on more than me lol. my aerial was a piece of wire going round my parents loft that one of my mums pals put up for us. i made quite a lot of friends on it aswell, we also had a cb club. i enjoyed they days  |
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used to have a cb club around here with over 200 members. held fox hunts trying to eyeball whoever was chosen as the fox out an about in thier car giving hints to where they were going, massive monthly meets and parties. then they legalised it and it all died a deth so the midland set and 6ft firepole with neon got put away.
strange how making something legal can kill the illegal fun over night |
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I'm remember them from my teens, then with the advent of first mobile phone technology with communication one on one followed by facebook and its ability to communicate to a mass audience they sadly fell by the wayside...
Never did arrange an eyeball though, as when I hit sixteen they seemed to vanish....  . But by then I had discovered raves |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Was only ever on the legal FM 40 channel, but still got 2 sets and they still work.
But they both have 41 channels!
Have you turned them on? is there anyone one else using them  "
Don't know to be honest, my brother last used them for a car rally event. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I loved it for a while when it was the in gimmick.
how many candles you burning?
have you got a seat cover?
whats your 20?
Good laugh at the time. Seems a bit anoraky now, and thinking about it there were some proper dipsticks on there who thought they owned the airwaves.  |
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