C.B Radio

[pete]

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Hi all Just come across this site while looking for info on my tristar 747,
i have been using CB radio since 1972 when my dad had 1 in this truck 1 of the first 10 in the UK,
there where about 50 drivers that used them up until the film Convoy then every 1 wanted them
there was a mass demand most of them where smuggled in via Ireland and Spain
my first was an old midland 1001 then in 1979 i got a new midland 4001 and a k40 Ariel this was the mutts nuts and i reckon better than any other built today,
i have been looking for 1 on flea bay for about a year now
hope to get 1 from the usa then get it converted to uk fm

its a long lonly road without a CB

[memoman]

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Used to be on cb radio many years ago.Lived on a high hill with an 18ft dipole on the roof.Had a good range.But the rise of idiots playing music and with cb becoming legal(albeit with the necessity of a £10 licence) It became dull and boring.I used to have 100 people on my friends list who i would chat to.met loads of girls through it too.My dad still has some equipment.I sold my set up.It has been surpassed by mobile phones and the internet.However i can still see the point of truckers using it.

[Richard1978]

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I remember in the 1980s seeing the thick rubber aeriels on cars. I didn't know anyone who had one then, then my best friend's Dad who liked his gadgets didn't have one.

Until a few years ago there was a CB shop in Stockport on the A6, it's now closed up but it still has the facia.

I guess the spread of in-car & mobile phones took away all but the hardcore users.

I still see plenty of lorries with their callsign on the front.

[brentek]

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Ok how many of you remember the great days of am cb radio ? Mine started in Hull in 1982 with my very first pegasus 3 120 channel radio, an SWR meter, a power pack and an aerial stuck on the top of a biscuit tin. I was 15 years old and could not believe this world I had suddenly connected into. we would stay up all night just talking to each other about harrington jackets or fishtail parkas ?, mods and rockers, was boy george really a puff (gay was not in the vocabulary then) and who had the most powerful rig (those who were lucky enough to own a cobra 148GTLDX with roger bleep were to be looked up to) We all tended to own eyeball badges, mine had flashing red led's just to emphasise the fact i was a cb'er ! There i was 15 years old with my harrington jacket covered in secret affair, madness and the who badges, jeans so tight that my hairs must have been sticking through them, just a hint of lipstick and eyeliner and wedge haircut that covered my right eye so rendered me partially sighted, riding around on my raleigh grifter with a car battery strapped to it and my pegasus 3 blaring out "eyeball eyeball, 1 4 a copy and is anyone out there? " So that was me, Hound dog the cb'er. Those were the days. If by any chance any of you out there were in the Hull area and remember my "handle" you may also remember a lady breaker called polo cruncher who through the miracle of radio waves became (and still is) my wife I hope that this has broght some fond memories to some of you and I would love to hear some of your responses

hi there i am using CB radio today and am trying to get radios to be on air again i am managing to get there slowly i am in the bridlington area not so far from hull and i do own a pegasus 3 radio and am having it all repaired and tuned up very well and got 2 fm modulator board going in it to so it will perform am/fm-uk/fm-eu lol. my next move is a cobra 148 gtl will get there in end hope to hear some feed back

[ridski]

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Great to read this post! really brought back memories!
I was silver tiger and lived in winsford cheshire, i had a few rigs but my fave two were my cobra 148gtl dx and i also had The Ham Jumbo, had a 60ft mast in the garden with a moonraker 4 quad and a starduster on it! go that used to sway in the wind, used it with a Bremi BRL500 linear amp and a Turner Expander 500 mike! anyone remember them?
did anyone ever go on one of those cb convoys to wales? what a laugh, all in cb body warmers with patches all over and eyeball badges! we must have looked a sight but the amount of friends we had! it was fab, great times, great memories!
i could go on and on! recently thought about getting a superstar 3900 new, bit of nostalgia or a midlife crisis? hehe! great to hear from you all!

Andy

Never went to Wales, but I did go on one to Brighton once. Great fun. My brother had a mate who had a very similar set up to yours. Wasn't the Ham Jumbo technically illegal, as it allowed you to broadcast on AM and SSB frequencies? Anyway, we were able to pick up his broadcasts all the way down to about Crawley on sidebands because he was broadcasting from Highgate and and had such a tall twig.

Thems were the days!

[Silver Tiger]

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Great to read this post! really brought back memories!
I was silver tiger and lived in winsford cheshire, i had a few rigs but my fave two were my cobra 148gtl dx and i also had The Ham Jumbo, had a 60ft mast in the garden with a moonraker 4 quad and a starduster on it! go that used to sway in the wind, used it with a Bremi BRL500 linear amp and a Turner Expander 500 mike! anyone remember them?
did anyone ever go on one of those cb convoys to wales? what a laugh, all in cb body warmers with patches all over and eyeball badges! we must have looked a sight but the amount of friends we had! it was fab, great times, great memories!
i could go on and on! recently thought about getting a superstar 3900 new, bit of nostalgia or a midlife crisis? hehe! great to hear from you all!

Andy

[frame]

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I have just sold a cobra 148 gtl dx but still have 2 left amongst other radios,i started at 14 with a colt 510 im 42 now but always loved them . ,we used to have a network on low band or grave yard as it was known then ,ahhhhhhhhh the good old days.

..maybe we should plug them back in,hush,hush!!....

[daryn]

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I have just sold a cobra 148 gtl dx but still have 2 left amongst other radios,i started at 14 with a colt 510 im 42 now but always loved them . ,we used to have a network on low band or grave yard as it was known then ,ahhhhhhhhh the good old days.

[frame]

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I had a colt 320 black shadow sidebander (which I think was a bit naughty) I plugged it in a few years ago but could'nt find anything. My handle was Straycat

[Pensky]

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I had a Harvard Good Buddy CB radio for my 12th birthday in 1982.

I must have driven the local ‘breakers’ mad by incessantly talking rubbish with my pals.

10-10 ‘till we do it again.

[scifi]

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Hi i know its a bit late but just came accross this post, I remember them had good laughs back in the 80's/90's on them.
Just came back on in 2007 and if anyone is interested there is now a forum setup for cb users see the link below.

Citizens Band Radio

[Tilly Jane]

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Hi everyone, god do i remember CB's? Oh yes! My mum and dad were well into them, so of course i ended up on one all the time too. We had quite a few downstairs ( my dad ended up with about a dozen!!!!) and i had one in my room. Sadly my dad passed away, but i've kept one, a SAPPHIRE, he mostly used a MIDLAND HOMEBASE, but i know he really liked this sapphire thats why i kept this one, oh happy days!!!!!!

[rokerbloke]

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it all went down hill when them fm legal ones come out i used to have an old cobra with upper and lower side band then went legal for awhile with a a rotel rvc 240 soon went back to the cobra though

[barry21]

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I used to love my CB radio.
When I got rid of it there were alot of idiots on there that were just there to muck around.
It was a great way of chatting to people.

[lonesome crow]

I use to have a cb about 15 years ago my handle was Motormouth. i had a cobra 148 for sideband and an audioline which i kept in the car.

The cb is still full of idiots playing music and mouthing off......thats why i gave it up!