CB radio - does it still exist/anyone got and use one?
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Funny you should mention this.
Many year ago there was the usual local hardnut who 'owned' the airwaves and was some young chap and his friend accidentally came crashing onto his channel.
After the bloke gave this poor young chap a load of verbal and threatened to do him over his father came on air and basically said 'My name is Mr xxxxxx and you really dont want to know me. If I find out who you are etc. etc.'.
Turns out that the father who he had threated had served time for ABH, GBH, and use of firearms and really was a nasty bit of work. Turns out that he just walked into someones house and dragged him outside for a good beating.
The next day he took all the aerials down, sold his radios and was off air for months.
Many year ago there was the usual local hardnut who 'owned' the airwaves and was some young chap and his friend accidentally came crashing onto his channel.
After the bloke gave this poor young chap a load of verbal and threatened to do him over his father came on air and basically said 'My name is Mr xxxxxx and you really dont want to know me. If I find out who you are etc. etc.'.
Turns out that the father who he had threated had served time for ABH, GBH, and use of firearms and really was a nasty bit of work. Turns out that he just walked into someones house and dragged him outside for a good beating.
The next day he took all the aerials down, sold his radios and was off air for months.
Lol at this thread.
Back in the day, we all had them in our cars, and for the most part, they were a good laugh, useful for keeping in touch on hoons, and actually now I think about it, some of my current friends are other car guys that we first met over the CB and then hooked up with.
I don't remember anyone getting laid after CB contact - most of the girls we 'eyeballed' after CB contact were...how can I say...a little horrific
I can remember at least one incident of Police interaction with one of our group, and CB's helped to avoid, evade and re-group
There was also an occasion when there was a complete 'hard-man' dhead giving people massive grief, so one night a mate kept him talking whilst we tracked and drove closer and closer to his house, using the power meter, and after a bit of searching, found his gaff and saw the aerial at the foot of his garden.
My mate then jumped out, slipped into his garden and snipped his co-ax with a pair of pliers. He went very quiet immediately after that, and it was a good 24 hours before he appeared on the air again - must have taken him a while to figure out why his CB was not working anymore
I still have a Midland in my Jeep, which has the sidebands on it too, because as said, it is useful when off-roading with other peeps (it's gripped - it's sorted - let's offroad, yeahhhh!!!)
But whenever it's on, and even sometimes when I am atop a huge local hill with a tea-van in the car park, and I turn on the CB - there is never anyone on there now, it's basically a radio Ghost town...
Back in the day, we all had them in our cars, and for the most part, they were a good laugh, useful for keeping in touch on hoons, and actually now I think about it, some of my current friends are other car guys that we first met over the CB and then hooked up with.
I don't remember anyone getting laid after CB contact - most of the girls we 'eyeballed' after CB contact were...how can I say...a little horrific
I can remember at least one incident of Police interaction with one of our group, and CB's helped to avoid, evade and re-group
There was also an occasion when there was a complete 'hard-man' dhead giving people massive grief, so one night a mate kept him talking whilst we tracked and drove closer and closer to his house, using the power meter, and after a bit of searching, found his gaff and saw the aerial at the foot of his garden.
My mate then jumped out, slipped into his garden and snipped his co-ax with a pair of pliers. He went very quiet immediately after that, and it was a good 24 hours before he appeared on the air again - must have taken him a while to figure out why his CB was not working anymore
I still have a Midland in my Jeep, which has the sidebands on it too, because as said, it is useful when off-roading with other peeps (it's gripped - it's sorted - let's offroad, yeahhhh!!!)
But whenever it's on, and even sometimes when I am atop a huge local hill with a tea-van in the car park, and I turn on the CB - there is never anyone on there now, it's basically a radio Ghost town...
Morningside said:
Dog Star said:
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This was on a bog standard 4 watt CB 27/81 (see pic on previous page of tis thread - I still have it) and a gutter mounted aerial - can't remember the name of it now - was a thick black plastic coated thing, were very popular at the time.
That MUST be the classic DV27.This was on a bog standard 4 watt CB 27/81 (see pic on previous page of tis thread - I still have it) and a gutter mounted aerial - can't remember the name of it now - was a thick black plastic coated thing, were very popular at the time.
I also remember that certain aerials were illegal - centre loaded for example. I had one (a "dial-a-match") nicked off my Fiesta when I was living in France in 1989.
It does seem like since all the nobheads Have buggered off to chatlines and Facebook that although the airwaves are quieter now that CB, after thirty years, is actually being used properly now.
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
My mate then jumped out, slipped into his garden and snipped his co-ax with a pair of pliers. He went very quiet immediately after that, and it was a good 24 hours before he appeared on the air again - must have taken him a while to figure out why his CB was not working anymore
Your mate missed a trick. What he should have done was pierce a needle through the bucketmouth's coaxial cable. He would have kept transmitting for a while probably oblivious unless he was paying attention to his VSWR, until the final transistor on his rig blew up.Would have kept him off air for a bit more than 24 hours...
r11co said:
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
My mate then jumped out, slipped into his garden and snipped his co-ax with a pair of pliers. He went very quiet immediately after that, and it was a good 24 hours before he appeared on the air again - must have taken him a while to figure out why his CB was not working anymore
Your mate missed a trick. What he should have done was pierce a needle through the bucketmouth's coaxial cable. He would have kept transmitting for a while probably oblivious unless he was paying attention to his VSWR, until the final transistor on his rig blew up.Would have kept him off air for a bit more than 24 hours...
But anyway, once bucketmouth came back on air, he was a shadow of his former self, once he'd realised that someone had actually found out where he lived and come into his garden and attacked his kit...
Did the trick...
Dog Star said:
I had one (a "dial-a-match") nicked off my Fiesta when I was living in France in 1989.
They were those really cool stumpy aerials with the two knurled rings for adjusting the SWR weren't they?Wasn't there a Cherokee something or other by the same people? Looked like the one on the Dukes Of Hazzard, thick black base and whippy stainless steel whip.
POORCARDEALER said:
I had a Nato 2000 which was the dogs danglies..
It wasn't actually - it had a crap circuit board and suffered from terrible 'bleedover', but got all the attention because of its gimmicky and somewhat controversial features. The Stalker ST9FDX-UK was far superior, but because it had less channels and an unattractive front panel people didn't think it was as good.WRT to CB today the old gear seems to have a cult following, and unmolested examples of rigs like the NATO fetch silly money on ebay, mainly because the majority of them have been (badly) 'tweaked'.
Ari said:
Dog Star said:
I had one (a "dial-a-match") nicked off my Fiesta when I was living in France in 1989.
They were those really cool stumpy aerials with the two knurled rings for adjusting the SWR weren't they?Wasn't there a Cherokee something or other by the same people? Looked like the one on the Dukes Of Hazzard, thick black base and whippy stainless steel whip.
I did have a 9ft bright orange firestick on my Mini with fairy lights on the top. It did require some strengthening under the roof panel.
What a nice radio. You must keep hold of that.
I thought about putting my CB in the TVR at one point BUT it would have meant putting a hole in the boot and having a plate of steel underneath and as I did not fancy the ideas of holes everywhere I gave up on the idea.
I did get an Espace and found the same problem
I thought about putting my CB in the TVR at one point BUT it would have meant putting a hole in the boot and having a plate of steel underneath and as I did not fancy the ideas of holes everywhere I gave up on the idea.
I did get an Espace and found the same problem
Morningside said:
What a nice radio. You must keep hold of that.
I thought about putting my CB in the TVR at one point BUT it would have meant putting a hole in the boot and having a plate of steel underneath and as I did not fancy the ideas of holes everywhere I gave up on the idea.
Should have used a mag mount I thought about putting my CB in the TVR at one point BUT it would have meant putting a hole in the boot and having a plate of steel underneath and as I did not fancy the ideas of holes everywhere I gave up on the idea.
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