CB radio - does it still exist/anyone got and use one?

CB radio - does it still exist/anyone got and use one?

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s3fella

10,524 posts

186 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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I'm still waiting for that pussy 'Scooterman' to turn up for the fight at Brets Burgers in Oxford that he challenged me to in 1984 when I was 14.

Big Girl's Blouse.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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 biggrin

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 biggrin

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 biggrin



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!!!) biggrin

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...


Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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.
That's the fella!

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.

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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 biggrin
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...

CAPP0

19,532 posts

202 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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I bought a car recently which came with a CB and aerial in the boot! Chucked it in the shed.

AdvanceRoadcraft

279 posts

210 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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Art0ir said:
Any resources for the "tweaking"?
You have PM

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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 biggrin
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...
Bwa-ha-haa...yep, spot on...when he got back into his car I was waiting in, when he told me what he'd done, I said exactly the same thing as you!

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...


Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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CAPP0 said:
I bought a car recently which came with a CB and aerial in the boot! Chucked it in the shed.
What make / model is the radio?

CAPP0

19,532 posts

202 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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I'll have to have a look, I really didn't take much notice of it, I just never throw anything away! Watch this space...

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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AdvanceRoadcraft said:
Art0ir said:
Any resources for the "tweaking"?
You have PM
Ooh, please may I have a tweaking PM too?

TIA biggrin


POORCARDEALER

8,523 posts

240 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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I had a Nato 2000 which was the dogs danglies......usb,lsb,kc shift,etc etc, it was marked on the front to make it look it was a 40 channel uk legal rig.


Friend of mine got busted and all gear confiscated.

Art0ir

9,401 posts

169 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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AdvanceRoadcraft said:
Art0ir said:
Any resources for the "tweaking"?
You have PM
Cheers smile

Ari

Original Poster:

19,328 posts

214 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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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.

r11co

6,244 posts

229 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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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'.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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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.
K40?

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.




s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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Just dug this out of my cupboard. I've got a sirio mag mount somewhere too, dont think it will work on a chimaera though hehe


Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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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 banghead

markmullen

15,877 posts

233 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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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 wink

AdvanceRoadcraft

279 posts

210 months

Saturday 27th April 2013
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Ooh, please may I have a tweaking PM too?

TIA biggrin
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