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A trip down CB memory lane..
Topic Started: Saturday, 27. April 2013, 23:25 (2,877 Views)
Axle Jack
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And a straight 40 AM cost most of a weeks wages!
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And a straight 40 AM cost most of a weeks wages!
Too right ,I remember that first radio I had what was mentioned in one of my post was about £70 which was quite a bit of my weeks wages at the time back then

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Tuesday, 30. April 2013, 09:10
And a straight 40 AM cost most of a weeks wages!
Too right ,I remember that first radio I had what was mentioned in one of my post was about £70 which was quite a bit of my weeks wages at the time back then
I cannot remember what I was earning in 1978/79 but I do know that my Take-home pay (in my first job as a Civil Service Assistant in 1975) was £17.75 per week net.
I was earning more in 1978/9 as a Mainframe Computer Operator in the Post Office, but even assuming my wages had Quadrupled that'd mean £70 was a whole week's take-home pay, before any Bills were paid.

This is what amazes me when people list these rigs that they had "back in the AM days" and they say "And I still have the first three rigs I bought". All I can say is that those people must have been RICH because I know damn well that, back then, the only way I could afford a better CB was to either trade-in the old one against the new one's price at the CB Shop, or sell it to one of my friends.

Even "Trading-in" my old radios each time, I could still never afford that dream Cobra 148!
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This thread is bringing back the memories :)

1980. Me and a mate were standing beside the A74 with my CB monitor listening to the truck drivers. A Rover SD1 police car pulls over a Bedford CF van right near us. They open the back doors and its full of boxes floor to cieling. They put him in the back of the car and one of the police drives the van away. We thought that was odd.

Later that evening I get pulled over by the same police car for riding my bike with no hands while tuning my CB monitor.
Whats that? He says after abusing me and accusing me of being mentally retarded for my cycling style.
Its just a CB reciever mister. It doesnt transmit. Its legal.
Then he tells me he had just busted a guy with a van load of brand new CBs on his way to sell them.

I thought. You :censor: . If I could only have had one of those.

I cant guess what a Bedford worth of CBs was worth then. Must have been hundreds of rigs. A basic set would have been 70 quid. SSB were 200 plus. What a haul!
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I got in to CB in 1979, but as a teenager did not have any money to buy my first rig until 1981. It was a Krakow! Can't remember much more than that, other that the obligatory DV27 on the biscuit tin. Oh and I did blow the output and could never get it fixed.

Next I talked my mim in to getting me a 27/81 hand held. This was great as I quickly realised how easy it was to up the wattage. :-) With the development of muppetry my interest wained. I did play around with a few SSBs, hence my rekindled interest back here on CT.

I seem to remember making dipoles as I lived in a big Victorian house, great for hanging the antenna from.
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First radio was a Kraco 40 channel am 1978..bought for a fiver complete with DV27 and good old quality street tin in the garden..plug in and play...that was of a mates dad who was a truck driver, then got hold of a Colt 444..thought that was the the dogs :censor: , had some fun wind ups with that with its low mid high power settings...1979 bought a brand new Cobra 148..gtl dx 80 quid back then..1981 bought the then new Colt 1200 dx..nice looking radio but wot a bleedover box compared to the Cobra, then the crazys were let loose with cb radio getting the go ahead..it went down hill from then on...but great times back then.. :coffee:
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Hi all i was about 13 at the time when i got into cb when used to go round my mates house and have ago on his Cobra 148 and then later on my step dad got a Ham Jumbo with sigma 4 antenna the Good old Days. :thumb:
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Mr Jingles
Sunday, 26. May 2013, 13:16
then the crazys were let loose with cb radio getting the go ahead..it went down hill from then on...but great times back then.. :coffee:
Ahhhhh 27/81 :muppet:



One good thing was the "eyeball", best thing to come out of the legalisation was the amount of girls who had cb, wow if their parents knew what was going on ;)








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I started off by listening in to the breakers in East London around 1978, using an old Trio valved comms reciever. Progressed to a Midland 4001 and a DV27 mounted on my bed springs! Joined the RAF in '79, and the Midland went with me up to the far north of Scotland, had some great copies into the Black Isle , Inverness etc. with the rig in my Mk3 Cortina and the DV27 on the boot. The Midland finally bit the dust when driving back to London over the highest part of the A9, when we were struck by lightning! A mate sold me a Stalker 9 to replace it, I wish I'd kept that one, sold it a bit later for a Uniden 27/81. Loads of stuff since, handhelds, portapacks etc. etc. but I do miss using the old AM rigs though! :pirate:
They say hard work never killed anyone..........but why take the chance?
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Well Sam..you touched on one there..one or two seatcovers was the thing back then..for those that are scratchin ya head CB lingo for girlfriend = seatcover, there was a lady breaker a few miles from me..and she had one of those come to bed voices..allways wowing the truckers etc, one early evening my mate called me and said have you heard that girl..real sexy voice..i said yeh..she's asked for a eyeball..wants to meet me he said big grin on his face..wots she like have you seen her? he asked..i said phew ! a rite stunner mate..come with me will you ? i said you sure ? yeh reckon ive got a chance there even bigger grin, well i knew this thing id seen it before wandering round a CB eyeball one bank holiday..to say the least ..she was at least 25 stone..you know the type long blond hair and black curly teeth..yuk..greasy hair , a bar of soap would have done wonders..you get the picture ? anyway we go to this house she talked us in ..he's getting more revved up.. cant wait he says..we knock on the door..it opened and the thing was there in its nightie...aaarrgh ! ..come in boys have a cuppa..well the look on his face was a picture, the tea came i took one look in the cup looked like it had a conny mix in it like a biscuit ? toddles off ..my tea went in the yukka plant..we were there ten minutes..and he made a feeble excuse to get out of there..see you soon she said as we roared off .you :censor: he said i was creased up..i allways reminded him of his first cb love ! lol. :~
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:clap: Ronnie...


I had a few of those experiences myself,wont say any names but similar story that was the trouble with cb most lady breakers sounded hot and only a few were...

memories lol :thumb:








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I had the same sort of exsperiance hearing this girl with the nauhgty voice in fact I think if I remember her handle was somthing like Naughty Nightie or somthing, but our eyeball was the opposite she was well fit no joke not ya typical 25 stone munter like what ya siad about the only thing was she had a 6'6'' boyfreind that she used forget to tell breakers about that use to appear just as ya thought I'm getting somewhere wiv this girl, she would interduce him saying oh this is my boyfreind ****** (cant remeber his name didnt want to ^o) TBH) he thinks CB is boaring LoL,.........Yeah and I thought it was getting really good till he turned up :doh:
but I agree there was a lot of munter lady or should I say geezerbirds :D on CB
Edited by Nubster, Monday, 27. May 2013, 11:51.

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Hi All,
I First started i the 80's when i lived in Mallorca a friend introduced me to Am cb he had a large yagi array on his house roof i got myself a Midland 40 channel portable which lived in my Citroen Mehari with twin Dv27's on the back wings swapped the mic for a telephone hand set with a push to talk button very noisy in summer with no doors or roof, then progressed to a citroen Gsa estate fitted a Sommercamp 80 channel cb/car radio and swapped the antenna for a center loaded cd antenna with tuning box.
Later on another friend lent me a 777 with all the bells and whistles i bought a 70 Zitagi burner and fitted a 1/2 wave vertical on top of the communial tv antenna array on the roof of the 6 storry block of flats where i had one of the two penthouse flats, and from 83 onwards used to talk all around the world including the UK. when we moved back to the Uk somone in london decided he likes all of my Cb gear and stole it all from the van we travelled back in, now we are all FM with a Maycom Em-27 which seem to be a little on the noisy side any comments please.
Edited by Service One, Thursday, 30. May 2013, 08:47.
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I was 14 in 1981 and my parents wouldn't let me have a cb as they were illegal so I had to make do with a receiver until legalisation :~ .

I used to sit night after night listening to that thing and sometimes I could have a go on some of my mates radios.

On the 13th of December 1981 (my 15th birthday) I was given a Commtron CB40F and a DV27 and off I went. The first 2 or 3 months were great, loads of new people coming on all the time and most of them behaved themselves although this didn't last long.

By the summer of '82 UKFM was totally useless in Glasgow. The :muppet: s had completely taken over. 14 and 19 were always a waste of time as the music players (often from the top of tower blocks using amps) were on there for what seemed 24 hours a day and if you could find a channel to talk on (normally impossible) it didn't take long before you would get a mic keyer, bucketmouth, animal impersonator or other type of :muppet: driving you mad. (For an idea of what it was like log on to Zello and go to the Glasgow channel, same old poohe)

I (without telling my parents) swapped my Commtron for an 80ch Midland 100M AM set and found that it was buzzing with people, many had never left and now a lot of people who had gone legal were coming back to AM to try and escape the :muppet: s.

I stayed on AM until I left Glasgow in '85 and it was still busy then. Wonder what it's like now?

Andy

P.S. The Commtron didn't help much either as anyone who has ever had one will know it's a bleedover box.
Edited by Andy40UK, Thursday, 30. May 2013, 17:51.
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Thursday, 30. May 2013, 17:43



I (without telling my parents) swapped my Commtron for an 80ch Midland 100M AM set and found that it was buzzing with people, many had never left and now a lot of people who had gone legal were coming back to AM to try and escape the :muppet: s.

Nice one Andy :D

I did a simulair thing , I swapped a load of Fishing gear that had been bought for me for my Birthday, Swapped it all for a General electric home base 40 ch AM...... My parents went ballistic :wack: ... It was maybe around £ 200 - £ 300 worth of fishing gear for a radio worth about £ 80 ... the things you do when your obssesed.



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Thursday, 30. May 2013, 17:43



I (without telling my parents) swapped my Commtron for an 80ch Midland 100M AM set and found that it was buzzing with people, many had never left and now a lot of people who had gone legal were coming back to AM to try and escape the :muppet: s.

Nice one Andy :D

I did a simulair thing , I swapped a load of Fishing gear that had been bought for me for my Birthday, Swapped it all for a General electric home base 40 ch AM...... My parents went ballistic :wack: ... It was maybe around £ 200 - £ 300 worth of fishing gear for a radio worth about £ 80 ... the things you do when your obssesed.



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My parents went mental too when the dreaded yellow van showed up a few months later :@

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I was living in York in the early 80s when the AM CB craze kicked in..I managed to acquire a Colt 19 (GTX I think it was) smashing little CB ..stuck it in me car with the obligatory DV27 on the back bumper..there was a big big CB following in York at the time they even used Ch 13 as a breaking channel as 19 was always busy but the unwritten rule that was always in force if you were anywhere near YDH (York District Hospital) you never keyed up unless you were at least 2 miles away allegedly it used to send certain bits of equipment daft!! dunno if it's true tho..The coppers in York actually turned abit of a blind eye to CB usage as one night a young girl of 4/5 years old went missing from home and most of the CB ers in York turned out to help find her and find her they did so that was really down to people sending in locations to a central post and then being tasked elsewhere to search even guys with 12 channel hand helds were looking for her the young girl was found safe and well oblivious to the mayhem going on..so CB was shall we say tolerated for a while Those were the "Golden Days" of CB in York there was always a charity fund raiser by the CB Clubs in York I was a member of The Chocolate City Breakers back then..with the handle "Rainbow Chaser"...Happy Days..
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What a great topic,


I was about 13 in the early 80s when i got my first Am cb radio,it was a colt 295 and it was the dogs.I was never off it and even when 27/81 came in i still had friends who used Am for a while longer.
Eventually i was bought a Fm cb and ive been on and off the radio since...








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1980 and a GE home base with dv27 on a biscuit tin and tin foil got me started properly after my grandparents sent me a pair of Fanon Fanfair walkie talkies from the states :-) Got the bug bad and soon worked my way up to a Hygain V just before legalisation... Grabbed a Amstrad 900 as soon as I could afford it but the Hygain stayed my main radio until I managed to bag a Concorde 2.. Must have owned most of the common legal FM rigs of the time as I changed almost monthly!

Concode 2 was traded in for Belcom LS102L (nice radio) and finally an early Uniden 2830 (fantastic radio) that served me well until after I managed to get my B call in 89 at which point it was traded in for a FT290 with Mutec front end..

Been active on the box ever since and always owned some way of getting on the air!
Edited by DDC, Saturday, 1. June 2013, 19:57.
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