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with a DX27 5/8th wave helical wound twig. We had an Antler gutter mount on the SD1 too, posh kids had magmount K40s though didn't they?. God .. did we really used to say all this crap and think it was cool?I believe the 'lingo' in Manc stretched to such techno-linguisting sophistry as "get off me fcukin channel ye dick.. " and "Fourrrrr'een* a contact?" 
Ahhh.. Crappy Days..
*Lovely Manc glottal stop..
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>> Edited by CarZee (moderator) on Monday 24th March 21:23
Ahhh.. Crappy Days..
*Lovely Manc glottal stop..
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>> Edited by CarZee (moderator) on Monday 24th March 21:23
nice to be here.
after seeing some of the cars you guys own on here,i seem to be a bit of a pauper!
the '81 cortina i have is in pieces being customised and my '84 bmw e30 323i is coming off the road for a full body resto once the cortina is ready.
i wonder if i could enter the gumball with the cortina!!!hahahahahaha!
after seeing some of the cars you guys own on here,i seem to be a bit of a pauper!
the '81 cortina i have is in pieces being customised and my '84 bmw e30 323i is coming off the road for a full body resto once the cortina is ready.
i wonder if i could enter the gumball with the cortina!!!hahahahahaha!
quality! Is that from hotshots?
My dad got one when they became legal (1981, wasn't it?) and in the end I think we owned about 3, one of which was mounted in his Lotus Esprit S3 instead of the air vents in the centre console.
I messed around for a year or two on one in the Cheltenham area (too embarrassed to tell you what my 'handle' was) and then gradually got bored with it.
Having said that, I still found them useful for keeping convoys together in the late 80's / early 90's whilst at college and I'd guess they'd still be useful for that even now (cheaper than mobile phones).
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th March 22:06
I messed around for a year or two on one in the Cheltenham area (too embarrassed to tell you what my 'handle' was) and then gradually got bored with it.
Having said that, I still found them useful for keeping convoys together in the late 80's / early 90's whilst at college and I'd guess they'd still be useful for that even now (cheaper than mobile phones).
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 24th March 22:06
Can't complain: I taught myself electronics by figuring out how CBs worked and then making money from the 2@s who kept blowing them up!
Moved onto ham radio, got sick of the knobsticks who basically treated what used to be the preserve of serious scientific types, as an extension of the CB bands.
However it got me where I am now, much more useful than any certificates I left school/ college with.
Hmm... thinking back to some of the scams: used to put the word around that old, used aerial co-ax was better than the new stuff as it 'acquired an RF coating' - oh how we chortled when people used to buy 2nd-hand cable for pots of cash!
Then there was the 'aggro nights', when we used to go out on my 400 Suzuki and wreak havoc by upsetting people; my mate on the back with a rig down his jacket, aerial lead down his trouser leg. It was yonks before anyone figured out what was happening.
Then I worked out how to make CBs work half-duplex (i.e transmitting on one frequency and receiving on another): it meant that nobody could butt in because as soon as you released the mic key, the set jumped to another channel. Every conversation also took up two channels, which also used to annoy people for some reason...
Used to leave an open-reel tape recorder connected to a permanently-transmitting CB set, with a few seconds of snoring recorded on a length of tape spliced into a loop. One time it was keyed-up on the 'breaking' channel for 4 days before the tape splice snapped. My mate used to do a similar thing with a loud clock and an echo mike.... people used to drive around looking for him!
Eee, happy days...
Ian
Moved onto ham radio, got sick of the knobsticks who basically treated what used to be the preserve of serious scientific types, as an extension of the CB bands.
However it got me where I am now, much more useful than any certificates I left school/ college with.
Hmm... thinking back to some of the scams: used to put the word around that old, used aerial co-ax was better than the new stuff as it 'acquired an RF coating' - oh how we chortled when people used to buy 2nd-hand cable for pots of cash!
Then there was the 'aggro nights', when we used to go out on my 400 Suzuki and wreak havoc by upsetting people; my mate on the back with a rig down his jacket, aerial lead down his trouser leg. It was yonks before anyone figured out what was happening.
Then I worked out how to make CBs work half-duplex (i.e transmitting on one frequency and receiving on another): it meant that nobody could butt in because as soon as you released the mic key, the set jumped to another channel. Every conversation also took up two channels, which also used to annoy people for some reason...
Used to leave an open-reel tape recorder connected to a permanently-transmitting CB set, with a few seconds of snoring recorded on a length of tape spliced into a loop. One time it was keyed-up on the 'breaking' channel for 4 days before the tape splice snapped. My mate used to do a similar thing with a loud clock and an echo mike.... people used to drive around looking for him!
Eee, happy days...
Ian
outlaw said: used to pirate top band HF and 11 meters. SSB
ocational venturing on to the muppets(legal CB channels).
was mobile with 1Kilo W clean signal too
used to build 500w plus broardcast fm transmiters too.
Outlaw you naughty boy! Running 1kw on a pirate band!!!
I am a class A amateur but thats how I started as well. At least your were not on 45 meters!
Deester
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