CB Radio nostalgia

[coastie]

No, it's not been epromed, it's still original. I was on 19 and 16 both legal and AM!

[billyboy]

The last I heard was that the CB'ers in the UK were digging out the old AM sets again as they proved to be more fun and have less turkeys on them than the legal FM. Anyone over there confirm that theory?. Love to be able to get CB going over here. much more fun then mobile phones.

[coastie]

When I get my hands on a K40 magmount, I'll try out that theory!!

[ceylon220]

Very handy when doing deliveries in the cities on asking for directions to places, I`m surprised they have`nt clamped down on drivers using CBs as they have done on the use of phones--no doubt it will come.
CB name at the time was "Blue Streak", remember talking to a mate of mine who was travelling south on the M6 with me who was going off at J16, he missed it and went flying passed J15 as well and blamed me for keeping him talking-----can`t win!!!!!!!!!!

[coastie]

Any excuse, eh??

[billyboy]

Thats a big 10/4 Chris. Anything that could be blamed on CB was!

Had some really great copies on it though whilst on the M6 southbound from Blackpool with a Coach hanging on the hook.

Had some good eyeballs too! and one or two shockers where the silken voice of the angelic breaker turned out to be an old dog!

[les turnbull]

During the summer time skip i used to get a quick copy from a breaker called margaret at about 11.00 most days,she was in Gibraltar .she would hear me talking to the lads in the yard at stockton and shout in.
My setup on the wagon at that time was a Tristar 777 doing 10 wats on FM and a tall bullwhip on a scania 113m.

A lot of people never liked the cibernet radios because they were prone to lots of bleedover but i found they would get out all over the world without burners.
The best one i ever had was a Tristar 747, it put 16 wats out on FM and could be heard every where.
Wish id,e kept it.

[coastie]

Originally Posted by billyboy

Thats a big 10/4 Chris. Anything that could be blamed on CB was!

Had some really great copies on it though whilst on the M6 southbound from Blackpool with a Coach hanging on the hook.

Had some good eyeballs too! and one or two shockers where the silken voice of the angelic breaker turned out to be an old dog!

I understand what you're saying there, voices can be misleading. I remember once hearing this wonderful voice of a Lady Breaker and talking to her thinking that she was the most wonderful sounding person on the air (Mind, I was 21!) then meeting her and understood why she'd picked her "handle".

[billyboy]

Heard a guy whispering once, when asked why he was whispering he said "got to keep it down in case I am giving out TVI" LOL

[Ian]

Any body remember this one:- http://members.tripod.com/~Cybertrucker/convoygb.htm

Enjoy 10-4

Ian