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| Tweet Topic Started: Thursday, 8. March 2012, 11:30 (2,929 Views) | |
| el macho | Thursday, 26. July 2012, 05:54 Post #21 |
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ah yes channel 9 - i remember the self appointed "watchers " of the day .lol of course the touching faith everyone has in mobile phones these days is misplaced - but then again a LOT of people don't realise cb is even still going - of as one youngster said to me the other day in our only local outlet still selling cb kit "wots cb then ??? " - guess its too "old school " for many of todays internet savvy - youngsters to bother with as it requires a tad of effort and knowlage to set up properly - and for a generation used to "instant " results ............................. theres a simple answer tho - get a rig with dual watch and program in ch 9 - if anything IS on there - it will flash up |
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Gru, please. I know that look all too well. It is the look of a broken heart. I, too, have spent many nights, trying to drown my sorrows in guacamole. But we are survivors. There's much more to us than meets the eye, hm? | |
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| Moto | Thursday, 16. August 2012, 15:30 Post #22 |
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Ch.9 is still allocated to emergency use only here in the USA. Cb is not as popular as it once was but 4x4 clubs use it a lot .On a "wheeing weekend at our local spot ,we had a young kid approach our group yelling that his sister was hurt when her little honda 4wheeler (small personal ) flipped over . We split into to groups 1 go go to the road and bring emergency personsel to the seen and 1 to tend to the girl . We all have taken emergency first aid and have varing degrees of kit with us . we used Ch9 to communicate. With the emergency personel onboard my Pingauer we transported the girl to a makeshift heliocoper landing zone and saved her life . The local goverment saw fit to give all our group a banquet and award eachone of us . The citizens exemplery performance award .i live in a dead zone whers moblie reception is still very spotty at best even in 2012 but my radio can still reach out 10 -15 miles |
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| Cozzmik | Thursday, 16. August 2012, 17:55 Post #23 |
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Well done Steve Good to hear our hobby can really help in times of need
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| VoG | Friday, 17. August 2012, 11:10 Post #24 |
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Nice to hear a Good News story about CB use! Well done... In case anyone else is (like me) wondering "what the heck is a Pinxgauer?" The Pinzgauer were (are?) all-terrain military utility vehicles. They were designed in Guildford, Surrey, by BAE Systems and manufactured for over 30 yrs from the early 70s
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| Nubster | Friday, 17. August 2012, 13:23 Post #25 |
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I wanna know how one of these ends up in Tennesee all the way from Guildford, Surrey, with a name like that they sound more like a Eastern Europe built truck
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| VoG | Friday, 17. August 2012, 13:51 Post #26 |
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According to Wiki, it's" . . . named after the Pinzgauer, an Austrian breed of horse." Wiki also states, "The Pinzgauer first generation model (710, 712) was produced until 2000 by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in the city of Graz, Austria" which might help explain the choice of name. APOLOGIES FOR THE THREAD DIVERSION ![]() |
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| Nubster | Friday, 17. August 2012, 14:12 Post #27 |
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Thanks for the info Steve and also APOLOGIES FOR THE THREAD DIVERSION
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| Radio Pixie | Tuesday, 9. April 2013, 22:04 Post #28 |
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Time to dug up an old thread Found this story on YouTube of a fisherman using ch9 to get emergency help. Edited by Radio Pixie, Tuesday, 9. April 2013, 22:20.
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73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado
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| Cozzmik | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 05:27 Post #29 |
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Great video.... Thanks for posting
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| VoG | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 10:10 Post #30 |
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That is a lovely story if it is true . . though I think that if someone called for help on Channel nine in the UK they would either get a Muppet telling them to "go forth and multiply" or they'd get some obnoxious self-righteous toad who has monitored Ch.9 24/7 for the past thirty years, telling them to "Clear the channel. It is for Emergencies only" But the story does have a few glaring inconsistencies:
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| Radio Pixie | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 11:38 Post #31 |
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I agree that relieing on ch9 it wouldn't be a wise thing to do in this country. Don't worry Steve I did wonder if this was genuine story or not. I especially wondered about that there just happened to be a Cobra 19 (I think it was) with the manual in the tool box*, and that he had the knowledge to build a dipole antenna. Maybe the manual had instructions to build a dipole?! Cheers Dave Edit: Rewatching it, it is badly edited so can't follow the CB QSO probably, can't see from the Japanese footage if there was VHF mobile/handheld or not (if it was working), and the TV interview suggests that there was an incident and a man called Elvis. So all I do is give it the benefit of the doubt. Plus it is about publicity for the CB group. *But yet again, plenty of people have CB's stashed away at home or in the boot (trunk) of the car for emergencies - SHTF and all that stuff
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73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado
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| Nubster | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 11:50 Post #32 |
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I just watch it again and gotta agree with Steve , for someone who allegedly has minimal knowledge of CB can he come and make me a dipole cos he wasn't doing too bad on transmitting and only using a battery plus I can't believe a ship would just leave a small boat with just a few supplies without offering to contact someone for them even in broken Spanish or sign language they must have made themselves understood still if it was true he was lucky man , it would also make a film though anyone got any ideas for the leading role of course Cobra to supply all the radios
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| Radio Pixie | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 12:07 Post #33 |
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But Japanese culture find it difficult to accommodate people. Even after the earthquake and damage to nuclear power stations, the Japanese found it difficult to accommodate their own refugees. And before anyone says anything, I'm just quoting what Japanese people that I'll met have said to me!
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73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado
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| Nubster | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 12:50 Post #34 |
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Wonder why they are like that , they must have something to hide lol unless secretly they want to take over channel 9
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| Radio Pixie | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 13:05 Post #35 |
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Going completely off-topic for a moment, I think in Japan they only have a small number of 27MHz CB channels with some limit of 0.5 watt erp. If that's wrong please correct me But then they had the commonsense to develop UHF CB
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73 from Dave the Pixie 26CT052 - G7OPC - CB & Ham Radioaficionado
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| VoG | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 14:34 Post #36 |
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I do agree that if ANY Country were to be accused of willing leaving a boat adrift, perhaps rather than go against the will of the occupant, then I find it significantly more credible if it is, allegedly, a Japanese ship than just about any other. That is not intended as any form of racist comment either but I worked with many different nationalities in my career and my colleagues from Japan were without doubt the most culturally different to ourselves. While my counterpart Akashi-San was a fairly pleasant and helpful fellow I always got the impression that he was watching from a distance, rather than being an integral part of the Team and I am convinced that he was 100% out of his comfort zone when socialising, off-duty with us in a Hotel. It would not be hard to imagine a conversation (in broken Spanish) between "Elvis" and the Japanese Crew
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| Nubster | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 16:03 Post #37 |
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But getting back on thread, like what I said way back in this thread I still think a channel 9 service of some sort would benefit the more outer town areas and motorways than the inner city's TBH first with all the interference we get from you name we have it in town no one would hear anything on there anyway so really stick to a mobile phone ideally, but icalated areas and as I say like motorways a emergency radio service would be a extra benefit but also there is a whole generation that don't even know what CB radio is and people who think we who use CB are all like Convoy or Smokey and the Bandit so really to some we are strange redneck wannabes or dinasores who should come in to modern world, so those people would stick with there mobiles anyway |
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| Nubster | Wednesday, 10. April 2013, 16:51 Post #38 |
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I would just like to follow up from my last post on what someone said to me when I was showing them and exsplaing about CB radio and this person was not a young kid either he said and I quote "So its like Facebook but on fancy walkie talkies so I bet there load of on it as well like Facebook" well I didn't tell him the trougth and said naa we all really sensible , but it shows apart from the demise of channel 9 even CB has as such been forgotten , perhaps it should have a proper revival in the UK and get it back in to society just like the people in Europe seem to of have
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| Magic 53 | Thursday, 11. April 2013, 10:05 Post #39 |
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The Flying Sausage came from Widdrington... His name is Andrew Moor
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| VoG | Thursday, 11. April 2013, 12:32 Post #40 |
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I do agree, but perhaps even wider than a PURE "Emergency Service". After all, in a true emergency minutes can count, so if you have the means to contact the Police, Fire or Ambulance instantly via Mobile Phone, then that's the fastest, most efficient and most suitable, thing to do. But the places that you are most likely to need Help are often the places least likely to have a decent 3G Service cover. But, apart from the Fun element, the thing I miss MOST from the "good old days of CB" are the 10:13s. I was a fairly regular user of the M4 corridor between South Wales and London and I found that a "10:13 Westbound Mikey Four over the Meccanno" would warn of potential problems (whether Weather, Traffic or Smokey Pollution - "A Kojak with Kodak" maybe). There were a few places where a local CBer Base Station would monitor local (Broadcast) radio for Traffic Reports, collate them with reports received fromthe Truckers, and relay them on request to any other user. "Mike Control" in Gwent was one such, who provided a very useful service. Plus, of course, there's the Curse of the Motorways, the "Sudden Mystery Queue" . . . . at least, back in the days of good CB cover, you could key up and ask "What's with the Square-wheels / Heavy Metal at Junction 9 of the Mike Four?" and you'd be told WHY and HOW LONG the queue was. It didn't get you moving any faster but it was a whole lot less frustrating and, if the snarl-up was really bad, you could sometimes take an exit and an alternative route. Maybe we don't need, or want, to go back to the petty Jobs-worth types that used to haunt the Ch.9 with their NASA level Shift-handovers and their instant fury and tantrum at any poor Operator who hit the wrong button and mistakenly called CQ on Ch.9 . . . But having "Service Stations" on a channel, who could also offer onward telephone calls in an emergency, would be a really useful thing. |
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The citizens exemplery performance award .

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with a name like that they sound more like a Eastern Europe built truck

and also APOLOGIES FOR THE THREAD DIVERSION
But then they had the commonsense to develop UHF CB
Facebook but on fancy walkie talkies so I bet there load of
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