CB handles

Couldn't compete with you posh people mate.;)

Tony.
 
I guessed as much bud. CB was good fun for a couple of years until some idiots got hold of them and hooked up burners. I would think most of the idiots have moved onto FB etc by now.

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
I did Ian. Also after that I had a massive erection (as they we referred to) on the back wall of the house attached to my sideband rig. I could get pretty much anywhere if the skip was right. When Abigail came along it had to come down as on a windy night it used to howl and scared the crap out of her.:(:( End of my days chatting to American truckers.

Tony.
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Had the same Tony think my rig was called a Pegasus was am/fm with side bands etc. Can't remember the aerial I had on side of parents house but it was huge must have been at least 5m high.

My handle by the way was ball bearing =))
 
Aceman said:
Had the same Tony think my rig was called a Pegasus was am/fm with side bands etc. Can't remember the aerial I had on side of parents house but it was huge must have been at least 5m high.

My handle by the way was ball bearing =))
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My rig was a Ham International something or other. It had 120 channels AM,FM, USB and LSB. There was a go-to guy in Worksop who could split the channel bands so that you could always keep away from the morons, until they caught up. Then you spent more money, after that it was pass your Ham Radio exams, I didn't go that far.

Tony.
 
Sean d said:
Just been reading a walky talkie thread and someone mentioned CB radio's it got me thinking about my handles back in the day, I used to use 2, Cosmic Dancer and Electric Warrior (spot the link)
What did you used to use and what about the lingo,
Biscuit crunchers :D
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It's a closed book for me. It passed me right by, never got involved.
 
hard top said:
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Burners = Amplifiers . Just to make sure you could bleed through and into most sound systems. Were, and probably still are illegal to use even on the legal FM rigs.

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
My rig was a Ham International something or other. It had 120 channels AM,FM, USB and LSB. There was a go-to guy in Worksop who could split the channel bands so that you could always keep away from the morons, until they caught up. Then you spent more money, after that it was pass your Ham Radio exams, I didn't go that far.

Tony.
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Well this hobby led me into my career and spent my early career years repairing radio transmitters in ambulances and handheld radios.
 
Big thing over here in the 80's was scanners, people had them at home so they could pick up on the Police or whatever....
Never saw the point myself...:confused:
 
Aceman said:
Well this hobby led me into my career and spent my early career years repairing radio transmitters in ambulances and handheld radios.
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That's really nice to read Ian, is your employment still linked to this in a way?

Tony.
 
Well still electronics but medical equipment maintenance albeit management now.
 
hard top said:
Big thing over here in the 80's was scanners, people had them at home so they could pick up on the Police or whatever....
Never saw the point myself...:confused:
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Several of my mates from the CB fraternity went into HAM Radio and also had the scanners,(which were illegal to use to listen to the police) that's around the time a young family forced me out of an ever more expensive hobby.:(

Tony.
 
The only daft things I did in the early 80's was with HiFi, rigged up oscilloscoops and all sorts, Christ knows why now..
 
hard top said:
The only daft things I did in the early 80's was with HiFi
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I bought an AMSTRAD HIFI, well I didn't know any better. It had a high speed tape - to -tape dubbing system on it. Hell now I could copy anything for my mates, only it didn't work, well not all the time.( was a piece of crap to be honest). It was on this quality item I first learned of CB bleed over as Tony from next door sat on his drive, in his slab fronted Ford Thames van yakking to his mates, and me.:ymdevil:=))=))

Tony.
 
Have to admit mine was a bit unoriginal used to be mechanic or mechanic mobile remember it well used to charge round Glasgow in my 1983 ford Orion Ghia aah those were the days
 
Aceman said:
Well still electronics but medical equipment maintenance albeit management now.
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I used to go to the local Radio Shack and buy a small bulb, can't remember now if it was neon or whatever, that was just a bulb with two wire leads coming out of the base of it. You would cut off one of the leads and place the bulb at the top of your antenna wrapping the remaining wire down the shaft of the antenna very tightly. When you transmitted, it would light up. People in other cars would think your antenna was burning or on fire. I used to go down the Pennsylvania Turnpike in a VW Beetle with a high performance engine I had put together and people would call me on the CB and ask if I had a Porsche engine in the back of the car. What great fun it used to be using the radio. Sometimes you would run into an idiot or some one with a radio so powerful that they controlled the entire channel. Usually, though, you could speak to one or two people while you were on a long trip, and it would seem to cut the traveling time dramatically. I always had a great deal of fun with it. Frankie
 
I used to love my CB radio :p
My handle was ChasNick ;)
My friends and I used to talk on it for ages ;)
Great fun ;)
 
Dr.Snuggles and was a member of Moonraker Breakers Middleton lol Happy days.

K40s
DV27s
Midland
Whips

All good memories
 
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