C.B Radio

[Twocky61]

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I think it is the underground element to CB radio that appeals the most. In the US the police still monitor Ch9 I believe. I have seen on these police pursuit footage reality tv programmes where the police are pursuing a bandit (Hence the term Smokey & the Bandit ) & radio ahead on Ch9 to a truck asking the driver to block the approaching car. Nearest to that in the uk is when a 'Joe Public' assists the police in a T-Pac hard stop. Especially when the police only have two police vehicles available & not the preferred three vehicles. On BBC's Traffic Cops there was one occassion a T-Pac was unavailable so one police car performed a hard stop alone.

http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk.../item11954.pdf

Click link for Gloucestershire Constabulary's Pursuit Policy Document which covers rules & regulations concerning when to continue a pursuit & when to abandon

[80sChav]

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Sadly I was never interested in C.B Radio until years later and a friend introduced me to it (in a odd roundabout way). I sure would of loved to of been "on the scene in the 1980s" with them. Though I am only talking the late 1990s that I got into C.B's it still holds that magic compared to the internet. Why I am unsure!!?, may-be because it's even more easy to talk (in particular in odd voices). In a great way you can be even more "unknown" on C.B than the internet I think - though to find a good make is another story in itself too!!

[Twocky61]

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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

Snap!! The good old Rotel RVC 240 with the delta tune where it took you half a k off frequency up or down lol I still have a Skiptech HS2000 handheld and Fidelity 3000 homebase. I use a K40 on my hatchback and a Midland Shortstick on the house.

The eighties was the boom on 27mhz fm

[Richard1978]

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Also by the mid 1980s car phones were becoming cheaper.

[vanhelsing]

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But unlike phones and the net it seemed a lot more exciting back then. Even though the people you spoke to and listened in on were pretty local it was like you were in on some secret underground movement. It didn't last long but it was good fun.

It didn't last long becuase it became legal in the UK and that's when it lost the glamour and cult underground status.
Smokey And The Bandit anybody?

[tulip]

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My dad had one in the car.We thought it was so cool.I remember going to Bourmouth with some cousins and we communicated with CB.It was great,can't remember the handle though.


tulip

[MrWeetabix]

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CB radio, and indeed many other forms of Radio are still alive and kicking!!

If you want to get back into the hobby, why not join us over on http://www.transmission1.co.uk/forum/

Hope to catch you all soon "good buddies"

[Grosh62]

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My handle was 'Power Pack'. I was on it about a year and used to listen to 'Tarzan' and 'Paper Tiger' talking every day. They were pure quality, possibly surreal! I even taped them one time when Tarzan was singing 'I Love only One Girl' to her. It was like a soap opera.

'Convoy' was what it was.....but it was infinitely better than the Radio 1 DJ's Spin off version which annoyed me severely.

[Richard1978]

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Until I read it's Wikipedia entry & a site of CB jargon & could hardly understand Convoy, though it's fun to listen to in it's own way.

[stockportyears]

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I just remember the Convoy song, it seemed too complicated to learn the lingo. Oh yeah, DLT was 'Laurie Lingo' in the spoof wasn't he?

[memoman]

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But unlike phones and the net it seemed a lot more exciting back then. Even though the people you spoke to and listened in on were pretty local it was like you were in on some secret underground movement. It didn't last long but it was good fun.

C.B's were a big craze for a while.I used to enjoy it in a way that was spoilt by legalisation.People used to act the pratt and it spoilt it.Nearly everyone now has a mobile phone and the internet.CB's are rare now.More suited to lorry drivers as most people have moved on.Good while it lasted.We could reach 18 miles plus with an 18ft bottom dipole high up on a hill.It was a good way to make new friends.

[jrewing]

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yeah my dad had a c.b in his car...renault 5 i think, we used to drive up to top of valleys mountain and talk to people. my handle was "half-pint"..i was only 9 years old at time.... but i thought it was great.

you'd contact someone and then agree on a certain channel...the suspense of it all..pretty tense stuff..clicking the dial and then actually making contact...it was great fun before going back to my nans house for a cup of tea that had tea leaves at the bottom of the cup eh :-)

[moonvisage]

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I never had one myself,and neither did any of my school mates.I think it was around 1981 when C.B's hit my area,and became the latest craze,driven not by children,but by adults involving children.The adult leader of the new sudden craze of C.B's,was a local man who was notorious for being the guy who had to be the first who discovered everything,and controlled it all with absolute power,once he had set the new craze/scheme up.All the children involved,were mysteriously convinced,he had started the C.B craze in britain,and it was not long before he started a C.B club,and instructed all the children to go on C.B's,in order to listen and chat.The guy asked all the child club members,to infiltrate private conversations they came across on the C.B's,and if anyone swore,the children were to interupt the private conversation,and start shouting angry accusations at the people swearing.The accusations always revolved around the words: '' There are children listening! '' Etc.Of course,people who carried on swearing,were blacklisted and stalked on the C.B channels after that,by the children and adults of the club,until they were driven off using their C.B's.
The guy's C.B club was forced to close down,because one of it's adult members started holding meetings at his home,and caused a bit of a stir,which reflected badly on the main club.I personally went to two or three of these meetings in his council house,and they were nice,friendly and decent....Until the man's wife decided she wanted to leave him for a man she was having an affair with.She made an accusation that her husband was * You Know?! *,with one of the school girls.That resulted in a C.B war in my area,where the airwaves were full of nasty gossip etc.Eventually,all the clubs closed down and everyone sold their C.B's because of it all.
It was a real shame that so much fun,was totally destroyed by a couple of individuals in my area.

[pete]

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just got me a uk fm midland 4001 with original mike
all i need now is a K40 with magmount at a resonable price ,so i can get out a decent distance ,
currently using a mini stinger range between 3 and 8 miles pretty carp by the old Am standards of 25 miles +

[Wil]

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It has been surpassed by mobile phones and the internet.

But unlike phones and the net it seemed a lot more exciting back then. Even though the people you spoke to and listened in on were pretty local it was like you were in on some secret underground movement. It didn't last long but it was good fun.