I was wondering if anyone was on CB radio in the 80's or 90's? If so, what was your handle?
Mine was 'Funkmaster' ;)
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I was wondering if anyone was on CB radio in the 80's or 90's? If so, what was your handle?
Mine was 'Funkmaster' ;)
Yeap - mine was Wildmonkey and my mother who used it all the time was Calamity Jane.
Ahhh good old CB radio... wonder if that Amtron 99 antenna is still in the loft as this gave some serious distance under the right conditions ( solar winds, clouds etc)
Mine ended up in lots of little pieces... for some reason it never worked well after it came into rapid contact with the wall.
10-4 on that, good buddy!!!
I've still got several 'rigs' gathering dust and rust in a cupboard. I've also got my old SWR meter, various mics and my 100W 'burners'.
I've still got mine - my handle (suprisingly enough) was Mako....
I will never forget visits to the local McDonalds drive through with the arial scraping on the roof!
Still have a couple of rigs, my parents were heavilly involved n the local club. Was quiet a good grin, although the order from the councill to take the thunderpole mounted on a scaffold pole from the chimney was unfortunate (being a mid terrace council house). Other delights included a selection of burners and pramps, running rather ilegal US multimodes. Its suprising what a big thing it was at one point, national weather had skip reports if its was running high, talked to the USA a couple of times, along with spain and a few other places. We also had another aerial (siggy 4?) on a hudge mount, couldnt leave it up all the time so was on a rotating clip so you pulled a rope and up it went.
We had an HAM International installed under our stairs, with a Hgh Gain Silver Rod Aerial stuck on a scaffolding pole in our Garden, we had burners and god knows what else, we also had a Multimode in the car which we used to take up into the hills, living on the Welsh Border there's loads of places to choose from, we used to go up to the Annual Cb'ers meeting on Llangollens Horshoe pass each year too :D
My handle was Trickster ( given to me by my Bro )
Elder Bro was Operator, other Bro was Muzzey or Hairy Banana ( we still call him Muzz )
and our Dad was Blue
The things you kids used to get up to. Does this stuff still go on?
I didn't have much in the way of kit , just an Old-ish Amstrad rig but it had lots of fairy lights :)
my handle was "michellin Man" :)
Okay, as there are a few oldies who remember 'the good old days' of CB, here's a quiz for you. What do the following mean:
a) QSK
b) "Knock it up one..." or "Knock it down one..."
c) "On the side..."
d) Were 'AM' rigs legal or illegal in the UK?
e) "I'll be back soon, i'm going for a 10-100..."
f) How many channels were there on the latter-day CEPT frequencies?
g) Which CB channel was 'reserved' for emergency use?
h) "What's your 20?"
i) Do you need a license to use CB?
ooooh.......
b) go up or down a channel
f) about 40something ?
g) 9 ?
h) locations ?
I) i remeber getting one from the post office.
[Edit] correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
Here's a bonus question:
j) Which channel would you go on to find someone to chat to?
not sure , I just used to crash channells unless ppl where already busy :)
Wow, i thought only wierd old men with beards and hill billys did this!
you have to realise this was about 15 years ago long before the interweb was popular.
I didn't have a modem on my pc then and my only other computer was a spectrum :)
I do remeber an article a *long* time ago where some guys where using CB to transfer dat directly into the tapoe ports of a specrum , but I'm not sure how sucessfull it was :)
A. Request to enter a conversation
B. Up down a channel
C. Acknowledge somebody who has sent a QSK. On the side come alive
D. Ilegal
E Bog
F. 40uk + 40 cept
G. 9
H. Loaction
I. Yes, but only to transmit same as ham I think. costs £5 from post office?
Cant remember channels, around here 4 was the local club channel, was 11 truckers?