IS CB RADIO AS GOOD AS IT USED TO BE?!!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- On a bit of a nostalgia trip in this video we take a look at a modern CB radio for 2023, this cool handheld radio is called T-X and it comes from a UK company called Thunderpole who have been a big player in the UK CB scene right from the beggining.
Thunderpole have not sponsored this video other than providing the sample for free but I wanted to help them out as I really love their new radio.
So what's CB like in 2023 then? Let's find out!
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I met my husband through CB radio in the 80’s, we’ve been married 34 years now 😁
I met my ex wife on CB....at the wedding when her father gave his speech he told everybody ( in case they didn't already know ) that his daughter and I had met on the CB...then he continued on by saying that he'd been jumping feet first on it since !
same here😃
Good to hear! I live in California and I've always had a CB under the dash in my truck. I've often considered taking the radio out because I never used it. Until a few years ago while driving across the desert to visit friends in Arizona I came across a roll over accident. Other motorists had stopped but none of us had cell service in this area because it was so remote. However, I was able to contact CA Highway Patrol on my radio and get help. Even if I never encounter this situation again I will always keep a radio on hand as an emergency backup.
Remember getting a cb in 1984.. 14 was the calling channel and 19 then was used by truckers, then gat taken over by everyone. Great memories. Thanks Andy
Yep 14 was the breaking channel .. 19 for the Truckers....
84, you missed the best bits 😛😛😛😛
14 on AM 19 on FM if my memory serves me correctly
@@dean-gm1lg UK FM was 14 for calling, 19 was the trucker channel
@@dean-gm1lg 14 was more widely used than 19 of FM round here.
This brings back so many memories from the 80s, brilliant times when people helped each other out. Saving a young lad's life back in the early 80s after he rolled his car, with the nearest phone box being miles away, having lots of fun doing WALLEY hunts, chatting to others miles away when the skip was bad, and not being able to call someone just up the road. Happy memories and fun times, when people helped each other out.
My Dad had a CB in his car for most of the 80s. Unfortunately he passed away last year and I'd have loved to share this video with him but still brought back great memories.
Hi , 73s , Unit 21 here , my home channel is CH 23 , and CH 9 , I am in Brooklyn NY , and I talk everyday to Puerto Rico on CH 9 from Brooklyn , with a window antenna " Hustler" ,during hurricane Maria I was in PR with no electricity for 3 months , so I had to use a car battery and a Astron 99 base ant very low in height , with a very small radio , and I made it to the USA with that setup , so I would say that CB for me worked very good in a time of need when the cell service was down , 5 stations in the USA picked me up and took my info , and called my aunt in NYC to let her know I was ok , so CB for me will never die , I wish all cars came with CB radios , that would be so much fun , I have had so much fun since my childhood with this , so sad todays kids are missing out on this , every time my grandkids come over I give them the mic and they have a blast talking on it . 73s from Unit 21 (WP4WF on HAM BANDS and WREJ-401 on GMRS ) the sky is the limit take advantage of free internet communications out there . Alfred unit 21 on ch 23 /9 73s
I have still got my NATO 2000 from the good old days. I had loads of offers for it but I cannot bear to let it go. So many great memories
Great video as always.. amazing how many people comment here about how nice cb radio used to be. Well it still is and we make sure to keep cb radio alive. 73's from Toronto.!!
Like most of the other contributors here, I had a couple of CB's in the early 80's. At that time they were all AM (amplitude modulation). It's a vague memory now, but I think my last was a Midland 240M (my little Cobra got stolen out of the car). Fitted into a Fiat 131 Mirafiori using a 'snatch plate' with a Valour Half Breed antenna (whip). The 10-codes were a bugger to learn though!
Still got my first CB from 1981 - a Colt 210 AM, and my first FM set from the same year - a Binatone 5 Star. Both still work great although I very rarely use them now as there's nobody on around here.
(on the side) lol snap i still have my rotel 240 with modded in mid band as they called it back then,my mate had the 5 star too lol.
in the late 70s i bought a stalker (forgot what model) imported via back of a lorry from usa. had usb and lsb, used to be great listning to that. it only had 23 channels and old wooden teak effect,
Hi Andy. Cb is very much still very popular. In my area Bolton we use AM channel 6 midband. We talk to the yanks all the time. My set up is a cobra 148 gtl dx amplifier is a cp-163-11 4 element yagi. . Never got bored of cb even after getting my full licence on ham radio. Currently building a 1k Watts amp at 60v from a server psu. Keep up the good work Andy love your vids. 26tm176 John 73,s
That loop antenna is a good thing. However the way you were using it put you in horizontal polarization.
You need to have the loop facing in the flat horizontal plane to give you vertical polarization.
"You need to have the loop facing in the flat horizontal plane to give you vertical polarization."
Another example of UA-cam misinformation. Here's another opinion.
"Thus mounting the loop in a horizontal plane will produce an omnidirectional antenna which is horizontally polarized; mounting the loop vertically yields a vertically polarizated, weakly directional antenna, but with an exceptionally sharp nulls along the axis of the loop"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_antenna
So many memories, was absolutely brilliant times, 1983 first cb was an Amstrad 901 with a di-pole on a 15ft scaffy in the back garden and 50watt burner, passed car test in 87 and that was it, escort mk2 1600 sport midland 2001 and 100watt burner (so many flat batteries) and a mag mount. Met my first wife on the CB. All my mates had them in cars we had a scream, so many fun times, wish i could turn the clock back.
I hear you, wish I could go back to those times too, we had 'em in our cars and as base stations etc. AM was the best fun✌️🤞👍😊💜
... and then mobile phones happened. enough said.
Title heads up from an old breaker,19 is not the calling channel! 14 is! And that's what killed it. All the kids with a cb chattering about school and boyfriends/girlfriends! The guys who needed the channel ,truckers mainly,had to put up with inane rubbish every day,it got so bad a lot of us used ch9 out of desperation which went against everything us old hands did. I started with a midland straight 40 and a dx27 twig. I gave up when the government decided we could have 27fm legally with a licence,and then it died,we had a good relationship with the local police when we were on the illegal am radios,helping them on searches for kids that hadn't come home etc or a person who's head was in a bad place. We would go out in a team of about 10-15 cars and work with the police to find them,most of the time successfully. Once the kids and idiots started we just gave up,some stayed with sidebanding for international copies but other than that nothing,I've still got my old midland from about 15 years ago as I thought it may have improved but it's not a patch on the old days. Sad really,my son does ham radio and hes trying to get me on it as well which I may try. Oh and i met my wife on there too,ladybird,been together 41 years until she passed away feb. Anyway,3's and 8's to all old breakers,10 10 til we do it again,shadow down and gone!
@@derrickmanning2597 I do recommend giving Ham Radio a try. I'm not bashing CB or GMRS, both fine and those might also suit you depending on what you are looking for. Ham Radio takes a bit more effort to get the license, but there are so many bands, modes, and aspects to ham radio. And, there are so many really different groups. If you don't like one, try another.
@craigsaunders3532 yeh bro u bring back memories, had one in my Ford capri 2.0s fishnet recaro seats , big ass bendy antenna and shouting on the side side “ breaker 19 for a copy what’s your handle lol ❤❤❤❤
Good old days, My first C.B. was a Midland 2000 on A.M. back in 1978, worked my way up to a sideband radio, had a 7 foot red firestick in the middle of the boot on an old Jag I had, brings back great memories
I had a Red firestick on top of a mini metro..magmount..couldn't go too fast😅
@@TheRogey1 rabbits ears?
Rabbits eras were 2 arials on one mount in a V shape
I got a Midland 2001 rig from a car boot aged about 13, Dad was a shortwave listener so helped me rig up a half wave. Made loads of friends on the rig, Channel 19 was always busy and channel 39 was Monday night Swap Shop where people would buy and sell stuff. Lots of eyeballs, loads of fun. I often wonder what it's like these days.
Great memories of pinching scaffold poles to put the Sigma 4 on, had a Silver Rod as well two quality twigs.
Awesome memories my call sign was barney bear there's was loads on back then 👍
10-4 good buddy! When I think of CB, I imagine a Burt Reynolds mustache from Smokey and the Bandit movie 😂
I still have my Midland 100m in the loft somewhere I used to run on a DV27 antenna,that was before they brought in CB27 81 .😊
Me and a few mates still use the cb to have a bit daft banter with each other around the doors here in the north east uk 👍👍👍👍
I used to love my CB. Used to have a silver rod strapped to the chimney. Everyone’s TV used to go off whenever you keyed your mic. 😂
I’ve got a Randy 3 coming today.
I had an old midland 40 channel cb radio with an echo mic. When I first set it up I was using an old metal coat hanger as an aerial until my new one turned up. It worked well.
I used to have a Rotel RVC 240 iirc, (FM) and a Cobra 148GTLDX (Sideband & AM), plus a burner and half wave di-pole etc. Happier times on the whole, good friends made too.
Back in the day it was "14 for a copy" then select a channel to go to, iirc, if a trucker it was "19 for a copy" then move to a channel. By and large no one hogged either 14 or 19.
Thunderpole vehicle/home base starter kits look great value too🤔👍✌️💜
Hi Andy I have got some good memories of cb, I met my wife through the cb bad memories I got busted on Reigate hill I took a scaffold pole and a gpa strapped to a 5 bar gate I had a Maxcom 4e and a 45w burner was doing great then the police arrived apparently I was knocking out the police in north London oops I had no idea and would have not done it intentionally they confiscated the burner and I got fined £250 which was quite a lot then it didn't put me off cb great times made a lot of friends, keep up the good work Andy.
cool contact on AM with the antenna :D impressive. Good advice on just getting on - i must admit i got my station setup and I just listen and scan around at the moment :D I've just ordered the T-X radio from Thunderpole and am looking forward to using it with my son - hopefully people will hear us and we can get some more people on the air back on CB :D
I used to love CB radio, it was good fun in Bournemouth, Dorset, many years ago, but we all had aerials on the roof to get the long range, many hours spent talking to others many miles away, thanks for the video BigBob out
...In the early days Midland 3001 as a base station, with huge bean pole in the back garden made by my Big Bro, (Handle back in the day was Green Hippo, mine was Golden Eagle). Had CH14 back then so it was " 1-4 for a coffee!" 😂 Had a Cybernet Beta 3000 with mag mount, in my original Mini, reg D70 UPN...Mini is still out there somewhere too, CB kit was also sold years ago. Met my first girlfriend on CB too!🤣 Glad I grew up at school, into late teens with CB instead of today's social media.👍👍🇬🇧
Hello, Andy. Even with a 40db pre-amp, not one English voice on CB down here on the south coast on the old UK frequencies. Mids, packed out with the whole of the northern hemisphere, and even a bit of the south. Did try on FM to get a radio check, but nothing. Back to listening to short-wave. Good to see you've got a few friends to chat to up there.
Me and mates had them in the cars in the early 80s only way we could talk no mobile phones , had a pa speaker as well so lots of fun with that to
My dad was an avid CBer back in the 80's, I have very fond memories from back then when he started on the illeagal AM systems then it was legalized. I had my own handle and my dad even set up a CB club at a local pub that was based fairly high up semi rural so was great for distance. Had such great times as a child and great friendships. It was a great way to make friends as well.
I may even think of getting back into it after seeing this
My dad had the fire stick aerial on his car and then the K40.
Happy days missed so dearly
I was on 27/81 from 1981-91, and have had plenty of radios ever since. The only problem now is, there is very little happening in my are now, and my qth is in a dip in West Yorkshire.
I have a Alinco DR135dx fitted in the second DIN in my Jimny, and an old K40 from back in the 80s, which works well.
My 27mhz handheld is a Moonraker Major 42, but I have a pile of other radios, including the Kenwood th-f7 that you recommended, Yaesu ft-817nd, scanners, SS6900 tuned by Kucha Hans at hm funk.
Ah the old k40, my dad used to love the dv27, he used to say it it was much more tuneable, I had a friend that had a k40, I loved the look of it, it looked better than the dv27 and was more expensive but I always wanted one.
That a great HT. I got one in the US. use it all the time. I took a very long telescopic antenna measured 11 meters 1/4 wave tuned it and put on HT . hard to hold but got out great. I did clip a counterpoise wire and drop it to ground. better tune. 73's USA ,NY
Cb - I remember the days (born '73) massive aerials on small cars like the minis of the 80's...
I'd love to see CB radio make a comeback, they were a good laugh.
Edit - I want a bike kit from you, just not sure I can afford one, I'm wanting 48/52v with battery but I've only about £750 tops to spend...
I don't know if I could trust buying a kit online elsewhere, too many scams/duff products and I'm UK, West Yorks.
@HBkR-tm8zn You're welcome, hey age is nothing but a number, I feel, and act like I'm still in my 20's...
Screw age, it means nothing...
All the best young buck!!
Thanks for sharing this Andy, I'm getting close to hitting the "buy now" button! We're all on ch 40 ukfm in West Lothian. Hopefully catch you if the skip's running.
Paul (Gasman)
I remember back filling up in a garage and the cb came over the garage speakers
we used to have meets and had to disperse quickly when the police started to turn up and what a load of friends we made at that time
we still have the same radios today using them in the tractors
I had good times on the cb back in the 70's in Germany i could hear the truck drivers in the us i only had 4w am
So never got back to them i am a ham these days but never forget my love for cb
Had loads of fun back in the early 1980tys I lived in Waltham Cross Hertfordshire next to the newly built m25 junction 25 we used to talk to the truckers happy days
I had one in the early 80's when i was a kid. Cant remember the make but started off with a mag mount stuck to a biscuit tin then progressed to a wall mounted ariel bolted to side of parents house. Had lots of fun with it and made a lot of friends. Happy care free days.
Nice to watch. I had a Harrier 40 channel CB in the early 80's. And yes, I'm sure it was 1 4 for a copy (channel 14). Great memories. Anyhow, thanks for the video, all the best.
So many fond memories, I used to be big in cb until about 2002 when I got my ham license, I could still do it yet but there’s some people on there I don’t care to talk to, mud dusk is one of them. I’m in the us so I don’t know if I can get the thunder pole to but it’d be nice if I could though.
I used to go to a CB club as a kid when I lived in Germany (Dad was in the Army) - don't remember much from those days other than we used to go to meets and swap cards (QSL cards I think they were?). Also recall we were limited on what bands and frequencies we were allowed to use compared to the UK.
Great video Andy. Still have my Harvard 410 T handset in the garage. That was 2 Watts back in the day. Thunderpole TX is 4 watts? Love CB. Back in the day i had a centre load modulator drilled through the roof of my first car. Midland 77-104, Zetagi B150. Best contact was Jersey (from Cambridge) Still have my old Stalker 9 in the loft. Happy days !
Sigma 4 on the house roof and a Cobra 148 with a burner. I used to have people abroad complaining I was stamping on them. Happy days!
I used to have a CB walkie talki in 1988, nothing special, with a rubber duck. Under normal circumstances, the range was about the same as the one in this video. But with direct line of sight and no obsticles, the range was 2-3 miles, or perhaps a bit furher.
We took it to the South of France that year in August, when radio skip was at its height. Radio skip is caused by ionization in the upper atmophere and can bounce even week radio signals thousands of miles. Whilst down there, I managed to contact CB enthusiasts in the UK, one in Scotland and one in Cornwall. The huge distances involved made quite a stir and others were queing up to speak to me. Eventually, I exchanged addresses with the CB station in Cornwall and sent him a postcard. I kept the return postcard from him for many years.
I've recently bought the Thunderpole TTI TCB-881N truck pack.
It's a great set up.
It fits into a single din slot that you can also get on their website.
So it looks great sat in the dash of the van.
I got so fed up with messaging apps and all social media years ago.
I refuse to use them.
They are so intrusive.
As they conect all of your phone cantacts or need driving license or ID to confirm etc.
I mean Big Brother stuff.
So I thought I'd go back to a bit of old skool.
What's wrong with talking to a stranger as a stranger???
You dont give all that to people you chat to when you are out for a walk down the street do you.
It's a bit quiet on there at times but I'm hoping other folk get the same idea too and take back control of how they communicate with eachother.
Great review fella.
Great to hear 👍
My Uncle has a large setup in a shed at the back of his garden, with an array of "Rigs" and a huge scaffold pole tower for the aerials. We're based in North Oxfordshire and he regularly reaches others as far as South Wales. What surprises me, though, is the lack of CB handles and CB slang, compared to back in the day. (That's a big 10-4!)
What is his handle? I was on the rig in the 90s in South Oxfordshire (Didcot area) handle was Tic Tac. I remember Aunt Sally (Joan from Blackbird Leys), Trout Man (Ralph, Hagbourne) and many others. I was a young boy of about 13 back then!
@@edwardbyard6540 I'm not sure about his handle back in the day, but he's known as The Rocket.
I wired in a CB radio to my TS50 bike in 1998! I used to keep in contact with my mum via CB radios. Mobile phones were not a thing so as we lived on top a massive hill in Brighton we just used CB radios to keep in contact all through my childhood! I had Midlands hand held radio from around 1993/4. The CB radio was in the kitchen. I never knew how magical them times were. My mates thought it was weird but we were a massive CB family! pretty much our whole family was on channel 38. it was much cheaper than the home phone to talk. people forget that you used to have to pay per minutes on home phones!
love it rog..... cant beat the realistic Tandy ones though
Mine was a realistic...took 6 AAs lol
I bought the TX a couple of weeks again. Glad I did
Nice 1 Andy
Hi Andy great video got introduced to CB in 1997 from cousins up north with local Mosques transmitting on 1, 16, and 19 mid block in Lancashire would sit for hours listening to German skip and locals talking first rig was a Radioshack TRC1080 in 1999 had loads of fun with a Maplins £15 20CM basic magmount antenna stuck on the radiator could get out 2/3 miles every channel was full of people now theirs hardly any locals on apart from the odd few bad mouthing each other or playing music current setup is an Alinco DX-10 > RM KL-203P and widebanded DX-70 hooked up to the SSD58 in the loft all running from 12V LFP batteries can work EU DX fairly well during the summer best contacts have been into Russia on 27.200 FM over the Autumn/Winter months and Turkey on 27.215FM which is their local calling channel they absolutely boom in over the winter. DX is well and truely alive on 11M with tons of friendly people out there in DX land.
Ahh going up to the highest point around with the cobra 19gtl and the sound of the kc switch as its tuned in. Good old days. Eyeball eyeball.
I was an avid fan of the CB...Absolutely hooked...i even have some tape recorded modulations from the illegal AM frequency before it was legalised by way of the FM frequency... 1982 i think...What a time it was...Precursor to the modern social media we have now...Used to love eyeballing some of the people whom you talked to on the rig...Had a AM Midland 80-channel rig..just great times.
There are cb nets that regularly take place up & down the country. Some are on ssb, but there's a few on FM.
I was on in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, virtually loads of folk on them when i was a kid, great going out in my pals car going on eyeballs, met good friends, women and loonies everywhere.
Takes me back to days in the 60's when we neighborhood kids were using 100mw walkie talkies that could barely make it across the street. Mine was a Royce 3 channel crystal set, that I may still actually have. Somewhere. Next I conned my dad into letting me pick up a Lafayette Comstat 23a and a a/s ground plane antenna. Not too hard a sell, as his interest came from having served as Navy Chief that worked WWII coms out of Cuba (of all places). Thanks, Andy! Enjoyed the wayback!
3:52 Helen doesn't getting. It's not the conversation, it's HOW the conversation occurs. The magic of radio. A gift from God.
When I was maybe 8ish years old, some time around 1990, I had a mobile 'Realistic' CB rigged up on my bicycle with a stack of D cell batteries duct taped together LOL!
CB was at it's peak inm the US back in the early 1970s..... I remember in 74-75 you couldn't get away from it....
Awesome! Had a Cobra 148 GTLDX multiband unit with SSB. 15ft diapole aerial up on roof. CB GB 27/81 Released November of 1981 was promised 20 watts but government gave us 4 boring lol.
CB radio never went anywhere, real CB'ers have been out there this whole time!
Hi Andy the breaker you could hear from London is Tommy hatcher from Leyton. All the best Jake highgate ( 26 LT01 )
I still have my QSL cards from the 80's which I got in the mail from people overseas during 'skip' conversations.
Also I still have my copy of The Big Dummy's Guide to British CB Radio which I got around 1983 when I got my first CB.
Also funny was chatting to girls and setting up an eyeball.... then wishing you hadn't bothered!!
I had CB Radio years ago 90s I think. I never had great setup just handheld and car antenna plus I never had swr done. Mainly I just use to listen in. But I getting one again it's the same one you got Thunderpole T-X I like to get better antenna in time but I can't have anything too large that's only only problem. But like you say no way round it as bigger is better with cb antennas. I living with me mum maybe I can persuade her for me to install a di pole.
Great review Andy! I have been after the folks at Thunderpole ....need to get a US STORE! LOVE THEIR PRODUCTS!
First on CB in 1979.Met my wife on there. Married in 1984 and will be celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary this year in May 24. Im 60 years old now and still have a Cobra 148gtldx but its packed away in the loft. Should I get it out and give it a try?
Took me back some years. I still have a few cb's. Rotel RVC420, Fidelity 2000, colt444 and a president lincoln. Maybe I should dust them off and give out a breaker 1-9. Thanks for the video.
I had a fidelity good piece of kit
My first CB was in the 70s I had a Sharp Blue Dial 5 Wat with upper and lower side band awesome CB
Im interested to hear that CB is making a come back because i still have a superstar 360 with am fm and upper and lower side bands, all i need now is a decent home base aerial, i remember many years ago using the cb on the MV Ross Revenge chatting with a guy on sea land, fun days
*THEN GO ON ... 27555 IS A LOT OF "PEOPLE" ..*
Nice rig the Superstar....
i was never into the who C.B radio thing... but in my first and second year of secondary school 1979-1984 .. i had a few mates that loved these things .... and would sit in their bedrooms having a bit of a laugh ...chatting to whomever would reply ..... i understood the fascination ..just never interested me enough to get caught up in it all
Good Good memories of cb's back in the day..my handle was Butcher boyhad a midland set up in my bedroom..brilliant..quite handy these days with the threat of Nuclear war
bin on CB since 1988 and still on it now hope this is good as thunderpole aintvthe best plus midband not the best for a propper copiy but its works well from what i can see
Just splashed out on a new Cobra 29 LTD classic; had one in the early 2000's that was stolen. $250 AUD posted to Australia on the Black Friday sales.
Will be setting up a tower early next year- slowly setting up my mancave/ workshop and the CB will go in there
what i remember channel 19 is for truckers,channel 09 is the emergency channel, and channel 14 is for general chat,
just saying lol
I got back in to it during lockdown. The airwaves were fairly busy actually. Now everyone has returned to work it’s quietened down again
These radios are an everyday part of my life, I live and work in Australia doing traffic controll, I rely on these to communicate with my clients and colleagues
Could never afford a CB Radio back in the day, but used to drool over the Tandy catalogue. When we started going snowboarding in the 90s we got PMR446 radios to stay in touch as mobile roaming was really expensive and coverage patchy up the mountains. I just moved house and for laughs set my PMR446 radio to scan, and picked up some chatter, sounded like a local farm. I live near the highest point in my county, so could potentially get good LOS and distant contacts... maybe I'll pick up a CB for shits 'n giggles.
Bought mine from Tandy in 82 or 83. Can't remember the name of it. My handle was Flashlight coz I wanted an American sounding name. I think Smokey and the Bandit got us into CB. I had a DV27 aerial attached to a metal biscuit tin in the loft. Great days chatting to my mates. We obviously didn't have internet or mobiles 😂😂😂
Breaker breaker on the side.? ......on the side come alive!.
Im so pleased I was an 80s kid..
Haha remember 13 year old me and other school mates in the early 90s round my mates when his dad was on night shift and him getting his old mans CB out, as we were based just below crystal palace we were in one of the highest parts of London so could get good coms (could also hear aircraft overhead sometimes) used to piss cabbies off also. 😅😅
Remember going to the CB shop in reigate.
Think there's a user near me, when I go for a walk I see an antenna in someones back garden, might have to get a rig myself. 😂😂
I drifted away from CB / DXing on high ground for the numerous links in the late-80s. I miss the challenges of it all, the flouting of DTI law, the journey up to your hilltop on a balmy summer twilight, it was all so exciting. The frequencies were jammed and i had some high grade rigs by 1989. I wish I’d held onto the Cobra BBC and others I’ve forgotten the names of. I think the tipping point was neighbours in the street complaining of their TV reception turning to jelly.
I’ve forgotten the terminology too but this handheld looks a quality product with the right antenna layout.
73’s
Got CB on my boat and hand helds too made by motorola, i used to use CB
in the 80's and early 90's till got first mobiles in 92 but still used em on the road as were travellers doing festivals and could warn people about cops on the look out cos we were in buses and vans n all sorts
Interesting I’m in Bedfordshire I started with a eurosonic from Tandy then used a modular 2 car aerial with mag base on a biscuit tin to boost the distance which worked, straight 40 channels, then I brought a much larger aerial on scaffolding raising above the house roofs, plugged into the hand held could here the world almost, heard the London Bridge operator loud and clear amazing technology I think you can do this via a mobile app now too
got loads of cb radio handhelds and all sorts cybernet uniden we still use them in the west midlands
Reminded me of the good old days before CB was legalised, it was way better, DXing from a DV27 on a biscuit tin sat on street sign, I managed to speak to a Trucker just outside Dallas in Texas, not bad from North West England :-) , was up in the loft again with the trusty DV 27 about a mile of copper wire and managed to fall through the ceiling and land on the landing still holding the aerial, my mum was not impressed , happy memories :-) HM Customs and Excise confiscated a couple ofr my rigs back in the day the 1000w burner may have had something to do with that :-)
My first CB I won in a Xmas draw back in 1986 and it was marked Ford. Then in 1992 when I was serving in the army I got up one morning and while having a wash I noticed that the antenna wasn’t on my Ford escort roof and thought that the high winds we had that night had blown it off as it was a magnetic one and thought nothing of it. But when I went to the car the antenna had gone and so had my cb. I know for a fact it was someone local but could never prove it. Then I bought another and within a short time that one got stolen too so that was it I never bought another.
They were great in the day and everyone had their handles, just a shame they started to slip off the radar as many new friends were made from all over I even met a lass over the airwaves called little red Robin who we had a great few years together. Good old days when I had a full head of hair and most of my teeth!
Yep memory lane, Whiteliner here i used to drive a lorry to Birmingham and back every night for a courier company ,used to have a right laugh with the pussycat squadron eg Lynx and red Indians royal mail .it kept you from falling asleep early ours of the morning .and my whiteliner handle was 3am in morning you could find yourself drifting over the white lines if you were drowsy on occasions but im still here 65 now still got my CB but sits gathering dust in the garage ,i keep threatening to start again but busy with other hobbies . OVER .........
I remember the police stopping outside my house and saying what the bloody hell is that, pointing to my 24 foot Ariel on top of a 15 foot pole stuck on the side of my house. He then said if I hear you coming across my radio I'm gonna Nick you, he was laughing his head off when he said it, good sport.
I remember calling channel on FM was 14 and on AM 19!
We used to call those short flexible antennas a "rubber duck"
Me and all my mates had them around 1992 time. It was the instant messenger of the day back then . And all the boy racers had them in their cars. People used to play Rave music down them which was big at the time and I remember the roger bleep sound people had fitted to identify themselves . Good times back then.
Yeah that was about the time and era I was on!
The noise reduction sounded good,
and the loop antenna seemed interesting too 😊
My first cb was a President AR7 in 1979 I burt it out on a badly trimmed fire stick and got a Jaws mk 2 which I used with a DV27 on a biscuit tin full of foil sat on a calour gas fire. Then a ham radio enthusiast mad an antenna which encoporated my mother's line post and I got a President Adams 120 ch am USB and LSB low, mid and high bands in about 81' and started DXing. There's was a sunspot cycle and USA was booming into the west coast of Wales. Then I saved up for a Cobra 148 gtl-dx which I still have but at the time I bought a Superstar 360fm for the high, high channels which allowed me to talk on some of the new legal FM 27/81 channels. But that wasn't enough and I bought an Alba M1CB so that I could talk 1 to 40 on the legat channels. At that time I got a Kenwood TS430 from China (which I still have) because even with shipping it was about half the price of getting one from a UK supplier.
Over the years I've had many Midland's, Cobra's and Superstars and many ham radios also. I also have a K40 from back in the 80's that has been on many cars.
I have an Icom 706mk2 open on 11mtrs but I prefer to use my Maas 500dx with an RM230p for cb.
Ah I have a kernow beta 1100 CB radio which I bought in 1993, never got to used it as I didn’t know I need a license to use one and it was confiscated while I was on boarding school 😅
I’ve got the Cobra 148 gtl hooked up to the base station antenna. On side band I can talk to Australia on occasions when the skip is right and I live in the southern U.S. I don’t use hand helds they just don’t have enough power but any CB is better than none.
My first legal UK 27/81 set was a Maxcom 4E, a real cheap set but it performed much better than some of the more expensive sets.
My antenna was a DX27 on a set of ground planes in the loft.
Luckily, I lived on top of quite a decent sized hill, so my range was far better than the govt had planned it to be in the limited specs.
The best contact I had was good 70 miles away in the dead of night, when all the locals had gone off the night.
As a SWL I hear a lot of 11 meter SSB DXers on the legal channels and above but virtually no local AM traffic. I did play around with 11 meters back 1987 to 2000 and got QSL's from a bit over 150 countries
HQ Grimsby - Ive got a few 27meg FM cbs around the house and would like others to join up in the afternoon/evenings for a chat. Thanks Andy great video kiddo. 73's
I always seem to remember it was ch14 for a copy and ch19 was truck drivers. Was great fun back in the day
Yeah originally it was, then 19 became the hangout in the 1990's and still is to this day!
Had an original Cobra148 GTL DX,man, they were a CB on steroids! AM/FM/USB/LSB and CW. Had it modded with 7 sets of 40 channels and Its frequency range was from 26.105 to 28.245, used with a silver rod aerial and a silver eagle mike,could get to USA no problem at the peak of the sunspot cycle on USB or LSB. Happy days.
My dad had one of those, he asked me to get him a morse key (ex WWII RAF Aircrew AG/Sigs) next thing you know, he's tapping out his old code... thankfully no ghost bombers turned up LOL 😂
PS I had an 80 channel brick, I think it was 12 AA batteries it took, but it was pretty good on a homemade dipole, and running off of 12V: I heard Yanky Trawlers when the skip was right, spoke to Italians a few times; of course they all had massive burners, and directional antennas
Back in the 1980's when I used CB, channel 19 was the mobile/truckers channel, 14 was the usual goto channel to find a "copy".