CB Radio nostalgia

[coastie]

One evening my Mother was on the rig (when was she not??!!) when suddenly she heard "Blue Dragon, is that you?" "Yes, who's that?" The breaker gave his name and was someone we knew then said, "Just do me a favour and count to twenty and back will you?" Mother thought it a bit strange, but did as she was asked. When it was over, the breaker called back and said, "thankyou, you have just helped us tremendously" It turned out that he was on a fishing vessel which had taken a freak wave which had knocked out a lot of the electrics in the wheelhouse. The Skipper knew this bloke had his rig aboard and asked him if he would connect it up and try to get some sort of bearing as to where they were etc. Turns out that he connected up and the first thing he heard was the Dragon and using a directional ariel, he was able to work out which way they were facing. They were off the coast of Iceland. None of us believed it untill a few days later a postcard from Reykyavik arrived with a big thankyou from all aboard!

[billyboy]

Thats a shame Coastie. should have got some high mileage copies going on that run down.

[billyboy]

Thats a great story coastie!... excellent they sent a card too!

[billyboy]

I suppose that makes Coasties Mother a Coastie too eh!

[Andy]

Great story, Coastie.

Talking of the Shetlands.
The sporadic E (the odd conditions you get mainly in late spring to summer) hop was perfect from my location to the Shetlands. A lot of the guys around here got to know a large number of cb'ers up in Shetland, we'd speak to them regularly... in fact many of us became members of the Viking radio group based up in Lerwick as a result.

cheers,
Andy

[coastie]

Originally Posted by billyboy

Thats a shame Coastie. should have got some high mileage copies going on that run down.

That's what I was hoping for, seems everyone uses mobile phones these days!!

[coastie]

Originally Posted by billyboy

Thats a great story coastie!... excellent they sent a card too!

Yeah! As I said, she didn't believe it at first and thought it was a wind up, but she played along and, sure enough the card arrived.

[coastie]

Originally Posted by billyboy

I suppose that makes Coasties Mother a Coastie too eh!

Following in her Fathers footsteps!!

[coastie]

Originally Posted by Andy

Great story, Coastie.

Talking of the Shetlands.
The sporadic E (the odd conditions you get mainly in late spring to summer) hop was perfect from my location to the Shetlands. A lot of the guys around here got to know a large number of cb'ers up in Shetland, we'd speak to them regularly... in fact many of us became members of the Viking radio group based up in Lerwick as a result.

cheers,
Andy

That's nice! The Shetland people are really friendly.

[les turnbull]

Originally Posted by coastie

When I moved back from Shetland to Holyhead, I had my 148 connected to the K40 which had been fitted to a guttermount on my Sherpa minibus. All the way down from Aberdeen, apart from a couple of sidebanders, not a thing.

Are u sure u were on 19, On the 148 its band E channel 33 unless its been Epromed to give the uk 40 readout.